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| Standard errors for number and percentage distribution of private school students, by community type and selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (see the data table) | |||||||||||
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| Selected characteristics | Total | Central city | Urban fringe/ large town |
Rural/small town | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 26,746.8 | † | 23,936.4 | † | 11,361.1 | † | 10,437.7 | † | |||
| NCES typology | |||||||||||
| Catholic | 11,607.2 | 0.21 | 10,430.4 | 0.37 | 4,477.8 | 0.23 | # | 0.39 | |||
| Parochial | 5,275.6 | 0.11 | 3,783.8 | 0.19 | 3,338.9 | 0.16 | # | 0.21 | |||
| Diocesan | 6,690.0 | 0.12 | 6,487.0 | 0.24 | 1,451.9 | 0.09 | # | 0.15 | |||
| Private | 2,308.7 | 0.03 | 1,883.8 | 0.06 | 1,298.7 | 0.06 | # | 0.04 | |||
| Other religious | 12,812.8 | 0.19 | 6,096.5 | 0.23 | 6,384.6 | 0.22 | 9,971.6 | 0.63 | |||
| Conservative Christian | 4,919.9 | 0.11 | 4,621.4 | 0.17 | 3,227.9 | 0.15 | 2,750.7 | 0.37 | |||
| Affiliated | 7,147.7 | 0.13 | 576.6 | 0.10 | 1,323.3 | 0.07 | 7,000.7 | 0.78 | |||
| Unaffiliated | 9,272.1 | 0.15 | 3,073.8 | 0.12 | 6,504.9 | 0.27 | 4,929.1 | 0.50 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 15,869.1 | 0.24 | 14,174.0 | 0.49 | 7,314.4 | 0.27 | 2,237.8 | 0.33 | |||
| Regular | 11,737.9 | 0.19 | 11,144.7 | 0.39 | 3,508.1 | 0.14 | 1,245.1 | 0.20 | |||
| Special emphasis | 4,957.6 | 0.09 | 3,704.4 | 0.15 | 2,954.1 | 0.12 | 1,744.1 | 0.22 | |||
| Special education | 3,944.6 | 0.07 | 1,536.1 | 0.06 | 3,524.5 | 0.15 | 526.6 | 0.07 | |||
| School level | |||||||||||
| Elementary | 14,519.5 | 0.16 | 12,776.2 | 0.19 | 6,711.2 | 0.23 | 3,743.2 | 0.58 | |||
| Secondary | 3,438.2 | 0.08 | 3,447.5 | 0.14 | 1,061.2 | 0.06 | 1,701.7 | 0.25 | |||
| Combined | 15,716.5 | 0.19 | 10,684.3 | 0.25 | 7,826.3 | 0.25 | 9,382.4 | 0.69 | |||
| Program emphasis | |||||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 21,990.1 | 0.15 | 19,498.4 | 0.19 | 9,029.4 | 0.25 | 10,192.7 | 0.48 | |||
| Montessori | 2,876.4 | 0.05 | 2,372.0 | 0.10 | 614.5 | 0.03 | 1,054.3 | 0.14 | |||
| Special program emphasis | 3,759.8 | 0.07 | 2,458.8 | 0.10 | 2,085.8 | 0.09 | 1,949.0 | 0.25 | |||
| Special education | 4,661.7 | 0.08 | 2,873.9 | 0.12 | 3,558.6 | 0.15 | 526.6 | 0.07 | |||
| Vocational/ technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Alternative | 4,088.1 | 0.08 | 2,516.9 | 0.11 | 890.7 | 0.04 | 3,120.0 | 0.39 | |||
| Early childhood | 116.9 | # | # | # | # | # | 116.9 | 0.02 | |||
| Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
| Less than 50 | 5,591.2 | 0.10 | 2,988.6 | 0.12 | 1,818.7 | 0.07 | 4,055.9 | 0.43 | |||
| 50-149 | 10,884.8 | 0.17 | 5,843.0 | 0.21 | 4,453.5 | 0.18 | 8,244.7 | 0.71 | |||
| 150-299 | 8,751.8 | 0.13 | 6,794.0 | 0.17 | 6,005.5 | 0.21 | 1,642.4 | 0.42 | |||
| 300-499 | 6,561.4 | 0.12 | 5,378.1 | 0.20 | 4,124.9 | 0.14 | # | 0.23 | |||
| 500-749 | 5,053.4 | 0.10 | 1,767.8 | 0.17 | 4,734.1 | 0.19 | # | 0.10 | |||
| 750 or more | 11,013.5 | 0.17 | 11,013.5 | 0.31 | # | 0.08 | # | 0.06 | |||
| Region | |||||||||||
| Northeast | 5,074.1 | 0.14 | 1,727.3 | 0.26 | 3,923.3 | 0.18 | 881.3 | 0.29 | |||
| Midwest | 13,006.4 | 0.21 | 7,433.3 | 0.34 | 8,314.7 | 0.28 | 5,166.0 | 0.58 | |||
| South | 17,494.9 | 0.26 | 17,026.3 | 0.56 | 4,684.6 | 0.19 | 8,864.2 | 0.75 | |||
| West | 14,642.6 | 0.24 | 14,994.0 | 0.55 | 4,754.3 | 0.19 | 1,705.4 | 0.24 | |||
| † Not applicable. | |||||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002. | |||||||||||
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