Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2003-04

Title:	Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2003-04
Description:	This annual report provides basic information from the Common Core of Data about the nation’s largest public school districts in the 2003-04 school year. The data include such characteristics as the numbers of students and teachers, number of high school completers and the averaged freshman graduation rate, and revenues and expenditures. Several findings were: These 100 largest districts enrolled 23 percent of all public school students, and employed 22 percent of all public school teachers, in 2003-04. The 100 largest districts produced 20 percent of all high school completers (both diploma and other completion credential recipients) in 2002-03. Across these districts, the averaged freshman graduation rate was 68.8 percent. In 19 of the 100 largest districts the rate was 80 percent or higher. The rate was less than 50 percent in 8 of the 100 largest districts. Three states – California, Florida, and Texas – accounted for 41 of the 100 largest public school districts. Current per-pupil expenditures in fiscal year 2003 ranged from a low of $4,413 in Alpine School District, Utah to a high of $17,652 in Newark City, New Jersey.
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Cover Date:	September 2006
Web Release:	September 26, 2006
Print Release:	Currently only available online, print version forthcoming.
Publication #:	NCES 2006329 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Jennifer Sable, Education Statistics Services Institute and Lee M. Hoffman, NCES
Type of Product:	Statistical Analysis Report
Survey/Program Areas:	Common Core of Data (CCD)
Keywords:	Enrollment • elementary and secondary schools Expenditures • public schools Finance • elementary and secondary schools Graduation Rates, High School Public Schools Race/Ethnicity Revenues • elementary/secondary schools School Districts • characteristics of 100 largest
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Statistical Analysis Report, please contact: Patrick Keaton.