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Table 99. Public charter schools and students, by school origin status and selected school characteristics: 1999-2000

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                              |                   Schools and students                          |       School origin status
            School            |                                                                 |     (percentage distribution)
        characteristic        |_________________________________________________________________|________________________________________
                              | Number of|   Number of  |  Average   | Percent of | Percent of  |   Newly    |Pre-existing |Pre-existing
                              |  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   (0.0| 100.0   (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)
                              |          |              |            |            |             |            |             |
Locale                        |          |              |            |            |             |            |             |
  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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