This 1984 survey was conducted to obtain data on the characteristics of public school students in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The 3,510 school districts selected to participate were statistically sampled from approximately 16,000 U.S. school districts, and the schools within the selected districts were subsampled: (1) all special education, vocational, and disciplinary schools, and (2) a statistical sample of remaining schools. Two lines of data are presented for each state: actual reported, computed by aggregating the district level from each state, and projected data, computed from the reported data using sampling weights for each district. The data are summarized by Office of Civil Rights (OCR) client populations--American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian or Pacific Islander; Hispanic; Black, not of Hispanic origin; White, not of Hispanic origin; male; and female. Three types of reports are included: (1) National and State Summary of Projected Data, by state; (2) National and State Summary of Reported Data, by state; and (3) District Summary Report, by state. Each report has: (1) Identification Data (state and name and location of school district); (2) Summary Data--by individual racial/ethnic categories, total, and by sex (except for bilingual data) for the following areas: enrollment; bilingual (in need of language assistance programs); bilingual (enrolled in language assistance programs); gifted/talented; corporal punishment; suspensions; educable mentally retarded; trainable mentally retarded; speech impaired; seriously emotionally disturbed; specific learning disability; and graduates; (3) Special Education Data is subdivided by children: awaiting initial evaluation; identified as requiring special education; in special education programs in school district; in special education program in nondistrict facility; part-time; full-time; (4) Supplemental Data reports: (1) Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students identified as in need of language assistance but not enrolled in such programs, and (2) students in selected courses (home economics, industrial arts, and physical education), by sex in single-sex and mixed-sex classes. (AA)