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Population and public school enrollment, from non-NAEP sources: By state, fall 2001 and April 2002
 
  Estimated resident populations: April 1, 2002 (in thousands) Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools: Fall 2001 (in thousands)
State/jurisdiction Total 5- to 17-year-olds Total Prekindergarten
through grade 81		 Grades 9 to 122
   Nation 288,369 53,285 47,688 33,952 13,736
Alabama 4,487 808 737 536 202
Alaska  644 143 134 95 39
Arizona  5,456 1,057 922 672 251
Arkansas  2,710 494 450 318 132
California 35,116 6,907 6,249 4,480 1,769
Colorado  4,507 830 742 529 213
Connecticut 3,461 649 570 410 160
Delaware  807 138 116 81 34
Florida  16,713 2,847 2,500 1,797 703
Georgia  8,560 1,620 1,471 1,075 395
Hawaii  1,245 212 185 132 53
Idaho 1,341 270 247 171 75
Illinois  12,601 2,365 2,071 1,484 587
Indiana 6,159 1,166 996 711 285
Iowa 2,937 517 486 330 156
Kansas  2,716 509 470 322 148
Kentucky  4,093 678 654 473 181
Louisiana  4,483 863 731 537 194
Maine  1,294 214 206 144 62
Maryland  5,458 1,014 861 611 250
Massachusetts  6,428 1,076 973 699 274
Michigan  10,050 1,907 1,731 1,223 508
Minnesota 5,020 933 851 573 278
Mississippi 2,872 551 494 362 132
Missouri 5,673 1,030 910 643 267
Montana  909 164 152 103 49
Nebraska 1,729 322 285 195 90
Nevada 2,173 412 357 262 94
New Hampshire  1,275 235 207 144 62
New Jersey  8,590 1,560 1,342 972 370
New Mexico  1,855 368 320 225 95
New York  19,158 3,385 2,872 2,017 855
North Carolina  8,320 1,484 1,315 956 359
North Dakota  634 110 106 70 36
Ohio 11,421 2,115 1,831 1,287 544
Oklahoma  3,494 635 622 446 176
Oregon  3,522 629 551 382 170
Pennsylvania 12,335 2,151 1,822 1,255 567
Rhode Island  1,070 179 158 113 45
South Carolina 4,107 713 691 500 191
South Dakota  761 145 128 87 41
Tennessee  5,797 1,021 925 675 250
Texas  21,780 4,384 4,163 3,016 1,147
Utah 2,316 494 485 338 147
Vermont  617 108 101 69 32
Virginia  7,294 1,294 1,163 826 337
Washington  6,069 1,117 1,009 696 313
West Virginia 1,802 292 283 200 83
Wisconsin  5,441 1,000 879 592 288
Wyoming  499 92 88 59 29
Other Jurisdictions  
  District of Columbia    571 78 75 58 17
  DDESS3 — — 32 29 3
  DoDDS4 — — 73 59 14
— Not available.
1 Includes elementary unclassified. 
2 Includes secondary unclassified. 
3 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools.
4Department of Defense Dependents Schools (overseas).
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2003 (NCES 2005–025), tables 17 and 37 (pp. 30, 56–57). U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-25, No. 1095 at the national level, CPH-L-74, SF1-P12, and unpublished data; and Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1988-89 through 2001-02, and Projections of Education Statistics to 2013.
Last updated 10 October 2005 (FW)