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Table 100. Number and percentage distribution of public charter schools and students, and percentage of charter schools and students by school origin status, by selected school characteristics: 1999-2000

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                           |                   Schools and students                            |         School origin status
                           |                                                                   |       (percentage distribution)
                           |___________________________________________________________________|____________________________________________
          School           | Number of  |   Number of    |  Average  | Percent of | Percent of |   Newly      | Pre-existing |Pre-existing
      characteristics      |  schools   |   students     | enrollment|  schools   |  students  |  created     |public school |private school
___________________________|____________|________________|___________|____________|____________|______________|______________|______________
             1             |     2      |       3        |    4      |      5     |      6     |      7       |      8       |      9
___________________________|____________|________________|___________|____________|____________|______________|______________|______________
  Total ...................| 1,010 (4.3)| 266,721 (3,957)|  264 (3.6)| 100.0   (0.| 100.0   (0.|  73.6   (0.6)|  16.5   (0.4)|   9.9   (0.4)
                           |____________|________________|___________|____________|____________|______________|______________|______________
State                      |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
  Arizona..................|   207 (2.8)|  39,860 (1,594)|  193 (7.1)|  20.5 (0.2)|  14.9 (0.5)|  78.3   (1.4)|   5.3   (0.8)|  16.4   (1.3)
  California...............|   133 (1.3)|  64,152 (2,541)|  482(17.4)|  13.2 (0.1)|  24.1 (0.8)|  55.7   (1.8)|  43.4   (1.8)|   0.9   (0.4)
  Michigan.................|   135 (0.6)|  36,052   (699)|  267 (5.1)|  13.4 (0.1)|  13.5 (0.3)|  76.4   (1.2)|   6.5   (0.6)|  17.2   (1.0)
  All other states.........|   535 (3.7)| 126,656 (2,244)|  237 (4.1)|  53.0 (0.3)|  47.5 (0.7)|  75.6   (0.8)|  16.7   (0.6)|   7.8   (0.6)
                           |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
Community type             |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
  Central city.............|   537 (8.2)| 139,307 (3,149)|  260 (4.8)|  53.1 (0.8)|  52.2 (1.0)|  76.3   (0.7)|  11.9   (0.6)|  11.8   (0.6)
  Urban fringe/large town..|   324 (6.9)| 108,807 (3,273)|  336 (8.3)|  32.1 (0.7)|  40.8 (1.0)|  68.5   (0.9)|  23.4   (0.8)|   8.1   (0.6)
  Rural/small town.........|   150 (5.8)|  18,607 (1,040)|  124 (4.9)|  14.8 (0.6)|   7.0 (0.4)|  75.4   (1.9)|  17.8   (1.6)|   6.9   (1.1)
                           |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
School level               |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
  Elementary...............|   586 (5.9)| 158,801 (2,239)|  271 (3.6)|  58.0 (0.6)|  59.5 (0.9)|  72.2   (0.6)|  17.3   (0.5)|  10.5   (0.5)
  Secondary................|   235 (6.4)|  58,218 (2,952)|  248 (9.7)|  23.2 (0.6)|  21.8 (0.9)|  75.3   (1.5)|  18.9   (1.3)|   5.8   (0.6)
  Combined.................|   190 (5.0)|  49,702 (2,192)|  262(10.7)|  18.8 (0.5)|  18.6 (0.7)|  76.0   (1.4)|  11.1   (1.0)|  12.9   (1.2)
                           |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
Enrollment                 |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
  Less than 300............|   730 (6.9)|  94,271 (1,425)|  129 (1.3)|  72.3 (0.7)|  35.4 (0.8)|  78.9   (0.7)|   9.2   (0.5)|  11.9   (0.5)
  300 to 999...............|   251 (6.6)| 130,683 (3,569)|  520 (5.3)|  24.9 (0.6)|  49.0 (1.0)|  64.4   (1.2)|  30.5   (1.0)|   5.2   (0.6)
  1,000 or more............|    29 (2.1)|  41,766 (3,090)|1,448(38.4)|   2.9 (0.2)|  15.7 (1.0)|  21.0   (4.0)|  79.0   (4.0)|   0.0   (0.0)
                           |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
School origin status       |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
 Newly created.............|   744 (6.6)| 166,060 (3,483)|  223 (4.1)|  73.6 (0.6)|  62.3 (0.9)| 100.0   (0.0)|    †      †  |    †      †
 Pre-existing public.......|   166 (4.4)|  83,811 (2,760)|  503(14.6)|  16.5 (0.4)|  31.4 (0.9)|    †      †  | 100.0   (0.0)|    †      †
 Pre-existing private......|   100 (4.0)|  16,849   (871)|  169 (5.5)|   9.9 (0.4)|   6.3 (0.4)|    †      †  |    †      †  | 100.0   (0.0)
                           |            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
Percent minority enrollment|            |                |           |            |            |              |              |
  Less than 10.0 ..........|   180 (5.3)|  41,115 (1,584)|  228 (7.6)|  17.8 (0.5)|  15.4 (0.6)|  72.9   (1.4)|  17.7   (1.2)|   9.4   (0.9)
  10.0 to 24.9 ............|   197 (6.3)|  45,279 (2,163)|  230 (8.6)|  19.5 (0.6)|  17.0 (0.8)|  71.7   (1.4)|  18.3   (1.2)|  10.0   (0.9)
  25.0 to 49.9 ............|   147 (5.7)|  43,462 (2,584)|  295(15.0)|  14.6 (0.6)|  16.3 (0.9)|  74.3   (1.6)|  14.8   (1.1)|  10.9   (1.2)
  50.0 to 75.0 ............|   136 (4.8)|  36,986 (1,976)|  272(11.1)|  13.5 (0.5)|  13.9 (0.7)|  70.2   (1.9)|  22.0   (1.6)|   7.8   (1.1)
  More than 75.0 ..........|   349 (7.2)|  99,878 (2,939)|  286 (6.2)|  34.6 (0.7)|  37.4 (1.0)|  76.2   (0.9)|  13.4   (0.7)|  10.4   (0.8)
___________________________|____________|________________|___________|____________|____________|______________|______________|______________

† Not applicable.

NOTE: This tabulation includes all public charter schools operating in the 1998-99 school year. Public charter schools that first opened in the 1999-2000 school year, or later, are not included in these data. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Questionnaire," 1999-2000 and "Charter School Questionnaire," 1999-2000. (This table was prepared December 2002.)


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