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| Number and percentage distribution of private schools, students, and FTE teachers, by selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (Standard Errors for this table) | ||||||||
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| Selected characteristics | Schools | Students | FTE teachers | |||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |||
| Total | 29,273 | 100.0 | 5,341,513 | 100.0 | 425,406 | 100.0 | ||
| NCES typology | ||||||||
| Catholic | 8,207 | 28.0 | 2,515,524 | 47.1 | 155,514 | 36.6 | ||
| Parochial | 4,347 | 14.9 | 1,221,685 | 22.9 | 71,058 | 16.7 | ||
| Diocesan | 2,933 | 10.0 | 925,288 | 17.3 | 56,343 | 13.3 | ||
| Private | 927 | 3.2 | 368,552 | 6.9 | 28,113 | 6.6 | ||
| Other religious | 14,388 | 49.2 | 1,924,874 | 36.0 | 166,005 | 39.0 | ||
| Conservative Christian | 5,527 | 18.9 | 823,469 | 15.4 | 66,963 | 15.7 | ||
| Affiliated | 3,406 | 11.6 | 562,686 | 10.5 | 51,184 | 12.0 | ||
| Unaffiliated | 5,455 | 18.6 | 538,718 | 10.1 | 47,858 | 11.3 | ||
| Nonsectarian | 6,678 | 22.8 | 901,114 | 16.9 | 103,887 | 24.4 | ||
| Regular | 2,939 | 10.0 | 622,715 | 11.7 | 67,326 | 15.8 | ||
| Special emphasis | 2,381 | 8.1 | 176,987 | 3.3 | 20,433 | 4.8 | ||
| Special education | 1,358 | 4.6 | 101,412 | 1.9 | 16,128 | 3.8 | ||
| School level | ||||||||
| Elementary | 17,427 | 59.5 | 2,883,010 | 54.0 | 202,071 | 47.5 | ||
| Secondary | 2,704 | 9.2 | 835,328 | 15.6 | 67,318 | 15.8 | ||
| Combined | 9,142 | 31.2 | 1,623,175 | 30.4 | 156,017 | 36.7 | ||
| Program emphasis | ||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 23,991 | 82.0 | 4,932,957 | 92.4 | 374,977 | 88.2 | ||
| Montessori | 1,377 | 4.7 | 84,525 | 1.6 | 9,828 | 2.3 | ||
| Special program emphasis | 1,076 | 3.7 | 127,179 | 2.4 | 13,228 | 3.1 | ||
| Special education | 1,552 | 5.3 | 115,164 | 2.2 | 18,121 | 4.3 | ||
| Vocational/ technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||
| Alternative | 1,148 | 3.9 | 74,695 | 1.4 | 8,531 | 2.0 | ||
| Early childhood | 120 | 0.4 | 4,672 | 0.1 | 535 | 0.1 | ||
| Size (number of students) | ||||||||
| Less than 50 | 8,955 | 30.6 | 232,342 | 4.4 | 32,476 | 7.6 | ||
| 50-149 | 8,336 | 28.5 | 765,056 | 14.3 | 80,269 | 18.9 | ||
| 150-299 | 6,554 | 22.4 | 1,408,132 | 26.4 | 104,858 | 24.7 | ||
| 300-499 | 3,199 | 10.9 | 1,223,135 | 22.9 | 87,317 | 20.5 | ||
| 500-749 | 1,392 | 4.8 | 829,642 | 15.5 | 57,324 | 13.5 | ||
| 750 or more | 836 | 2.9 | 883,205 | 16.5 | 63,161 | 14.9 | ||
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 6,556 | 22.4 | 1,336,770 | 25.0 | 111,127 | 26.1 | ||
| Midwest | 7,455 | 25.5 | 1,354,861 | 25.4 | 95,501 | 22.5 | ||
| South | 9,171 | 31.3 | 1,641,474 | 30.7 | 142,650 | 33.5 | ||
| West | 6,092 | 20.8 | 1,008,408 | 18.9 | 76,128 | 17.9 | ||
| Community type | ||||||||
| Central city | 10,117 | 34.6 | 2,276,808 | 42.6 | 176,559 | 41.5 | ||
| Urban fringe/large town | 10,948 | 37.4 | 2,276,823 | 42.6 | 176,173 | 41.4 | ||
| Rural/small town | 8,209 | 28.0 | 787,882 | 14.8 | 72,674 | 17.1 | ||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or missing values in cells with too few sample cases. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002. | ||||||||
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