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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Louisiana Louisiana Department of Education, 626 North 4th Street, 12th Floor, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064	Download, view and print Louisiana's report as a pdf file. 324KB
Superintendent of Education Superintendent Cecil J. Picard, (504) 342-3602
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Bobby J. Franklin, (504) 342-0091
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Sue Dishongh, (504) 342-0092

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


793,093	793,296	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
1,599	1,477	Public schools
42,920	47,334	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
48,523	48,523	Land area in square miles
16.3	16.3	Public school students per square mile
3.3	3.0	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

4,344	4,341	State population (in thousands)
$1,829	$3,660	State revenue per capita
$1,924	$3,283	State expenditure per capita
$362	$596	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$89,509	$136,327	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	89	100%	72	Total public education agencies
74.2%	66	91.7%	66	Regular school districts
6.7%	6	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
6.7%	6	6.9%	5	State-operated agencies
12.4%	11	1.4%	1	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

2.2%	2	2.8%	2	100 or more schools
19.1%	17	22.2%	16	25 to 99 schools
42.7%	38	40.3%	29	10 to 24 schools
18.0%	16	26.4%	19	5 to 9 schools
10.1%	9	8.3%	6	1 to 4 schools
7.9%	7	0.0%	0	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	1,599	100%	1,477	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
93.4%	1,494	92.7%	1,369	Regular schools
1.8%	29	2.6%	39	Special education schools
3.9%	63	0.7%	11	Vocational schools
0.8%	13	3.9%	58	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

40.0%	639	41.3%	610	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
4.1%	66	5.1%	75	PK, K, 1 to 8
12.1%	193	14.2%	209	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
4.8%	76	4.2%	62	7 to 8, 9
5.4%	86	4.2%	62	7, 8 to 12
12.9%	206	12.9%	190	9, 10, 11 to 12
12.9%	206	16.4%	242	Other grades
1.0%	16	1.7%	25	Ungraded
6.9%	111	0.1%	2	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


1,305	20,066	Prekindergarten
70,222	61,170	Kindergarten
71,582	64,136	First
66,241	59,025	Second
64,517	58,244	Third
62,411	59,082	Fourth
61,005	59,815	Fifth
58,876	61,493	Sixth
60,828	61,343	Seventh
54,841	57,344	Eighth
61,716	68,328	Ninth
55,124	54,975	Tenth
46,655	47,525	Eleventh
42,745	41,759	Twelfth
15,025	18,991	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	11.1%	Students in special education with IEPs
43.1%	49.2%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	22.1%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

84.6%	39,084	78.8%	36,467	Regular diploma
12.3%	5,663		—	Other diploma
	—	21.2%	9,840	High school equivalency
3.1%	1,437		—	Other completers
	—		11.6%	Dropouts
			56.9%	Dropouts who were male
			53.9%	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

209	252.4	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
56.0%	61.5%	Students below basic level
44.0%	38.5%	Students at or above basic level
7.7%	7.4%	Students at or above proficient level
0.4%	0.5%	Students at advanced level
—	132.4	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	59.7%	Students below basic level
	40.3%	Students at or above basic level
	13.4%	Students at or above proficient level
	0.6%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	88,794	100%	94,113	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
48.3%	42,920	50.3%	47,334	Teachers
8.4%	7,477	10.6%	10,002	Instructional aides
				Support staff
0.9%	796	2.9%	2,703	Guidance counselors/directors
1.3%	1,145	1.5%	1,367	Librarians/library support
5.2%	4,650	3.6%	3,421	Administrative support
30.9%	27,415	27.1%	25,543	Other support services
				Administrators
2.6%	2,266	2.6%	2,442	School-based
2.4%	2,125	1.4%	1,301	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%	0.7%	Public school teachers with no degree
53.6%	60.6%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
31.2%	31.2%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
14.9%	7.4%	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


$38,180	$146,140	National school lunch
$16,765	$40,111	National school breakfast
$101,364	$203,662	Title I
$7,349	$51,188	Education for the handicapped
$21,406	$26,943	Vocational and adult education
$15,491	$30,114	School improvement
$8,302	$3,301	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$1,785	$3,175	Bilingual education
$410	—	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$2,541,690	$4,154,494	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$3,205	$5,237	Revenue per pupil in membership
$2,289,241	$3,747,507	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$2,886	$4,724	Current expenditure per pupil in membership