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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Oklahoma Oklahoma State Department of Education, 2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4599	Download, view and print Oklahoma's report as a pdf file. 330KB
Superintendent of Education Superintendent Sandy Garrett, (405) 521-4887
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison Patti High, (405) 521-3013
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Dawn Williams, (405) 522-3297

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


584,212	620,695	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
1,889	1,828	Public schools
34,515	39,568	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
69,919	69,919	Land area in square miles
8.4	8.9	Public school students per square mile
2.7	2.6	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

3,210	3,295	State population (in thousands)
$2,029	$3,415	State revenue per capita
$1,825	$2,892	State expenditure per capita
$365	$646	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$83,493	$112,376	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	655	100%	549	Total public education agencies
93.3%	611	100.0%	549	Regular school districts
3.1%	20	0.0%	0	Regional service agencies
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	State-operated agencies
3.7%	24	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
0.6%	4	1.3%	7	25 to 99 schools
2.4%	16	2.6%	14	10 to 24 schools
5.6%	37	7.5%	41	5 to 9 schools
88.2%	578	88.7%	487	1 to 4 schools
3.1%	20	0.0%	0	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	1,889	100%	1,828	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
96.7%	1,826	99.2%	1,813	Regular schools
0.3%	5	0.8%	15	Special education schools
2.6%	50	0.0%	0	Vocational schools
0.4%	8	0.0%	0	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

34.3%	647	33.3%	608	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
16.3%	307	16.1%	295	PK, K, 1 to 8
8.3%	157	11.6%	212	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
7.4%	139	6.3%	116	7 to 8, 9
3.2%	60	0.0%	0	7, 8 to 12
22.0%	416	25.3%	463	9, 10, 11 to 12
5.3%	101	6.8%	124	Other grades
0.5%	9	0.1%	1	Ungraded
2.8%	53	0.5%	9	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


2,382	4,600	Prekindergarten
48,529	50,387	Kindergarten
54,941	54,554	First
46,889	47,182	Second
44,181	46,451	Third
43,254	46,526	Fourth
42,910	47,647	Fifth
41,240	48,635	Sixth
39,999	48,856	Seventh
41,652	49,065	Eighth
43,738	51,709	Ninth
43,659	45,970	Tenth
43,056	40,757	Eleventh
40,552	36,113	Twelfth
7,230	2,243	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	11.4%	Students in special education with IEPs
—	36.7%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	17.0%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

79.1%	35,514	80.7%	33,060	Regular diploma
	—		—	Other diploma
20.9%	9,404	19.3%	7,896	High school equivalency
	—		—	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
	did not participate in the NAEP 1996 State Assessment

Grade 4	Grade 8	1996 Mathematics and Science achievement levels

—	—	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
		Students below basic level
		Students at or above basic level
		Students at or above proficient level
		Students at advanced level
—	—	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
		Students below basic level
		Students at or above basic level
		Students at or above proficient level
		Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	63,822	100%	68,190	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
54.1%	34,515	58.0%	39,568	Teachers
5.9%	3,750	7.6%	5,159	Instructional aides
				Support staff
1.6%	1,026	2.1%	1,398	Guidance counselors/directors
1.0%	662	2.1%	1,465	Librarians/library support
7.0%	4,463	6.5%	4,400	Administrative support
26.7%	17,065	19.7%	13,406	Other support services
				Administrators
2.8%	1,761	2.8%	1,913	School-based
0.9%	580	1.3%	881	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%	0.0%	Public school teachers with no degree
55.0%	56.9%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
39.1%	39.5%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
5.5%	3.6%	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


$41,330	$75,630	National school lunch
$7,009	$19,694	National school breakfast
$42,431	$86,576	Title I
$25,540	$38,500	Education for the handicapped
$13,919	$21,632	Vocational and adult education
$10,335	$29,265	School improvement
$22,828	$18,763	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$3,788	$6,848	Bilingual education
$10,213	$160	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$1,750,530	$3,251,302	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$2,996	$5,238	Revenue per pupil in membership
$1,692,283	$2,990,044	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$2,897	$4,817	Current expenditure per pupil in membership