The Condition of Education 2008

The National Center for Education Statistics has released one of its major annual reports, "The Condition of Education 2008". Some interesting highlights include:

• This year, public school enrollment is expected to approach about 50 million students.
  
  
• One in five school-age children speak a language other than English at home.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Between 1989 and 2005, the percentage of all students attending private schools declined from 11 to 9 percent.
  
  
• Between 1990 and 2005, total spending per student in public schools rose 29 percent after adjusting for inflation, to $10,892.
  
  

Over 100 key education indicators compiled from the 2003-2008 editions are available online here. The full report is available on the NCES website at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/index.asp.