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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07

NCES 2009-304
October 2008

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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 2006–07

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  87,619 16.6   52,178 16.6   16,227 16.0   15,663 17.2   3,551 16.5
                             
Alabama  1,344 15.7   703 14.6   248 17.3   270 16.6   123 16.2
Alaska  451 15.9   166 15.9   35 16.5   50 18.7   200 12.4
Arizona  1,831 20.4   1,071 19.5   249 18.4   385 21.9   126 42.4
Arkansas  1,074 12.7   550 13.8   216 12.2   280 11.7   28 11.7
California  8,471 21.7   5,651 20.1   1,350 23.4   1,209 23.8   261 22.1
                             
Colorado  1,639 17.1   1,007 16.8   291 16.4   280 18.0   61 19.8
Connecticut  1,021 15.0   663 15.2   195 14.2   154 15.5   9 15.8
Delaware  178 16.1   108 15.8   40 16.5   27 16.5   3 15.4
District of Columbia  189 11.7   122 10.9   28 11.2   29 11.5   10 18.7
Florida  3,079 16.9   1,947 15.5   564 17.8   373 19.3   195 17.4
                             
Georgia  2,126 14.7   1,263 14.0   458 14.4   337 16.3   68 14.4
Hawaii  281 16.2   181 15.9   37 16.1   41 16.4   22 19.5
Idaho  609 18.3   348 18.9   110 17.6   117 17.9   34 18.7
Illinois  4,035 17.7   2,546 18.2   737 16.4   655 17.4   97 21.4
Indiana  1,872 —   1,145 —   345 —   336 —   46 —
                             
Iowa  1,423 13.7   772 13.6   288 13.4   326 14.2   37 12.6
Kansas  1,392 12.3   762 12.6   251 11.9   332 12.1   47 10.4
Kentucky  1,209 15.8   748 15.0   223 16.1   202 17.1   36 16.7
Louisiana  1,254 15.0   714 14.9   238 15.1   216 15.6   86 14.3
Maine  641 11.8   404 11.6   115 11.4   108 12.6   14 9.2
                             
Maryland  1,311 15.1   872 14.5   238 14.7   187 16.4   14 14.8
Massachusetts  1,845 13.3   1,165 13.5   347 12.8   291 13.7   42 12.7
Michigan  3,456 18.4   2,046 18.0   637 17.8   603 19.7   170 17.9
Minnesota  1,636 16.9   921 16.4   250 17.0   415 17.9   50 16.4
Mississippi  904 16.1   451 16.6   186 14.7   193 16.7   74 15.7
                             
Missouri  2,241 15.2   1,233 14.7   377 14.9   491 16.2   140 14.2
Montana  825 14.0   425 14.2   231 13.8   167 13.7   2 17.4
Nebraska  1,084 13.6   689 13.5   108 13.5   286 13.8   1 9.0
Nevada  543 19.7   347 17.4   92 22.7   84 22.5   20 23.6
New Hampshire  482 13.1   299 13.0   97 12.7   82 13.7   4 12.3
                             
New Jersey  2,339 13.0   1,530 13.3   452 12.1   331 13.1   26 12.8
New Mexico  795 15.1   455 14.6   175 14.8   143 16.4   22 16.3
New York  4,408 13.8   2,499 13.5   855 13.3   791 15.0   263 12.7
North Carolina  2,277 30.7   1,354 9,132.1   470 15.6   398 15.5   55 29.8
North Dakota  494 12.4   286 12.2   37 12.7   169 12.6   2 11.8
                             
Ohio  3,807 16.8   2,101 17.6   713 15.5   783 16.6   210 17.6
Oklahoma  1,783 15.6   966 16.1   334 15.3   462 14.7   21 17.3
Oregon  1,230 19.0   729 18.8   216 18.4   234 19.8   51 18.4
Pennsylvania  3,150 15.5   1,870 15.8   554 14.6   612 15.7   114 16.1
Rhode Island  303 15.7   201 17.8   55 14.5   44 14.4   3 13.1
                             
South Carolina  1,115 10.8   641 10.0   254 11.0   194 12.1   26 11.0
South Dakota  687 13.4   340 13.0   168 13.7   165 14.1   14 8.6
Tennessee  1,625 16.3   987 15.4   310 17.0   275 17.7   53 16.5
Texas  7,143 14.9   4,104 15.3   1,627 14.5   1,116 14.8   296 12.9
Utah  806 22.3   528 21.4   134 22.6   117 24.3   27 23.7
                             
Vermont  314 11.2   222 11.4   27 10.6   46 11.6   19 10.0
Virginia  1,845 13.1   1,180 12.2   347 13.0   301 14.9   17 13.3
Washington  1,872 19.8   1,130 19.0   342 19.7   306 21.4   94 18.5
West Virginia  700 14.9   314 14.7   125 14.1   107 15.5   154 15.1
Wisconsin  2,137 15.0   1,224 14.7   375 14.3   480 15.8   58 14.7
Wyoming  343 12.8   198 12.9   76 12.7   63 12.9   6 9.7
                             
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas2  139 13.8   74 15.8   21 13.9   32 11.6   12 9.4
DDESS: DoDs Domestic2  68 13.4   46 14.3   13 12.6   5 11.3   4 11.2
Bureau of Indian Education  186 —   105 —   5 —   24 —   52 —
American Samoa  29 17.5   23 16.8   1 24.6   5 18.6   0 †
Guam  36 —   25 —   7 —   4 —   0 †
Northern Mariana Islands  29 21.0   20 21.6   3 22.0   5 19.5   1 14.0
Puerto Rico  1,456 13.5   867 12.6   229 14.2   161 16.7   199 12.5
U.S. Virgin Islands  32 12.5   22 11.6   5 12.7   4 14.6   1 6.9
— Not available.
† Not applicable.
1 Indiana did not report the school level teacher FTE needed to compute student/teacher ratios. 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. If data for an item were unavailable for more than 15 percent of schools in the United States, the total for that item is shown as "reporting standards not met."
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," 2006–07, Version 1a.

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