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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Iowa Iowa Department of Education, Grimes State Office Bldg., Des Moines, IA 50319-0146	Download, view and print Iowa's report as a pdf file. 323KB
Superintendent of Education Director Ted Stilwill, (515) 281-3436
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Leland Tack, (515) 281-5293
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Leland Tack, (515) 281-5293

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


480,826	502,941	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
1,633	1,552	Public schools
30,873	32,593	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
56,290	56,290	Land area in square miles
8.5	8.9	Public school students per square mile
2.9	2.8	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

2,767	2,848	State population (in thousands)
$2,100	$3,334	State revenue per capita
$1,921	$3,277	State expenditure per capita
$430	$665	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$92,481	$141,478	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	468	100%	408	Total public education agencies
93.2%	436	92.9%	379	Regular school districts
3.2%	15	3.7%	15	Regional service agencies
3.6%	17	3.2%	13	State-operated agencies
0.0%	0	0.2%	1	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

0.0%	0	0.0%	0	100 or more schools
1.1%	5	1.0%	4	25 to 99 schools
3.0%	14	3.2%	13	10 to 24 schools
12.8%	60	16.9%	69	5 to 9 schools
76.3%	357	71.6%	292	1 to 4 schools
6.8%	32	7.4%	30	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	1,633	100%	1,552	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
98.6%	1,610	97.0%	1,505	Regular schools
0.8%	13	0.9%	14	Special education schools
0.1%	2	0.0%	0	Vocational schools
0.5%	8	2.1%	33	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

47.6%	777	45.2%	702	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
2.1%	35	1.3%	20	PK, K, 1 to 8
10.5%	172	13.5%	209	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
6.0%	98	4.3%	66	7 to 8, 9
10.5%	171	7.0%	108	7, 8 to 12
16.0%	262	17.2%	267	9, 10, 11 to 12
6.1%	100	11.1%	172	Other grades
1.1%	18	0.2%	3	Ungraded
0.0%	0	0.3%	5	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


1,068	5,042	Prekindergarten
39,608	37,101	Kindergarten
38,817	36,614	First
37,512	35,706	Second
35,536	35,004	Third
34,301	34,918	Fourth
33,828	36,450	Fifth
32,340	37,604	Sixth
33,383	37,890	Seventh
31,815	38,801	Eighth
33,296	40,892	Ninth
35,296	40,277	Tenth
36,907	38,093	Eleventh
36,965	35,650	Twelfth
20,154	12,899	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	12.9%	Students in special education with IEPs
18.1%	20.4%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	12.2%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

93.5%	34,580	92.3%	31,689	Regular diploma
0.6%	221	0.4%	154	Other diploma
5.9%	2,199	6.9%	2,379	High school equivalency
	—	0.3%	115	Other completers
	—		3.1%	Dropouts
			57.9%	Dropouts who were male
			16.4%	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

229.1	284.0	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
26.2%	22.4%	Students below basic level
73.8%	77.6%	Students at or above basic level
22.1%	31.5%	Students at or above proficient level
1.3%	3.9%	Students at advanced level
—	158.1	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	28.9%	Students below basic level
	71.1%	Students at or above basic level
	36.0%	Students at or above proficient level
	2.7%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	56,670	100%	63,003	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
54.5%	30,873	51.7%	32,593	Teachers
5.4%	3,050	10.2%	6,421	Instructional aides
				Support staff
1.6%	928	2.1%	1,332	Guidance counselors/directors
3.0%	1,689	3.4%	2,140	Librarians/library support
7.3%	4,134	6.1%	3,873	Administrative support
24.6%	13,959	21.7%	13,676	Other support services
				Administrators
2.5%	1,425	2.8%	1,770	School-based
1.1%	612	1.9%	1,198	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

0.4%	0.0%	Public school teachers with no degree
65.8%	67.3%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
31.3%	31.3%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
2.5%	1.4%	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


$29,612	$51,911	National school lunch
$1,717	$7,239	National school breakfast
$33,092	$51,531	Title I
$21,780	$33,256	Education for the handicapped
$11,883	$15,363	Vocational and adult education
$9,091	$11,246	School improvement
$219	$175	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$246	$426	Bilingual education
$240	—	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$1,958,184	$3,167,763	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$4,073	$6,298	Revenue per pupil in membership
$1,859,173	$2,885,943	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$3,867	$5,738	Current expenditure per pupil in membership