Table 4. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts, by student membership size and state or jurisdiction: School year 2008

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-09 First Look

NCES 2010-346
August 2010

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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 2008–09

State or jurisdiction	Total districts	Number of districts with student membership¹
State or jurisdiction	Total districts	100000 or more	10,000– 99999	5,000– 9999	3,000– 4999	1,000– 2999	500– 999	300– 499	100– 299	1–99	Zero or not reported
United States²	13,809	26	848	1,049	1,447	3,820	2,339	1,313	1,800	921	246

Alabama	133	0	12	26	29	62	3	0	0	0	1
Alaska	53	0	3	2	2	10	7	10	14	5	0
Arizona	225	0	27	24	19	44	19	17	29	44	2
Arkansas	245	0	6	10	24	84	92	28	1	0	0
California	960	2	161	115	105	190	102	76	115	94	0

Colorado	178	0	19	11	10	32	27	23	48	8	0
Connecticut	166	0	9	22	31	56	22	12	12	2	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	30	13	5	12	0	0	0	0	0

Georgia	180	2	34	28	40	64	7	3	2	0	0
Hawaii	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Idaho	115	0	6	6	12	28	17	16	23	7	0
Illinois	869	1	22	49	75	275	205	110	102	29	1
Indiana	294	0	24	33	37	150	42	1	5	0	2

Iowa	362	0	7	8	16	85	131	63	43	9	0
Kansas	318	0	7	10	11	55	78	65	59	10	23
Kentucky	174	0	10	15	38	76	24	8	3	0	0
Louisiana	69	0	17	16	16	19	1	0	0	0	0
Maine	283	0	0	1	10	50	44	25	60	91	2

Maryland	24	3	12	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0
Massachusetts	352	0	9	31	53	87	24	10	26	4	108
Michigan	552	0	23	49	76	227	90	31	23	32	1
Minnesota	340	0	15	21	29	94	91	48	37	4	1
Mississippi	152	0	5	14	37	72	19	1	4	0	0

Missouri	523	0	20	16	41	103	115	75	113	39	1
Montana	420	0	1	3	4	22	29	36	123	202	0
Nebraska	256	0	3	5	8	23	52	58	99	6	2
Nevada	17	1	1	5	2	2	3	1	1	1	0
New Hampshire	178	0	2	2	9	46	38	20	34	24	3

New Jersey	616	0	16	53	69	183	119	61	65	24	26
New Mexico	89	0	7	8	12	13	16	11	15	7	0
New York	696	1	16	68	102	272	127	59	33	17	1
North Carolina	116	2	34	31	23	23	2	0	0	0	1
North Dakota	187	0	2	3	1	7	14	28	80	48	4

Ohio	614	0	17	51	91	326	111	11	3	2	2
Oklahoma	534	0	10	10	14	96	100	102	165	37	0
Oregon	194	0	13	18	16	40	34	15	28	29	1
Pennsylvania	501	1	16	58	114	238	65	7	1	1	0
Rhode Island	32	0	3	5	9	10	1	2	2	0	0

South Carolina	85	0	21	20	16	20	8	0	0	0	0
South Dakota	161	0	2	0	3	18	25	33	72	4	4
Tennessee	136	1	19	23	36	41	11	4	0	1	0
Texas	1,032	3	92	72	84	247	198	115	183	36	2
Utah	40	0	13	4	7	10	2	2	2	0	0

Vermont	292	0	0	0	1	15	34	38	92	58	54
Virginia	134	1	26	21	24	46	10	1	1	0	4
Washington	295	0	31	30	23	65	42	20	44	40	0
West Virginia	55	0	7	10	15	21	2	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	426	0	11	20	36	139	121	61	33	5	0
Wyoming	48	0	2	1	3	15	15	6	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	1	0	0	0
DDESS: DoDS Domestic³	7	0	0	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bureau of Indian Education	196	0	0	0	0	1	14	29	99	29	24
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
Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas 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," 2008-09, Version 1a.

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