Table A7. Number and percentage of public elementary and secondary schools and percentage of students in magnet and charter schools in the 100 largest school districts in the United States and jurisdictions, by school district: School year 2008

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2008–09

NCES 2011-301
November 2010

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Table A7. Number and percentage of public elementary and secondary schools and percentage of students in magnet and charter schools in the 100 largest school districts in the United States and jurisdictions, by school district: School year 2008–09
			Percent of schools that are magnet schools¹	Percent of students in magnet schools¹	Number of charter schools²	Percent of schools that are charter schools²	Percent of students in charter schools²
		Number of magnet schools¹

Name of reporting district	State
Reporting districts³	†	1,364	8.8	13.0	892	5.3	2.9

New York City Public Schools	NY	141	9.4	14.1	0	0.0	0.0
Los Angeles Unified	CA	141	16.4	34.8	150	17.4	8.5
Puerto Rico Department of Education	PR	†	†	†	†	†	†
City of Chicago School District 299	IL	288	45.7	46.7	30	4.8	6.9
Dade	FL	83	16.7	30.1	77	15.5	6.9

Clark County School District	NV	0	0.0	0.0	13	3.7	1.3
Broward	FL	46	15.2	20.5	55	18.2	7.3
Houston Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	33	11.1	6.4
Hillsborough	FL	29	10.2	13.1	26	9.1	2.5
Hawaii Department of Education	HI	†	†	†	31	10.7	4.1

Orange	FL	0	0.0	0.0	20	8.5	1.7
Palm Beach	FL	28	11.3	20.1	34	13.8	4.3
Fairfax County Public Schools	VA	68	35.2	33.8	0	0.0	0.0
Philadelphia City School District	PA	26	9.5	8.2	0	0.0	0.0
Dallas Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	1	0.4	0.4

Gwinnett County	GA	—	—	—	2	1.7	0.4
Montgomery County Public Schools	MD	18	8.8	10.8	0	0.0	0.0
Wake County Schools	NC	35	22.4	21.6	0	0.0	0.0
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools	NC	53	31.9	32.3	0	0.0	0.0
San Diego Unified	CA	31	14.2	15.4	37	17.0	10.8

Prince George's County Public Schools	MD	25	11.6	18.5	4	1.9	0.9
Duval	FL	55	31.4	36.5	5	2.9	1.0
Memphis City School District	TN	1	0.5	0.6	9	4.5	2.2
Cobb County	GA	‡	‡	‡	6	5.1	5.3
Pinellas	FL	26	15.0	25.1	9	5.2	1.9

Baltimore County Public Schools	MD	29	16.9	26.0	1	0.6	0.5
Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Dekalb County	GA	‡	‡	‡	10	6.8	5.4
Jefferson County	KY	30	17.2	28.0	†	†	†
Detroit City School District	MI	1	0.5	0.4	0	0.0	0.0

Albuquerque Public Schools	NM	1	0.6	0.0	36	20.7	7.3
Polk	FL	8	5.1	4.8	24	15.4	11.0
Northside Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Fulton County	GA	‡	‡	‡	11	11.2	7.3
Long Beach Unified	CA	27	29.3	45.4	5	5.4	1.6

Jefferson County School District No R 1	CO	0	0.0	0.0	15	9.3	6.1
Milwaukee School District	WI	0	0.0	0.0	44	20.5	14.3
Austin Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Baltimore City Public Schools	MD	0	0.0	0.0	25	12.9	9.0
Jordan District	UT	1	1.0	0.9	0	0.0	0.0

Lee	FL	9	7.7	15.0	20	17.1	11.2
Fort Worth Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Fresno Unified	CA	1	0.9	0.2	11	10.4	4.7
Davidson County School District	TN	13	9.4	10.2	3	2.2	0.8
Denver County 1	CO	2	1.4	1.6	19	13.3	8.6

Prince Wm County Public Schools	VA	35	42.2	55.8	0	0.0	0.0
Anne Arundel County Public Schools	MD	0	0.0	0.0	1	0.8	0.3
Brevard	FL	6	5.0	5.7	8	6.6	4.2
Guilford County Schools	NC	15	12.6	11.0	0	0.0	0.0
Va Beach City Public Schools	VA	6	7.1	14.5	0	0.0	0.0

Greenville 01	SC	11	11.7	14.5	7	7.4	2.0
Mesa Unified District	AZ	—	—	—	0	0.0	0.0
Granite District	UT	3	2.6	1.6	0	0.0	0.0
Fort Bend Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Pasco	FL	2	2.0	4.9	5	4.9	2.3

Davis District	UT	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
Washoe County School District	NV	1	1.0	0.3	9	8.7	3.4
Seminole	FL	7	9.6	15.9	3	4.1	0.9
North East Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Arlington Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0

Volusia	FL	2	2.1	9.6	6	6.3	1.3
Mobile County	AL	7	6.2	6.5	†	†	†
El Paso Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Alpine District	UT	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
Elk Grove Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	2	3.0	1.0

Aldine Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Chesterfield County Public Schools	VA	1	1.6	2.4	0	0.0	0.0
Douglas County School District No Re 1	CO	2	2.5	1.5	8	10.1	11.3
Garland Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Santa Ana Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	5	8.3	4.9

Tucson Unified District	AZ	—	—	—	0	0.0	0.0
Loudoun County Public Schools	VA	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
Katy Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Boston	MA	—	—	—	0	0.0	0.0
Knox County School District	TN	5	5.7	4.6	0	0.0	0.0

San Francisco Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	11	9.7	4.8
San Bernardino City Unified	CA	21	28.8	22.6	5	6.8	2.6
San Antonio Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	15	15.0	15.0
Cumberland County Schools	NC	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
Plano Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0

Columbus City	OH	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Forsyth County Schools	NC	6	7.7	4.4	0	0.0	0.0
Capistrano Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	3	4.9	2.0
Corona Norco Unified	CA	2	4.0	4.4	0	0.0	0.0
Osceola	FL	0	0.0	0.0	7	11.7	9.1

Pasadena Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Cherry Creek 5	CO	1	1.8	1.1	1	1.8	0.9
Lewisville Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Cleveland Municipal	OH	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Howard County Public Schools	MD	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0

Clayton County	GA	—	—	—	2	3.1	1.6
Atlanta Public Schools	GA	‡	‡	‡	7	6.5	5.5
Henrico County Public Schools	VA	8	11.6	30.6	0	0.0	0.0
Anchorage School District	AK	7	7.2	6.1	8	8.2	4.6
Brownsville Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0

Garden Grove Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
Sacramento City Unified	CA	0	0.0	0.0	13	14.4	8.6
Omaha Public Schools	NE	†	†	†	†	†	†
Conroe Independent School District	TX	†	†	†	0	0.0	0.0
Shelby County School District	TN	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0
— Not available.
† Not applicable. State does not have legislation authorizing magnet or charter schools.
‡ Reporting standards were not met. Data were missing for more than 20 percent of schools.
¹ A magnet school is a school designed to attract students of different racial/ethnic backgrounds for the purpose of reducing, preventing, or eliminating racial isolation and/or to provide an academic or social focus on a particular theme.
² Charter schools are schools that provide free public elementary and/or secondary education to eligible students under a specific charter granted by the state legislature or other appropriate authority and designated by such authority to be a charter school. Charter schools located in the same geographic area as a district's schools but not administered by the district itself are not included.
³ Totals do not include districts in which data were not available.
NOTE: Data include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, four outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas and domestic). See table A-1 for student membership counts for each district.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2008–09, Version 1a, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2008–09, Version 1a.

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