Definitely worth taking look and giving it all some thought…

Of our 133,853 schools in the 2015-16 school year:

  • Elementary: 88,665
  • Secondary: 26,986
  • Combined: 16,511
  • Other: 691

Of those…

  • Traditional public: 92,147
  • Public charter: 7,011
  • Private: 34,576

About our 98,158 public schools…

  • High schools: 21,287
  • Junior high schools: 2,527
  • Middle schools: 13,253
  • Elementary schools: 53,584
  • Combined schools: 6,783
  • Other: 724

On average, public school enroll 528 students…

  • City: 591 students
  • Suburbs: 656 students
  • Town: 444 students
  • Rural: 358 students

21.1% of public schools offer online courses.

There are 13,584 school districts, the largest are…

  1. New York City, NY: 981,667 students
  2. Los Angeles Unified, CA: 639,337
  3. Chicago, IL: 387,311

There are:

  • Attending public schools: about 50.8 million students
  • Attending charter schools: 3 million students (about 6%)
  • Attending private schools: 5,750,520 students
  • Homeschooled: 1,689,726 students

About our private schools:

  • Catholic: 36.2%
  • Non-religious: 24.3%
  • Unaffiliated religious: 16.0%
  • Conservative Christian: 13.2%
  • Other religiously affiliated: 10.2%

Public school student demographics:

  • White: 48.2%
  • Hispanic: 26.4%
  • Black: 15.3%
  • Asian: 5.1%
  • Of two or more races: 3.6%
  • American Indian/Alaska Native: 1.0%
  • Pacific Islander:0.4&

National graduation rate: 84.6%

Of the 3.2 million full-time public school teachers:

  • Female: 76.6%
  • Male: 23.4%

Public school teacher demographics:

  • 1% white
  • Hispanic: 8.8%
  • Black: 6.7%
  • Asian: 2.3%
  • Of two or more races: 1.4%
  • American Indian/Alaska Native: 0.4%

Of the 90,410 public school principals:

  • Female: 54.2%
  • Male: 45.8%

Public school principal demographics:

  • White: 77.8%
  • Black: 10.6%
  • Hispanic: 8.2%
  • Asian: 1.4%
  • Of two or more races: 1.1%
  • American Indian/Alaska Native: 0.7%
  • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0.2%

The rest of the story:

  • Average teacher base salary: $55,100
  • Average principal salary: $95,700
  • National Education Association membership: 2.29 million
  • American Federation of Teachers membership: 1.7 million
  • On average. $12,756 is spent nationally per student
    • Highest: Vermont at $20,540 per student
    • Lowest: Utah at $7,635 per student