The only guide of its kind, this title offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students, and this new edition covers more than 5,900 districts. 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. Unlike any other resource, this guide provides important ranking tables, both by state and nationally, for each data element, which allow the user to quickly find out how a district compares with other districts on several levels.