Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2008

Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff Counts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-09

NCES 2010-347
August 2010

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Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2008–09
				Student/teacher ratio				Student/staff ratio
State or jurisdiction	Total student membership		Total staff	Total student/ teacher ratio¹	Kindergarten student/ teacher ratio	Elementary student/ teacher ratio²	Secondary student/ teacher ratio³	Total student/other instructional and student support staff ratio⁴	Total student/ administrative support staff ratio⁵	Total student/ administrative and all other support staff ratio⁶
United States⁷	49,265,044		6,328,318	15.3	20.3	19.2	12.1	42.7	221.9	30.4

Alabama	745,668		97,614	15.6	12.0	21.2	10.5	56.7	207.5	23.9
Alaska	130,662		17,160	16.5	24.2	21.5	10.8	42.2	102.0	28.5
Arizona	1,087,817		105,548	19.9	26.6	18.8	20.2	42.2	356.8	53.0
Arkansas	478,965		71,270	12.9	11.1	18.5	9.4	32.1	198.2	31.2
California	6,322,528	⁸	590,016	20.8	21.8	20.7	22.8	63.7	341.5	39.3

Colorado	818,443		102,566	16.8	18.9	20.9	11.3	33.6	203.8	35.0
Connecticut	567,198		92,474	11.7	24.3	11.3	11.2	28.6	532.6	25.8
Delaware	125,430		14,821	15.1	27.1	20.9	9.1	45.8	169.0	45.9
District of Columbia	68,681		12,131	12.9	19.6	18.1	7.9	28.1	115.6	19.5
Florida	2,631,020		340,713	14.1	19.6	25.3	11.8	60.1	266.7	27.8

Georgia	1,655,792		239,139	13.9	16.3	16.4	10.2	39.4	186.1	25.2
Hawaii	179,478		21,610	15.9	24.5	21.2	10.3	37.0	240.3	44.2
Idaho	275,154		27,261	18.2	36.0	23.5	11.3	65.8	309.9	42.9
Illinois	2,119,707		221,005	15.6	26.0	14.6	15.1	45.3	215.3	83.1
Indiana	1,046,147		141,979	16.7	19.8	21.7	11.2	35.4	240.8	24.1

Iowa	487,559		72,350	13.6	14.6	17.5	9.3	31.8	185.2	28.6
Kansas	471,060		55,355	13.1	21.7	19.2	7.4	38.1	200.7	129.8
Kentucky	670,030	⁸	100,217	15.4	41.9	20.6	19.5	35.1	168.3	20.8
Louisiana	684,873		100,873	13.9	20.3	13.8	12.2	37.1	213.9	25.4
Maine	192,935		36,459	12.1	17.1	11.3	12.6	22.6	103.2	20.2

Maryland	843,861		116,856	14.3	20.1	16.0	10.9	43.1	119.8	29.2
Massachusetts	958,910		123,636	13.6	20.5	13.6	12.3	28.6	143.6	88.3
Michigan	1,659,921		208,058	17.5	30.0	29.3	14.2	40.5	200.0	27.0
Minnesota	836,048		109,222	15.7	22.8	21.0	11.4	26.7	199.7	42.8
Mississippi	491,962		72,050	14.7	19.9	22.4	10.3	35.6	165.4	24.8

Missouri	917,871		132,347	13.6	17.7	18.7	8.5	45.0	213.1	24.5
Montana	141,899		19,212	13.6	15.9	13.8	13.3	39.9	199.0	35.3
Nebraska	292,590		45,243	13.3	16.8	13.6	11.4	31.8	176.0	25.4
Nevada	433,371		33,548	19.7	34.9	26.5	15.8	68.9	403.5	129.6
New Hampshire	197,934		32,849	12.6	23.7	11.9	13.0	22.8	169.3	30.5

New Jersey	1,381,420	⁸	205,672	12.0	27.9	16.8	8.4	31.9	487.3	32.5
New Mexico	330,245		47,850	14.5	19.6	17.0	19.3	30.5	151.7	29.5
New York	2,740,805	⁸	428,139	12.6	14.7	17.3	11.5	46.2	217.2	20.8
North Carolina	1,488,645		207,859	13.6	17.8	18.8	8.8	35.2	222.5	32.9
North Dakota	94,728		15,636	11.6	15.4	12.2	10.1	30.5	108.0	29.7

Ohio	1,817,163		244,730	16.1	21.7	22.9	10.7	42.0	251.3	23.4
Oklahoma	645,108		87,478	13.9	21.8	20.3	8.9	45.1	228.9	29.2
Oregon	575,393		65,106	19.1	21.0	18.3	19.4	41.0	269.5	32.6
Pennsylvania	1,775,029	⁸	251,928	13.7	23.9	19.1	9.7	41.0	207.9	27.0
Rhode Island	145,342		18,290	12.8	26.7	17.4	8.0	49.0	269.2	48.1

South Carolina	718,113		69,790	14.4	22.8	14.4	14.7	53.3	226.9	533.5
South Dakota	126,764		18,391	13.7	22.1	14.5	15.3	35.9	122.0	29.8
Tennessee	971,950	⁸	126,841	15.0	18.9	15.1	15.2	48.8	277.5	27.2
Texas	4,752,148		649,381	14.5	17.7	21.2	10.3	49.7	175.9	25.3
Utah	559,778		49,057	23.7	40.9	33.9	16.2	49.3	348.8	47.9

Vermont	92,446		19,370	10.5	16.4	17.9	8.5	15.0	138.6	27.6
Virginia	1,235,795		203,567	17.3	21.3	25.1	10.5	28.3	192.1	15.8
Washington	1,037,018		104,617	19.1	28.7	25.7	14.8	65.0	255.0	37.0
West Virginia	282,729		38,596	14.0	19.7	20.6	7.7	46.7	153.0	29.0
Wisconsin	873,750		106,597	14.7	18.1	20.6	9.3	43.1	248.1	40.6
Wyoming	87,161		15,841	12.5	18.2	16.4	7.9	23.9	123.3	21.6
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁹	56,768		7,526	12.5	22.2	28.9	8.4	55.0	209.5	38.9
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁹	28,013		3,845	13.1	21.9	25.7	6.5	46.6	195.9	32.3
Bureau of Indian Education	40,927		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
American Samoa	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Guam	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands	10,913		1,043	21.2	30.7	25.6	13.5	40.4	259.8	54.6
Puerto Rico	503,635		70,034	12.8	—	16.5	9.6	85.4	298.9	22.7
U.S. Virgin Islands	15,768	⁸	2,472	11.8	20.4	16.4	11.0	25.2	140.8	50.4
– Not available.
¹ Total teachers include prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes.
² Elementary students includes students in grades 1–8.
³ Secondary students includes students in grades 9–12.
⁴ Other instructional and student support staff includes instructional aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, librarians, library support staff, and student support staff.
⁵ Administrative staff includes school and school district administrators.
⁶ Administrative and all other support staff includes district- and school-level administrative support staff and all other support staff.
⁷ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁸ State membership totals in California include adjusted values for one grade. In Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and the Virgin Islands one or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail by race/ethnicity from the State Nonfiscal Survey or the sum of grade detail from the School Universe survey.
⁹ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependent schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts. Some staff counts were imputed based on current-year data. Some staff counts were adjusted or disaggregated from reported totals.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2008–09, Version 1a.

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