This publication consists primarily of several hundred charts, graphs, and tables that present a wide variety of educational statistics for the United States through and including the 1975-76 school year. Section 1 provides a broad demographic and social context for examining education and traces the scope of the educational enterprise. Section 2 pursues in some detail three topics--participation in education, immediate and long-term outcomes of education, and financing the public elementary and secondary schools. Section 3 briefly discusses the data sources for the report, offers a short glossary of selected terms, and presents more than 100 data tables. Section 4 consists of a cumulative index to topics and data included in the 1975 and 1976 editions of the report, as well as the present edition. (Author/JG)