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The Five County Region Has More Teachers than Many Countries
 

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
Five County 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

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.

  • Of the nation's nearly 3 million K-12 school teachers, about 307,000 or 10.5% teach in California.
  • More than 147,000 or about 5% of the nation's teachers teach in the Five County Region.
  • These teachers teach millions of students in thousands of schools throughout the region.

Last Updated: July 27, 2005

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