ADVISORY

Education Statistics Made Available
By House Research

House Research, a department of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives, made the following education statistics available to the public. Additional sources are noted. Source: Profiles 2007 District Report, Oklahoma Office of Accountability, April 2008


Budgets and Test Scores (District 30 sample)

Table 5 Allen-Bowden Kiefer Mounds Sapulpa Glenpool
  Creek County Creek County Creek County Creek County Tulsa County
Budget
Staffing Level
Regluar Classroom Teachers/Avg. Salary 25 / $40,360 25.9 / $40,442 50.6 / $39,703 232.1 / $41,938 126.5 / $42,476
Administrators/Avg. Salary 2 / $78399 3.8 / $61,403 3.8 / $75,132 22.5 / $67,387 13.9/ $67,326
Class Size: # of students/ regular classroom teacher 13.8 14.2 14.4 18.4 18.4
Test Scores The numbers reflect the percent satisfactory and above
3rd Grade
Reading 87 80 95 91 91
Math 43 60 79 84 79
4th Grade
Reading 100 100 92 96 97
Math 89 71 75 86 93
5th Grade
Reading 81 86 66 88 87
Math 78 71 71 88 94
6th Grade
Reading 88 88 60 84 77
Math 35 69 57 84 85
7th Grade
Reading 86 69 86 83 82
Math 86 38 71 81 78
8th Grade
Reading 93 76 67 94 92
Math 87 65 61 85 79
End-of-Instruction Tests
Algebra I 72 75 49 86 68
English II Not Available 80 82 83 79
U.S. History Not Available 71 83 64 Not Available
Biology I Not Available 50 46 58 35
ACT No High School 16.7 19.2 19.5 19.8


Oklahoma Common Education Data

Number of school districts:
1. Dependent 111
2. Independent 429
3. Total 540

Number of schools
4. School Sites 1776
5. Elementary 1012
6. Middle Schools/Junior Highs 296
7. Senior Highs 429

Enrollment
1. Total 633,006
2. Gifted/Talented Program 80,849 (12.8%)
3. Special Ed 95,853 (15%)
4. Free & Reduced Lunch 354,204 (56%)


Percentage of Budget for Common Education (7 states)

Oklahoma
35% in FY2008
Source: Oklahoma State Department of Education

Arkansas
53% in FY2005
Source: http://www.state.ar.us/dfa/budget/budget_facts_brochure_fy05.html

Colorado
42% in FY2008
Source: http://www.thebell.org/PUBS/annual/2007/LookingForward.pdf

Kansas
41% in FY2007
Source: http://www.budget.ks.gov/publications/FY2008/FY2008_Governors_Budget_Report_Volume1--updated_1-16-2007.pdf

Missouri
23% recommended by Governor for FY2009
Source: http://oa.mo.gov/bp/budg2009/Budget_Summary.pdf

New Mexico
44% in FY2008
Source: http://budget.nmdfa.state.nm.us/cms/kunde/rts/budgetnmdfastatenmus/docs/483129450-01-18-2007-08-44-57.pdf

Texas
35.3% in FY2007
Source: http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxbud/expend.html


Social Statistics (8 states)

State Single Parent Families Unemployed Parents Children Living in Poverty Children Without Insurance Teen Pregnancy Rate
  Proportion of Children Under 18 Living in Families headed by a Single Parent, 2004 Proportion of Children Under 18 Living in Households Where no Parent Has Full-Time Employment, 2006 Proportion of Children Under 6 Living Below the Federal Poverty Level, 2006 Proportion of Children 18 and Under Without Health Insurance, 2005 Girls 15-19, 2000
Arkansas 35% 36% 29% 10% 93
Colorado 28% 31% 18% 14% 82
Kansas 28% 28% 19% 7% 69
Missouri 32% 32% 22% 8% 74
New Mexico 37% 38% 29% 18% 103
Oklahoma 34% 36% 29% 14% 86
Texas 33% 34% 27% 21% 101
United States 32% 33% 21% 11% 84

The Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2006). KIDS COUNT 2006 data book online. Retrieved February 2008 from http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/. Baltimore: Author. The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (2004).

U.S. teenage pregnancy statistics: Overall trends, trends by race and ethnicity and state-by-state information. Retrieved February 20, 2004, from www.guttmacher.org/pubs/state_pregnancy_trends.pdf

 
Paid for by the Committee to Elect Mark McCullough, 2008