This annual report provides information for the 2015-16 school year on grade-level retention in the Texas public school system. Data on retention are provided by student characteristics, including grade level; race/ethnicity; gender; degree of English proficiency; and economic, at-risk, immigrant, migrant, and overage statuses. Data also are…

"Ohio Education by the Numbers" offers busy policy makers, journalists, and civic and business leaders simple and easy-to-use vital statistics about Ohio's schools and the students they serve. The facts and figures contained within offer an overview of Ohio's students; where they go to school; their achievement on national and state…

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide. This edition includes profiles on 5,797 school districts in the United States, representing 90%…

"Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2013" provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention.…

This annual report provides information for the 2012-13 school year on grade-level retention in the Texas public school system. Data on retention are provided by student characteristics, including grade level; race/ethnicity; gender; degree of English proficiency; and economic, at-risk, immigrant, migrant, and overage statuses. Data also are…

Establishing reliable indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators is important in ensuring the safety of our nation's students. This is the aim of "Indicators of School Crime and Safety." This report is the fifteenth in a series of annual publications…

Online learning has steadily become a more integral strategy for schools and districts in their efforts to offer students greater access to the courses they need. Where in the past, much of the online learning activity happened at the state level or regional level, more and more schools are exercising greater control over their online and digital…

In 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education awarded Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants for the development of innovative strategies for teacher compensation. New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), with five partner organizations--Memphis City Schools (MCS), the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), Denver Public Schools, Prince…

The 2017 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 53rd in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…

The Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey and Public Education Agency Survey are annual state-level collections of information about the numbers and types of public schools and education agencies, the numbers and selected characteristics of students, and dropout rates. This report summarizes statistics from each of the surveys, which…

This document provides a synopsis of public-school characteristics and includes statistical summaries of schools, districts, and students. It examines the various types of public schools in the U.S., stating that 87,631 public schools furnished instruction to 46.1 million students in the 1997-98 school year. Most public-school students, 98.1…

This set of tables examines self-reports of coursework taken by a national probability sample of eighth graders in public and private schools in the United States. Statistics were obtained from the base-year student survey of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). NELS:88 figures on eighth graders provide a baseline for…

This document is a collection of profiles of Wake County (North Carolina) Public School System schools in the 1993-94 school year. Profiles have been created to help administrators as they present and analyze information about their schools. The four-page profile of each school contains information describing: (1) the school facility; (2) the…

Fulfilling its legislative mandate, the Alaska State Department of Education prepares annual profiles on state school districts. The summary of data in this publication represents only a portion of information gathered about Alaska public schools, but it does provide information on school operations, facilities, programs, students, and personnel.…

Characteristics of students in South Carolina schools are provided for the 91 geographic school districts and the special schools and districts funded through the Department of Education. Within the districts, schools are arranged alphabetically. The sex distribution and racial and ethnic compositions of students in each school are provided.…