Table 6.-Median public school student/teacher ratio, by instructional level and by state: School year 2000-01

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Table 6.-Median public school student/teacher ratio, by instructional level and by state: School year 2000-01
State	Instructional level
State	Primary	Middle	High	Other
Reporting states*	16.0	15.5	14.8	9.7

Alabama	14.7	17.7	16.1	15.5
Alaska	17.0	16.7	15.2	11.5
Arizona	17.6	18.3	16.5	†
Arkansas	15.6	14.5	11.3	12.6
California	19.7	22.6	21.4	16.8

Colorado	16.9	16.8	15.4	13.7
Connecticut	14.4	12.8	12.5	14.9
Delaware	16.3	16.1	15.7	5.9
District of Columbia	13.6	13.5	14.1	8.7
Florida	17.2	19.5	19.2	4.9

Georgia	16.1	15.8	16.6	15.1
Hawaii	17.2	16.9	17.4	13.3
Idaho	18.0	17.8	15.2	11.9
Illinois	16.7	15.4	14.4	8.0
Indiana	17.7	17.1	17.1	13.2

Iowa	14.6	13.8	13.1	11.1
Kansas	14.0	13.8	11.8	6.8
Kentucky	21.0	15.6	15.3	7.5
Louisiana	14.9	15.5	15.5	13.1
Maine	13.4	14.1	13.9	9.7

Maryland	16.7	15.7	16.9	5.4
Massachusetts	-	-	-	-
Michigan	18.2	17.7	18.3	13.9
Minnesota	15.4	16.5	14.7	6.0
Mississippi	16.8	16.4	16.4	15.5

Missouri	14.2	14.9	13.6	8.3
Montana	13.1	13.1	11.6	9.2
Nebraska	12.2	13.6	11.7	8.1
Nevada	17.5	21.0	18.2	5.3
New Hampshire	14.5	14.5	13.1	17.2

New Jersey	15.2	13.7	12.8	7.1
New Mexico	14.6	14.7	14.5	15.1
New York	14.7	14.1	14.1	10.3
North Carolina	15.0	14.4	14.4	6.4
North Dakota	12.4	14.0	12.5	15.0

Ohio	17.2	16.0	16.8	15.0
Oklahoma	15.6	15.0	12.5	16.8
Oregon	19.4	19.1	18.4	10.5
Pennsylvania	16.9	15.9	15.6	12.8
Rhode Island	15.9	14.2	13.8	7.6

South Carolina	14.7	15.5	15.4	13.7
South Dakota	12.3	13.6	11.3	9.2
Tennessee	-	-	-	-
Texas	15.1	14.2	12.6	8.0
Utah	21.6	21.6	20.9	13.8

Vermont	12.1	12.4	11.4	10.8
Virginia	14.1	13.6	14.1	6.8
Washington	18.9	20.0	19.6	7.7
West Virginia	14.0	14.2	15.1	7.1
Wisconsin	14.8	14.4	14.8	12.3
Wyoming	12.5	12.9	11.7	9.1
Outlying areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
DODDS: DoDs Overseas	15.0	15.1	12.7	11.0
DDESS: DoDs Domestic	15.0	13.4	12.5	11.0
Bureau of Indian Affairs	-	-	-	-
American Samoa	19.5	28.6	16.5	3.0
Guam	15.0	13.6	18.9	†
Northern Marianas	17.9	17.9	12.4	15.7
Puerto Rico	15.3	16.7	19.6	15.5
Virgin Islands	13.3	10.3	13.4	7.5
- Data are missing.
† Not applicable.
* Total of reporting states, does not include Massachusetts or Tennessee.
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); 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. If all schools were ranked by student/teacher ratio from smallest to the largest, half of the schools would fall below the median. For example, half the primary schools in Alabama had a student/teacher ratio of less than 14.7.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2000-01.

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