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Table 216.30. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students and schools, by traditional or charter school status and selected characteristics: Selected years, 1999-2000 through 2011-12
Selected characteristic 1999-2000 Charter schools 2011-12
Total, all public schools Traditional (noncharter) schools Charter schools 2001-02 2003-04 2005-06 2007-08 2009-10 2010-11 Total, all public schools Traditional (noncharter) schools Charter schools
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Enrollment (in thousands) 46,689 46,350 340 571 789 1,013 1,277 1,610 1,787 49,256 47,199 2,058
Percentage distribution
     of students
                       
Sex 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Male 51.4 51.4 51.0 50.8 50.3 49.9 49.5 49.5 49.5 51.4 51.4 49.6
Female 48.6 48.6 49.0 49.2 49.7 50.1 50.5 50.5 50.5 48.6 48.6 50.4
                         
Race/ethnicity 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
White 61.8 61.9 42.5 42.6 41.8 40.5 38.8 37.3 36.2 51.7 52.4 35.6
Black 17.1 16.9 33.5 32.5 31.9 32.1 31.8 30.3 28.9 15.8 15.2 28.7
Hispanic 15.9 15.9 19.6 20.1 21.5 22.4 24.5 26.0 27.3 23.7 23.6 28.0
Asian/Pacific Islander 4.1 4.1 2.8 3.1 3.2 3.6 3.8 3.9 3.7 5.1 5.1 4.0
American Indian/
   Alaska Native
1.2 1.2 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.9 1.1 1.1 0.9
Two or more races 1.4 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.8
                         
Percent of students eligible
     for free or reduced-price
     lunch program
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 25.0 44.9 45.0 36.9 42.5 33.2 36.1 19.8 20.6 26.7 23.7 23.8 21.9
25.1 to 50.0 25.4 25.5 12.7 14.3 17.1 15.9 16.5 18.8 18.9 27.6 28.0 18.4
50.1 to 75.0 16.0 16.1 13.0 14.7 16.1 17.4 18.9 20.2 20.4 25.2 25.4 21.0
More than 75.0 12.2 12.2 14.3 15.2 18.4 22.0 21.2 30.7 30.7 18.9 18.3 30.8
Missing/school does not
     participate
1.4 1.2 23.2 13.3 15.2 8.6 23.6 9.7 3.2 4.6 4.4 7.9
                         
Number of teachers1 2,636,277 2,622,678 13,599 23,415 36,406 49,142 69,725 84,983 91,126 3,028,283 2,920,353 107,929
Pupil/teacher ratio1 16.6 16.6 18.8 17.7 17.6 17.3 15.9 17.3 18.0 16.3 16.3 17.6
                         
Total number of schools 92,012 90,488 1,524 2,348 2,977 3,780 4,388 4,952 5,274 98,328 92,632 5,696
                         
Percentage distribution
     of schools
                       
School level 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Elementary2 69.7 70.0 54.6 50.6 52.0 52.1 53.3 54.1 54.3 67.8 68.6 54.9
Secondary3 24.3 24.3 25.9 24.2 26.2 28.0 27.8 26.8 25.9 24.8 24.8 24.9
Combined4 4.4 4.2 18.6 21.6 21.0 18.6 18.3 18.8 19.5 6.4 5.6 19.5
Other 1.6 1.6 0.9 3.6 0.8 1.3 0.6 0.3 0.2 1.0 1.0 0.7
                         
Size of enrollment 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Less than 300 31.4 30.7 77.1 73.6 71.1 69.6 65.6 61.5 59.0 30.5 28.9 55.8
300 to 499 26.4 26.7 12.0 13.6 15.6 16.5 19.3 20.8 22.3 27.7 28.0 23.1
500 to 999 32.6 33.0 8.6 9.9 10.1 10.9 12.0 14.0 14.8 32.8 33.8 17.0
1,000 or more 9.5 9.7 2.4 2.8 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.7 3.9 9.0 9.3 4.2
                         
Racial/ethnic concentration                        
More than 50 percent White 70.9 71.2 51.1 50.9 48.7 46.5 43.2 40.3 38.4 59.7 61.1 37.5
More than 50 percent Black 11.1 10.8 26.5 23.8 24.5 26.4 26.5 25.8 25.4 10.3 9.4 25.3
More than 50 percent Hispanic 8.8 8.7 11.4 12.5 13.6 15.1 17.8 19.8 20.8 15.0 14.6 21.8
                         
Percent of students eligible
     for free or reduced-price
     lunch program
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 to 25.0 42.3 42.3 44.5 47.8 28.7 32.7 20.2 19.3 27.7 19.7 19.7 18.7
25.1 to 50.0 25.6 25.9 11.1 11.7 16.0 15.2 15.5 17.2 17.4 25.8 26.3 17.9
50.1 to 75.0 16.8 16.9 10.2 12.0 16.0 16.9 18.8 20.9 20.1 25.7 26.1 19.9
More than 75.0 11.9 11.9 12.4 13.5 19.9 22.7 22.4 32.8 33.1 20.5 19.7 33.8
Missing/school does not
     participate
3.3 3.0 21.9 14.9 19.5 12.5 23.0 9.8 1.7 8.3 8.2 9.7
                         
Locale 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
City 52.7 52.5 54.3 54.8 55.5 26.2 24.4 55.4
Suburban 22.0 22.2 22.0 21.1 21.3 27.3 27.7 21.2
Town 9.6 9.4 8.5 8.0 7.6 13.6 14.0 7.4
Rural 15.8 16.0 15.2 16.1 15.6 32.9 33.9 16.0
                         
Region 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Northeast 16.1 16.3 7.2 10.1 9.2 9.0 8.6 9.1 9.5 15.5 15.9 9.7
Midwest 28.9 29.0 24.9 22.6 23.7 27.4 26.5 24.0 23.1 26.1 26.3 22.3
South 33.1 33.2 28.9 28.4 26.7 26.5 28.2 29.5 29.5 34.9 35.1 30.8
West 21.8 21.6 38.9 38.9 40.3 37.2 36.6 37.4 37.9 23.5 22.7 37.2
—Not available.
1 Data for 2010 include imputations for teachers in California and Vermont.
2 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.
3 Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.
4 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.
5 The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program. To be eligible for free lunch under the program, a student must be from a household with an income at or below 130 percent of the poverty threshold; to be eligible for reduced-price lunch, a student must be from a household with an income between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty threshold.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1999-2000 through 2011-12. (This table was prepared March 2014.)

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