PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

• Enrollment: 217,000
• Ethnic breakdown:

  White – 19 percent	Black – 64 percent
  Asian – 5 percent	Hispanic – 12 percent

• Average class size: 30 students
• Special education: 9-11 percent of students
• Number of teachers: 12,200 (That’s 48 percent of full-time staff; national average: 52 percent.)
• Number of full-time administrative staff: 1,474
• Average years of experience: 18
• Median salary: $49,616

• 1998-1999 budget: $1.5 billion
  • Spending per student: $6,827
  • Percent spent on instruction: 63 percent
  • Percentage of revenue from local sources: 38 percent
  • Percentage of revenue from state: 53 percent

ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA

• 121,000 students in five-county region. Has room for 26,000 more students.
• Lay teacher salaries: $25,000 to $49,000.
• Average pay: $37,000

VOUCHERS

• Gov. Ridge’s latest voucher proposal, soon to go before the Legislature, would spend $587 million over five years to offer tuition grants of $350 to $1,400 for students at private or church schools. The aid would be means-tested.