Soft Around the Middle

THE U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM SOFT AROUND THE MIDDLE 92% 28% OF PARENTS EXPECT THEIR KIDS TO GO TO COLLEGE OF MIDDLE-CLASS- HIGH-SCHOOL GRADS EARN A 4 YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE Basic Math - 215 MIDDLE- INCOME 55% of schools LOWER- UPPER- INCOME 25% of schools INCOME 20% of schools 8.5M students UNEMPLOYMENT 25.7M students 14.0M students 9.7% Teacher Salary $50,035 $48,432 $54,035 4.2% CH2 CH3 PM. Student-to-Teacher Ratio 17.0 17.5 14.6 college high school grads Spending Per Student" grads $11,799 $10,349 $11,925 +20M post-secondary educated students = Federal Funding Per Student* $2,658 $968 $503 +$500B GDP U.S. public schools are categorized by percentage of students eligible for the National School Lunch Program: "Lower-income" >75% eligible; "Middle- income" 26%-75% eligible; and "Upper-income" s25% eligible. From the Third Way report "Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't third way fresh thinking * By school district where individual school data was unavailable. © 2011 Third Way. Free for re-use with attribution/link. For more, visit Third Way at www.thirdway.org. Infographic by Bill Rapp. Making the Grade," available at: http://www.thirdway.org/publications/435. 28.7 - N Economics