| Table 3. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts, by grade span and state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07 |
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| State or jurisdiction | Total districts | Number of districts with grade span | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK, K, 1–6 |
PK, K, 1–9 |
PK, K, 1–12 |
7–12 | 9–12 | Other | ||
| United States1 | 13,862 | 452 | 2,007 | 10,751 | 111 | 365 | 176 |
| Alabama | 133 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Alaska | 53 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona | 238 | 0 | 105 | 111 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| Arkansas | 254 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| California | 989 | 52 | 458 | 405 | 40 | 34 | 0 |
| Colorado | 179 | 0 | 0 | 179 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Connecticut | 169 | 15 | 28 | 115 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Delaware | 19 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | 67 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia | 182 | 1 | 3 | 178 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Idaho | 125 | 1 | 11 | 112 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Illinois | 873 | 1 | 383 | 388 | 3 | 96 | 2 |
| Indiana | 294 | 0 | 1 | 291 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Iowa | 365 | 0 | 0 | 365 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas | 323 | 3 | 4 | 294 | 1 | 0 | 21 |
| Kentucky | 175 | 0 | 5 | 170 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Louisiana | 68 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maine | 287 | 1 | 20 | 256 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| Maryland | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Massachusetts | 250 | 52 | 18 | 177 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Michigan | 552 | 10 | 19 | 522 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Minnesota | 340 | 4 | 5 | 330 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mississippi | 152 | 1 | 0 | 148 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Missouri | 524 | 0 | 75 | 449 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Montana | 425 | 22 | 243 | 51 | 0 | 109 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 269 | 0 | 0 | 254 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Nevada | 17 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 183 | 36 | 55 | 65 | 4 | 11 | 12 |
| New Jersey | 593 | 64 | 219 | 224 | 19 | 57 | 10 |
| New Mexico | 95 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| New York | 697 | 26 | 15 | 646 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| North Carolina | 125 | 1 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| North Dakota | 198 | 11 | 28 | 151 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Ohio | 614 | 0 | 0 | 612 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Oklahoma | 540 | 10 | 101 | 429 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oregon | 199 | 1 | 16 | 178 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Pennsylvania | 501 | 0 | 2 | 498 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 32 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 101 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| South Dakota | 171 | 0 | 0 | 166 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Tennessee | 136 | 4 | 12 | 119 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Texas | 1,033 | 12 | 29 | 991 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Utah | 40 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vermont | 292 | 109 | 67 | 36 | 19 | 7 | 54 |
| Virginia | 134 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Washington | 296 | 13 | 35 | 248 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Virginia | 57 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wisconsin | 425 | 0 | 46 | 369 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 52 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions | |||||||
| DoDDS: DoDS Overseas2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DDESS: DoDS Domestic2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bureau of Indian Education | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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: This table includes districts operated by the Bureau of Indian Education and the Department of Defense although they are technically federally-operated. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district. PK is prekindergarten and K is kindergarten. | |||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2006-07, Version 1a. | |||||||
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