Interesting Educational Facts
- 74.9 million
People enrolled in school throughout the country - About 60%
Percentage of 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in nursery school - 65%
Children enrolled in kindergarten who attend all day, up from 20% three decades earlier - 54.6 million
The number of students to be enrolled in the nation’s elementary and high schools - 12%
Percentage of elementary and high school students enrolled in private schools - 40%
Elementary and high school students who are minorities - 22%
Elementary and high school students with at least one foreign-born parent - 9.9 million
School-age children (5 to 17) who speak a language other than English at home - 29 million
Children participating each month in the national school lunch program - 16.7 million
Number of students enrolled in the nation’s colleges and universities - 37%
All college students age 25 and over - 6.5 million
Number of teachers in the United States - $56,300
Annual salary of public elementary and secondary school teachers in California - $10,660
Average tuition, room, and board (for in-state students) at the nation’s four-year public colleges and universities for an entire academic year - $31,051
Average tuition, room, and board at the nation’s four-year private colleges and universities for one complete academic year - 3.1 million
Number of high school diplomas that is awarded in the end of school year - 2.7 million
Number of college degrees expected to be conferred in the end of school year