Public elementary and secondary schools, by type and state: 1990-91 to 1998-99

Table 97.
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                          |        |        |        |                              Number of schools, 1998-99
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                          | Total, | Total, | Total, |       |       |       |  Combined elementary/secondary\3\  |        ||        |       |
         State or         |  all   |  all   |  all   |       |Elemen |Secon- |____________________________________|        ||Alterna-|Special|   One-
        other area        |schools,|schools,|schools,| Total |tary\1\|dary\2\|      | Prekinder- | Other  |       |        ||tive\5\ | educa | teacher
                          |1990-91 |1995-96 |1997-98 |       |       |       |      |garten, kin-|schools | Other |Other\4\||        |tion\5\|schools\5\
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |Total | dergarten, | ending | com-  |        ||        |       |
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |or 1st grade|  with  | bined |        ||        |       |
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      | to grade 12|grade 12|schools|        ||        |       |
__________________________|________|________|________|_______|_______|_______|______|____________|________|_______|________||________|_______|__________
            1             |   2    |   3    |   4    |   5   |   6   |   7   |  8   |     9      |   10   |  11   |   12   ||   13   |  14   |    15
__________________________|________|________|________|_______|_______|_______|______|____________|________|_______|________||________|_______|__________
   United States\6\ ......| 84,538 | 87,125 | 89,508 |91,062 |63,574 |22,103 |3,770 |      2,179 |  1,106 |   485 |  1,615 ||  4,181 | 1,974 |      463
                          |________|________|________|_______|_______|_______|______|____________|________|_______|________||________|_______|__________
Alabama ..................|  1,297 |  1,319 |  1,353 | 1,516 |   907 |   416 |  189 |        148 |     31 |    10 |      4 ||     74 |    34 |        0
Alaska ...................|    498 |    495 |    506 |   502 |   196 |    94 |  212 |        203 |      5 |     4 |      0 ||     45 |     2 |       25
Arizona ..................|  1,049 |  1,133 |  1,429 | 1,570 | 1,042 |   370 |   60 |         24 |     19 |    17 |     98 ||     87 |    15 |        6
Arkansas .................|  1,098 |  1,098 |  1,112 | 1,109 |   688 |   416 |    5 |          0 |      4 |     1 |      0 ||      1 |     0 |        0
California ...............|  7,913 |  7,876 |  8,182 | 8,343 | 6,075 | 1,962 |  300 |        278 |     19 |     3 |      6 ||    935 |   127 |       44
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |            |        |       |        ||        |       |
Colorado .................|  1,344 |  1,486 |  1,562 | 1,560 | 1,120 |   373 |   34 |         13 |     13 |     8 |     33 ||     73 |    12 |        4
Connecticut ..............|    985 |  1,045 |  1,080 | 1,104 |   822 |   211 |   67 |         34 |      8 |    25 |      4 ||     48 |    29 |        0
Delaware .................|    173 |    181 |    186 |   201 |   126 |    47 |   25 |         23 |      1 |     1 |      3 ||      1 |    32 |        0
District of Columbia .....|    181 |    186 |    171 |   164 |   122 |    31 |    0 |          0 |      0 |     0 |     11 ||      6 |    10 |        0
Florida ..................|  2,516 |  2,760 |  2,888 | 3,111 | 2,104 |   456 |  551 |        309 |    232 |    10 |      0 ||    119 |    98 |        4
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |            |        |       |        ||        |       |
Georgia ..................|  1,734 |  1,763 |  1,823 | 1,843 | 1,471 |   306 |   66 |         16 |     46 |     4 |      0 ||     21 |     5 |        0
Hawaii ...................|    235 |    246 |    251 |   254 |   193 |    51 |    9 |          7 |      1 |     1 |      1 ||      1 |     4 |        1
Idaho ....................|    582 |    618 |    642 |   660 |   408 |   222 |   30 |         25 |      4 |     1 |      0 ||     63 |    13 |       15
Illinois .................|  4,239 |  4,142 |  4,244 | 4,302 | 3,134 | 1,011 |  132 |         50 |     51 |    31 |     25 ||    129 |   258 |        2
Indiana...................|  1,915 |  1,924 |  1,926 | 1,958 | 1,414 |   463 |   56 |         21 |     32 |     3 |     25 ||     66 |    39 |        0
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |            |        |       |        ||        |       |
Iowa .....................|  1,588 |  1,556 |  1,552 | 1,555 | 1,072 |   446 |   31 |          4 |     27 |     0 |      6 ||     40 |    12 |        6
Kansas ...................|  1,477 |  1,487 |  1,454 | 1,437 | 1,008 |   422 |    6 |          2 |      2 |     2 |      1 ||      0 |     0 |        0
Kentucky .................|  1,400 |  1,402 |  1,418 | 1,534 | 1,029 |   459 |   20 |          7 |     13 |     0 |     26 ||     71 |    13 |        0
Louisiana ................|  1,533 |  1,470 |  1,488 | 1,510 | 1,019 |   329 |  133 |         87 |     26 |    20 |     29 ||     77 |    36 |        0
Maine ....................|    747 |    726 |    724 |   720 |   543 |   160 |   17 |         11 |      5 |     1 |      0 ||      0 |     4 |       11
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Maryland .................|  1,220 |  1,276 |  1,300 | 1,357 | 1,061 |   249 |   23 |          9 |     11 |     3 |     24 ||     60 |    50 |        2
Massachusetts ............|  1,842 |  1,850 |  1,868 | 1,900 | 1,507 |   363 |   19 |          8 |      8 |     3 |     11 ||     35 |     6 |        0
Michigan .................|  3,313 |  3,748 |  3,862 | 3,914 | 2,652 |   871 |   98 |         40 |     36 |    22 |    293 ||    129 |   186 |       17
Minnesota ................|  1,590 |  2,157 |  2,260 | 2,348 | 1,237 |   715 |  110 |         23 |     46 |    41 |    286 ||    670 |    93 |        4
Mississippi ..............|    972 |  1,011 |  1,013 | 1,015 |   573 |   310 |   64 |         53 |      9 |     2 |     68 ||     50 |     0 |        0
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Missouri..................|  2,199 |  2,256 |  2,301 | 2,328 | 1,527 |   636 |  106 |         50 |     51 |     5 |     59 ||     77 |    66 |        0
Montana ..................|    900 |    894 |    889 |   886 |   516 |   361 |    9 |          9 |      0 |     0 |      0 ||      3 |     2 |       82
Nebraska .................|  1,506 |  1,411 |  1,375 | 1,352 |   988 |   351 |   13 |          4 |      5 |     4 |      0 ||      0 |    61 |       97
Nevada ...................|    354 |    423 |    455 |   469 |   346 |    93 |   24 |         21 |      2 |     1 |      6 ||     24 |    12 |       13
New Hampshire ............|    439 |    460 |    513 |   516 |   418 |    98 |    0 |          0 |      0 |     0 |      0 ||      0 |     0 |        1
                          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |          0 |        |       |        ||        |       |
New Jersey ...............|  2,272 |  2,279 |  2,314 | 2,318 | 1,796 |   432 |    6 |          1 |      3 |     2 |     84 ||      0 |    83 |        0
New Mexico ...............|    681 |    721 |    745 |   746 |   546 |   189 |   11 |          5 |      6 |     0 |      0 ||     34 |    14 |        3
New York .................|  4,010 |  4,149 |  4,208 | 4,230 | 3,041 |   935 |  154 |         85 |     49 |    20 |    100 ||     82 |    29 |        1
North Carolina ...........|  1,955 |  1,985 |  2,063 | 2,106 | 1,647 |   376 |   82 |         29 |     45 |     8 |      1 ||     55 |    26 |        0
North Dakota .............|    663 |    613 |    605 |   595 |   342 |   216 |    4 |          0 |      2 |     2 |     33 ||      0 |    31 |        6
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Ohio .....................|  3,731 |  3,865 |  3,945 | 3,852 | 2,739 |   972 |   43 |         22 |     18 |     3 |     98 ||     47 |    30 |        5
Oklahoma .................|  1,880 |  1,830 |  1,840 | 1,825 | 1,224 |   593 |    4 |          4 |      0 |     0 |      4 ||      4 |    13 |        4
Oregon ...................|  1,199 |  1,216 |  1,253 | 1,275 |   937 |   281 |   51 |         35 |     11 |     5 |      6 ||     86 |    16 |       11
Pennsylvania .............|  3,260 |  3,182 |  3,181 | 3,205 | 2,365 |   789 |   34 |          9 |     13 |    12 |     17 ||     13 |    12 |        0
Rhode Island .............|    309 |    310 |    314 |   318 |   258 |    54 |    4 |          2 |      0 |     2 |      2 ||      4 |     4 |        0
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South Carolina ...........|  1,097 |  1,095 |  1,096 | 1,101 |   801 |   280 |   20 |         11 |      7 |     2 |      0 ||     17 |     9 |        0
South Dakota .............|    802 |    824 |    833 |   778 |   475 |   289 |   11 |          7 |      4 |     0 |      3 ||     13 |    13 |       43
Tennessee ................|  1,543 |  1,563 |  1,571 | 1,589 | 1,165 |   366 |   53 |         35 |     16 |     2 |      5 ||     12 |    20 |        0
Texas ....................|  5,991 |  6,638 |  7,090 | 7,228 | 4,845 | 1,912 |  471 |        213 |    127 |   131 |      0 ||    495 |   238 |        2
Utah .....................|    714 |    735 |    759 |   769 |   496 |   243 |   16 |          4 |     10 |     2 |     14 ||     53 |    21 |        4
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Vermont ..................|    397 |    384 |    395 |   395 |   280 |    70 |   21 |         15 |      5 |     1 |     24 ||      1 |    60 |        3
Virginia .................|  1,811 |  1,889 |  1,910 | 1,918 | 1,421 |   349 |  118 |        102 |     12 |     4 |     30 ||     69 |    49 |        0
Washington ...............|  1,936 |  2,124 |  2,180 | 2,234 | 1,364 |   577 |  128 |         54 |     37 |    37 |    165 ||    202 |    59 |       28
West Virginia.............|  1,015 |    877 |    854 |   857 |   608 |   215 |   28 |          7 |      8 |    13 |      6 ||     25 |    10 |        0
Wisconsin ................|  2,018 |  2,037 |  2,112 | 2,109 | 1,526 |   542 |   41 |         11 |     20 |    10 |      0 ||     50 |    13 |        3
Wyoming ..................|    415 |    410 |    413 |   388 |   268 |   104 |   12 |          7 |      4 |     1 |      4 ||     14 |     5 |       16
Bureau of Indian Affairs .|    --- |    --- |    --- |   188 |   112 |    27 |   49 |         42 |      2 |     5 |      0 ||      0 |     0 |       26
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  dependents schools .....|    --- |    171 |    160 |   155 |   101 |    40 |   14 |         13 |      1 |     0 |      0 ||      0 |     0 |        0
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  Outlying areas          |        |        |        |       |       |       |      |            |        |       |        ||        |       |
American Samoa ...........|     30 |     31 |     31 |    31 |    24 |     6 |    0 |          0 |      0 |     0 |      1 ||      0 |     1 |        0
Guam .....................|     35 |     35 |     36 |    37 |    32 |     4 |    1 |          1 |      0 |     0 |      0 ||      0 |     0 |        0
Northern Marianas ........|     26 |     24 |     26 |    26 |    22 |     4 |    0 |          0 |      0 |     0 |      0 ||      0 |     0 |        0
Puerto Rico ..............|  1,619 |  1,561 |  1,543 | 1,538 |   930 |   365 |  243 |         60 |      1 |   182 |      0 ||     17 |    28 |        0
Virgin Islands ...........|     33 |     34 |     36 |    36 |    24 |    11 |    1 |          0 |      0 |     1 |      0 ||      2 |     0 |        0
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\1\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.
\2\Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.
\3\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.
\4\Includes schools not classified by grade span.
\5\Schools are also included under elementary, secondary, combined, or other as appropriate.
\6\Beginning in 1998, includes all schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Prior to 1998, some data for BIA schools were included in their respective states.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared August 2000.)
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