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| Table 12. Pupil/teacher ratio of private schools, by school level and selected characteristics: United States, 2009–10 |
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| Selected characteristic | School level | |||||||
| Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||
| Total | 10.7 | 11.7 | 11.6 | 9.4 | ||||
| Private school typology | ||||||||
| Catholic | 14.1 | 14.8 | 13.5 | 10.7 | ||||
| Parochial | 14.9 | 15.2 | 13.3 | 12.6 | ||||
| Diocesan | 14.5 | 14.8 | 14.1 | 11.7 | ||||
| Private | 12.1 | 11.4 | 13.0 | 9.5 | ||||
| Other religious | 10.2 | 10.3 | 9.7 | 10.2 | ||||
| Conservative Christian | 10.7 | 10.3 | 11.2 | 10.8 | ||||
| Other affiliated | 9.9 | 10.2 | 9.4 | 9.8 | ||||
| Unaffiliated | 9.9 | 10.3 | 9.5 | 9.7 | ||||
| Nonsectarian | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 8.0 | ||||
| Regular | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 8.7 | ||||
| Special emphasis | 7.2 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 8.2 | ||||
| Special education | 5.5 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.6 | ||||
| Program emphasis | ||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 11.5 | 12.7 | 12.1 | 10.0 | ||||
| Montessori | 6.5 | 6.2 | ‡ | 9.2 | ||||
| Special program emphasis | 7.5 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 6.9 | ||||
| Special education | 5.5 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.7 | ||||
| Vocational/technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||||
| Alternative | 8.2 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 8.6 | ||||
| Early childhood | 6.7 | 6.7 | † | 0.0 | ||||
| Size (number of students) | ||||||||
| Less than 50 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 6.0 | ||||
| 50–149 | 8.8 | 9.7 | 7.5 | 7.8 | ||||
| 150–299 | 11.4 | 13.0 | 9.7 | 9.1 | ||||
| 300–499 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 11.1 | 10.0 | ||||
| 500–749 | 12.6 | 16.4 | 13.1 | 10.3 | ||||
| 750 or more | 12.4 | 15.2 | 14.6 | 11.0 | ||||
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 9.9 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 7.8 | ||||
| Midwest | 12.3 | 13.1 | 12.9 | 10.0 | ||||
| South | 10.1 | 10.3 | 11.5 | 9.8 | ||||
| West | 11.4 | 12.1 | 11.9 | 10.1 | ||||
| Urbanicity type | ||||||||
| City | 11.1 | 11.8 | 12.5 | 9.5 | ||||
| Suburban | 10.7 | 11.8 | 11.7 | 9.0 | ||||
| Town | 10.7 | 11.2 | 10.3 | 10.2 | ||||
| Rural | 9.8 | 10.9 | 8.7 | 9.5 | ||||
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | ||||||||
| NOTE: These estimates include private schools which provide instruction for one or more of grades kindergarten through twelve (or comparable ungraded levels). | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2009–10. | ||||||||
