Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
	National Summary
	-	Standards and Assessments
	-	Student Achievement by Category
•	State Profiles
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

National Summary

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

15,024

Number of public schools
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
52,501	15,597	17,117	3,515	1,336

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
n/a	n/a	n/a

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
1,307,230	538,609	723,892	69,506	26,908

Public school enrollment
	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	32,467,028
9-12 (CCD)	13,206,251
Pre-K (by state definition)	573,437

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 48.5%, Local 44.2%, Federal 6.9%, Intermediate 0.4%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	1.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander	3.9
Black	16.9
Hispanic	16.1
White	61.9

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1998-99
11.3%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1996-97
n/a

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1998-99
782,903

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1997-98
n/a

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1997-98
73%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program*
(CCD, 1997-98)

34% or less, 43,561 schools; 35-49%, 10,807; 50-74%, 11,441; 75-100%, 7,478

*Interpret with caution, 16,779 schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
33 States have established a goal

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
30 States have set a target

Indicators for School Accountability
40 States are using one or more indicators

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Target for Schools
18 States are using the same goal as the state

Number of Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
30,771 (71.9%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	11,495,689
9-12	1,192,975
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	226,985	61,193
Asian/Pacific Islander	272,930	160,602
Black	3,128,222	595,973
Hispanic	2,928,157	1,136,166
White	3,007,885	1,777,778

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$7,790,999,680

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1999, 19,711 with schoolwide, 23,108 with targeted assistance

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