School Libraries

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 CURRENT statistics from the Texas Education Agency. Note that there is no comprehensive statewide data for individual programming elements in Texas school libraries.

Texas Data

Number of Schools including charters (2009): 8,322

Total Number of Students (2009-2010): 4,824,778

FTE School Librarians (as reported to TEA, 2009-2010): 5,136

2009-2010 Budgeted Financial Data:

All Funds Receipts: 44,300,157,255; Per Student: 9,185
Program Expenditures: Instructional Resources & Media, Function 12 (Library Media Services): $ 591,249,032;
Expenditure per Student: $123
Percentage of Expenditures on Library/Media Services per pupil: 1.57% of all expenditures

National Data

In the 2007-2008 school year, 80,100 of the 87,190 traditional public schools had a library media center.

62% of school library media centers had at least one full-time state-certified school librarian.

Statistics
Statistics from TEA statewide budget totals and Snapshot Data.

The National Center for Education Statistics maintains national school library data. However, the most recent information published is for 1999-2000. See School Library Publications.