AUTHOR Coleman, James; And Others TITLE Public and Private Schools. An Analysis of High School and- Beyond: A National Longitudinal Study for

Schools (Coleman et al) The data and analyses in this reiOrt are from the first (1980) wave of information from the National Center for Education Statistics study, "High School and Beyond, " a longitudinal study of U.S. high school seniors and s homores. Data are available ti for 30,030 sophomores and 28,240 senio: a total of 84 percent of the 59,662 students in,thei sample.-Cat is schools, which constitute about two-thirds of the total private sector, a other private schools are separately compared to public schools. For some analyses ll'high-performance private schools and 12 high-performance public schools are included in the comparison. The report covers four major areas of interest in the comparison of public and private schools: student body composition, resources available, the functioning of th