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Indicator 28. Pupil/Teacher Ratios and Expenditures per Student

Pupil/teacher ratios and expenditures per student in public elementary and secondary schools: 1955-56 to 1992-93

________________________________________________________________________________          |     Pupil/teacher ratio       |      Expenditures per student          |_______________________________|     in average daily attendance          |Elementary|          |         |______________________________________   Fall   |   and    |Elementary|Secondary|      School   | Current  |  1991-92          |secondary |          |         |       year    | dollars  | constant          |          |          |         |               |          |  dollars _________|__________|__________|_________|_______________|__________|___________ 1955 ....      26.9       30.2      20.9 |   1955-56 ....      $294      $1,513 1960 ....      25.8       28.4      21.7 |   1960-61 ....       ---         --- 1965 ....      24.7       27.6      20.8 |   1965-66 ....       538       2,329 1970 ....      22.3       24.4      19.9 |   1970-71 ....       911       3,170 1975 ....      20.4       21.7      18.8 |   1975-76 ....     1,504       3,747                                          | 1980 ....      18.7       20.3      16.8 |   1980-81 ....     2,502       3,992 1981 ....      18.8       20.3      16.9 |   1981-82 ....     2,726       4,003 1982 ....      18.7       20.2      16.6 |   1982-83 ....     2,955       4,161 1983 ....      18.5       19.9      16.4 |   1983-84 ....     3,173       4,309 1984 ....      18.1       19.7      16.1 |   1984-85 ....     3,470       4,535                                          | 1985 ....      17.9       19.5      15.8 |   1985-86 ....     3,756       4,770 1986 ....      17.7       19.3      15.7 |   1986-87 ....     3,970       4,933 1987 ....      17.6       19.3      15.2 |   1987-88 ....     4,240       5,059 1988 ....      17.3       19.0      14.9 |   1988-89 ....     4,645       5,297 1989 ....      17.2       19.0      14.6 |   1989-90 ...      4,962       5,401                                          | 1990 ....      17.2       19.0      14.6 |   1990-91 ....     5,245       5,413 1991 ....      17.3       19.0      14.7 |   1991-92*/ ..     5,474       5,474 1992*/ ...     17.2       19.0      14.6 |   1992-93*/ ..     5,721       5,501 _________________________________________|______________________________________ 

*/Estimated data.

NOTE: Elementary includes nursery school and kindergarten teachers and students. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1993; and Common Core of Data survey.