This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

"Now with comparative charts & ranking tables"--Cover.

The only guide of its kind, offering a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students--more than 5,900 districts are covered. Organized alphabetically by district within state, each chapter begins with a two-page Statistical Overview of the State. Next, each district listing includes contact information (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district along with statistics on Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Drop Out Rates, Ethnicity, the Numbers of Librarians and Guidance Counselors and District Expenditures per student. Plus, unlike any other resource, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides important ranking tables, both by state and nationally, for each data element. These important tables allow the user to quickly find out how a district compares with other districts on several different elements. For easy navigation through this wealth of information, this handbook contains a useful City Index that lists all districts that operate schools within a city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or doing comparative research on their own district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library or school district library.

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

In this third edition, Sacks offers both specific information developed and implemented since the second edition (published in 2009) and provides an interdisciplinary lens offering a global perspective of the field moving the reader beyond information to actualization. -- Introduction.

The only guide of its kind, offering a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students-more than 5,900 districts are covered. Organized alphabetically by district within state, each chapter begins with

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Offers a profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide.