SCHOOL FINANCE
Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: FY 17
This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2017. Specifically, this report includes finance data on the … Read More
Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2015–16 (Fiscal Year 2016) First Look
This First Look report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2016. Specifically, this report includes findings for the following types of … Read More
The Feasibility of Collecting School-Level Finance Data: An Evaluation of Data from the School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) School Year 2014–15
High demand exists for data to analyze the equitable distribution of school funding within and across school districts. In response to this growing demand, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) developed a new collection of finance data at the … Read More
Instructional Staff Salary and Benefits Spending: 1991–2011
Between 1991 and 2011, spending on instructional staff compensation, including salary and benefits, comprised more than half of current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education. During this period, spending on instructional staff compensation increased nationally by $101 billion (54 … Read More
POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Postsecondary Education Expectations and Attainment of Rural and Nonrural Students
This study examined rural–nonrural differences in postsecondary educational expectations and the attainment of expectations for grade 10 students attending rural and nonrural high schools in the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest region and how these differences compare with rural–nonrural differences … Read More
First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students: A Comparison of High School and Postsecondary Experiences
This Statistics in Brief, using data from a nationally representative cohort of 2002 high school sophomores, provides an updated look at background and educational characteristics (e.g., educational expectations, plans for taking the SAT/ACT, and cumulative high school grade point average … Read More
First-Year Undergraduate Remedial Coursetaking: 1999-2000, 2003-04, and 2007-08
This Statistics in Brief uses data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) to examine the percentages of first-year undergraduate students enrolled in institutions of higher education (IHE) who reported taking remedial courses in the 1999–2000, 2003–04, and 2007–08 … Read More
Why Didn’t Students Complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)? A Detailed Look
This Statistics in Brief builds on prior NCES publications (Chen, Wu, and Tasoff 2010; Ifill 2016) to provide an updated and detailed look at why students or their parents reported that they did not complete the FAFSA. This report uses … Read More
TEACHER POLICY
Teacher Job Satisfaction
In 2011–12, about 95 percent of public school teachers who agreed that the administration in their schools was supportive were satisfied with their jobs. This was 30 percentage points higher than the teachers who disagreed that the administration was supportive … Read More
Teaching Vacancies and Difficult-to-Staff Teaching Positions in Public Schools
Activate Research co-authored “Teaching Vacancies and Difficult-to-Staff Teaching Positions in Public Schools.” Compared to the 1999–2000 school year, a lower percentage of public schools had at least one teaching vacancy in the 2011–12 school year, according to “Teaching Vacancies and … Read More
Public School Teacher Autonomy in the Classroom Across School Years 2003–04, 2007–08, and 2011–12
Compared to 2003–04, along nearly every teacher and school characteristic, larger percentages of teachers perceived low autonomy in 2007–08, with still larger percentages in 2011–12, according to “Public School Teacher Autonomy in the Classroom Across School Years 2003–04, 2007–08, and … Read More
Preparation and Support for Teachers in Public Schools: Reflections on the First Year of Teaching
This brief investigates early-career teachers’ preparation for teaching and receipt of support by selected characteristics of the schools in which they taught during the 2011–12 school year. The specific school characteristics included in this report are school classification (traditional public … Read More
STEM AND NAEP
Gender Differences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Interest, Credits Earned, and NAEP Performance in the 12th Grade
Activate Research co-authored “Gender Differences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Interest, Credits Earned, and NAEP Performance in the 12th Grade,” a Statistics in Brief that describes high school graduate’s attitudes toward STEM courses (specifically, mathematics and science), credits … Read More
K-12 CLASSROOM
How Principals in Public and Private Schools Used Their Time in 2011-12
This Statistics in Brief examines the mean percentage of time that principals reported spending on various activities in the 2011–12 school year, both overall and by selected school, staffing, and principal characteristics. Key findings from school year 2011-12 include: (1) … Read More
Instructional Time for Third- and Eighth-Graders in Public and Private Schools: School Year 2011-12
This Statistics in Brief examines the amount of time that students in grades 3 and 8 spent on different activities in 2011-12 and compares how, if at all, this time varied by activity, school sector, and grade. Based on reporting … Read More
Changes in America’s Public School Facilities: From School Year 1998-99 to School Year 2012-13
This Statistics in Brief summarizes the changes from the 1998-99 to the 2012-13 school years in the average age of public schools, rating of satisfaction of the environmental quality of school facilities, the cost to put school buildings in good … Read More
EARLY CHILDHOOD
The Years Before School: Children’s Nonparental Care Arrangements From 2001 to 2012
This Statistics in Brief examines the nonparental care arrangements of children in the United States, from birth through age 5, who are not yet enrolled in kindergarten. The report draws on data from the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) … Read More
ARTS AND INTERNATIONAL
U.S. Patterns of Arts Participation: A Full Report from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts
The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) is the nation’s largest, most representative survey of adult patterns of arts participation in the United States. This report presents top‐line statistics from the 2017 SPPA about U.S. adults’ participation in … Read More
Adult Education Attainment and Assessment Scores: A Cross-National Comparison
Adults in their 20s in almost all of the participating countries had a larger gap between those who did not finish high school and high school graduates compared to the gap between high school graduates and those with at least … Read More
Public Elementary and Secondary School Arts Education Instructors
Activate Research co-authored “Public Elementary and Secondary School Arts Education Instructors.” This Statistics in Brief uses data from two administrations of the Fast Response Survey System to present findings related to the different types of school staff (e.g., full-time staff, … Read More