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

Teacher to all other staff ratio

Teacher to administrator ratio

Utah Utah State Office of Education, 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111	Download, view and print Utah's report as a pdf file. 330KB
Superintendent of Education Superintendent Steven O. Laing, (801) 538-7510
National Cooperative Education Statistics Liaison James P. O'Hara, (801) 538-7665
Common Core of Data Survey Coordinator Patricia Bowles, (801) 538-7577

1987	1996	Demographics
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS


423,386	481,812	Students in public elementary and secondary schools
725	742	Public schools
17,124	19,734	Teachers in public elementary and secondary schools
84,916	84,916	Land area in square miles
5.0	5.7	Public school students per square mile
0.9	0.9	Public schools per 100 square miles

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

1987	1996	Fiscal summary

1,678	2,018	State population (in thousands)
$2,185	$3,751	State revenue per capita
$1,909	$3,311	State expenditure per capita
$436	$762	State expenditure for elem. and secondary education per capita
$59,967	$102,611	Gross state product per school-age child

1987		1996		Distribution of agencies by type
AGENCY/SCHOOL INFORMATION


100%	48	100%	47	Total public education agencies
83.3%	40	85.1%	40	Regular school districts
12.5%	6	10.6%	5	Regional service agencies
4.2%	2	4.3%	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
16.7%	8	19.1%	9	25 to 99 schools
31.3%	15	25.5%	12	10 to 24 schools
16.7%	8	23.4%	11	5 to 9 schools
18.8%	9	21.3%	10	1 to 4 schools
16.7%	8	10.6%	5	No schools reported

Figure 2
Regular school districts by student membership size

1987		1996		Distribution of schools by type

100%	725	100%	742	Total public elementary and secondary schools reported
90.2%	654	91.0%	675	Regular schools
4.7%	34	3.1%	23	Special education schools
0.4%	3	0.3%	2	Vocational schools
4.7%	34	5.7%	42	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

58.9%	427	56.7%	421	PK, K, 1 to 3, 4, 5, 6
0.4%	3	0.5%	4	PK, K, 1 to 8
5.5%	40	4.9%	36	4, 5, 6, to 6, 7, 8
9.5%	69	10.8%	80	7 to 8, 9
3.9%	28	5.5%	41	7, 8 to 12
14.6%	106	13.3%	99	9, 10, 11 to 12
3.0%	22	6.5%	48	Other grades
4.1%	30	1.8%	13	Ungraded
0.0%	0	0.0%	0	Not reported

1987	1996	Public school membership by grade
STUDENT INFORMATION


—	3,784	Prekindergarten
37,235	34,882	Kindergarten
37,239	35,848	First
37,933	34,914	Second
36,575	35,088	Third
33,159	34,227	Fourth
34,640	34,890	Fifth
32,967	35,307	Sixth
30,331	36,225	Seventh
29,148	36,860	Eighth
28,117	38,742	Ninth
26,792	38,071	Tenth
26,684	37,623	Eleventh
25,076	34,795	Twelfth
7,490	10,556	Ungraded

Figure 5
Public school student membership by racial/ethnic category

1987	1996

—	11.2%	Students in special education with IEPs
—	18.8%	School membership eligible for free lunch
—	11.9%	School-age children below poverty

1987		1995		High school completers and dropouts

100.0%	20,930	89.1%	26,293	Regular diploma
	—	5.2%	1,526	Other diploma
	—	3.9%	1,154	High school equivalency
	—	1.8%	544	Other completers
	—		4.4%	Dropouts
			54.3%	Dropouts who were male
			22.7%	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

226.5	276.8	Average Mathematics scale score [scale 0 to 500]
31.4%	30.3%	Students below basic level
68.6%	69.7%	Students at or above basic level
22.7%	24.4%	Students at or above proficient level
1.7%	2.5%	Students at advanced level
—	156.0	Average Science scale score [scale 0 to 300]
	29.8%	Students below basic level
	70.2%	Students at or above basic level
	31.7%	Students at or above proficient level
	2.1%	Students at advanced level

1987		1996		Educational staff
STAFF INFORMATION


100%	29,976	100%	37,461	Total education staff
				Instructional staff
57.1%	17,124	52.7%	19,734	Teachers
8.5%	2,561	13.4%	5,004	Instructional aides
				Support staff
1.4%	412	1.6%	594	Guidance counselors/directors
2.1%	633	1.9%	708	Librarians/library support
5.6%	1,667	6.8%	2,536	Administrative support
21.5%	6,453	19.6%	7,339	Other support services
				Administrators
2.7%	804	2.5%	951	School-based
1.1%	322	1.6%	595	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

0.6%	1.2%	Public school teachers with no degree
73.3%	70.7%	Public school teachers with a Bachelor's or lower degree
20.5%	23.5%	Public school teachers with a Master's degree
5.6%	4.6%	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


$20,561	$40,722	National school lunch
$556	$4,625	National school breakfast
$14,886	$31,793	Title I
$15,973	$30,134	Education for the handicapped
$7,366	$13,171	Vocational and adult education
$6,929	$11,788	School improvement
$8,937	$4,949	School assistance (federally affected areas)
$884	$903	Bilingual education
$864	.	Indian education

Figure 10
Revenues by source

Figure 11
Current expenditures by function

FY88	FY97	Revenues and expenditures (in current dollars)

$1,183,399	$2,198,285	Revenues (in thousands of dollars)
$2,795	$4,563	Revenue per pupil in membership
$974,666	$1,822,725	Current expenditures (in thousands of dollars)
$2,302	$3,783	Current expenditure per pupil in membership