Question:
What information do you have on public school libraries?
Response:
In 2017–18, some 90 percent of all public schools had a library media center. Some 95 percent of public primary schools and 80 percent of public high schools had a library media center.
Percentage of schools with a library media center, by selected school characteristics: 2017–18 | |
[Standard errors appear in parentheses] | |
Selected school characteristic | Percent |
All schools | 87.0 (0.41) |
Public schools | |
All public schools | 90.1 (0.40) |
School classification | |
Traditional public | 92.5 (0.39) |
Charter school | 62.2 (1.64) |
Community type | |
City | 85.7 (0.86) |
Surburban | 92.2 (0.55) |
Town | 90.1 (1.07) |
Rural | 92.1 (0.70) |
School level | |
Primary | 95.2 (0.39) |
Middle | 94.8 (0.68) |
High | 79.6 (1.13) |
Combined | 75.1 (1.71) |
Student enrollment | |
Less than 100 | 55.8 (2.85) |
100–199 | 75.6 (2.12) |
200–499 | 91.9 (0.55) |
500–749 | 95.1 (0.49) |
750–999 | 96.8 (0.55) |
1,000 or more | 97.7 (0.38) |
Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | |
0–34 | 89.3 (0.70) |
35–49 | 93.7 (0.83) |
50–74 | 92.8 (0.64) |
75 or more | 87.2 (0.87) |
NOTE: A library media center is an organized collection of printed and/or audiovisual and/or computer resources which is administered as a unit, is located in a designated place or places, and makes resources and services available to students, teachers, and administrators. A library media center may be called a school library, media center, information center, instructional materials center, learning resource center, or any other similar name.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (2019). Characteristics of Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools in the United States: Results From the 2017–18 National Teacher and Principal Survey First Look, Table 3.
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