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| Number and percentage distribution
of private schools, by school level and religious orientation of
school: United States, 2001-02 (Standard Errors for this table) |
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| Religious or nonsectarian category | Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 29,273 | 100.0 | 17,427 | 100.0 | 2,704 | 100.0 | 9,142 | 100.0 | |||
| Religious orientation | 22,595 | 77.2 | 14,130 | 81.1 | 1,857 | 68.7 | 6,609 | 72.3 | |||
| Roman Catholic | 8,207 | 28.0 | 6,763 | 38.8 | 1,110 | 41.0 | 335 | 3.7 | |||
| African Methodist Episcopal | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Amish | 761 | 2.6 | 720 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 41 | 0.5 | |||
| Assembly of God | 429 | 1.5 | 194 | 1.1 | ‡ | ‡ | 227 | 2.5 | |||
| Baptist | 2,548 | 8.7 | 706 | 4.1 | 50 | 1.8 | 1,792 | 19.6 | |||
| Brethren | 60 | 0.2 | 24 | 0.1 | ‡ | ‡ | 35 | 0.4 | |||
| Calvinist | 135 | 0.5 | 76 | 0.4 | 17 | 0.6 | 42 | 0.5 | |||
| Christian (unspecified) | 4,135 | 14.1 | 1,640 | 9.4 | 198 | 7.3 | 2,297 | 25.1 | |||
| Church of Christ | 165 | 0.6 | 77 | 0.4 | ‡ | ‡ | 82 | 0.9 | |||
| Church of God | 183! | 0.6! | 52 | 0.3 | ‡ | ‡ | 127! | 1.4! | |||
| Church of God in Christ | 39 | 0.1 | 25 | 0.1 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Disciples of Christ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Episcopal | 347 | 1.2 | 227 | 1.3 | 43 | 1.6 | 77 | 0.8 | |||
| Friends | 77 | 0.3 | 46 | 0.3 | ‡ | ‡ | 24 | 0.3 | |||
| Greek Orthodox | 30 | 0.1 | 24 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | ‡ | 0.1 | |||
| Islamic | 188 | 0.6 | 119 | 0.7 | ‡ | ‡ | 67 | 0.7 | |||
| Jewish | 730 | 2.5 | 394 | 2.3 | 180 | 6.6 | 157 | 1.7 | |||
| Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod | 1,110 | 3.8 | 1,027 | 5.9 | 66 | 2.4 | 16 | 0.2 | |||
| Evangelical Lutheran Church In America | 116 | 0.4 | 108 | 0.6 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | 411 | 1.4 | 386 | 2.2 | 20 | 0.7 | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Other Lutheran | 59 | 0.2 | 48 | 0.3 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Latter Day Saints | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Mennonite | 393 | 1.3 | 220 | 1.3 | ‡ | ‡ | 166 | 1.8 | |||
| Methodist | 141 | 0.5 | 77 | 0.4 | ‡ | ‡ | 55 | 0.6 | |||
| Pentecostal | 582 | 2.0 | 125 | 0.7 | ‡ | ‡ | 450 | 4.9 | |||
| Presbyterian | 184 | 0.6 | 104 | 0.6 | ‡ | ‡ | 69 | 0.8 | |||
| Seventh-Day Adventist | 961 | 3.3 | 681 | 3.9 | 59 | 2.2 | 221 | 2.4 | |||
| Other | 602 | 2.1 | 265 | 1.5 | 47 | 1.7! | 290 | 3.2 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 6,678 | 22.8 | 3,297 | 18.9 | 847 | 31.3 | 2,533 | 27.7 | |||
| ! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation for this estimate is larger than 25 percent. The standard error for this estimate is presented in the corresponding table in appendix C. | |||||||||||
| ‡ 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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