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Peterson's Education Center

Basic enrollment, endowment, and financial data for colleges and private K-12 schools
Information on public K-12 schools under development but national summary data on the number of schools, pupils, cost, and computers

Private School Locator

Searchable database of over 29,000 private schools in the United States
Search can be limited by name, address, religious affiliation, coed, special emphasis, grade, enrollment, and association memberships
Information includes the above information plus number of teachers, students by grade, student-teacher ratio, and enrollment by race

Public Elementary-Secondary School Systems Financial Statistics

Revenue and expenditures by type, investment and debt for public school systems
Statewide data and data for individual school districts with enrollments of 15,000+

Public School Finance Peer District Search

Choose school district and select automatic peers (student/teacher ratio, median household income, district type, metropolitan status) or individualized peer information (minority enrollment, povwerty, at-risk students)
Initial table shows per pupil expenditure for district in question, the state, the nation, and peers
List of peers provides individual district data on receipts, expenditures, community and school demographics

Quality Counts - Public Education

Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching, school climate, and funding

Resegregation in American Schools

Report includes text and tables on segregation in K-12 education
Data includes percent of minorities (black, Latino) in primarily white schools and vice versa
Some data by state and large city
Issued 1999 by The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University

School Data Direct

Evaluates individual schools and school districts in text and with statistics
Factors include state test scores, drop-out rates, students per staff, school size, school building, financing, and demographics
Compares individual districts to the county and state

School District Demographics (NCES)

Sample data variables for the U.S., Bureau of Indian Affairs, State, County, and other School Districts for 1990 and 2000
Includes 492 population and 329 housing tables
Viewable on screen and downloadable by state into compressed format
Over 800 census variables for states, counties and school districts

State Master

Rank states from best to worst using a series of pull-down menus
Broad categories include crime, economics, education, health, housing, immigration, labor, and demographics
Some of the more "unusual data" includes the number of illegal immigrants, electrocutions v. lethal injections, students scoring above average on 4th grad math, alligator attacks and flu shots, and state birds
Data can be illustrated with a bar graph, pie chart, or map (e.g. map of states with the largest number of Albanian refugees

State of Literacy in America