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Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment, High School Completions, and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06
NCES 2007-352
June 2007


Table 2.  Public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or or jurisdiction: School year 2005–06
 
  Race/ethnicity1
State or jurisdiction Total students reported2 American Indian/
Alaska Native
Asian/Pacific Islander Hispanic Black, non-
Hispanic
White, non-
Hispanic
United States3  48,610,618 594,663 2,241,809 9,641,407 8,376,855 27,755,884
 
Alabama  739,663 5,729 7,520 20,479 266,587 439,348
Alaska  133,288 35,393 9,245 5,648 6,151 76,851
Arizona  1,094,454 67,498 27,111 426,696 56,863 516,286
Arkansas  474,206 3,089 6,558 32,132 109,144 323,283
California  6,187,782 50,758 723,097 3,003,521 494,957 1,915,449
 
Colorado  779,826 9,173 25,444 211,171 46,444 487,594
Connecticut  575,059 2,062 20,427 88,655 78,860 385,055
Delaware  120,937 408 3,442 11,100 39,345 66,642
District of Columbia  76,876 79 1,104 8,136 64,073 3,484
Florida  2,675,024 7,927 59,594 639,035 640,462 1,328,006
 
Georgia  1,559,378 2,339 43,810 135,010 611,723 766,496
Hawaii  182,818 1,085 133,133 8,163 4,323 36,114
Idaho  261,982 4,173 4,130 33,599 2,639 217,441
Illinois  2,073,990 3,948 79,264 393,070 428,207 1,169,501
Indiana  1,035,014 2,628 12,595 59,387 128,896 831,508
 
Iowa  483,482 2,877 9,360 28,145 24,646 418,454
Kansas  454,001 6,707 10,897 55,117 39,099 342,181
Kentucky  641,753 1,106 5,871 13,157 67,939 553,680
Louisiana  654,526 5,115 8,492 13,490 290,576 336,853
Maine  195,498 1,057 2,686 1,846 3,964 185,945
 
Maryland  860,020 3,487 44,956 65,613 327,968 417,996
Massachusetts  957,004 2,941 45,064 125,087 80,443 703,469
Michigan  1,733,559 16,675 42,071 75,786 352,734 1,246,293
Minnesota  839,243 17,400 47,972 45,145 71,742 656,984
Mississippi  494,954 887 3,884 6,952 253,203 230,028
 
Missouri  917,705 3,690 14,528 29,001 167,171 703,315
Montana  145,416 16,422 1,658 3,484 1,306 122,546
Nebraska  286,646 4,751 5,199 32,887 21,716 222,093
Nevada  412,395 6,679 30,010 138,652 45,721 191,333
New Hampshire  205,767 645 3,965 5,692 3,549 191,916
 
New Jersey  1,395,602 2,493 104,962 253,710 246,065 788,372
New Mexico  326,758 36,210 4,153 176,538 8,246 101,611
New York  2,815,581 13,968 195,425 566,273 557,253 1,482,662
North Carolina  1,416,436 20,463 29,812 118,505 446,279 801,377
North Dakota  98,283 8,483 931 1,673 1,523 85,673
 
Ohio  1,791,019 2,574 25,030 43,414 305,567 1,414,434
Oklahoma  634,739 120,122 10,622 56,375 69,090 378,530
Oregon  537,948 12,986 26,367 85,461 17,041 396,093
Pennsylvania  1,830,684 2,678 45,438 117,877 296,177 1,368,514
Rhode Island  153,422 990 4,733 26,559 13,162 107,978
 
South Carolina  698,349 2,205 9,119 28,216 281,395 377,414
South Dakota  122,012 12,775 1,258 2,401 1,902 103,676
Tennessee  953,907 1,730 13,541 36,670 239,422 662,544
Texas  4,525,394 15,045 141,893 2,048,989 667,216 1,652,251
Utah  508,258 7,770 15,522 62,723 6,558 415,685
 
Vermont  95,822 417 1,496 957 1,424 91,528
Virginia  1,193,378 3,812 61,526 91,557 322,791 713,692
Washington  1,020,311 27,208 83,085 139,005 58,514 712,499
West Virginia  280,866 329 1,802 2,045 13,915 262,775
Wisconsin  875,174 12,692 31,104 59,012 91,606 680,760
Wyoming  84,409 2,985 903 7,591 1,258 71,672
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas4  53,240 287 5,223 7,637 10,454 29,639
DDESS: DoDs Domestic4  25,194 354 613 5,417 5,876 12,934
Bureau of Indian Education5  50,938 50,938 0 0 0 0
American Samoa5  16,399 0 16,399 0 0 0
Guam  30,986 13 30,482 45 93 353
Northern Marianas Islands  11,718 0 11,662 0 7 49
Puerto Rico5  563,490 0 0 563,490 0 0
U.S. Virgin Islands  16,750 32 26 2,562 13,946 184
— Not available.
1 Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, Asian includes Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and American Indian includes Alaska Native.
2 Totals exclude students for whom race/ethnicity was not reported.
3 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
4 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
5 Bureau of Indian Education, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico report all students in a single racial/ethnic category.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2005–06, Version 1a.

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