Guides: U.S. Education Statistics: Historical Statistics

U.S. Historical Education Statistics

120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait
General education characteristics of the population are covered as well as statistics for the elementary, secondary and higher education levels. Covers 1870-1990.
Biennial Survey of Education (from HathiTrust)
Full-text volumes from 1916-1958.
Biennial survey of education / Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. (Print)
Location: LIBRA (Use Franklin to place request)
Holdings: 1918/1920-1928/1930,1934/1936:v.2, 1938/1940-1956/1958
Annual report / U.S. Department of Education.
Van Pelt Library Stacks: L112 .A7a, 1974/1975-1976/1977
Van Pelt Library Stacks: L112 .A7555, 1980-1984.
Microfiche U.S.Doc. ED 1.1: 1991
LIBRA: 379.73 Un3.1: 1867/1868, 1870-1930, 1932, 1943-1943/1944
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Other titles: Report of the Commissioner of Education, with circulars and documents accompanying the same; Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year;
Annual report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the fiscal year ended ...; Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended; Commissioner’s annual report submitted to the Congress by the Commissioner of Education;
Annual report. United States. Dept. of Education;
Annual reports of the United States Office of Education for the fiscal years ...
Estimates of school statistics
Van Pelt Library: LC130 .N3, 1958/1959-1972/1973.
Education Data in the Serial Set from ProQuest Congressional
The Serial Set included the Annual Report. United States Commissioner of Education from 1868 to 1932 (Basic data and statistics on education in the U.S. from kindergarten through graduate school) and other statistical data through 1969. Choose Serial Set and dates before 1970.
Statistics of State School Systems

General Historical Compendium

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
From the table of contents, choose B. Work and Welfare, and then Bc. Education, from the right. Tables relate to Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Secondary School, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Earnings by Education, and Revenues and Expenditures
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Volumes from 1879 to 2012, which the publication ceased being produced by the Census Bureau. Many education related tables.

Collective Archival Sites for Older, Print Data Publications

Internet Archive
Includes some older documents like selected issues of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1924-1928.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Many older publications from the Department of Education and its predecessors are available digitized here.

Using the Franklin Catalog to Find Education Statistics

Franklin, the Penn Library Catalog contains records for many publications that contain statistics. Many of these publications are older and only available in print.

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