Projections of Education Statistics to 2019

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Projections of Education Statistics to 2019 provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary school level and enrollment and earned degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2019. This is the 38th edition of a publication first initiated in 1964.

Postsecondary enrollment rose by 34 percent between 1994 and 2008, and is projected to increase another 17 percent by 2019.

Other findings include:

• Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools rose 10 percent between 1994 and 2007 and is projected to increase an additional 6 percent between 2007 and 2019.

• Reflecting actual and projected changes in the high school-age population, the number of high school graduates increased by 27 percent between 1994-95 and 2006-07, and a further increase of 1 percent is projected by 2019-20.

• After adjusting for inflation, current expenditure per pupil increased by 29 percent between 1994-95 and 2006-07, and a further increase of 14 percent is projected by 2019-20.