Figure 6.

Enrollment, number of teachers, pupil/teacher ratio, and expenditures in public schools: 1960–61 through 2008–09

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, 1959–60 through 1969–70; Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1956–60 through 1984–85; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1970–71 through 1980–81; and Common Core of Data (CCD), “State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education,” 1981–82 through 2008–09, and “National Public Education Financial Survey,” 1989–90 through 2007–08.