Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 1996-97 / Table 1
Table 1. |
Number of public elementary and secondary schools with membership and percentage of students in membership, by type of school and by state: School year 1997-1998 |
Type of school
Schools Regular Special education Vocational education Alternative education
having Total Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage
State membership students schools of students schools of students schools of students schools of students
United States 87,631 46,127,194 82,127 98.1 1,764 0.5 360 0.4 3,380 1.0
Alabama 1,345 749,187 1,310 99.7 16 0.1 3 0.0 16 0.2
Alaska 497 132,123 451 95.0 2 0.3 4 0.5 40 4.3
Arizona 1,384 814,113 1,295 97.6 13 0.1 5 0.5 71 1.8
Arkansas 1,112 456,497 1,111 99.5 0 0.0 1 0.5 0 0.0
California 8,178 5,803,734 7,246 96.5 128 0.5 0 0.0 804 3.0
Colorado 1,497 687,167 1,428 98.8 7 0.0 3 0.1 59 1.1
Connecticut 1,058 535,164 977 96.6 22 0.6 17 1.8 42 1.0
Delaware 185 111,960 149 91.8 28 2.9 5 5.0 3 0.2
District of Columbia 170 77,111 153 96.2 10 2.4 0 0.0 7 1.5
Florida 2,877 2,294,077 2,431 97.5 108 0.9 44 0.2 294 1.5
Georgia 1,823 1,375,980 1,817 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 6 0.0
Hawaii 250 189,887 246 99.9 3 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.1
Idaho 636 244,403 569 98.2 15 0.2 0 0.0 52 1.6
Illinois 4,228 1,998,289 3,863 97.2 246 1.3 26 0.7 93 0.9
Indiana 1,859 987,483 1,803 99.5 19 0.2 1 0.0 36 0.3
Iowa 1,548 501,054 1,501 98.9 13 0.2 0 0.0 34 0.9
Kansas 1,453 468,687 1,439 99.6 1 0.0 0 0.0 13 0.3
Kentucky 1,352 669,322 1,292 99.6 8 0.1 1 0.0 51 0.3
Louisiana 1,476 776,813 1,383 98.5 36 0.3 5 0.1 52 1.1
Maine 697 212,526 694 100.0 3 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Maryland 1,298 830,744 1,210 97.3 49 0.9 11 1.1 28 0.6
Massachusetts 1,858 949,006 1,783 96.1 1 0.0 42 3.4 32 0.5
Michigan 3,625 1,702,672 3,387 98.0 120 1.0 17 0.2 101 0.8
Minnesota 2,012 853,621 1,552 96.2 64 0.3 2 0.0 394 3.5
Mississippi 874 504,792 874 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Missouri 2,194 910,654 2,083 99.1 59 0.4 5 0.3 47 0.2
Montana 889 162,335 884 99.9 2 0.0 0 0.0 3 0.1
Nebraska 1,353 292,681 1,295 99.6 58 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0
Nevada 448 296,621 415 98.2 11 0.4 2 0.6 20 0.8
New Hampshire 513 201,629 513 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
New Jersey 2,313 1,250,276 2,184 97.5 81 0.7 48 1.8 0 0.0
New Mexico 744 331,673 694 98.4 15 0.5 0 0.0 35 1.1
New York 4,204 2,861,823 4,014 97.0 88 0.7 25 1.2 77 1.0
North Carolina 2,048 1,236,083 1,970 99.3 26 0.3 3 0.0 49 0.4
North Dakota 565 118,572 565 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Ohio 3,841 1,847,035 3,748 98.0 28 0.2 43 1.6 22 0.2
Oklahoma 1,818 623,681 1,806 99.7 12 0.3 0 0.0 0 0.0
Oregon 1,252 541,346 1,180 98.1 17 0.5 0 0.0 55 1.4
Pennsylvania 3,115 1,815,151 3,078 98.3 12 1.0 14 0.6 11 0.1
Rhode Island 314 153,321 304 98.6 4 0.4 3 0.5 3 0.4
South Carolina 1,055 659,256 1,029 99.6 9 0.1 0 0.0 17 0.3
South Dakota 814 142,443 797 98.9 8 0.3 0 0.0 9 0.8
Tennessee 1,522 893,020 1,498 99.7 15 0.2 0 0.0 9 0.0
Texas 7,053 3,891,877 6,312 98.1 237 0.4 20 0.1 484 1.3
Utah 759 482,957 687 98.0 22 0.5 2 0.1 48 1.5
Vermont 355 105,984 321 98.8 33 1.2 0 0.0 1 0.0
Virginia 1,811 1,110,815 1,739 99.4 31 0.2 0 0.0 41 0.5
Washington 2,016 991,235 1,801 97.8 56 0.2 5 0.1 154 1.9
West Virginia 819 301,419 797 99.6 9 0.2 3 0.0 10 0.2
Wisconsin 2,112 881,780 2,055 99.5 14 0.1 0 0.0 43 0.4
Wyoming 412 97,115 394 98.8 5 0.3 0 0.0 13 1.0
Outlying areas
DOD Dependents 160 78,254 160 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
American Samoa 31 15,214 29 98.0 1 0.2 1 1.7 0 0.0
Guam 36 32,444 36 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Northern Marianas 26 9,246 26 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Puerto Rico 1,516 617,322 1,477 98.5 29 0.3 10 1.2 0 0.0
Virgin Islands 35 22,136 33 99.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 0.5
NOTE: |
Table excludes 1,905 schools (28 of these in outlying areas) for which no students were reported in membership. Type of school is a mutually exclusive
category. Special education, vocational education, and alternative programs may reside in other types of schools. U.S. totals exclude outlying
areas. Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100. Percentages of less than 0.05 are rounded to 0.0. Number of students
in membership is reported on the State Nonfiscal Survey.
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SOURCE: |
U.S. Department of Education,National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data,School Universe and State Nonfiscal Survey, 1997-98.
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