America's Schools Are
Overcrowded and Wearing Out

(September 8, 1998)

Table of Contents

• The Baby Boom Echo Continues
• Message from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley: Our Schools Are Overcrowded And Wearing Out
• Suburban Growth in Five States
  1. California
  2. Colorado
  3. Georgia
  4. Maryland
  5. Washington State
• Figure 1. -- Annual number of births, with projections: 1948 to 2018
• Figure 2. -- Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1968 to fall 2008
• Figure 3. -- Change in number of students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade span: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 1. -- Enrollment in prekindergarten/kindergarten, grades 1 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9 to 12 in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1983 to fall 2008
• Figure 4. -- Percent change in public elementary and secondary enrollment, by state: Fall 1988 to fall 2008
• Figure 5. -- Percent change in public elementary and secondary enrollment, by state: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 2. -- Enrollment in grades K-12 in public and private elementary and secondary schools, by region and state: Fall 1988, 1998, 2003, and 2008
• Table 3. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 4. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increases in public elementary and secondary enrollment: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 5. -- Twenty-five school districts with the largest increases in enrollment: Fall 1985 to fall 1995
• Table 6. -- Enrollment growth in selected suburban school districts: Fall 1996 to fall 1998
• Figure 6. -- Percent change in enrollment in public secondary schools, by state: Fall 1988 to fall 2008
• Figure 7. -- Percent change in enrollment in public secondary schools, by state: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 7. -- Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public and private secondary schools, by region and state: Fall 1988, 1998, 2003, and 2008
• Table 8. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Table 9. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increase in enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 1998 to fall 2008
• Figure 8. -- Percent change in number of public high school graduates, by state: 1997-98 to 2007-08
• Table 10. -- High school graduates of public and private schools, by region and state: 1987-88, 1997-98, 2002-03, and 2007-08
• Figure 9. -- Classroom teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1983 to fall 2008
• Figure 10. -- Estimated age distribution of full-time-equivalent public school teachers: 1998-99
• Figure 11. -- Enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by attendance status: Fall 1983 to fall 2008
• Figure 12. -- Percent change in college and university enrollment, by state: Fall 1986 to fall 1996
• Table 11. -- Total enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by sex, attendance status and control of institution: Fall 1982 to fall 2008

Previous Reports

• A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: Here Come the Teenagers (August 21, 1997)
• A Back to School Special Report: The Baby Boom Echo (August 1996)

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