Statistics on US Public Education

Public schools: 90,640
Public school teachers: 2,988,000
Pre-K-12 students: 47,576,000
Annual pre-K-12 expenditures: $358 billion
Minority students: 38.6%
Children in poverty: 18.9%
Students with disabilities: 12.8%
English-language learners: 8.0%

Related Links

National Center For Education Statistics
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education and other nations

Education Statistics- NEA
The Education Statistics Page of the National Education Association

Federal, State, and Local Governments Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data
Public elementary-secondary education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems. These data are available in downloadable files and viewable tables listed by year in the table below.

Education Statistics- Heartland Institute
The Education Statistics Page of the Heartland Institute

Reference

Education Week. (2001). Vol. 20 issue 17, p110. Retrieved November 15, 2003 from Academic Search Premiere Database.