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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Alaska Alaska Department of Education, 801 West 10th Street, Suite 200, Juneau, AK 99801-1894	Download, view and print Alaska's report as a pdf file. 324KB
Superintendent of Education Commissioner Shirley J. Holloway, (907) 465-2802
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Richard Smiley, (907) 465-8691
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Roger Stephan, (907) 465-8682

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


106,869	129,919	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
456	497	Public schools
6,113	7,418	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
586,412	586,412	Land area in square miles
0.2	0.2	Public school students per square mile
0.1	0.1	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

539	605	State population (in thousands)
$9,517	$1,549	State revenue per capita
$7,745	$9,392	State expenditure per capita
$1,250	$1,370	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$184,241	$177,399	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	56	100%	55	Total public education agencies
98.2%	55	96.4%	53	Regular school districts
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
1.8%	1	3.6%	2	State-operated agencies
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

0.0%	0	0.0%	0	100 or more schools
5.4%	3	9.1%	5	25 to 99 schools
23.2%	13	20.0%	11	10 to 24 schools
17.9%	10	21.8%	12	5 to 9 schools
53.6%	30	49.1%	27	1 to 4 schools
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	456	100%	497	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
92.1%	420	91.1%	453	Regular schools
0.9%	4	0.6%	3	Special education schools
0.4%	2	1.2%	6	Vocational schools
6.6%	30	7.0%	35	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

27.2%	124	28.2%	140	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
3.7%	17	4.0%	20	PK, K, 1 to 8
2.2%	10	3.2%	16	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
3.5%	16	3.4%	17	7 to 8, 9
2.6%	12	4.8%	24	7, 8 to 12
6.8%	31	8.2%	41	9, 10, 11 to 12
53.5%	244	45.1%	224	Other grades
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Ungraded
0.4%	2	3.0%	15	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


—	2,186	Prekindergarten
9,759	10,451	Kindergarten
10,567	10,670	First
9,186	10,453	Second
8,645	10,361	Third
8,273	10,055	Fourth
7,995	10,268	Fifth
7,580	10,176	Sixth
7,411	10,115	Seventh
7,278	9,627	Eighth
7,549	10,621	Ninth
7,181	9,426	Tenth
7,094	8,140	Eleventh
7,160	7,370	Twelfth
—	—	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	13.8%	Students in special education with IEPs
16.2%	24.6%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	11.1%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

100.0%	5,692	85.6%	5,945	Regular diploma
	—		—	Other diploma
	—	14.1%	983	High school equivalency
	—	0.3%	20	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

223.8	277.6	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
35.5%	32.3%	Students below basic level
64.5%	67.7%	Students at or above basic level
20.6%	29.9%	Students at or above proficient level
0.2%	6.7%	Students at advanced level
—	152.7	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	35.5%	Students below basic level
	64.5%	Students at or above basic level
	31.0%	Students at or above proficient level
	2.7%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	7,285	100%	14,789	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
83.9%	6,113	50.2%	7,418	Teachers
3.8%	277	11.1%	1,649	Instructional aides
				Support staff
1.5%	112	1.6%	231	Guidance counselors/directors
1.8%	130	2.1%	305	Librarians/library support
1.0%	73	9.2%	1,357	Administrative support
0.4%	27	20.0%	2,951	Other support services
				Administrators
4.9%	357	3.0%	442	School-based
2.7%	196	2.9%	436	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

0.0%	1.1%	Public school teachers with no degree
59.2%	59.1%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
35.7%	35.3%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
5.1%	4.4%	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


$6,698	$15,502	National school lunch
$685	$2,193	National school breakfast
$14,510	$25,666	Title I
$3,547	$12,083	Education for the handicapped
$4,101	$4,514	Vocational and adult education
$3,903	$12,781	School improvement
$79,385	$58,896	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$1,331	$1,020	Bilingual education
$6,814	$84	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$777,086	$1,219,017	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$7,353	$9,383	Revenue per pupil in membership
$756,577	$1,069,379	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$7,159	$8,231	Current expenditure per pupil in membership