The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion for 1954-56 on broad-range education; state school system organization, staff, pupils, and finances; local school system staff, pupils, and finances; higher education faculty, students, degrees, receipts, expenditures, and property; and public school libraries. Topics include numbers of educational and administrative units, number of schools, enrollment, retention, teachers, income and expenditures, federal funds, high school graduates, pupil transportation, federally funded vocational education, per-pupil city school expenditures, college degrees, Negro education, veterans' training, education in U.S. outlying areas, public libraries, and federal Office of Education activities in international education relations.