Digest of Education Statistics, 2015

NCES 2016-014 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Digest of

Education Statistics

51st Edition

2015

Digest of Education Statistics 2015

51st Edition

December 2016

Thomas D. Snyder Cristobal de Brey National Center for Education Statistics Sally A. Dillow American Institutes for Research

NCES 2016-014 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

U.S. Department of Education John B. King, Jr. Secretary

Institute of Education Sciences Ruth Neild Deputy Director for Policy and Research Delegated Duties of the Director

National Center for Education Statistics Peggy G. Carr Acting Commissioner

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations. It fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States; conduct and publish reports and specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics; assist state and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems; and review and report on education activities in foreign countries.

NCES activities are designed to address high-priority education data needs; provide consistent, reliable, complete, and accurate indicators of education status and trends; and report timely, useful, and highquality data to the U.S. Department of Education, the Congress, the states, other education policymakers, practitioners, data users, and the general public. Unless specifically noted, all information contained herein is in the public domain.

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Suggested Citation Snyder, T.D., de Brey, C., and Dillow, S.A. (2016). Digest of Education Statistics 2015 (NCES 2016-014). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

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FOREWORD

The 2015 edition of the Digest of Education Statistics is the 51st in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The Digest has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977?78, 1983?84, and 1985?86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). To qualify for inclusion in the Digest, material must be nationwide in scope and of current interest and value. The publication contains information on a variety of subjects in the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to data on educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends provides background for evaluating education data. Although the Digest contains important information on federal education funding, more detailed information on federal activities is available from federal education program offices.

The Digest contains seven chapters: All Levels of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Funds for Education and Related Activities, Outcomes of Education, International Comparisons of Education, and Libraries and Internet Use. Each chapter is divided into a number of topical subsections. Preceding the seven chapters is an Introduction that provides a brief overview of current trends in American education, which supplements the tabular materials in chapters 1 through 7. The Digest concludes with three appendixes. The first appendix, Guide to Sources, provides a brief synopsis of the surveys used to generate the Digest tables; the second, Definitions, is included to help readers understand terms used in the Digest; and the third, Index of Table Numbers, allows readers to quickly locate tables on specific topics.

In addition to providing updated versions of many statistics that have appeared in previous years, this edition incorporates new material on the following topics:

? Enrollment and percentage distribution of enrollment in public schools, by family poverty rate of 5- to 17-yearolds living in the school district, student race/ethnicity, region, and school locale (table 203.75)

? English language learner (ELL) students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade and home language (table 204.27)

? Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary school teachers who met licensing/certification requirements and of public school teachers who had less than 2 years of teaching experience, by state (table 209.25)

? Number and percentage of elementary and secondary school students retained in grade, by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade level (table 225.90)

? Percentage of public school students in grades 6 through 12 who had ever been suspended or expelled, by sex and race/ethnicity (table 233.20)

? Number and percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders who were ever suspended or expelled through spring 2012, by when student was suspended or expelled and selected student characteristics (table 233.25)

? Number of students receiving selected disciplinary actions in public elementary and secondary schools, by type of disciplinary action, disability status, sex, and race/ ethnicity (table 233.27)

? Percentage of students receiving selected disciplinary actions in public elementary and secondary schools, by type of disciplinary action, disability status, sex, and race/ ethnicity (table 233.28)

? Number of discipline incidents resulting in removal of a student from a regular education program for at least an entire school day and rate of incidents per 100,000 students, by discipline reason and state (table 233.45)

? Percentage of public schools with a written plan for procedures to be performed in selected crises and percentage that have drilled students on the use of a plan, by selected school characteristics (table 233.65)

? Number of juvenile offenders in residential placement facilities, by selected juvenile and facility characteristics (table 233.90)

? Residential placement rate (number of juvenile offenders in residential facilities) per 100,000 juveniles, by sex and race/ethnicity (table 233.92)

? Percentage distribution of fall 2009 ninth-graders who had completed high school and selected measures of their high school achievement, by postsecondary enrollment status in fall 2013 and selected student characteristics (table 302.43)

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