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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06
NCES 2007-354
July 2007

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Table 4.  Number of regular public elementary and secondary schools with membership and average student/teacher ratio, by instructional level and state or jurisdiction: School year 2005–06
 
State or jurisdiction  Total    Primary    Middle    High    Other 
Number of schools Average student/
teacher ratio		   Number of schools Average student/
teacher ratio		   Number of schools Average student/
teacher ratio		   Number of schools Average student/
teacher ratio		   Number of schools Average student/
teacher ratio
Reporting States1  86,792 16.2 51,972 15.9 16,121 16.0 15,409 17.0 3,290 16.2
 
Alabama  1,344 15.6 709 14.4 254 17.4 275 16.5 106 15.9
Alaska  447 16.1 169 16.1 34 16.4 51 18.9 193 12.4
Arizona  1,846 ‡ 1,083 ‡ 249 ‡ 385 ‡ 129 ‡
Arkansas  1,099 14.4 562 15.6 212 14.1 297 12.9 28 14.6
California  8,224 21.6 5,583 20.1 1,340 23.3 1,062 23.7 239 22.0
 
Colorado  1,613 17.1 989 16.8 290 16.5 278 17.9 56 18.3
Connecticut  1,015 15.2 551 17.2 160 14.2 148 12.3 156 16.3
Delaware  173 16.0 107 15.4 39 16.7 25 16.5 2 15.7
District of Columbia  203 13.7 132 13.8 29 12.7 28 10.5 14 31.0
Florida  3,011 17.0 1,909 15.5 548 17.7 417 19.8 137 16.2
 
Georgia  2,067 15.1 1,244 14.3 450 15.0 341 16.7 32 14.4
Hawaii  280 16.6 180 16.3 37 16.0 42 17.0 21 24.5
Idaho  603 18.3 343 18.7 113 17.8 117 18.1 30 18.0
Illinois  3,899 16.7 2,476 17.0 739 15.8 620 16.4 64 25.0
Indiana  1,864 17.9 1,144 17.6 341 17.6 329 18.8 50 15.7
 
Iowa  1,421 13.6 773 13.4 285 13.5 327 14.2 36 11.9
Kansas  1,406 13.8 780 14.0 255 13.4 347 13.8 24 10.2
Kentucky  1,212 15.9 741 15.1 238 16.3 221 17.2 12 15.4
Louisiana  1,231 15.1 698 14.9 242 15.2 211 15.6 80 13.8
Maine  646 12.2 404 11.9 115 12.0 111 13.0 16 9.7
 
Maryland  1,282 15.7 858 15.1 234 15.4 177 17.2 13 14.8
Massachusetts  1,818 13.4 1,167 13.6 342 12.8 260 13.8 49 13.0
Michigan  3,444 18.5 2,042 18.0 642 17.8 600 19.9 160 17.7
Minnesota  1,631 17.2 925 16.7 245 17.2 417 18.1 44 15.9
Mississippi  896 16.5 448 17.1 182 15.5 190 16.8 76 15.9
 
Missouri  2,190 14.5 1,231 13.7 377 14.7 491 15.7 91 13.5
Montana  834 14.1 431 14.2 232 14.0 169 13.9 2 17.4
Nebraska  1,131 13.7 734 13.5 108 13.6 287 14.0 2 16.4
Nevada  519 19.8 335 17.5 88 22.8 78 23.1 18 15.3
New Hampshire  480 13.2 299 13.1 99 12.8 79 13.8 3 10.3
 
New Jersey  2,332 12.9 1,528 13.2 453 12.2 325 13.1 26 12.4
New Mexico  784 14.9 458 14.5 173 14.7 136 16.0 17 15.7
New York  4,374 14.1 2,499 13.8 834 13.6 764 15.2 277 13.0
North Carolina  2,241 15.1 1,355 14.7 467 14.9 362 15.9 57 17.0
North Dakota  498 12.6 287 12.4 36 13.2 172 12.7 3 13.7
 
Ohio  3,846 17.0 2,151 17.5 734 15.8 770 17.2 191 16.4
Oklahoma  1,788 15.7 967 16.2 333 15.5 466 14.6 22 18.1
Oregon  1,204 19.9 651 19.7 188 19.4 217 20.9 148 18.7
Pennsylvania  3,141 15.7 1,905 15.8 559 14.9 599 15.9 78 17.7
Rhode Island  310 11.5 206 11.5 57 11.0 44 11.8 3 22.3
 
South Carolina  1,091 15.0 630 14.6 254 14.9 194 15.8 13 15.7
South Dakota  689 13.5 348 13.1 170 13.7 165 13.8 6 17.4
Tennessee  1,628 16.6 979 15.3 313 17.0 289 19.1 47 16.2
Texas  7,036 15.1 4,029 15.4 1,605 14.8 1,109 15.0 293 13.4
Utah  773 20.5 501 20.6 132 20.9 117 20.1 23 19.7
 
Vermont  316 11.4 223 11.4 27 11.1 48 11.6 18 10.2
Virginia  1,838 13.6 1,180 13.1 341 13.2 298 14.5 19 13.4
Washington  1,861 19.7 1,128 18.9 351 19.6 305 21.3 77 19.8
West Virginia  713 14.8 466 14.6 125 14.3 114 15.7 8 14.0
Wisconsin  2,154 14.7 1,234 14.3 373 14.2 471 15.5 76 15.1
Wyoming  346 12.9 200 12.9 77 12.9 64 13.1 5 9.8
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas2  151 13.2 84 15.2 21 13.8 35 10.5 11 9.3
DDESS: DoDs Domestic2  69 13.9 47 15.0 13 13.2 5 10.7 4 11.8
Bureau of Indian Education  180 — 102 — 5 — 20 — 53 —
American Samoa  29 17.5 23 17.1 1 25.5 5 17.3 0 0.0
Guam  36 16.1 25 15.2 7 14.2 4 20.0 0 0.0
Northern Mariana Islands  29 19.1 20 19.3 3 17.6 5 19.5 1 12.3
Puerto Rico  1,455 13.5 865 12.6 223 14.0 162 16.8 205 12.4
U.S. Virgin Islands  32 11.7 22 11.5 5 12.3 4 11.9 1 7.7
— Not available.
‡ Reporting standards not met. Information about teacher full-time equivalent (FTE) counts was missing for 27.1 percent of schools in Arizona.
1 A reporting states total is shown if data for any item in the table were not available for some, but not more than 15 percent, of all schools in the United States.
2 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
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); and other (any configuration not falling within the previous three, including ungraded schools). U.S. total averages are the ratio of total students to total teacher FTE.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005–06, Version 1a.

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