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NUMBER OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

 ELEMENTARY - 60,800
 SECONDARY - 23,400

PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES:

 2,419,700

MICROCOMPUTERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (percent):

 96.4
 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS - 96
 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS - 98.6
 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS – 99

PERCENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
ENROLLED IN COLLEGE:

 54.8

EARNED DEGREES:

 BACHELOR'S - 987,823
 MASTER'S - 288,567
 DOCTORATE - 33.653

Over 58 million students are enrolled in American schools, which
range from kindergartens to high schools, small colleges and large
universities, as well as a variety of institutions for adult education and
vocational training. Americans place a high value on education for
themselves and their children, and universal access to quality
education has been one of the nation's historic goals.
More than 100 years before the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, European settlers in Massachusetts passed laws
requiring all communities to hire schoolmasters; larger towns had to
establish grammar schools to train children for the university. Ameri-
ca's first college, Harvard, was founded in Massachusetts in 1636; the