Table 98.

Public elementary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2007-08

State or jurisdiction	Total, all elemen- tary schools	Total, all regular elementary schools1	Schools, by grade span						Average number of students per school2
			Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grades 3 or 4	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 5	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 6	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 8	Grade 4, 5, or 6 to grade 6, 7, or 8	Other grade spans	All elementary schools	Regular elementary schools1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
United States	67,032	65,658	4,958	24,753	12,020	6,049	12,940	6,312	469	475
Alabama	948	934	82	307	171	66	218	104	477	480
Alaska	185	184	1	31	101	15	19	18	330	330
Arizona	1,327	1,296	55	261	337	417	185	72	536	540
Arkansas	717	714	122	149	184	7	150	105	414	415
California	6,935	6,704	164	2,437	2,176	883	1,050	225	542	558
Colorado	1,250	1,245	29	559	272	94	224	72	412	413
Connecticut	822	806	87	285	112	73	144	121	438	445
Delaware	142	139	22	61	11	7	32	9	544	553
District of Columbia	166	156	8	21	74	15	24	24	283	287
Florida	2,605	2,535	19	1,613	153	127	562	131	689	706
Georgia	1,749	1,744	33	1,053	26	14	451	172	665	666
Hawaii	208	207	0	76	98	5	26	3	532	534
Idaho	432	429	39	133	145	23	72	20	380	382
Illinois	3,184	3,092	312	798	353	691	575	455	439	446
Indiana	1,422	1,419	130	554	351	29	275	83	463	464
Iowa	1,021	1,016	125	330	190	14	228	134	297	298
Kansas	966	962	94	302	224	88	183	75	307	308
Kentucky	982	967	40	486	137	83	190	46	458	464
Louisiana	972	919	85	319	120	123	208	117	458	467
Maine	504	503	59	93	76	100	89	87	243	244
Maryland	1,116	1,091	17	630	131	45	221	72	502	508
Massachusetts	1,463	1,445	196	506	138	95	297	231	429	430
Michigan	2,544	2,527	242	949	322	188	507	336	405	407
Minnesota	1,433	1,129	106	358	403	136	243	187	398	436
Mississippi	614	612	73	121	123	43	137	117	499	500
Missouri	1,561	1,551	146	454	358	125	293	185	369	370
Montana	479	476	19	53	219	109	52	27	173	173
Nebraska	750	745	0	0	548	88	85	29	240	241
Nevada	452	446	11	237	86	10	86	22	648	657
New Hampshire	382	382	59	113	39	49	80	42	340	340
New Jersey	1,941	1,929	280	560	164	272	369	296	464	466
New Mexico	598	587	23	223	139	19	129	65	356	361
New York	3,231	3,211	267	1,282	401	180	705	396	527	529
North Carolina	1,835	1,828	76	1,046	62	123	440	88	554	556
North Dakota	308	306	10	55	144	60	25	14	183	184
Ohio	2,640	2,600	353	700	453	233	527	374	411	416
Oklahoma	1,229	1,225	69	375	117	308	237	123	359	360
Oregon	920	915	43	396	164	95	180	42	388	388
Pennsylvania	2,299	2,298	267	781	466	180	425	180	463	464
Rhode Island	246	244	24	102	40	4	43	33	381	383
South Carolina	886	883	40	446	56	29	225	90	550	552
South Dakota	432	430	15	120	90	101	87	19	182	182
Tennessee	1,284	1,274	172	490	85	185	279	73	502	505
Texas	5,712	5,536	584	2,466	585	126	1,298	653	551	562
Utah	605	570	11	97	372	23	40	62	554	578
Vermont	240	240	11	31	108	62	18	10	222	222
Virginia	1,503	1,501	50	843	149	9	312	140	542	543
Washington	1,444	1,364	47	564	401	71	237	124	429	444
West Virginia	561	558	83	236	62	39	110	31	335	336
Wisconsin	1,553	1,544	133	597	196	153	307	167	357	358
Wyoming	241	240	25	54	88	15	41	18	210	211
Bureau of Indian    Education	109	109	6	5	24	66	3	5	—	—
DoD, domestic	50	50	12	14	6	1	7	10	413	413
DoD, overseas	87	87	6	21	33	9	15	3	442	442
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	24	24	1	0	0	21	1	1	—	—
Guam	32	32	0	24	0	7	0	1	—	—
Northern Marianas	23	23	0	2	10	0	2	9	297	297
Puerto Rico	908	906	59	6	793	3	26	21	268	268
U.S. Virgin Islands	23	23	1	0	21	0	1	0	368	368

—Not available.

1 Excludes special education and alternative schools.

2 Average for schools reporting enrollment data. Enrollment data were available for 66,476 out of 67,032 public elementary schools in 2007-08.

NOTE: Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled. DoD = Department of Defense.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2007-08. (This table was prepared September 2009.)