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| Number and percentage distribution of private school students, by school level and selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (Standard Errors for this table) | |||||||||||
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| Selected characteristics | Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 5,341,513 | 100.0 | 2,883,010 | 100.0 | 835,328 | 100.0 | 1,623,175 | 100.0 | |||
| NCES typology | |||||||||||
| Catholic | 2,515,524 | 47.1 | 1,793,593 | 62.2 | 615,711 | 73.7 | 106,220 | 6.5 | |||
| Parochial | 1,221,685 | 22.9 | 1,118,331 | 38.8 | 80,565 | 9.7 | 22,790 | 1.4 | |||
| Diocesan | 925,288 | 17.3 | 607,408 | 21.1 | 289,823 | 34.7 | 28,056 | 1.7 | |||
| Private | 368,552 | 6.9 | 67,854 | 2.4 | 245,323 | 29.4 | 55,375 | 3.4 | |||
| Other religious | 1,924,874 | 36.0 | 783,676 | 27.2 | 123,843 | 14.8 | 1,017,355 | 62.7 | |||
| Conservative Christian | 823,469 | 15.4 | 245,494 | 8.5 | 33,962 | 4.1 | 544,013 | 33.5 | |||
| Affiliated | 562,686 | 10.5 | 268,041 | 9.3 | 53,447 | 6.4 | 241,198 | 14.9 | |||
| Unaffiliated | 538,718 | 10.1 | 270,141 | 9.4 | 36,434 | 4.4 | 232,143 | 14.3 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 901,114 | 16.9 | 305,741 | 10.6 | 95,773 | 11.5 | 499,600 | 30.8 | |||
| Regular | 622,715 | 11.7 | 193,430 | 6.7 | 66,437 | 8.0 | 362,849 | 22.4 | |||
| Special emphasis | 176,987 | 3.3 | 101,049 | 3.5 | 18,911 | 2.3 | 57,028 | 3.5 | |||
| Special education | 101,412 | 1.9 | 11,263 | 0.4 | 10,426 | 1.3 | 79,723 | 4.9 | |||
| Program emphasis | |||||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 4,932,957 | 92.4 | 2,724,453 | 94.5 | 777,953 | 93.1 | 1,430,551 | 88.1 | |||
| Montessori | 84,525 | 1.6 | 69,081 | 2.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 15,444 | 1.0 | |||
| Special program emphasis | 127,179 | 2.4 | 45,866 | 1.6 | 26,373 | 3.2 | 54,940 | 3.4 | |||
| Special education | 115,164 | 2.2 | 15,050 | 0.5 | 11,367 | 1.4 | 88,746 | 5.5 | |||
| Vocational/ technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Alternative | 74,695 | 1.4 | 24,396 | 0.9 | 17,478 | 2.1 | 32,821 | 2.0 | |||
| Early childhood | 4,672 | 0.1 | 4,163 | 0.1 | † | † | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
| Less than 50 | 232,342 | 4.4 | 125,823 | 4.4 | 17,047 | 2.0 | 89,472 | 5.5 | |||
| 50-149 | 765,056 | 14.3 | 481,476 | 16.7 | 49,299 | 5.9 | 234,281 | 14.4 | |||
| 150-299 | 1,408,132 | 26.4 | 1,022,187 | 35.5 | 97,944 | 11.7 | 288,001 | 17.7 | |||
| 300-499 | 1,223,135 | 22.9 | 764,139 | 26.5 | 160,590 | 19.2 | 298,406 | 18.4 | |||
| 500-749 | 829,642 | 15.5 | 374,631 | 13.0 | 172,757 | 20.7 | 282,254 | 17.4 | |||
| 750 or more | 883,205 | 16.5 | 114,755 | 4.0 | 337,690 | 40.4 | 430,761 | 26.5 | |||
| Region | |||||||||||
| Northeast | 1,336,770 | 25.0 | 753,774 | 26.2 | 278,118 | 33.3 | 304,879 | 18.8 | |||
| Midwest | 1,354,861 | 25.4 | 875,366 | 30.4 | 238,112 | 28.5 | 241,383 | 14.9 | |||
| South | 1,641,474 | 30.7 | 685,954 | 23.8 | 162,476 | 19.5 | 793,044 | 48.9 | |||
| West | 1,008,408 | 18.9 | 567,917 | 19.7 | 156,622 | 18.8 | 283,869 | 17.5 | |||
| Community type | |||||||||||
| Central city | 2,276,808 | 42.6 | 1,203,451 | 41.7 | 422,557 | 50.6 | 650,800 | 40.1 | |||
| Urban fringe/large town | 2,276,823 | 42.6 | 1,323,748 | 45.9 | 327,176 | 39.2 | 625,899 | 38.6 | |||
| Rural/small town | 787,882 | 14.8 | 355,811 | 12.3 | 85,594 | 10.3 | 346,476 | 21.4 | |||
| † Not applicable. | |||||||||||
| ‡ 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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