Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 1997-98 / Table 5
| Table 5. |
Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary school districts and
students, by district membership size: School year 1997-1998
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Number of Percentage Percentage
District membership size districts of districts of students
United States 14,427 100.0 100.0
100,000 or more 25 0.2 12.4
25,000 to 99,999 205 1.4 19.1
10,000 to 24,999 572 4.0 18.6
7,500 to 9,999 339 2.3 6.3
5,000 to 7,499 699 4.8 9.2
2,500 to 4,999 2,079 14.4 15.9
2,000 to 2,499 847 5.9 4.1
1,500 to 1,999 1,091 7.6 4.1
1,000 to 1,499 1,586 11.0 4.3
800 to 999 815 5.6 1.6
600 to 799 960 6.7 1.5
450 to 599 944 6.5 1.1
300 to 449 1,100 7.6 0.9
150 to 299 1,427 9.9 0.7
1 to 149 1,738 12.0 0.3
| NOTE: |
Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and excludes 378
regular school districts for which no students were reported in membership.
Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100.
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| SOURCE: |
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics,
Common Core of Data, Agency Universe, 1997-98.
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