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Number and percentage distribution of private schools, by school level and selected characteristics: United States, 2003–04 |
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Selected characteristic | Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||||
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
Total | 28,384 | 100.0 | 17,197 | 100.0 | 2,694 | 100.0 | 8,494 | 100.0 | |||
NCES typology | |||||||||||
Catholic | 7,919 | 27.9 | 6,539 | 38.0 | 1,096 | 40.7 | 284 | 3.3 | |||
Parochial | 4,074 | 14.4 | 3,852 | 22.4 | 171 | 6.4 | 51 | 0.6 | |||
Diocesan | 2,947 | 10.4 | 2,367 | 13.8 | 504 | 18.7 | 76 | 0.9 | |||
Private | 897 | 3.2 | 319 | 1.9 | 420 | 15.6 | 157 | 1.9 | |||
Other religious | 13,659 | 48.1 | 7,278 | 42.3 | 758 | 28.1 | 5,623 | 66.2 | |||
Conservative Christian | 5,060 | 17.8 | 1,838 | 10.7 | 195 | 7.2 | 3,026 | 35.6 | |||
Affiliated | 3,398 | 12.0 | 2,110 | 12.3 | 329 | 12.2 | 959 | 11.3 | |||
Unaffiliated | 5,201 | 18.3 | 3,330 | 19.4 | 234 | 8.7 | 1,637 | 19.3 | |||
Nonsectarian | 6,806 | 24.0 | 3,380 | 19.7 | 840 | 31.2 | 2,587 | 30.5 | |||
Regular | 2,963 | 10.4 | 1,606 | 9.3 | 320 | 11.9 | 1,036 | 12.2 | |||
Special emphasis | 2,392 | 8.4 | 1,550 | 9.0 | 303 | 11.2 | 539 | 6.3 | |||
Special education | 1,451 | 5.1 | 223 | 1.3 | 217 | 8.0 | 1,011 | 11.9 | |||
School level | |||||||||||
Elementary | 17,197 | 60.6 | 17,197 | 100.0 | † | † | † | † | |||
Secondary | 2,694 | 9.5 | † | † | 2,694 | 100.0 | † | † | |||
Combined | 8,494 | 29.9 | † | † | † | † | 8,494 | 100.0 | |||
Program emphasis | |||||||||||
Regular elementary/secondary | 22,896 | 80.7 | 14,709 | 85.5 | 1,981 | 73.6 | 6,206 | 73.1 | |||
Montessori | 1,318 | 4.6 | 1,195 | 6.9 | ‡ | ‡ | 118 | 1.4 | |||
Special program emphasis | 961 | 3.4 | 465 | 2.7 | 126 | 4.7 | 369 | 4.3 | |||
Special education | 1,634 | 5.8 | 272 | 1.6 | 233 | 8.6 | 1,129 | 13.3 | |||
Vocational/technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
Alternative | 1,454 | 5.1 | 443 | 2.6 | 343 | 12.7 | 668 | 7.9 | |||
Early childhood | 116 | 0.4 | 112 | 0.7 | † | † | ‡ | ‡ | |||
Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
Less than 50 | 8,741 | 30.8 | 5,053 | 29.4 | 654 | 24.3 | 3,033 | 35.7 | |||
50–149 | 8,206 | 28.9 | 5,190 | 30.2 | 605 | 22.5 | 2,411 | 28.4 | |||
150–299 | 6,324 | 22.3 | 4,465 | 26.0 | 424 | 15.7 | 1,435 | 16.9 | |||
300–499 | 3,000 | 10.6 | 1,823 | 10.6 | 399 | 14.8 | 778 | 9.2 | |||
500–749 | 1,298 | 4.6 | 562 | 3.3 | 278 | 10.3 | 458 | 5.4 | |||
750 or more | 816 | 2.9 | 103 | 0.6 | 334 | 12.4 | 378 | 4.5 | |||
Region | |||||||||||
Northeast | 6,558 | 23.1 | 4,035 | 23.5 | 844 | 31.3 | 1,679 | 19.8 | |||
Midwest | 7,226 | 25.5 | 5,169 | 30.1 | 644 | 23.9 | 1,413 | 16.6 | |||
South | 8,820 | 31.1 | 4,467 | 26.0 | 573 | 21.3 | 3,780 | 44.5 | |||
West | 5,780 | 20.4 | 3,526 | 20.5 | 633 | 23.5 | 1,621 | 19.1 | |||
Community type | |||||||||||
Central city | 9,591 | 33.8 | 6,161 | 35.8 | 1,132 | 42.0 | 2,299 | 27.1 | |||
Urban fringe/large town | 11,818 | 41.6 | 7,270 | 42.3 | 1,048 | 38.9 | 3,500 | 41.2 | |||
Rural/small town | 6,975 | 24.6 | 3,766 | 21.9 | 514 | 19.1 | 2,695 | 31.7 | |||
† 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), 2003–2004. |
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