| Table 3. | Percentage of public elementary and secondary schools providing instruction and percentage of students in membership, by specified level of instruction and by state: School year 1997-98 |
Number of
schools Percentage by Instructional Level
having Primary Middle High Other
State membership Schools Students Schools Students Schools Students Schools Students
United States 87,631 58.5 50.1 17.3 19.6 18.9 27.1 5.3 3.1
Alabama 1,345 51.4 44.5 16.6 16.5 19.8 25.7 12.2 13.4
Alaska 497 36.8 46.1 6.8 13.2 14.5 24.7 41.9 16.0
Arizona 1,384 60.4 55.3 16.3 17.6 17.1 25.6 6.2 1.5
Arkansas 1,112 51.6 47.1 16.8 19.8 29.0 28.2 2.5 4.9
California 8,178 63.3 53.1 14.8 17.9 17.6 26.6 4.3 2.4
Colorado 1,497 59.0 50.3 17.8 20.7 19.3 26.6 3.9 2.5
Connecticut 1,058 61.8 51.8 17.0 20.5 16.6 26.5 4.5 1.2
Delaware 185 46.5 40.8 22.7 27.2 18.4 29.5 12.4 2.5
District of Columbia 170 64.7 62.4 13.5 14.2 13.5 18.6 8.2 4.7
Florida 2,877 55.9 49.3 16.2 21.0 13.0 21.5 14.9 8.2
Georgia 1,823 62.3 51.2 18.3 20.0 15.4 24.8 4.1 4.1
Hawaii 250 69.6 55.5 12.0 13.7 14.0 28.3 4.4 2.4
Idaho 636 53.8 48.1 16.7 21.4 25.3 28.1 4.2 2.3
Illinois 4,228 61.3 55.4 16.9 15.2 17.8 26.9 4.1 2.5
Indiana 1,859 62.0 49.9 16.7 18.0 18.7 29.7 2.6 2.4
Iowa 1,548 54.4 45.7 19.1 20.1 24.2 32.2 2.3 2.0
Kansas 1,453 57.7 49.7 17.0 19.6 24.4 30.1 0.8 0.5
Kentucky 1,352 58.4 49.2 17.1 19.9 20.0 30.2 4.5 0.7
Louisiana 1,476 53.9 47.8 19.3 19.8 16.4 25.7 10.4 6.6
Maine 697 63.6 48.5 18.1 21.9 15.8 27.9 2.6 1.7
Maryland 1,298 65.6 51.8 17.6 20.6 14.2 26.6 2.5 1.0
Massachusetts 1,858 65.1 51.6 16.8 19.7 15.6 25.5 2.4 3.2
Michigan 3,625 58.4 49.3 17.2 20.4 18.8 27.6 5.6 2.7
Minnesota 2,012 51.6 47.5 13.3 18.8 28.6 31.6 6.5 2.0
Mississippi 874 50.0 43.9 19.2 19.2 20.5 25.3 10.3 11.7
Missouri 2,194 54.9 49.1 16.3 19.8 22.6 29.1 6.2 2.0
Montana 889 53.1 48.4 27.0 20.3 19.7 30.7 0.2 0.6
Nebraska 1,353 67.3 50.7 8.1 15.0 23.0 33.6 1.7 0.7
Nevada 448 65.0 52.4 14.3 20.8 17.4 25.1 3.3 1.6
New Hampshire 513 66.5 49.1 18.3 23.3 15.2 27.6 0.0 0.0
New Jersey 2,313 62.8 52.5 17.6 18.4 13.5 25.9 6.1 3.2
New Mexico 744 58.1 48.5 20.6 22.0 17.7 27.1 3.6 2.4
New York 4,204 58.2 49.8 16.7 18.8 18.2 27.1 6.9 4.3
North Carolina 2,048 60.0 51.1 20.3 21.5 16.3 25.8 3.4 1.7
North Dakota 565 58.4 50.8 6.7 11.9 33.6 34.8 1.2 2.5
Ohio 3,841 57.7 47.4 19.1 20.1 18.9 30.4 4.3 2.1
Oklahoma 1,818 54.2 51.2 19.3 21.2 25.4 25.5 1.2 2.2
Oregon 1,252 60.7 47.8 17.5 21.0 16.9 28.5 4.9 2.6
Pennsylvania 3,115 61.9 47.8 17.3 19.9 19.2 30.0 1.6 2.3
Rhode Island 314 68.8 50.5 16.2 21.7 13.4 27.6 1.6 0.3
South Carolina 1,055 56.0 46.7 22.9 23.9 18.1 28.0 2.9 1.4
South Dakota 814 51.0 47.5 24.2 21.3 23.3 31.0 1.5 0.2
Tennessee 1,522 61.5 52.8 16.3 17.1 18.3 27.0 3.9 3.1
Texas 7,053 50.9 48.5 20.9 22.9 19.3 25.7 8.9 2.9
Utah 759 58.9 50.2 16.5 21.6 19.6 26.1 5.0 2.1
Vermont 355 69.9 52.9 6.8 9.0 13.2 29.5 10.1 8.5
Virginia 1,811 61.9 48.8 18.2 21.6 16.5 28.4 3.5 1.2
Washington 2,016 56.6 49.5 16.9 20.2 20.4 27.3 6.2 3.0
West Virginia 819 64.5 48.5 16.1 20.3 15.9 28.4 3.5 2.8
Wisconsin 2,112 58.7 48.0 17.7 19.5 21.2 30.9 2.5 1.6
Wyoming 412 56.1 46.3 22.8 24.2 18.4 28.5 2.7 1.1
Outlying areas
DOD Dependents 160 56.9 59.1 11.3 11.4 23.8 21.4 8.1 8.1
American Samoa 31 74.2 72.7 3.2 4.6 19.4 22.5 3.2 0.2
Guam 36 69.4 52.1 19.4 21.7 11.1 26.2 0.0 0.0
Northern Marianas 26 84.6 64.3 3.8 11.4 11.5 24.4 0.0 0.0
Puerto Rico 1,516 59.6 46.1 14.3 16.8 11.3 20.3 14.8 16.7
Virgin Islands 35 65.7 53.4 20.0 17.1 11.4 28.0 2.9 1.5
| NOTE: | Instructional levels are Primary (low grade Prekindergarten to 3, high grade up to 8); Middle (low grade 4 to 7, high grade 4 to 9); High (low grade 7 to 12, high grade 12 only); Other (any configuration not falling within the previous three, including ungraded schools). Table excludes 1,905 schools (28 in outlying areas) for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals exclude outlying areas. Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100. |
| SOURCE: | U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, School Universe, 1997-98. |
