Private School Universe Survey (PSS) - Number and percentage distribution of private school students, by school level and religious orientation of school: United States, 2001

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Number and percentage distribution of private school students, by school level and religious orientation of school: United States, 2001-02 (Standard Errors for this table)
Religious or nonsectarian category	Total		Elementary		Secondary		Combined
Religious or nonsectarian category	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	5,341,513	100.0	2,883,010	100.0	835,328	100.0	1,623,174	100.0

Religious orientation	4,440,398	83.1	2,577,268	89.4	739,554	88.5	1,123,575	69.2
Roman Catholic	2,515,524	47.1	1,793,593	62.2	615,711	73.7	106,220	6.5
African Methodist Episcopal	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Amish	24,538	0.5	23,270	0.8	0	0.0	1,268	0.1
Assembly of God	66,038	1.2	29,208	1.0	‡	‡	36,277	2.2
Baptist	314,684	5.9	76,136	2.6	6,970	0.8	231,577	14.3
Brethren	8,142	0.2	3,492	0.1	‡	‡	4,292	0.3
Calvinist	39,079	0.7	16,717	0.6	6,626	0.8	15,736	1.0
Christian (unspecified)	603,624	11.3	175,885	6.1	33,017	4.0	394,721	24.3
Church of Christ	46,794	0.9	9,124	0.3	‡	‡	34,160	2.1
Church of God	13,786	0.3	4,824	0.2	‡	‡	8,798	0.5
Church of God in Christ	3,362	0.1	1,430	0.1	‡	‡	‡	‡
Disciples of Christ	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Episcopal	100,403	1.9	44,487	1.5	10,027	1.2	45,889	2.8
Friends	20,881	0.4	6,168	0.2	‡	‡	13,783	0.9
Greek Orthodox	4,562	0.1	3,227	0.1	0	0.0	‡	‡
Islamic	22,951	0.4	9,655	0.3	‡	‡	13,245	0.8
Jewish	198,478	3.7	95,849	3.3	24,174	2.9	78,456	4.8
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod	162,301	3.0	140,989	4.9	15,228	1.8	6,084	0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church In America	16,137	0.3	14,805	0.5	‡	‡	‡	‡
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	35,584	0.7	28,875	1.0	5,984	0.7	‡	‡
Other Lutheran	5,375	0.1	3,763	0.1	‡	‡	‡	‡
Latter Day Saints	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Mennonite	23,670	0.4	10,691	0.4	‡	‡	11,953	0.7
Methodist	17,567	0.3	7,763	0.3	‡	‡	8,522	0.5
Pentecostal	39,300	0.7	8,598	0.3	‡	‡	30,535	1.9
Presbyterian	39,897	0.8	18,115	0.6	‡	‡	20,028	1.2
Seventh-Day Adventist	60,681	1.1	27,012	0.9	8,665	1.0	25,004	1.5
Other	57,039	1.1	23,591	0.8	2,709	0.3	30,738	1.9

Nonsectarian	901,114	16.9	305,741	10.6	95,773	11.5	499,600	30.8
‡ 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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