State Profiles of Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1996-97

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Missouri Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, 205 Jefferson Street Jefferson City, MO 65102	Download, view and print Missouri's report as a pdf file. 323KB
Superintendent of Education Commissioner Robert Bartman, (573) 751-4446
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Tom Ogle, (573) 751-9060
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Tom Ogle, (573) 751-9060

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


802,060	900,517	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
2,150	2,291	Public schools
49,632	59,428	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
69,686	69,686	Land area in square miles
11.5	12.9	Public school students per square mile
3.1	3.3	Public schools per 100 square miles

Figure 1
School-age population in public elementary and secondary schools

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

5,057	5,364	State population (in thousands)
$1,604	$3,073	State revenue per capita
$1,475	$2,634	State expenditure per capita
$366	$579	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$101,665	$141,486	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	545	100%	531	Total public education agencies
99.8%	544	98.9%	525	Regular school districts
0.2%	1	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
0.0%	0	0.4%	2	State-operated agencies
0.0%	0	0.8%	4	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

0.2%	1	0.2%	1	100 or more schools
0.9%	5	1.9%	10	25 to 99 schools
5.0%	27	5.6%	30	10 to 24 schools
11.6%	63	13.7%	73	5 to 9 schools
82.4%	449	78.5%	417	1 to 4 schools
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	2,150	100%	2,291	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
93.5%	2,011	91.8%	2,103	Regular schools
1.6%	34	2.9%	67	Special education schools
4.8 %	104	2.7%	61	Vocational schools
0.0 %	1	2.6%	60	Other and alternative schools

Figure 3
Distribution of public schools and students by type of locale: 1996-97

Figure 4
Public schools by size of student membership

1987		1996		Number of public schools by grade span category

43.1%	927	42.0%	962	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
7.3%	156	4.6%	106	PK, K, 1 to 8
8.3%	178	11.7%	268	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
4.6%	98	2.5%	58	7 to 8, 9
11.4%	246	8.8%	202	7, 8 to 12
11.6%	250	12.8%	293	9, 10, 11 to 12
6.5%	140	9.3%	212	Other grades
1.5%	33	0.8%	19	Ungraded
5.7%	122	7.5%	171	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


—	16,156	Prekindergarten
62,141	69,215	Kindergarten
65,757	70,875	First
64,455	69,008	Second
62,849	67,320	Third
61,263	67,533	Fourth
60,078	68,666	Fifth
57,612	69,670	Sixth
60,007	68,917	Seventh
58,423	69,195	Eighth
64,700	72,326	Ninth
62,280	67,072	Tenth
61,232	60,665	Eleventh
54,936	54,488	Twelfth
6,327	9,411	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	15.2%	Students in special education with IEPs
—	28.0%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	19.0%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

100.0%	50,840	91.5%	49,011	Regular diploma
	—		—	Other diploma
	—	8.5%	4,541	High school equivalency
	—		—	Other completers
	—		6.6%	Dropouts
			58.1%	Dropouts who were male
			28.2%	Dropouts who were minority

Figure 6
Grade 8 1996 Mathematics and Science average scale scores for the state (

) and nation (

) and the 25th (

) and 75th (

) percentiles

Grade 4	Grade 8	1996 Mathematics and Science achievement levels

224.7	273.3	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
34.2%	36.2%	Students below basic level
65.8%	63.8%	Students at or above basic level
19.7%	21.6%	Students at or above proficient level
1.2%	2.2%	Students at advanced level
—	151.0	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	36.3%	Students below basic level
	63.7%	Students at or above basic level
	27.9%	Students at or above proficient level
	2.0%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	96,736	100%	108,042	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
51.3%	49,632	55.0%	59,428	Teachers
3.7%	3,540	7.5%	8,107	Instructional aides
				Support staff
2.0%	1,902	2.2%	2,419	Guidance counselors/directors
1.3%	1,273	2.2%	2,327-	Librarians/library support
6.9%	7,427	36.3%	35,094	Administrative support
21.1%	23,824	4.2%	4,101	Other support services
				Administrators
2.5%	2,736	1.2%	1,194	School-based
1.6%	1,774	—	—	School district officials/administrators

Figure 7
Average number of students per teacher, by grade level

Figure 8
Average salary of full-time teachers by years of experience

Figure 9
Distribution of public school teachers by age

1987	1993	Preparation of teachers: highest degree earned

0.1%	0.5%	Public school teachers with no degree
53.2%	54.3%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
41.6%	42.4%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
5.2%	2.8%	Public school teachers with a degree beyond Master's

FY88	FY97	Federal aid to education under selected programs (in thousands of current dollars)
FISCAL INFORMATION


$47,778	$99,496	National school lunch
$5,778	$23,061	National school breakfast
$64,905	$154,261	Title I
$3,036	$64,226	Education for the handicapped
$20,728	$31,745	Vocational and adult education
$15,458	$27,316	School improvement
$6,314	$7,591	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$479	$1,325	Bilingual education
$2	—	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$3,069,758	$5,571,655	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$3,827	$6,190	Revenue per pupil in membership
$2,747,234	$4,775,931	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$3,425	$5,306	Current expenditure per pupil in membership