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Last Year's Statistics here.

Putting student information in context: more than 1.7 million children attend the region's elementary and secondary schools.

The five-county region enrolls half the K-12 students in California.
Enrollments are growing both in the core cities and in the outlying areas.

Putting Student Demographics in Context: The Education System 2002-2003
	Students	Teachers	Schools	Districts	Total Expenditures*	$ per student*
Los Angeles Unified School District	746,852	36,185	677	1	$7.6 billion	$10,176.04
Los Angeles County	1,736,248	82,447	1,823	83	$16.6 billion	$9,560.84
Los Angeles Region	3,147,540	148,091	3,470	191	$28.3 billion	$8,991.14
California	6,244,403	309,775	9,100	1,048	$53.8 billion	$8,615.71
United States (1999-2000)	47,575,862	2,988,379	94,112	14,559	$337.9 billion	$7,102.34

*note: Expenditures figure here includes not only conventional education spending, but also spending for special education, vocational education, school-based nutrition and health programs, and any other programs delivered by schools and school districts.

Data Source: http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/ for students and schools; http://www.cde.ca.gov/demographics/coord/index.html for districts; ftp://ftp.cde.ca.gov/fiscal/j200_data/0102/ for expenditures; and http://www.nces.ed.gov/quicktables for national data.

Last Updated: November 04, 2003