Back-to-School statistics to consider

20 million

The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2005, from nursery school to college. That amounts to about one-fourth of the US population 3 and older.

54 percent

Percentage of 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in school in October 2005

70 percent

Percentage of children enrolled in kindergarten who attended all day, as of October 2005

55.8 million

The projected number of students to be enrolled in the nation’s elementary and high schools (grades K-12) this fall

11 percent

Projected percentage of elementary and high school students enrolled in priv...