No End in Sight

(August 19, 1999)

Table of Contents

• Highlights
• No End in Sight
  • Expanding Pre-K Opportunities
  • More High School Students than Ever Before
  • Policy Implications of Increasing Enrollment
  • The West and South Lead Nation's School Enrollment Growth
  • Crush of Students Comes from Both Cities and Suburbs
  • Hiring and Keeping Enough Teachers
  • School Construction Still Lags Behind
  • Setting New College Enrollment Records
  • Conclusion: Now is the Time to Act
• Figure 1. -- Annual number of births, with projections: 1948 to 2009
• Figure 2. -- Enrollment in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1969 to fall 2009
• Figure 3. -- Number of 3- to 5-year olds and preprimary enrollment: 1989 to 2009
• Figure 4. -- Change in number of students enrolled in elementary and secondary and higher education students: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Table 1. -- Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade: Fall 1983 to fall 2009
• Figure 5. -- Percent change in public elementary and secondary enrollment, by state: Fall 1989 to fall 2009
• Table 2. -- Enrollment in grades K-12 in public and private elementary and secondary schools, by region and state: Fall 1989, 1999, 2004, and 2009
• Table 3. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Table 4. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increases in enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Table 5. -- Twenty-five school districts with the largest increases in enrollment: Fall 1987 to fall 1997
• Figure 6. -- Percent change in public secondary enrollment in grades 9 to 12, by state: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Figure 7. -- Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools, by region: Fall 1989, 1999 and 2009
• Table 6. -- Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public and private secondary schools, by region and state: Fall 1989, 1999, 2004, and 2009
• Table 7. -- Fifteen states with the largest enrollment increases in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Table 8. -- Fifteen states with the largest percent increases in enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public schools: Fall 1999 to fall 2009
• Figure 8. -- Percent change in number of public high school graduates, by state: 1998-99 to 2008-09 1997-98 to 2007-08
• Figure 9. -- Percent change in public high school graduates, by region: 1988-89 to 1998-99 and 1998-99 to 2008-09
• Table 9. -- Graduates of public and private high schools, by region and state: 1989-89, 1998-99, 2003-04, and 2008-09
• Figure 10. -- Enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by attendance status: Fall 1984 to fall 2009
• Table 10. -- Total enrollment in public and private 2-year and 4-year colleges, by sex, attendance status, and control of institution: Fall 1979 to fall 2009
• Figure 11. -- Classroom teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1984 to fall 2009
• Figure 12. -- Estimated age distribution of full-time equivalent public school teachers: 1998-99
• Figure 13. -- Comparison of need for school construction and modernization and capital outlay for schools: 1995-96
• General Projection Methodology

Previous Reports

• America's Schools Are Overcrowded and Wearing Out (September 7, 1998)
• 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) (No longer available on-line)

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