Introduction

The state's grade is based on six factors: state academic standards, charter schools, homeschool regulation burden, private school choice, teacher quality, and digital learning. Because the Education and Workforce Task Force at ALEC focuses the most on private school choice and charter schools, those factors were given double weight in the calculation over overall rank and grade. The weighted grades were converted into a GPA average and an individual rank.

Report Card Ranking

Current

Overall Grade  C (2.0)
Overall Ranking  19th
State Academic Standards  C-
Charter Schools  C
Homeschool Regulation Burden  A
Private School Choice Programs  F
Teacher Quality & Policies  B-
Digital Learning:  B-

Historical Data

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
ALEC Overall Grade  C C+ C+ C C C C C- C
ALEC Overall Rank  -- -- -- -- -- -- 31st 30th 19th
State Academic Standards  D+ D B D- C- C- D+ D+ C-
Charter Schools  D D C C C C C C C
Homeschool Regulation Burden  A A A A A A A A A
Private School Choice  -- -- F F F F -- -- F
Teacher Quality & Policies  -- C- C- C- C- C- C- C- B-
Digital Learning  -- -- C+ C- B- B- B- B- B-

NAEP Data

Current

Performance Rank  --
Math (4th Grade)  241
Math (8th Grade)  282
Reading (4th Grade)  215
Reading (8th Grade)  260

Historical Data

2009 2011 2013 2015 2017
Performance Rank  8th 11th 18th 18th --
Math (4th Grade)  240 241 242 244 241
Math (8th Grade)  287 290 288 284 282
Reading (4th Grade)  219 218 217 218 215
Reading (8th Grade)  260 261 264 261 260

Education Spending

Current

Per-pupil Spending $9,352
% From Federal Funding 10%
% From State Funding 36%
% From Local Funding 54%

Historical Data

2013 2015 2017
Per-pupil Spending $8,299 $8,837 $9,352
% From Federal Spending --% 10.7% 10.1%
% From State Spending --% 39% 35.6%
% From Local Spending --% 39% 35.6%

Demographics & Achievement

State Population 28,304,596
Per Capita Income $47,362
Graduation Rate 89.7%
Average Class Size 15.19
2015 2017
State Population 0 28,304,596
Per Capita Income $-- $47362
School-aged Children 0 0
Graduation Rate 88% 89.7%
Average Class Size 14.6 15.19

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