Parents and guardians report that about 5.2 percent of children ages 5 to 17 received academic instruction at home during the 2022-23 school year. That is an increase from the 2018-19 school year, when parents and guardians reported that about 3.7 percent of students received academic instruction at home, according to survey results released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), released Thursday the 26th edition of the Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety (ISCS).

Twenty-six percent of public school leaders reported that a lack of focus or inattention from students had a “severe negative impact” on learning at their school during the 2023-24 school year, according to data released from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Thirty-eight percent of public school leaders reported they moderately or strongly agreed that traffic patterns around their schools pose a threat to students’ physical safety while commuting to school, according to data released Wednesday from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

A collection of new data sheds light on the state of school crime and safety, as well as the school environment, in U.S. public schools, including a finding that 76 percent of public schools prohibit non-academic use of cell phones or smartphones during school hours. Also, 90 percent of public schools said they increased social and emotional support for students in response to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021-22, according to the new survey results from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Public school leaders nationwide estimated that, on average, 44 percent of their students did not begin the 2023-24 school year at grade level in at least one academic subject, an improvement over the 49 percent reported for the start of the prior school year, according to data released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

More than half of undergraduate students who entered a four-year, degree-granting U.S. postsecondary institution in 2014-15 – 54 percent – completed their degree or certificate at the institution where they started within eight years, according to provisional data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The comparable figure for completion for undergraduate students who entered four-year degree granting postsecondary institutions the prior year (2013-14) was 52 percent.

The number of students enrolled in K-12 U.S. private schools during the 2021-22 school year was about 4.7 million; there were also about 4.7 million private school students in the 2019-20 academic year, which coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. During that same time period, the number of K-12 private schools decreased by 3 percent, from about 30,500 in 2019-20 to 29,700 in 2021-22, according to data released this month by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Eighty-six percent of U.S. K-12 public schools reported challenges hiring teachers for the 2023-24 school year, with 83 percent reporting trouble hiring for non-teacher positions, such as classroom aides, transportation staff and mental health professionals, according to data released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Roughly 1 in 10 (11 percent) public school principals left the profession between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years, according to data from the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES).