Table 6. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts with membership and percent of students in membership in city, suburban, town, and rural locales, by 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 6. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts with membership and percent of students in membership in city, suburban, town, and rural locales, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2007–08

	Total number of districts with membership	Total number of students	City		Suburban		Town		Rural
			Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students

State or jurisdiction
United States¹	13,645	48,183,858	761	30.3	2,760	38.4	2,516	12.4	7,608	18.9

Alabama	133	743,349	16	29.2	17	17.7	32	12.4	68	40.7
Alaska	53	130,624	2	48.3	1	1.0	7	21.9	43	28.8
Arizona	217	987,188	33	51.7	15	21.0	45	11.2	124	16.1
Arkansas	245	476,110	16	27.9	9	9.2	53	25.3	167	37.6
California	1,025	6,264,831	174	48.2	279	39.5	181	6.9	391	5.5

Colorado	178	796,824	12	35.8	15	42.8	34	9.7	117	11.7
Connecticut	169	548,428	14	26.4	77	54.9	14	5.2	64	13.5
Delaware	19	114,062	1	5.3	8	58.0	7	30.4	3	6.3
District of Columbia	1	58,191	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Florida	67	2,645,680	6	12.0	23	76.0	15	3.6	23	8.4

Georgia	180	1,646,010	15	17.4	19	43.0	41	8.4	105	31.2
Hawaii	1	179,897	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Idaho	115	265,844	6	29.7	4	18.1	28	23.8	77	28.4
Illinois	868	2,099,118	31	31.3	321	45.7	173	11.2	343	11.8
Indiana	292	1,033,329	24	30.8	49	26.6	77	18.2	142	24.5

Iowa	364	485,114	13	30.1	7	5.2	79	28.5	265	36.2
Kansas	296	467,743	6	24.7	9	16.3	68	30.2	213	28.8
Kentucky	174	666,019	8	25.4	19	11.4	55	24.6	92	38.7
Louisiana	69	651,377	9	35.5	10	25.7	20	19.4	30	19.3
Maine	287	194,953	6	12.8	20	13.4	30	21.5	231	52.3

Maryland	24	845,700	2	11.3	10	77.0	2	1.6	10	10.1
Massachusetts	244	799,227	13	22.9	170	70.8	18	1.6	43	4.7
Michigan	551	1,576,637	36	25.6	136	40.8	88	13.3	291	20.3
Minnesota	339	806,343	10	19.6	32	33.6	70	22.3	227	24.5
Mississippi	152	493,302	6	13.4	7	10.4	53	29.5	86	46.7

Missouri	523	900,195	12	18.3	44	35.0	92	20.9	375	25.8
Montana	421	142,700	8	25.8	3	0.7	54	37.4	356	36.1
Nebraska	254	290,912	6	40.3	3	7.7	38	25.2	207	26.7
Nevada	18	429,362	2	17.2	1	72.0	7	6.5	8	4.4
New Hampshire	165	200,274	2	14.4	27	34.0	27	17.9	109	33.7

New Jersey	591	1,359,949	14	10.0	442	79.5	22	1.5	113	9.0
New Mexico	89	329,045	5	44.4	3	6.8	29	31.8	52	17.0
New York	696	2,730,427	24	43.6	255	36.1	109	7.7	308	12.6
North Carolina	115	1,425,076	10	35.8	9	9.4	19	7.6	77	47.2
North Dakota	187	94,959	3	30.1	2	9.9	11	20.8	171	39.3

Ohio	612	1,743,920	22	17.6	188	42.2	116	14.8	286	25.5
Oklahoma	539	641,682	9	22.9	16	19.5	101	26.7	413	30.9
Oregon	195	562,545	12	34.0	17	26.2	61	29.5	105	10.4
Pennsylvania	500	1,718,588	17	19.7	209	46.8	100	13.9	174	19.5
Rhode Island	32	133,066	3	34.3	20	55.3	1	2.5	8	7.9

South Carolina	86	710,982	7	19.2	13	29.0	21	16.3	45	35.5
South Dakota	160	121,606	2	27.3	0	0.0	21	30.5	137	42.2
Tennessee	136	963,264	12	32.8	12	20.9	34	11.7	78	34.6
Texas	1,031	4,581,008	66	42.2	87	30.4	220	12.6	658	14.8
Utah	40	556,314	5	15.3	7	62.7	12	16.8	16	5.2

Vermont	238	89,048	2	6.7	9	12.1	31	28.3	196	53.0
Virginia	130	1,217,805	16	23.2	17	41.1	21	5.1	76	30.6
Washington	295	1,029,576	20	31.0	52	45.2	56	13.7	167	10.2
West Virginia	55	281,735	5	16.2	3	15.1	15	28.5	32	40.2
Wisconsin	426	867,929	15	30.2	63	24.3	91	22.4	257	23.1
Wyomin	48	85,991	2	28.7	0	0.0	17	47.1	29	24.2

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDS Overseas²	9	57,247	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
DDESS: DoDS Domestic²	7	27,549	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Bureau of Indian Education	—	—	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
American Samoa	—	—	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Guam	—	—	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Northern Mariana Islands	1	11,299	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Puerto Rico	1	526,565	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
U.S. Virgin Islands	2	15,903	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
— Not available.
† Not applicable. Locale codes are not assigned to these areas.
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: Details may not sum to totals because not all districts could be assigned to a locale category. 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. City includes the categories of City, Large Territory, City,Mid-size Territory, and City, Small Territory. Suburban includes the categories of Suburb, Large Territory, Suburb, Mid-size Territory,and Suburb, Small Territory. Town includes the categories of Town, Fringe Territory, Town, Distant Territory, and Town, Remote Territory. Rural includes the categories of Rural, Fringe, Rural, Distant, and Rural, Remote. See Glossary for more detail.
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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