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Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 2001-02

Table 5. Average public school size (mean number of students per school), by instructional level and by state: School year 2001–02

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State Schools having membership Instructional level
Primary Middle High Other
United States 91,380 441 612 753 267
 
Alabama 1,381 452 578 672 523
Alaska 506 326 484 471 121
Arizona 1,742 509 621 686 148
Arkansas 1,129 355 488 397 618
California 8,914 572 904 987 379
 
Colorado 1,630 387 528 627 284
Connecticut 1,073 424 643 890 168
Delaware 197 479 653 1,075 144
District of Columbia 193 385 443 472 260
Florida 3,314 674 1,069 1,565 218
 
Georgia 1,969 607 834 1,177 578
Hawaii 279 538 819 1,212 274
Idaho 654 342 485 413 202
Illinois 4,292 430 460 753 201
Indiana 1,891 425 598 826 393
 
Iowa 1,519 270 336 429 241
Kansas 1,423 281 366 409 117
Kentucky 1,387 393 564 615 76
Louisiana 1,509 440 514 753 257
Maine 681 218 375 556 197
 
Maryland 1,340 486 785 1,194 318
Massachusetts 1,889 389 643 888 570
Michigan 3,782 372 561 675 257
Minnesota 2,119 372 578 441 127
Mississippi 886 508 563 677 542
 
Missouri 2,274 352 490 538 151
Montana 870 154 134 277 468
Nebraska 1,280 172 423 321 33
Nevada 517 571 993 907 129
New Hampshire 472 318 530 795 346
 
New Jersey 2,410 449 629 1,036 196
New Mexico 792 346 444 591 159
New York 4,298 558 770 1,004 432
North Carolina 2,223 489 657 999 257
North Dakota 529 168 377 210 875
 
Ohio 3,826 385 520 781 370
Oklahoma 1,814 328 370 339 655
Oregon 1,273 344 532 690 165
Pennsylvania 3,185 427 671 913 754
Rhode Island 326 344 667 963 115
 
South Carolina 1,053 536 632 995 390
South Dakota 749 158 158 228 34
Tennessee 1,610 469 619 860 333
Texas 7,646 520 614 772 164
Utah 791 526 792 775 338
 
Vermont 359 204 389 674 255
Virginia 1,839 484 756 1,084 309
Washington 2,170 407 586 635 192
West Virginia 784 283 447 587 246
Wisconsin 2,208 326 449 560 246
Wyoming 383 186 261 333 163
Outlying areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas 154 483 493 460 436
DDESS: DoDs Domestic 70 468 452 552 448
Bureau of Indian Affairs 177 227 209 352 304
American Samoa 31 483 804 656 48
Guam 38 578 1,074 2,215
Northern Marianas 29 278 720 861 54
Puerto Rico 1,530 306 480 684 426
Virgin Islands 35 431 456 1,348 288
 
Not applicable.
NOTE: Instructional levels are primary (low grade prekindergarten to 3, high grade up to 8); middle (low grade 4 to 7, high grade 4 to 9); high (low grade 7 to 12, high grade 12 only); and other (any configuration not falling within the previous three, including ungraded schools). For states that did not provide a grade span, grade span was determined by the highest and lowest grades in which students were reported. U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2001–02.
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