Percentage of public school membership by race/ethnicity and state: School year 2001-02


Home/Discussion	List of Tables and Figures	Tables:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

State	Total reported¹	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Asian/Pacific Islander	Hispanic	Black non- Hispanic	White non- Hispanic
Table 5. Percentage of public school membership by race/ethnicity and state: School year 2001–02
United States	100.0	1.2	4.2	17.1	17.2	60.3

Alabama	100.0	0.7	0.8	1.5	36.5	60.5
Alaska	100.0	25.5	5.9	3.6	4.7	60.4
Arizona	100.0	6.6	2.1	35.3	4.7	51.3
Arkansas	100.0	0.5	0.9	4.2	23.3	71.1
California	100.0	0.9	11.2	44.5	8.4	35.0

Colorado	100.0	1.2	3.0	23.3	5.7	66.8
Connecticut	100.0	0.3	3.0	13.7	13.8	69.2
Delaware	100.0	0.3	2.4	6.6	31.1	59.6
District of Columbia	100.0	0.0	1.6	9.4	84.4	4.6
Florida	100.0	0.3	1.9	20.4	24.9	52.5

Georgia	100.0	0.2	2.4	5.5	38.2	53.8
Hawaii	100.0	0.4	72.3	4.5	2.4	20.3
Idaho	100.0	1.3	1.3	11.2	0.8	85.4
Illinois	100.0	0.2	3.5	16.2	21.2	59.0
Indiana	100.0	0.2	1.0	3.9	11.8	83.0

Iowa	100.0	0.5	1.7	4.0	4.1	89.6
Kansas	100.0	1.3	2.2	9.8	8.9	77.8
Kentucky	100.0	0.2	0.7	1.1	10.3	87.7
Louisiana	100.0	0.7	1.3	1.6	47.8	48.7
Maine	100.0	0.7	1.1	0.6	1.4	96.2

Maryland	100.0	0.4	4.6	5.4	37.2	52.4
Massachusetts	100.0	0.3	4.5	10.8	8.6	75.7
Michigan	100.0	1.0	2.0	3.6	20.0	73.4
Minnesota	100.0	2.0	5.2	3.8	7.0	82.0
Mississippi	100.0	0.2	0.7	0.9	51.0	47.3

Missouri	100.0	0.3	1.2	2.0	17.5	79.0
Montana	100.0	10.6	1.0	1.9	0.6	85.9
Nebraska	100.0	1.6	1.6	8.2	6.9	81.8
Nevada	100.0	1.7	6.1	27.4	10.3	54.5
New Hampshire	100.0	0.2	1.5	2.1	1.2	95.0

New Jersey	100.0	0.2	6.6	16.0	17.9	59.4
New Mexico	100.0	11.3	1.1	51.0	2.4	34.3
New York	100.0	0.4	6.2	18.6	19.9	54.8
North Carolina	100.0	1.5	1.9	5.2	31.3	60.0
North Dakota	100.0	8.1	0.8	1.3	1.1	88.7

Ohio	100.0	0.1	1.2	1.9	16.7	80.1
Oklahoma	100.0	17.5	1.5	6.5	10.8	63.7
Oregon	100.0	2.2	4.2	11.5	3.0	79.1
Pennsylvania	100.0	0.1	2.1	4.8	15.3	77.7
Rhode Island	100.0	0.6	3.2	14.8	8.1	73.4

South Carolina	100.0	0.2	1.0	2.4	41.7	54.7
South Dakota	100.0	10.2	1.0	1.4	1.3	86.2
Tennessee	100.0	0.2	1.2	2.1	24.8	71.8
Texas	100.0	0.3	2.8	41.7	14.4	40.9
Utah	100.0	1.5	2.8	9.9	1.0	84.7

Vermont	100.0	0.5	1.5	1.0	1.2	95.8
Virginia	100.0	0.3	4.3	5.5	27.1	62.8
Washington	100.0	2.6	7.5	10.9	5.4	73.5
West Virginia	100.0	0.1	0.6	0.4	4.4	94.5
Wisconsin	100.0	1.4	3.4	5.0	10.2	80.1
Wyoming	100.0	3.2	0.9	7.2	1.4	87.3
Outlying Areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs²	100.0	100.0	0	0	0	0
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas	100.0	1.0	9.1	9.3	19.1	61.6
DDESS: DoDs Domestic	100.0	0.6	3.5	18.5	25.8	51.6
American Samoa²	100.0	0	100.0	0	0	0
Guam	100.0	0.1	97.9	0.2	0.3	1.5
Northern Marianas	100.0	0	99.5	0.0	0.1	0.4
Puerto Rico²	100.0	0	0	100.0	0	0
Virgin Islands	—	—	—	—	—	—

— Not available.
¹ Total excludes students for whom race/ethnicity was not reported.
² American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the BIA reported all of their students in one category of race/ethnicity.
NOTE: Percents may not add to 100 due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2001–02.

Download the Excel version of this table (38 KB)

[back to top]

NCES Headlines