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Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State: School Year 2000-01--Ed Tabs: April 2002
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Table 2.-Public school student/teacher ratio, student membership, and teachers, by level of instruction and state: School year 2000–01
State
 Total student/
teacher ratio		 Total student membership Total teachers Pre- kindergarten teachers Kindergarten teachers Elementary teachers Secondary teachers Teachers of ungraded classes
United States 16.0 1 47,222,778 1 2,952,991 1 34,322 146,996 1,492,151 1,056,601 222,921
 
Alabama 15.4 1 740,176 1 48,199 1 612 3,410 23,910 20,267 (?)
Alaska 16.9 133,356 7,880 38 330 4,747 2,765 (?)
Arizona 19.8 877,696 44,438 142 1,709 30,065 12,522 (?)
Arkansas 14.1 449,959 31,947 100 1,975 11,866 13,665 4,341
California 20.6 1 6,142,348 1 298,064 1 5,078 23,400 189,815 75,568 4,203
 
Colorado 17.3 724,508 41,983 439 2,267 18,703 20,574 (?)
Connecticut 13.7 562,179 41,044 184 1,521 22,399 11,944 4,996
Delaware 15.3 114,676 7,471 11 231 3,540 3,689 (?)
District of Columbia 13.9 68,925 4,949 213 264 2,675 1,248 549
Florida 18.4 2,434,821 132,030 900 6,933 49,909 51,028 23,260
 
Georgia 15.9 1,444,937 91,044 1,921 5,283 45,831 38,009 (?)
Hawaii 16.9 184,360 10,927 2 118 2 464 2 5,402 4,896 47
Idaho 17.9 245,117 13,714 97 475 6,409 6,733 (?)
Illinois 16.1 2,048,792 127,620 1,530 4,927 70,026 31,727 19,410
Indiana 16.7 989,225 59,226 408 2,406 28,026 25,683 2,703
 
Iowa 14.3 495,080 34,636 461 2,074 18,459 12,368 1,274
Kansas 14.4 470,610 32,742 262 1,168 13,198 14,680 3,434
Kentucky 16.8 665,850 39,589 728 1,311 19,503 11,750 6,297
Louisiana 14.9 743,089 49,916 472 2,626 31,677 14,797 344
Maine 12.5 207,037 16,559 2 221 2 870 2 10,141 5,327 (?)
 
Maryland 16.3 852,920 52,433 628 1,900 28,990 20,915 (?)
Massachusetts 14.5 975,150 67,432 959 2,492 27,765 30,300 5,916
Michigan 18.0 1 1,743,337 97,031 1,029 3,820 36,561 43,234 12,387
Minnesota 16.0 854,340 53,457 1,152 2,037 24,761 25,507 (?)
Mississippi 16.1 497,871 31,006 226 1,554 13,793 10,126 5,307
 
Missouri 14.1 912,744 64,739 1,267 3,252 28,221 31,385 614
Montana 14.9 154,875 10,411 2 140 2 550 2 6,407 3,314 (?)
Nebraska 13.6 286,199 20,983 2 248 2 978 2 11,392 8,365 (?)
Nevada 18.6 340,706 18,294 285 562 8,606 6,691 2,150
New Hampshire 14.5 208,461 14,341 97 320 9,565 4,359 (?)
 
New Jersey 13.1 1,307,828 99,718 311 3,524 53,838 27,688 14,357
New Mexico 15.2 320,306 21,043 256 986 10,726 4,777 4,298
New York 13.9 2,882,188 206,961 2,356 11,653 93,891 68,649 30,412
North Carolina 15.5 1,293,638 83,680 835 5,354 44,563 29,357 3,571
North Dakota 13.4 109,201 8,141 111 273 4,478 3,279 (?)
 
Ohio 15.5 1,835,049 118,361 1,280 4,433 73,499 38,971 178
Oklahoma 15.1 623,110 41,318 635 1,610 17,184 17,707 4,182
Oregon 19.4 546,231 28,094 40 1,028 13,965 8,229 4,832
Pennsylvania 15.5 1,814,311 116,963 2 1,059 2 4,167 2 48,548 48,018 15,171
Rhode Island 14.8 157,347 10,646 17 246 4,372 4,405 1,606
 
South Carolina 14.9 677,411 45,380 495 2,062 29,820 12,835 168
South Dakota 13.7 128,603 9,397 96 369 5,249 2,650 1,033
Tennessee 14.9 1 909,388 61,233 245 3,823 40,357 15,585 1,223
Texas 14.8 4,059,619 274,826 4,818 15,184 114,821 108,539 31,464
Utah 21.9 481,687 22,008 191 845 9,536 9,027 2,409
 
Vermont 12.1 102,049 8,414 62 303 2,844 3,086 2,119
Virginia 12.5 1,144,915 1 91,560 1 403 2 3,926 2 45,896 41,335 (?)
Washington 19.7 1,004,770 51,098 41 2,017 23,757 20,426 4,857
West Virginia 13.7 286,367 20,930 177 1,111 9,005 6,905 3,732
Wisconsin 14.1 879,476 62,332 928 2,752 40,445 18,207 (?)
Wyoming 13.3 89,940 6,783 ? 221 2,995 3,490 77
Outlying Areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs — 46,938 — — — — — (?)
DOD Overseas 14.4 73,581 5,105 71 276 1,656 1,607 1,495
DOD Domestic 14.2 34,174 2,399 93 180 893 509 725
American Samoa 19.1 15,702 820 119 39 424 223 15
Guam 16.4 32,473 1,975 25 114 838 998 (?)
Northern Marianas 19.0 10,004 526 2 23 283 215 3
Puerto Rico 16.3 612,725 37,620 68 1,248 18,660 14,449 3,195
Virgin Islands 12.9 19,459 1,511 ? 62 665 733 51
 
— Data missing.
? Not applicable.
1 Data imputed based on current year (fall 2000) data.
2 Data disaggregated from reported total.
NOTE: Teacher counts are full-time equivalency (FTE) counts. Elementary and secondary teacher counts are not directly comparable across states due to differences in the grades included in these designations.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2000–01.

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