Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management College of Education · University of Oregon
	"Search Help" Note that this is a web site search and will not search our databases ("Directory of Organizations", "In-Process Abstracts", the ERIC Database, "Publications").	Trends and Issues: By the Numbers Discussion Links Revised Jan 2002 This section presents statistics and numerical profiles of major aspects of educational organization, personnel, finance, and achievement. Compiled by Stuart Smith, associate director, and Gabriel Miller, research assistant. Enrollment Enrollment in grades K-12 in elementary and secondary schools: Fall 1987 (Public and private schools) 1 45,488,000 Fall 1998 1 52,459,000    Public schools 1 46,535,000    Private schools 1 5,924,000 Fall 2002 (Public and private schools, projected) 1 53,287,000 Fall 2010 (Public and private schools, projected) 1 53,016,000 Fall 1999 (Public schools only) 2 46,857,321    Prekindergarten 751,173    Kindergarten 3,397,199    Grade 1 3,683,877    Grade 2 3,655,473    Grade 3 3,690,418    Grade 4 3,686,366    Grade 5 3,603,664    Grade 6 3,564,116    Grade 7 3,541,274    Grade 8 3,496,977    Grade 9 3,934,899    Grade 10 3,415,425    Grade 11 3,033,980    Grade 12 2,781,701    Ungraded 620,779 Percentage increase in elementary-school enrollment nationally    between 1990 and 19981 11.6% Percentage increase in secondary-school enrollment nationally    between 1990 and 19981 16.3% Percentage change in total public-school enrollment 1    between 1970 and 1988 -12%    between fall 1988 and fall 1998 15.8% Percentage of students in public elementary and secondary schools who are black or Hispanic 1       Black, fall 1986 16.1%       Black, fall 1998 17.1%       Hispanic, fall 1986 9.9%       Hispanic, fall 1998  15.0% Predicted change in public elementary school enrollment  Between 2000 and 2010 1 -1.6% Between 2000 and 2005 1 -1.4% In number of white children 3 -6% In number of black children 3 -6% In number of Hispanic children 3 16% In number of Asian and Pacific Islander children 3 17% 1. National Center for Education Statistics. Digest of Education Statistics, 2000. Washington, DC: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, January 26, 2001 (Web release). "Table 3. Enrollment in educational institutions, by level and by control of institution: 1869-70 to fall 2010." http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/digest/dt003.html 2. National Center for Education Statistics. "Statistics in Brief: Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State, School Year 1999-2000." Washington, DC: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, January 2001. EA 030893. 3. Snyder, Thomas D. "Trends in Education." Principal 80, 1 (September 2000): 54-56.