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After Hurricane Katrina, Alabama’s schools suffered greatly. Twenty two counties were severely effected by Katrina and on December 30, 2005, President Bush authorized funds to reinstate school districts—including non-public schools—to get these schools back up and running. However, Alabama’s students seem to have looked adversity in the face and laughed. Alabama’s SAT scores for the 2005-06 testing season were well above the U.S. average—by at least 39 points in both math and verbal. Also, even in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, twice as many schools made the No Child Left Behind requirements than the 2004-05 year.
Part of these impressive scores for SAT and NCLB may be attributed to Alabama’s wonderful, and well-educated teachers. More than half of Alabama’s 47,000 teachers—25,023—have a Master’s degree or higher. Alabama’s 2005-06 educational budget was over $3 billion on K-12 education, not including the federal money for rebuilding the school system in 22 counties. The most recent per student spending is from the 2003-04 school year, where the state spent more than $6,000 per student. Because of the lower per-student spending, Alabama is ranked 43 out of 50 in Morgan Quinto’s “2005-06 Education State Rankings”, or “Smartest State” rankings—up one place from last year. For more information on Alabama’s schools, visit http://www.alsde.edu
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Number of Schools: 1,569
Number of Students: 730,140
Number of Teachers: 48,708
Student/Teacher Ratio: 12.9
Number of Males: 378,038
Number of Females: 352,102
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Pre-K Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade
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1,994
56,964
58,567
55,661
54,954
56,182
55,927
59,406
61,450
59,286
64,569
53,604
47,538
42,672
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SAT (?)
- Grade 3 (Language, Math, Reading) - Grade 4 (Language, Math, Reading) - Grade 5 (Language, Math, Reading, Science) - Grade 6 (Language, Math, Reading, Social Science) - Grade 7 (Language, Math, Reading, Science) - Grade 8 (Language, Math, Reading)
AHSGE (?)
- Grade 11 (Language, Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies) - Grade 12 (Language, Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies)
ARMT (?)
- Grade 3 (Math, Reading) - Grade 4 (Math, Reading) - Grade 5 (Math, Reading) - Grade 6 (Math, Reading) - Grade 7 (Math, Reading) - Grade 8 (Math, Reading) |