Mini-Digest of Education Statistics 1997

February 1998

(NCES 98-020)

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Overview
• The Structure of American Education
• Enrollment

Elementary and Secondary Schools

• Public Schools
• Private Schools
• Projections
• Preprimary Enrollment
• Enrollment Rates
• Enrollment by Race and Ethnicity
• Enrollment in Programs for the Disabled

Higher Education

• College Enrollment
• Enrollment Rates of 18- to 24-Year-Olds
• Enrollment by Gender
• Enrollment by Age
• Enrollment by Race and Ethnicity
• Graduate School Enrollment

• Teachers
• Number of Teachers
• Teachers' Salaries
• Teacher Characteristics

• Educational Outcomes
• High School Course-Taking Patterns
• Graduates
• Dropouts
• Literacy Rates
• Completions
• Reading Performance
• Mathematics Performance
• College Degrees

• Finance
• Overall Expenditures
• Public Elementary and Secondary School Revenues
• Public Elementary and Secondary School Expenditures
• Federal Aid for Public Elementary and Secondary Education
• Higher Education Revenues
• Higher Education Expenditures
• College Costs
• Scholarships and Fellowships
• Aid to Higher Education
• Federal Funding

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