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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Texas Texas Education Agency, 1701 North Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701-1494	Download, view and print Texas's report as a pdf file. 331KB
Superintendent of Education Commissioner Michael A. Moses, (512) 463-8985
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Criss Cloudt, (512) 463-9701
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator José Johnson, Jr., (512) 475-3559

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


3,236,787	3,828,975	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
5,787	6,875	Public schools
187,159	247,650	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
267,338	267,338	Land area in square miles
12.1	14.3	Public school students per square mile
2.2	2.6	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

16,622	19,091	State population (in thousands)
$1,600	$3,285	State revenue per capita
$1,367	$2,515	State expenditure per capita
$347	$551	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$97,243	$142,248	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	1,095	100%	1,059	Total public education agencies
97.1%	1,063	98.5%	1,043	Regular school districts
1.8%	20	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
1.0%	11	0.0%	0	State-operated agencies
0.1%	1	1.5%	16	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

0.4%	4	0.5%	5	100 or more schools
3.5%	38	4.6%	49	25 to 99 schools
4.7%	52	7.0%	74	10 to 24 schools
15.2%	166	20.5%	217	5 to 9 schools
74.3%	814	67.4%	714	1 to 4 schools
1.9%	21	0.0%	0	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	5,787	100%	6,875	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
95.9%	5,550	90.7%	6,238	Regular schools
3.2%	187	3.3%	224	Special education schools
0.1%	6	0.3%	24	Vocational schools
0.8%	44	5.7%	389	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

44.9%	2,599	43.2%	2,972	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
2.7%	154	1.3%	92	PK, K, 1 to 8
13.5%	784	15.1%	1,039	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
5.0%	289	4.5%	312	7 to 8, 9
3.6%	207	3.5%	241	7, 8 to 12
14.5%	842	15.6%	1,073	9, 10, 11 to 12
15.8%	912	16.7%	1,146	Other grades
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Ungraded
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


70,739	133,303	Prekindergarten
258,953	285,002	Kindergarten
291,838	312,533	First
267,937	299,334	Second
255,260	295,300	Third
247,433	294,431	Fourth
242,202	294,703	Fifth
237,689	298,077	Sixth
244,307	296,668	Seventh
234,498	290,666	Eighth
264,328	343,867	Ninth
228,118	264,238	Tenth
210,751	225,778	Eleventh
182,734	195,075	Twelfth
—	—	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	11.8%	Students in special education with IEPs
—	39.9%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	22.6%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

100.0%	168,430	100.0%	171,844	Regular diploma
	—		—	Other diploma
	—		—	High school equivalency
	—		—	Other completers
	—		—	Dropouts
				Dropouts who were male
				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

228.7	270.2	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
30.6%	40.6%	Students below basic level
69.4%	59.4%	Students at or above basic level
25.3%	20.9%	Students at or above proficient level
2.8%	2.7%	Students at advanced level
—	145.1	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	45.1%	Students below basic level
	54.9%	Students at or above basic level
	23.3%	Students at or above proficient level
	1.5%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	377,240	100%	477,896	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
49.6%	187,159	51.8%	247,650	Teachers
7.4%	27,945	8.9%	42,686	Instructional aides
				Support staff
1.4%	5,334	1.7%	8,359	Guidance counselors/directors
1.9%	7,334	2.1%	10,189	Librarians/library support
7.7%	28,941	3.6%	17,123	Administrative support
27.1%	102,228	28.6%	136,523	Other support services
				Administrators
3.3%	12,357	2.4%	11,591	School-based
1.6%	5,942	0.8%	3,775	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

0.4%	0.6%	Public school teachers with no degree
64.9%	69.9%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
29.8%	26.8%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
4.9%	2.7%	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


$256,782	$538,563	National school lunch
$66,791	$138,252	National school breakfast
$310,755	$609,608	Title I
$116,773	$235,251	Education for the handicapped
$65,074	$85,892	Vocational and adult education
$55,295	$107,458	School improvement
$26,784	$53,648	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$10,529	$10,154	Bilingual education
$84	$9	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$12,612,869	$22,372,808	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$3,897	$5,843	Revenue per pupil in membership
$10,791,854	$20,167,238	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$3,334	$5,267	Current expenditure per pupil in membership