Table 4. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts, by student membership size and state or jurisdiction: School year 2007

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007–08

NCES 2010-306
October 2009

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Table 4. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts, by student membership size and state or jurisdiction: School year 2007–08

	Total districts	Number of districts with student membership¹
		100000 or more	10,000– 99999	5,000– 9999	3,000– 4999	1,000– 2999					Zero or not reported

State or jurisdiction							500–999	300–499	100–299	1–99
United States²	13,924	27	844	1,064	1,451	3,870	2,341	1,324	1,815	909	279

Alabama	134	0	14	24	29	61	3	1	0	1	1
Alaska	53	0	3	2	2	9	9	10	14	4	0
Arizona	238	0	26	25	19	45	18	19	34	31	21
Arkansas	245	0	6	10	22	87	91	29	0	0	0
California	1,026	2	163	120	109	207	112	87	122	103	1

Colorado	178	0	19	11	10	35	25	24	45	9	0
Connecticut	169	0	7	25	29	60	23	10	14	1	0
Delaware	19	0	4	4	6	5	0	0	0	0	0
District of Columbia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Florida	67	7	31	12	5	12	0	0	0	0	0
										0	0
Georgia	180	3	33	28	41	63	7	3	2	0	0
Hawaii	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Idaho	115	0	6	7	10	30	17	17	22	6	0
Illinois	870	1	22	47	78	273	211	107	102	27	2
Indiana	294	0	23	34	39	152	38	1	5	0	2
		0
Iowa	364	0	7	9	14	86	135	61	42	10	0
Kansas	319	0	7	9	13	54	81	63	63	6	23
Kentucky	174	0	11	14	36	79	23	7	4	0	0
Louisiana	69	0	16	17	17	18	1	0	0	0	0
Maine	290	0	0	1	11	50	43	28	67	87	3

Maryland	24	3	12	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Massachusetts	352	0	10	30	56	84	23	11	26	4	108
Michigan	552	1	22	53	75	232	82	32	22	32	1
Minnesota	340	0	16	20	30	96	89	48	35	5	1
Mississippi	152	0	5	14	37	72	19	1	4	0	0

Missouri	524	0	18	19	37	104	116	77	111	41	1
Montana	421	0	0	3	6	21	30	39	115	207	0
Nebraska	254	0	3	5	8	22	52	59	102	3	0
Nevada	18	1	1	5	2	2	4	1	1	1	0
New Hampshire	177	0	2	3	11	47	27	23	29	23	12

New Jersey	616	0	16	52	68	186	117	66	66	20	25
New Mexico	89	0	7	8	12	14	15	11	18	4	0
New York	697	1	16	70	99	281	122	57	34	16	1
North Carolina	116	2	34	30	22	25	2	0	0	0	1
North Dakota	192	0	2	3	1	7	15	30	79	50	5

Ohio	614	0	17	52	91	328	110	9	3	2	2
Oklahoma	539	0	10	10	14	97	97	107	164	40	0
Oregon	195	0	13	18	16	43	32	13	30	30	0
Pennsylvania	501	1	16	60	113	243	58	8	1	0	1
Rhode Island	32	0	3	5	9	10	1	2	2	0	0

South Carolina	86	0	21	20	17	19	8	0	1	0	0
South Dakota	168	0	2	0	3	17	28	30	72	8	8
Tennessee	136	1	18	23	34	43	12	4	0	1	0
Texas	1,033	2	91	73	85	240	214	105	185	36	2
Utah	40	0	13	5	7	10	1	2	2	0	0

Vermont	292	0	0	0	1	16	36	34	93	58	54
Virginia	134	1	26	21	24	46	10	1	1	0	4
Washington	295	0	31	28	24	65	44	19	46	38	0
West Virginia	55	0	7	10	16	20	2	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	426	0	11	20	37	137	124	61	32	4	0
Wyoming	48	0	2	1	3	15	14	7	5	1	0

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDS Overseas³	9	0	0	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
DDESS: DoDS Domestic³	7	0	0	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bureau of Indian Education	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
American Samoa	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Guam	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Northern Mariana Islands	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
U.S. Virgin Islands	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
¹ Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
² U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
³ 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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2007–08, Version 1a.

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