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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 6.  Number of operating city, suburban, town, and rural public elementary and secondary schools with membership and percent of students in membership, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2005–06
 
State or jurisdiction Total
number
of
schools		 Total
number
of
students		 City   Suburban   Town   Rural
Number of schools Percent of students   Number of schools Percent of students   Number of schools Percent of students   Number of schools Percent of students
United States1  86,792 47,957,375 22,167 29.7 28,788 40.6 8,248 8.1 27,589 21.7
 
Alabama  1,344 738,986 302 22.2 246 21.6 160 11.7 636 44.4
Alaska  447 120,646 88 41.6 33 13.8 52 15.7 274 29.0
Arizona  1,846 1,018,457 845 48.9 461 29.8 189 7.8 351 13.5
Arkansas  1,099 473,256 207 25.2 128 15.4 193 19.5 571 39.9
California  8,224 6,124,988 3,372 44.6 3,605 47.0 140 1.1 1,107 7.4
 
Colorado  1,613 766,018 459 33.9 527 41.5 142 6.9 485 17.6
Connecticut  1,015 558,749 236 23.6 561 57.7 49 4.8 169 13.9
Delaware  173 112,253 31 15.5 83 52.2 16 8.2 43 24.1
District of Columbia  203 71,607 203 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Florida  3,011 2,614,228 837 25.4 1,584 57.2 108 2.8 482 14.6
 
Georgia  2,067 1,591,307 375 15.1 771 44.1 233 10.4 688 30.4
Hawaii  280 184,598 72 23.7 103 44.4 52 18.9 53 13.0
Idaho  603 257,032 130 29.2 85 21.0 108 19.6 280 30.2
Illinois  3,899 2,076,435 967 30.8 1,631 49.0 322 6.8 979 13.3
Indiana  1,864 1,030,592 454 26.6 499 31.1 210 10.4 701 31.9
 
Iowa  1,421 476,177 221 24.6 138 14.3 281 22.4 781 38.7
Kansas  1,406 466,266 229 24.6 218 22.0 259 20.3 700 33.1
Kentucky  1,212 634,264 139 13.8 265 26.4 216 18.5 592 41.3
Louisiana  1,231 639,218 276 25.6 289 26.9 192 13.7 474 33.8
Maine  646 195,420 43 9.5 82 17.1 91 17.9 430 55.5
 
Maryland  1,282 834,319 237 15.0 782 66.0 19 1.5 244 17.5
Massachusetts  1,818 936,126 513 26.9 1,053 61.0 34 1.2 218 11.0
Michigan  3,444 1,660,823 848 25.9 1,302 43.3 269 7.2 1,025 23.5
Minnesota  1,631 808,648 319 20.8 453 38.9 197 12.5 662 27.8
Mississippi  896 494,954 100 10.4 106 15.2 239 25.1 451 49.3
 
Missouri  2,190 911,879 382 18.9 592 38.2 261 13.1 955 29.8
Montana  834 145,259 60 22.6 15 3.8 123 32.4 636 41.1
Nebraska  1,131 284,833 163 32.1 87 15.5 186 21.1 695 31.4
Nevada  519 407,601 198 42.0 161 39.6 55 7.7 105 10.7
New Hampshire  480 205,767 57 18.4 102 31.1 75 14.8 246 35.7
 
New Jersey  2,332 1,363,174 239 10.0 1,883 80.6 0 0.0 210 9.3
New Mexico  784 320,200 175 33.8 109 19.2 220 26.9 280 20.1
New York  4,374 2,739,709 1,689 42.6 1,671 40.2 223 3.8 791 13.5
North Carolina  2,241 1,408,664 531 24.7 374 19.5 265 10.6 1,071 45.2
North Dakota  498 98,284 56 27.3 19 9.9 65 19.9 358 42.9
 
Ohio  3,846 1,834,479 888 21.4 1,498 44.6 378 9.0 1,082 25.0
Oklahoma  1,788 634,739 259 21.6 295 26.6 287 17.8 947 34.0
Oregon  1,204 531,481 298 30.9 334 36.3 175 14.4 397 18.4
Pennsylvania  3,141 1,794,967 599 20.3 1,420 49.0 251 7.6 871 23.1
Rhode Island  310 147,610 104 34.8 172 54.4 0 0.0 34 10.8
 
South Carolina  1,091 695,826 147 13.9 354 37.8 144 12.8 446 35.5
South Dakota  689 120,971 58 25.3 17 5.6 75 23.4 539 45.7
Tennessee  1,628 947,277 476 30.7 306 22.3 196 11.9 650 35.1
Texas  7,036 4,451,130 2,584 43.2 1,849 32.2 693 7.3 1,910 17.3
Utah  773 497,873 140 18.7 405 63.9 57 6.2 171 11.2
 
Vermont  316 94,645 9 3.7 28 16.0 53 26.1 226 54.2
Virginia  1,838 1,210,963 437 24.2 634 41.3 99 4.1 668 30.4
Washington  1,861 991,469 441 27.2 797 50.0 135 6.4 488 16.4
West Virginia  713 279,434 90 14.7 122 19.4 101 16.6 400 49.3
Wisconsin  2,154 870,745 536 28.6 535 32.6 256 12.2 827 26.6
Wyoming  346 83,029 48 25.0 4 1.3 104 45.0 190 28.7
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas2  151 62,543 † † † † † † † †
DDESS: DoDs Domestic2  69 28,329 19 28.5 32 44.5 5 5.9 4 4.6
Bureau of Indian Education  180 50,155 4 4.1 14 8.8 26 13.8 136 73.4
American Samoa  29 16,134 † † † † † † † †
Guam  36 30,985 † † † † † † † †
Northern Mariana Islands  29 11,691 † † † † † † † †
Puerto Rico  1,455 541,074 † † † † † † † †
U.S. Virgin Islands  32 16,679 † † † †   † †   † †
— Not available.
† Not applicable.
1 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
2 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because not all schools could be assigned to a locale category. City includes the categories of large city and mid-size city. Suburban includes the categories of urban fringe of a large city and urban fringe of a mid-size city. Town includes the categories of large town and small town. Rural includes the categories of rural, within a core-based statistical area and rural, outside a core-based statistical area. See Glossary for more detail.
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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