- This year, public school enrollment is expected to approach about 50 million students. Total public school enrollment is projected to set new records each year from 2008 to 2017, at which time it is expected to reach 54.1 million.
- Minority students make up 43 percent of the public school enrollment overall.
- In 2005–06, about a third of Black students and a third of Hispanic students attended high-poverty schools compared with 4 percent of White students.
- Average reading scores of 4th- and 8th-graders were higher in 2007 than in 1992.
- Average mathematics scores increased 27 points for 4th-graders and 19 points for 8th-graders between 1990 and 2007.
- Among public high school students in the class of 2005, about three-fourths graduated on time.
IES Newsflash 5/29/2008
