This volume contains tables summarizing the data collected on the Elementary Secondary Staff Information Report form for 1979 which concerns the distribution of women and minorities in the public schools. Data are presented by size of school districts and by State. All school districts in the central city of a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA), as well as those districts with 1800 or more students, or with 100 or more full-time employees, are included. A systematic random sample was taken of the remaining school districts according to enrollment and the desired percent coverage. The data are based on reports from 6,816 school districts which include an estimated total of 3.5 million full-time employees and more than .5 million part-time employees, as well as .3 million new hires. Data are not included for Hawaii and New Jersey. Data were weighted in order to produce estimates of the overall situation since the presented data are sampled. In the appendix, a sample of the form the schools were required to fill out is included. (CG)