Public Education |
Number of school districts, 1997 |
311 |
Public school enrollments, k-12, 1998-9 |
421,933 |
Number of public school teachers, k-12, 1998-9 |
30,745 |
expenditures per public school pupil, 1998-9 |
$4,679 |
expenditures per public school pupil, 1980-81 |
$1,701 |
Public school graduates, 1998-99 |
26,866 |
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Health Care |
Number of Hospitals, 1999 |
83 |
Number of admissions |
375,297 |
Average length of stay in hospital |
5.9 days |
Personnel, Full-time equivalents (includes doctors, dentists, nurses and other salaried personnel) in Arkansas hospitals |
43,979 |
Number of nursing homes, 1997 |
238 |
Number of physicians’ clinics, 1997 |
1,650 |
Number of physicians, 1998 |
5,306 |
county with most physicians, 1998
|
Pulaski (2,204) |
county with least physicians, 1998
|
Calhoun and Cleveland
(1 each) |
Percent of pop. without health coverage, 1999 |
14.7 |
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