Charting Trends in Independent School Martha Lucia Galindo Director of Research Information & Research For titles and subtitles each word capitalized except articles and prepositions and conjunctions for four or fewer letters. Title and subtitle text appears black on clear/white backgrounds.

Identifying Reliable Trend Measures Using Core Samples of NAIS Member Schools Trends are tracked by studying a core sample of schools completing the NAIS annual surveys consistently over time For studying trends through 2001-02, we studied the group of NAIS member schools that responded to a specific survey during the last ten years: 1992-2002

Core Sample Design Specific key items within each survey must be answered Any school not completing necessary survey data in any year between 1991-92 and 2001-02 is eliminated from the sample. New schools will be added as they complete 10 consecutive years of survey responses (replacement group) A different core sample is produced for each of the topics noted on the following slide

2001-2002 NAIS Core Sample Topic Number of Schools in ‘02 Core Sample Membership 683 Enrollment 683 Employment 541 Diversity: Students 496 Diversity: Staff 422 Financial Aid 484 Tuitions 539 Teacher Salaries 534 Administrative Salaries (Head) 398 Annual & Capital Giving 642 Endowment 342 Financial Operations 547

Core Sample Uses Allows for trend analyses Percentage changes across several points in time (real increases or decreases in a specific factor under study) Changes in policies reflected in data collected Changes in personnel, demographic characteristics of schools Allows inferences based on cause-effect relationships All trends using financial data have been adjusted for inflation to 2002 dollars.

Charts Included in This Presentation About Staff About Staff of Color About NAIS Students About NAIS Students of Color About Enrollment by Grade About NAIS Attrition About Student-Teacher Ratios About NAIS Tuitions About Financial Aid and Students About Median Salaries for Teachers About Total Financial Operations About Total Annual Giving per Student About Total Endowment per Student About Admission Activity

ABOUT STAFF The percentage growth for the average amount of all staff employed by member schools is 32% since 1992, and 15% since 1997. Teacher aides and instructional support have the fastest growth in the last ten and five years. The lowest increase in staff in the last ten and last five years is for teachers.

ABOUT STAFF OF COLOR The greatest ten-year growth among staff of color is instructional support. The lowest ten-year growth is other support staff of color. Teachers of color rate of growth at NAIS schools since 1997 is less than half of the administrators of color rate of growth.

ABOUT NAIS STUDENTS The ten-year growth rate for students enrolled at day schools doubles the growth rate of those enrolled at boarding-day schools and it is six times bigger than the growth of students at day-boarding schools. The lowest ten-year growth rate is for students enrolled at day-boarding schools. These schools have lost 3.8% of students since 1997. Enrollment at boarding-day schools has the fastest rate of increase since 1997 and the second fastest since 1992. In boarding schools, enrollment has remained steady since 1992. Since 1997, enrollment in boarding schools has actually decreased by 1.2%.

ABOUT STUDENTS OF COLOR Over the last ten years, enrollment of students of color has increased the most in day schools, double the increase found in boarding-day schools. There has been no 10-year change in enrollment of students of color at day-boarding schools, but this enrollment has decreased by 4.3% since 1997. Students of color enrolled in boarding schools have increased by 16.3% since 1992, but decreased by 8.6% since 1997.

ABOUT ENROLLMENT BY GRADE Sixth and ninth grades show the fastest rate of enrollment increase since the year 1992, while the kindergarten and 12th grade enrollments show the slowest. Patterns of change in enrollment are very similar for the 10-year and the five-year trends.

ABOUT NAIS ATTRITION Attrition rates for boarding students have increased in boarding (including boarding and boarding-day) schools, but decreased in day (including day and day-boarding) schools since 1996. The largest increase in attrition rates since 1996 has occurred amongst day students attending boarding-day schools, a 50.8% increase. Since 1996, the average attrition rate for day students attending boarding schools have increased by 45% In day schools, attrition rates for day students have decreased by 9.5%, but increased by 2.7% in Day-Boarding schools.

ABOUT STUDENT-TEACHER RATIOS Boarding schools have increased their Student-Teacher ratios by 6.0% since 1992, and by 4.4% since 1997. Day schools have decreased their number of students per one teacher since 1992 by 7.9% and by 4.1% since 1997. Day-boarding schools have decreased their ratios by 9.4% since 1992, and by 11.2% since 1997. 10-year (1.4%) and five-year (1.4%) trends are the same for boarding-day schools.

ABOUT NAIS TUITIONS All tuition-related trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. Median day school tuitions for sixth grade have increased the fastest since 1992. Day school tuitions for sixth and twelfth grades have both increased by over 16% in the last 5 years. Twelfth grade tuitions have almost the same rate of increase for day and 7-day boarding schools.

ABOUT FINANCIAL AID & STUDENTS: 10-year Trends All financial aid-related trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. Since 1992, the average financial aid grant at day schools has increased by 45% but the number of students receiving the grants have decreased by 2.1%. Financial aid grants in boarding schools have increased by 25.6% but the number of students benefiting from financial aid has decreased by 7.6% since 1992. Among day-boarding schools, financial aid grants have increased by 11.6% while the number of students receiving financial aid has increased by 21.2%.

ABOUT FINANCIAL AID & STUDENTS: 5-year Trends Boarding-day and day schools have similar rates of increase in their financial aid grants since 1997. The number of boarding-day students receiving financial aid has decreased by 5.6%, while the number of day students on financial aid has decreased by 1.4% since 1997. Both 5- and 10-year trends indicate that higher average awards are being provided to fewer students.

ABOUT MEDIAN SALARIES FOR TEACHERS All salary-related trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. Since 1992, the rate of increase for median salaries for teachers is very similar across all types of schools, ranging from 9.1% (boarding-day schools) to 10.8% (day schools). Day-boarding schools have increased their teachers’ salaries the most (9.3%) since 1997, while boarding-day schools have increased theirs the least (3.4%).

ABOUT TOTAL FINANCIAL OPERATIONS All financial operations trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. Day schools have a 10-year rate of growth of 23.7% in income, while their expenses growth is 20.5%. In day-boarding schools, the 10-year expenses growth (19.6%) slightly outpaces the 10-year income growth (19.3%). Boarding-day schools have been most efficient since 1996, with growth in expenses of only 0.7% and income growth of 5.3%. For all schools, the rate of growth in income is 3 percentage points higher than the rate of growth in expenses since 1991.

ABOUT ANNUAL GIVING PER STUDENT All annual giving trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. During the last ten years, average total annual giving per student has increased by 28.6% for day schools and by 14.5% for boarding schools. Boarding schools have the highest rate of growth (22.7%) in total annual giving per student, and boarding-day schools have the lowest (7.4%) since 1996. Overall, total annual giving per student has increased by 21.5% during the last ten years, and by 14.8% since 1996.

ABOUT TOTAL ENDOWMENT PER STUDENT All endowment trends reflect inflation-adjusted dollars. Total endowment for boarding-day schools has increased by more than 100% during the last ten years, and by 40.8% during the last five years. Boarding and day schools have similar rates of growth since 1991. Day-boarding schools have the lowest rate of growth in total endowment per student since 1991 but the second highest growth since 1996.

ABOUT ADMISSION ACTIVITIES: 10-year Trends Independent schools have become increasingly competitive. Since 1991 boarding-day schools’ inquiries per enrollee have increased by 58 %, the highest inquiry jump of any school type. Over the last ten years, day schools have seen the largest increase in applications per enrollee (32%) and the second largest increase in inquiries (52.6%). While boarding schools have increased their acceptances per enrollee by 7.1% since 1991, all other types of schools have not changed the number of acceptances per enrollee.

ABOUT ADMISSION ACTIVITIES: 5-year Trends Boarding-day schools have the biggest increase in inquiries per enrollee (26.4%) during the last five years while day-boarding schools have seen 3.2% fewer inquiries per enrollee. Boarding schools have the highest increase (23.3%) in applications per enrollee, while day schools have the lowest increase (3.7%) since 1996. While boarding-day schools have increased their acceptances per enrollee by almost 6%, all other types of schools are accepting the same number of students per enrollee since 1996.