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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Nevada Nevada Department of Education, 700 East 5th Street Carson City, NV 89701-5096	Download, view and print Nevada's report as a pdf file. 330KB
Superintendent of Education Superintendent Mary L. Peterson, (775) 687-9217
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison William F. Arensdorf, (702) 687-9160
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Cheryl Purvis, (702) 687-9174

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


168,353	282,131	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
305	442	Public schools
8,348	14,805	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
110,540	110,540	Land area in square miles
1.5	2.6	Public school students per square mile
0.3	0.4	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

1,023	1,601	State population (in thousands)
$2,313	$3,873	State revenue per capita
$2,133	$3,059	State expenditure per capita
$394	$652	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$135,265	$182,622	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	17	100%	18	Total public education agencies
100.0%	17	94.4%	17	Regular school districts
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
0.0%	0	5.6%	1	State-operated agencies
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Federally operated and other types

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by number of schools

5.9%	1	5.6%	1	100 or more schools
5.9%	1	11.1%	2	25 to 99 schools
29.4%	5	27.8%	5	10 to 24 schools
29.4%	5	22.2%	4	5 to 9 schools
29.4%	5	33.3%	6	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%	305	100%	442	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
97.0%	296	91.0%	402	Regular schools
1.0%	3	2.9%	13	Special education schools
0.7%	2	0.9%	4	Vocational schools
1.3%	4	5.2%	23	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

55.4%	169	54.8%	242	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
5.9%	18	3.4%	15	PK, K, 1 to 8
6.6%	20	9.7%	43	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
6.9%	21	3.6%	16	7 to 8, 9
6.9%	21	5.0%	22	7, 8 to 12
10.2%	31	12.9%	57	9, 10, 11 to 12
6.9%	21	8.6%	38	Other grades
1.0%	3	0.7%	3	Ungraded
0.3%	1	1.4%	6	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


—	1,868	Prekindergarten
13,859	22,875	Kindergarten
15,550	25,398	First
14,246	24,090	Second
13,303	23,154	Third
12,771	22,597	Fourth
12,583	22,570	Fifth
11,929	22,064	Sixth
11,988	21,432	Seventh
11,906	21,041	Eighth
12,112	21,162	Ninth
12,508	19,999	Tenth
13,020	17,912	Eleventh
11,604	15,316	Twelfth
974	653	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	10.6%	Students in special education with IEPs
—	25.4%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	14.5%	School-age children below poverty

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1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

100.0%	9,506	76.2%	10,374	Regular diploma
	—	7.3%	987	Other diploma
	—	14.8%	2,009	High school equivalency
	—	1.8%	243	Other completers
	—		9.6%	Dropouts
			55.6%	Dropouts who were male
			41.5%	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
	did not meet the initial participation rate standard for public schools and results cannot be reported

Grade 4	Grade 8	1996 Mathematics and Science achievement levels

217.6	—	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
43.1%		Students below basic level
56.9%		Students at or above basic level
14.0%		Students at or above proficient level
0.8%		Students at advanced level
—	143.1	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	47.3%	Students below basic level
	52.7%	Students at or above basic level
	21.5%	Students at or above proficient level
	1.0%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	9,736	100%	25,463	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
85.7%	8,348	58.1%	14,805	Teachers
	—	6.3%	1,615	Instructional aides
				Support staff
3.0%	290	2.2%	560	Guidance counselors/directors
1.7%	166	1.8%	455	Librarians/library support
0.0%	—	6.8%	1,744	Administrative support
3.5%	345	20.5%	5,218	Other support services
				Administrators
4.2%	408	2.9%	745	School-based
1.8%	179	1.3%	321	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

0.5%	0.3%	Public school teachers with no degree
47.0%	50.5%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
41.8%	42.8%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
10.6%	6.4%	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


$6,133	$22,486	National school lunch
$1,335	$5,373	National school breakfast
$8,840	$19,376	Title I
$5,968	$14,277	Education for the handicapped
$4,971	$6,795	Vocational and adult education
$3,903	$8,894	School improvement
$3,047	$2,525	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$688	$393	Bilingual education
$487	—	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$660,290	$1,705,232	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$3,922	$6,044	Revenue per pupil in membership
$555,272	$1,434,395	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$3,298	$5,084	Current expenditure per pupil in membership