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Table 97.Public secondary schools, by grade span and average school size, by state: 1993-94

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                      |         |                        Schools, by grade span                       || Average
                      |  Total  |_____________________________________________________________________|| number
 State or other area  |         |Grades 7| Grades | Grades | Grades  |  Grades  |Other spans|  Other  ||   of
                      |         |to 8 and|7 to 12 |8 to 12 | 9 to 12 | 10 to 12 |ending with|  grade  ||students
                      |         | 7 to 9 |        |        |         |          | grade 12  |  spans  ||   per
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||school\1\
______________________|_________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||_________
          1           |    2    |   3    |   4    |   5    |    6    |    7     |     8     |    9    ||   10
______________________|_________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||_________
   United States .....|  20,059 |  3,970 |  3,175 |    420 |  10,902 |      956 |       102 |     534 ||     695
                      |_________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||_________
Alabama ..............|     289 |     33 |     71 |     12 |     151 |       11 |         1 |      10 ||     709
Alaska ...............|      89 |     16 |     27 |      2 |      40 |        0 |         1 |       3 ||     445
Arizona ..............|     261 |     83 |      7 |      3 |     155 |       10 |         1 |       2 ||     929
Arkansas .............|     416 |     77 |    215 |      3 |      45 |       61 |         0 |      15 ||     435
California ...........|   1,882 |    451 |     91 |     35 |   1,114 |      132 |        10 |      49 ||     939
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Colorado .............|     341 |     57 |     63 |      2 |     192 |       18 |         3 |       6 ||     573
Connecticut ..........|     204 |     37 |      7 |      3 |     148 |        3 |         1 |       5 ||     700
Delaware .............|      41 |      9 |      2 |      2 |      28 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||     900
District of Columbia .|      39 |     19 |      0 |      0 |      18 |        1 |         1 |       0 ||     659
Florida ..............|     415 |     31 |     41 |     15 |     254 |       23 |        10 |      41 ||   1,154
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Georgia ..............|     319 |     27 |     14 |     31 |     239 |        4 |         0 |       4 ||   1,062
Hawaii ...............|      47 |     12 |      9 |      3 |      21 |        0 |         0 |       2 ||   1,332
Idaho ................|     202 |     51 |     38 |      7 |      78 |       19 |         0 |       9 ||     467
Illinois .............|     890 |    231 |     28 |      8 |     598 |        8 |         3 |      14 ||     678
Indiana...............|     423 |     72 |    115 |      1 |     223 |        8 |         1 |       3 ||     792
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Iowa .................|     451 |     76 |    114 |      1 |     242 |       17 |         1 |       0 ||     400
Kansas ...............|     430 |     67 |     62 |      2 |     279 |       13 |         3 |       4 ||     357
Kentucky .............|     319 |     43 |     43 |      2 |     206 |        6 |         1 |      18 ||     668
Louisiana ............|     313 |     63 |     50 |     10 |     176 |        8 |         1 |       5 ||     766
Maine ................|     133 |     26 |     11 |      1 |      90 |        4 |         0 |       1 ||     492
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Maryland .............|     211 |     30 |      6 |      2 |     164 |        1 |         2 |       6 ||   1,043
Massachusetts ........|     332 |     49 |     50 |     15 |     210 |        6 |         0 |       2 ||     775
Michigan .............|     688 |    111 |    110 |     18 |     414 |       17 |         0 |      18 ||     714
Minnesota ............|     624 |     91 |    233 |     20 |     175 |       67 |         8 |      30 ||     477
Mississippi ..........|     230 |     49 |     41 |      9 |     107 |       13 |         3 |       8 ||     667
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Missouri..............|     587 |     79 |    218 |     13 |     239 |       19 |         2 |      17 ||     518
Montana ..............|     358 |    183 |      1 |      0 |     171 |        2 |         0 |       1 ||     175
Nebraska .............|     363 |     43 |    225 |      0 |      81 |       12 |         0 |       2 ||     316
Nevada ...............|      90 |     15 |     18 |      2 |      50 |        1 |         0 |       4 ||     780
New Hampshire ........|     103 |     26 |      0 |      0 |      75 |        2 |         0 |       0 ||     558
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
New Jersey ...........|     388 |     72 |     41 |     11 |     248 |        8 |         2 |       6 ||     899
New Mexico ...........|     170 |     38 |     28 |      2 |      86 |        9 |         0 |       7 ||     629
New York .............|     911 |    148 |    196 |     16 |     472 |       25 |         1 |      53 ||     959
North Carolina .......|     400 |     69 |     20 |      3 |     270 |       27 |         1 |      10 ||     858
North Dakota .........|     223 |     17 |    159 |      5 |      29 |        9 |         2 |       2 ||     222
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Ohio .................|     879 |    182 |    146 |     31 |     484 |       19 |         2 |      15 ||     699
Oklahoma .............|     613 |    134 |      0 |      0 |     362 |       91 |         5 |      21 ||     317
Oregon ...............|     273 |     63 |     22 |      9 |     166 |        9 |         0 |       4 ||     657
Pennsylvania .........|     711 |    111 |    183 |     15 |     335 |       50 |         6 |      11 ||     836
Rhode Island .........|      61 |     20 |      5 |      1 |      30 |        5 |         0 |       0 ||     831
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
South Carolina .......|     248 |     40 |     23 |      6 |     158 |        7 |         1 |      13 ||     823
South Dakota .........|     299 |    112 |      0 |      0 |     180 |        5 |         2 |       0 ||     164
Tennessee ............|     323 |     68 |     38 |      6 |     194 |       17 |         0 |       0 ||     867
Texas ................|   1,510 |    284 |    180 |     22 |     893 |       34 |        19 |      78 ||     720
Utah .................|     215 |     77 |     29 |      4 |      51 |       46 |         2 |       6 ||     943
                      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
Vermont ..............|      55 |      6 |     23 |      1 |      25 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||     568
Virginia .............|     344 |     48 |     17 |     44 |     214 |       11 |         0 |      10 ||     957
Washington ...........|     505 |    122 |     64 |     14 |     248 |       40 |         5 |      12 ||     638
West Virginia.........|     196 |     60 |     31 |      1 |      74 |       27 |         0 |       3 ||     600
Wisconsin ............|     527 |    100 |     57 |      6 |     338 |       22 |         1 |       3 ||     540
Wyoming ..............|     118 |     42 |      3 |      1 |      62 |        9 |         0 |       1 ||     337
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  Outlying areas      |         |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||
American Samoa .......|       6 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       6 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||     575
Guam .................|       5 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       5 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||   1,550
Northern Marianas ....|       4 |      1 |      2 |      0 |       1 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||     764
Puerto Rico ..........|     330 |    155 |     28 |      2 |       5 |      124 |         1 |      15 ||     683
Virgin Islands .......|       8 |      5 |      0 |      0 |       2 |        1 |         0 |       0 ||   1,215
______________________|_________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||_________

\1\Average for schools reporting enrollment data.

NOTE.--Includes schools with no grade lower than 7. Excludes schools not reported by level, such as special education schools for the disabled.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared June 1995.)


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