Presents data on the 100 largest U.S. school districts, including rank, name, enrollment (2000-2001), population (2000), number of schools, total outstanding debt (2000), mean school enrollment, largest school population, mean pupil-teacher ratio, and per-pupil expenditure (1999-2000). Offers data highlights and descriptions of example schools.…

Provides descriptive information about the 100 largest school districts, including average and median school size, pupil/teacher ratios, number of high school graduates, number of pupils receiving special education services, and minority enrollment as a proportion of total enrollment. (Author/SLD)

Author considered the question of school size and its effect upon the individual learner or teacher. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated what is too large or too small in the size of comprehensive schools and how that factor affected educational development. (RK)

The amount of time a school superintendent spends in the various functions of his job is studied. The data used were those collected by Robert Utter and Gordon Anderson in 76 school districts in the Metropolitan School Study Council and the Associated Public School Systems during 1964-65. Included were school systems ranging in size from 975 to…

An analysis relating district size in terms of average daily attendance (ADA) to costs in terms of current operating expenditures reveals that districts operating most efficiently in 1974 are unit districts at 2,432 ADA, high school districts at 874 ADA, and elementary districts at 336 ADA. Each population is treated separately and, thus, the…

The Costing Standards Committee of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) recently completed an evaluation of the "Cost Analysis Manual" (CAM) and the cost study procedures portion of the "Information Exchange Procedures Manual" (IEP), prepared by the National Center for Higher Education…

Described is the London School Plan, a small comprehensive secondary school system. The author states that the success of the small comprehensives will be judged on how well they cope with the least able student and the sixth formers (ages 16 to 19). (KC)

While research has been unable to demonstrate a positive relationship between smaller schools and advantages such as openness of climate or participative decision-making, it is notable that no research evidence discloses a negative correlation. (Author)

It was found that there were differences in students' perception of their schools' environment when schools were classified as either large or small. Large elementary schools seemed to have less influence on students' perception than did small schools. Students in small schools perceived a closer, warmer relationship with their schools. (Author/NQ)

Examines the carry-over effects of high school size on extracurricular participation of senior students at a large university. Overall, participation declined from high school to college, especially for females, with greater decline related to smaller school size. Results suggest college participation is better explained by personality than it is…

Research university presidents have vastly greater managerial responsibilities today than three or four decades ago. It is intimidating to preside over an institution so large that knowledge of detail and personal familiarity are impossible, and so complex that most of the knowledge pursued and taught in it is mysterious. (Author/MSE)

A humorous examination of research on effects of institution size on pupil progress reveals evidentiary and inferential errors, naivete, intellectual puritanism, and rational extravagance. Revised, reinterpreted, and confirmed by two new studies, the literature shows a near-unanimous finding: the smaller unit definitely is superior to the larger…

A growing body of evidence points to the size of schools as a significant determining factor in academic achievement. Large schools are often far less successful at educating students than small schools. This paper shall first examine the data which support this claim and the reasons why small schools might work better. Finally, our conclusions…

This paper asks if the proposition that "growth is good" applies with equal force to private business and to private colleges and universities. An increasing appreciation of the fundamental differences in economic structure between business firms and academic institutions suggests that it is easy to make costly mistakes if those…