This report presents basic educational data from a representative sample of the operating public school systems in the United States. Its primary purpose is to provide quantitative information comparable from school system to school system, with summary and trend analyses of the data. The summary data are found in tables within the text and are analyzed in related discussion. Information on individual school systems is given in six basic data tables covering: (1) Number of schools in local public school systems by organizational level, grade-span, and size of school system; (2) enrollment and pupil-teacher ratio by organizational level and size of school system; (3) instructional staff by position and size of school system; (4) classroom teachers by highest level of education completed and by size of school system; (5) current expenditures by account and size of school system; (6) current expenditures per pupil in average daily membership by account and size of school system. Appendixes contain information on sample design and selection, definitions and limitations of the data, and a reproduction of the survey report form. (DE)