Estimated number of participants in elementary and secondary education and in higher education: Fall 1995

Table 1.

[In millions]

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                        | All levels |Elementary and secondary schools|Institutions of higher education
                        |(elementary,|________________________________|_________________________________
      Participants      | secondary, |          |           |         |          |          |
                        | and higher |  Total   |  Public   | Private |   Total  |   Public |   Private
                        | education) |          |           |         |          |          |
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|__________|__________|___________
           1            |     2      |    3     |     4     |    5    |     6    |    7     |    8
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|__________|__________|___________
    Total ..............|       73.3 |     56.3 |      50.0 |     6.3 |     17.0 |     13.1 |       3.9
                        |____________|__________|___________|_________|__________|__________|___________
Enrollment\1\ ..........|       65.1 |     50.7 |      45.0 |     5.7 |     14.4 |     11.3 |       3.1
Teachers and faculty ...|        3.8 |      3.0 |       2.6 |     0.4 |\2\   0.8 |\2\   0.6 |\2\    0.3
Other professional,     |            |          |           |         |          |          |
  administrative, and   |            |          |           |         |          |          |
  support staff ........|        4.3 |      2.6 |       2.4 |     0.2 |      1.7 |      1.2 |       0.5
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|__________|__________|___________

\1\ Includes enrollments in local public school systems and in most private schools (religiously affiliated and nonsectarian). Excludes subcollegiate departments of institutions of higher education, residential schools for exceptional children, and federal schools. Elementary and secondary includes most kindergarten and some nursery school enrollment. Excludes preprimary enrollment in schools that do not offer first grade or above. Higher education comprises full-time and part-time students enrolled in degree-credit and nondegree-credit programs in universities, other 4-year colleges, and 2-year colleges.
\2\ Includes full-time and part-time faculty with the rank of instructor or above.

NOTE.--The enrollment figures include all students in elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities. However, the data for teachers and other staff in public and private elementary and secondary schools are reported in terms of full-time equivalents. The staff data for institutions of higher education include all full-time and part-time professional, administrative, and support personnel. Because of rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, unpublished projections and estimates. (This table was prepared June 1995.)

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