DOCUMENT RESUME ED 033 439 EA 002 522 TITLE Selected Statistics of Local School Systems, 1966-67. INSTITUTION National Education Association, Washingtcn, D.C. Report No RP-1968-R11 Pub Date 68 Note 120p. Available from Publications Sales Section, National Education Association,' 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (#435-13362, $2.25, quantity discounts). EDRS Price EDRS Price MF-$0.50 HC Not Available from EDRS. Descriptors Average Daily Attendance, Bend Issues, *Educational Finance, Expenditure Per Student, Expenditures, National Surveys, *Public School Systems, School Bridget Elections, *School Statistics, School Taxes, State Federal Aid, State School District Relationship, *Student Enrollment, Tax Rates, Teacher Education, *Teachers Abstract This reFcrt presents selected statistics related to student enrollment and attendance, teacher preparation and turnover, revenue sources, major expenditures, property tax rates, results of referendums on school bonds, increased tax rates, and school budgets for local public school systems during the 1966-67 school year. These statistics are based on questionnaire survey returns received from 155 (92.8%) of the nation's 167 school systems enrolling more than 25,000 students, and on returns received frcm 161 selected school systems with enrollments under 25,000. Data for the entire sample is summarized in tables 1 through 22 of the text. 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CONTENTS 5 Foreword 6 Introduction 8 Pupils in School 8 Length of the School Year 9 Enrollment in Other SchoolPrograms 10 Classroom Teachers 10 Degrees 11 Teacher Turnover 12 Revenue 12 Local Revenue Share 13 Assessed Valuations 14 Tax Rates 14 Percent of Market Values 15 Estimated Effective Tax Rates 16 Current Expenditures 18 Per-Pupil Expenditure Comparability with Other Seriesof Per -Pupil Costs 18 20 Capital Outlay 21 Interest on Long -Term Debt 22 Debt Retirement 23 Other School Programs 24 Summary of Expenditures 25 School Tax Rate andBond Referendums 26 Fiscal Independence orDependence 27 Selected Small School Systems OOOOOO .......... 29 Appendix 110 Questionnaire ............... OOO . OOOOO. O . OO " OOOO ....... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO114 Index OOO OOOOOOO 000 OO List of Text Tables 7 1. Returns of Survey of Large Public School Systems,October 1966 2. Pupils in the Elementary and Secondary Day Schoolsof Large Public School Systems, 1966-67 9 3. Length of the School Year in Large Public SchoolSystems, 1966-67 4. Enrollment in Summer Schools, Adult Education, andJunior Colleges of Large Public School Systems . 9 10 5. Number of Classroom Teachers in Large PublicSchool Systems, 1966-67 6. Distribution of Classroom Teachers in Large PublicSchool Systems by Highest Level of Preparation, 1966-67 11 7. Classroom Teacher Separations in Large PublicSchool Systems, July 1, 1966, to June 30, 1967, as Percent of TotalNumber of Classroom Teachers 11 8. Average Percents of Revenue from Local Sources inLarge Public School 12 Systems, 1966-67 9. Assessed Valuations of Taxable Real Property and Averageper,Pupil in ADM in Large Public School Systems, 1966-67 13 10. Averages of Tax Rates for Schools per$1,000 of Assessed. Valuations in Large 14 Public. School Systems, 1966-67 . 11. Averages of Prevailing Rates of AssessedValuationd to Market Values of Real Property in Large Public School Systems,1966-67 14 12. Estimated Averages of EffectiveTax Rates per$1,000, on 100 Percent of Market Value of Real Property of Large PublicSchO61 Systems, 106647" 15 13. CurreMi Expenditures by Major Purpose for Elementary and Secondary Day Schools of Large Public School Systems, 1966-67 16 14. Current Expenditures per Pupil in Average DailyMembership in Large Public SchoolSystems, 1966-67 17 15. Means and Medians of Current Expenditures perPupil inAveragel)aily Membership in Large Public School Systems, 1966-67 18 20 16. Capital Outlay Expenditures in Large Public SchoolSystems, 1966-67 17. Expenditures for Interest on Long-Term Debt of Large PublicSchool 21 Systems, 1966-67 , ,;. : 22 18. Expenditures for Debt Retirement in Large Public School Systems,1966767 19. Expenditures for Programs Other Than Elementary and Secondary Day Schools,, Large Public .School Systems, 1966-67 ** * e.:es;o:e%.*** 23 20. Summaiy of.Expenditures in 155.Large Public SchoolSystems,.1966-67 24 School Bonds, Increases, in School,Tax Rates,;andT 21. Summary of Referendumson. School Budgets: Number of Large Public School Systems, 1966-67 25 22. Number of Large Public School Systems FiscallyIndependent or Dependent, 1966-67 26 .=Cagn.:.14.171=0.**agna..........votema. 5 FOREWORD statistics is devotedpri- annual report oflocal school The seventh selected sta- unified school systems. Included are marily to the large raised local- classroom teachers,percents of revenue tistics on pupils, dependence major items ofexpenditure, fiscal ly, property tax rates, school bonds, onin- independence, and theresults of referendums on or Data are givenfor 155 of rates, and onschool budgets. creases in tax of 25,000 or morein the 167 unifiedschool systemswith enrollments small school systemswhich provide October 1966, andfor 161 selected classroom teachers. relatively high-salaryschedules for services in urban areascontinue to Pressures forexpanded school programs forthe education- The new federalfunds are supporting mount. imaginative new programs.The im- ally disadvantagedand supplementing Elementary and SecondaryEducation Act pact of federalfunds from the federal programs isconsiderable. However, of 1965 andother expanded cities continue tolag behind per-pupil expendituresin the central those of thesurrounding suburban areas. information on costs increasing demandfor basic There has been reports, for local schoolsystems. This series of and related items However, the urgent needfor comparativestatistics. in part, meets years' series has become of reportingwith prior achieving uniformity current expendituresin the moredifficult, particularlyin determining day school program. The school systems elementary andsecondary public separately for federalfunds. Frequently, the arerequired to account funds are notsubsequently inte- financial accountsof these federal classifications ofexpenditures fromother funds. grated with account financed with expenditures