Table A-2.-Distribution of regular public school districts providing instruction, by membership size and by state: School year 2000-01

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Table A-2.-Distribution of regular public school districts providing instruction, by membership size and by state: School year 2000-01
State	Districts having student membership	Distribution of districts by membership size
State	Districts having student membership	Mean	10th percentile	25th percentile	Median	75th percentile	90th percentile	Maximum
United States	14,514	3,210	120	342	1,033	2,707	6,190	1,066,516

Alabama	128	5,692	1,436	2,261	3,163	6,054	9,528	64,976
Alaska	53	2,490	132	248	495	1,735	3,695	49,526
Arizona	372	2,344	55	120	281	1,475	5,031	73,587
Arkansas	310	1,451	259	428	733	1,479	3,047	25,502
California	985	6,068	106	378	1,659	6,008	14,821	721,346

Colorado	176	4,112	142	296	687	2,502	8,639	87,703
Connecticut	166	3,238	335	862	2,197	4,126	7,266	22,543
Delaware	19	5,898	1,062	2,108	3,777	6,765	10,953	19,882
District of Columbia	1	68,925	†	†	†	†	†	68,925
Florida	67	36,297	2,228	4,566	12,624	34,566	79,477	368,625

Georgia	180	8,027	1,281	1,909	3,393	7,048	16,965	110,075
Hawaii	1	184,360	†	†	†	†	†	184,360
Idaho	113	2,168	176	337	949	2,133	4,512	26,598
Illinois	894	2,266	202	458	921	1,917	3,883	435,261
Indiana	292	3,383	877	1,281	1,906	3,581	7,256	41,008

Iowa	373	1,327	287	453	691	1,245	2,205	32,435
Kansas	304	1,541	182	338	572	1,183	2,865	48,228
Kentucky	176	3,658	685	1,193	2,316	3,761	6,680	96,860
Louisiana	78	9,494	266	2,384	4,502	10,215	19,774	77,610
Maine	280	754	17	87	320	928	2,296	7,781

Maryland	24	35,538	3,063	6,225	16,038	42,233	106,898	134,180
Massachusetts	244	3,382	255	847	2,351	4,184	6,396	63,024
Michigan	728	2,342	133	396	1,173	2,572	4,841	162,194
Minnesota	410	2,069	111	324	802	1,753	4,421	48,834
Mississippi	152	3,267	877	1,591	2,417	3,785	6,154	31,351

Missouri	523	1,743	136	293	637	1,501	3,821	44,412
Montana	447	346	9	33	108	281	708	10,166
Nebraska	544	524	6	14	119	348	737	45,197
Nevada	17	20,042	305	872	3,805	7,033	10,100	231,655
New Hampshire	164	1,271	78	206	620	1,539	2,862	17,407

New Jersey	581	2,233	237	495	1,161	2,503	5,278	42,150
New Mexico	89	3,599	158	346	823	3,478	8,342	85,276
New York	701	4,078	372	874	1,568	3,225	5,732	1,066,516
North Carolina	120	10,646	1,642	3,122	6,113	11,365	21,159	103,336
North Dakota	227	479	24	82	188	337	673	11,443

Ohio	611	2,979	789	1,170	1,852	3,079	5,640	75,684
Oklahoma	544	1,145	122	232	413	932	1,942	42,812
Oregon	197	2,765	70	255	910	2,837	6,496	53,141
Pennsylvania	500	3,543	996	1,460	2,389	3,766	6,424	201,190
Rhode Island	36	4,341	645	1,994	3,365	4,407	6,756	26,937

South Carolina	89	7,637	1,180	2,200	4,230	9,332	16,678	59,875
South Dakota	173	740	120	193	298	606	1,375	19,097
Tennessee	137	6,539	920	1,678	3,356	6,060	10,695	113,730
Texas	1,040	3,867	168	370	910	2,657	7,273	208,462
Utah	40	11,935	512	1,493	4,040	13,001	37,450	73,158

Vermont	246	410	62	111	233	507	961	3,666
Virginia	132	8,665	1,118	1,999	3,707	7,925	18,870	156,412
Washington	296	3,395	88	264	1,078	3,507	9,683	47,575
West Virginia	55	5,196	1,318	2,101	4,326	5,892	11,495	29,250
Wisconsin	431	2,035	343	574	990	1,944	3,657	97,985
Wyoming	48	1,869	261	468	865	2,164	3,262	13,315
Outlying areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs*
DODDS: DoDs Overseas	11	6,685	3,684	4,531	5,520	8,510	9,395	11,095
DDESS: DoDs Domestic	17	2,010	351	758	1,228	3,144	4,272	4,686
Bureau of Indian Affairs	23	2,041	731	939	1,649	2,596	3,562	5,438
American Samoa	1	15,747	†	†	†	†	†	15,747
Guam	1	32,473	†	†	†	†	†	32,473
Northern Marianas	1	10,004	†	†	†	†	†	10,004
Puerto Rico	1	612,725	†	†	†	†	†	612,725
Virgin Islands	1	19,459	†	†	†	†	†	19,459
† Not applicable.
* Table includes 28 Department of Defense and 24 Bureau of Indian Affairs school districts that are technically federally-operated agencies; this is in order to report data for these agencies in the table.
NOTE: Distributions cannot be calculated for states and outlying areas that have a single district. Table excludes agencies for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The mean is the average. If all districts were ranked by size from smallest to largest, half of the districts would fall below the median. For example, dividing the total number of students by the total number of districts yields an average district size of 3,210 students (mean), while half of the districts in the United States have 1,033 or fewer students (median). The percentile indicates what percent of cases a value exceeds; for example, 10 percent of districts have fewer than 120 students.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2000-01.

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