Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment
Public elementary and secondary schools enrolled about 49 million students during the 2007-08 school year, according to the report "Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff Counts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-08." The report, released by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences, also found that public elementary and secondary schools and local education agencies employed a total of 6.2 million full-time staff in the 2007-08 school year, of which 51 percent were teachers.
To view the full report please visit http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010309