Back To School Stats- part 1 from “here”

Thursday 13- Back to School: 2010-2011

1. $7.2 billion-Back-to-School Shopping
The amount of money spent at family clothing stores in August 2009. Only in December were sales significantly higher. Similarly, sales at bookstores in August 2009 totaled $2.5 billion, an amount approached in 2009 only by sales in January.
Source: Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services

2. 76 million Students The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2008 — from nursery school to college. They comprised 27 percent of the entire population 3 and older.

Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

3. Pre-K through 12 Enrollment  53%-

Percentage of 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in school in October 2008.
Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008 .

4. 56 million- K-12 The projected number of students to be enrolled in the nation’s elementary through high schools (grades K-12) this fall.

Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Table 214

5.  43% Percentage of elementary through high school students who were nonwhite (single race) or Hispanic, as of October 2008.

Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

6.  Nearly 80%  Percentage of students ages 12 to 17 who were academically on-track in 2006, up 8 percentage points from 1998. The odds of being on-track were 48 percent higher for these students if they were in a gifted class and 34 percent higher if they had never been suspended or expelled from school. (Students were considered to be academically on-track if they were enrolled in school at or above the grade level appropriate for their age.)

Source: A Child’s Day: 2006 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being)

7.  Lunchtime- 31 million- Average number of children participating each month in the national school lunch program in 2008.

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Table 558

8. College- 19.1 million  - The projected number of students enrolled in the nation’s colleges and universities this fall. This is up from 13.8 million 20 years ago.

Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Table 214

9. 16%-Percentage of all college students 35 and older in October 2008. They made up 36 percent of those attending school part time.
Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

10. 64%- Percentage of undergraduates enrolled in four-year colleges in October 2008. Of those enrolled in such schools, 83 percent attended full time.
Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

11. 49%- Percentage of 18- and 19-year-olds enrolled in college in 2008.
Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

12. 55%- Percentage of college students who were women in October 2008.
Source: School Enrollment — Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2008

13.  How Many Schools? 98,793- Number of public schools in 2006-07. In 2007-08, there were 28,218 private schools.

Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010, Tables 234 and 255 (Note: Data for public and private schools pertain to different years because they were collected from separate surveys.)

I’ll have part 2 next week!

I’m away this week on a very cool trip!

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