Table 2.–Number of students receiving educational services in the 100 largest school districts in 2009–10: School years 2005–06 through 2009–10

			Number of students
100 largest school districts in 2009–10	Ranking	State	2001– 02	2002– 03	2003– 04	2004– 05	2005– 06
New York City Public Schools	1	NY	1,014,058	999,150	989,941	981,690	1,014,020
Los Angeles Unified	2	CA	727,319	707,627	693,680	687,534	670,746
Puerto Rico Department of Education	3	PR	563,490	544,138	526,565	503,635	493,393
City of Chicago School District 299	4	IL	420,982	413,694	407,510	421,430	407,157
Dade	5	FL	362,070	353,790	348,128	345,525	345,804
Clark County School District	6	NV	294,131	303,448	309,051	312,761	307,059
Broward	7	FL	271,630	262,813	258,893	256,351	256,137
Houston Independent School District	8	TX	210,292	202,936	199,534	200,225	202,773
Hillsborough	9	FL	193,757	193,517	193,180	192,007	193,265
Hawaii Department of Education	10	HI	182,818	180,728	179,897	179,478	180,196
Orange	11	FL	175,609	175,245	174,142	172,257	173,259
Palm Beach	12	FL	174,935	171,431	170,883	170,757	172,897
Fairfax County Public Schools	13	VA	163,753	163,952	165,722	169,030	171,956
Philadelphia City School District	14	PA	184,560	178,241	172,704	159,867	165,694
Gwinnett County	15	GA	144,598	152,043	155,618	157,219	159,296
Dallas Independent School District	16	TX	161,244	159,144	157,804	157,352	157,111
Montgomery County Public Schools	17	MD	139,398	137,814	137,717	139,282	141,722
Wake County Schools	18	NC	120,996	128,748	134,401	138,443	140,558
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools	19	NC	124,005	128,789	131,176	135,064	136,969
San Diego Unified	20	CA	132,482	130,983	131,577	132,256	131,417
Prince Georges County Public Schools	21	MD	133,325	131,014	129,752	127,977	127,039
Duval	22	FL	126,662	125,176	124,740	122,606	122,586
Memphis	23	TN	120,275	117,349	115,342	111,954	109,300
Cobb County	24	GA	106,724	107,274	107,307	106,747	107,245
Pinellas	25	FL	112,174	109,915	107,892	106,061	105,238
Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District	26	TX	86,256	92,135	96,837	100,685	104,231
Baltimore County Public Schools	27	MD	107,043	105,839	104,283	103,180	103,324
Dekalb County	28	GA	102,310	101,396	100,273	99,775	99,406
Jefferson County	29	KY	98,537	92,659	95,871	98,774	98,808
Albuquerque Public Schools	30	NM	94,022	95,493	95,965	95,934	96,572
Polk	31	FL	89,443	92,801	93,980	94,657	94,530
Northside Independent School District	32	TX	78,711	82,587	86,260	89,000	92,335
Detroit City School District	33	MI	133,255	117,609	107,874	97,577	90,499
Fulton County	34	GA	81,100	83,861	86,225	88,299	90,399
Long Beach Unified	35	CA	93,589	90,663	88,186	87,509	86,283
Jefferson County School District No R 1	36	CO	86,332	86,154	86,168	85,946	86,282
Austin Independent School District	37	TX	81,155	82,140	82,564	83,483	84,676
Baltimore City Public Schools	38	MD	87,643	84,515	81,284	82,266	82,866
Milwaukee School District	39	WI	92,395	89,912	86,819	85,381	82,096
Lee	40	FL	75,634	78,981	80,541	79,434	80,484
Fort Worth Independent School District	41	TX	80,336	79,457	78,857	79,285	80,209
Denver County 1	42	CO	72,312	72,561	73,053	74,189	77,267
Prince Wm County Public Schools	43	VA	68,458	70,948	72,988	73,917	76,861
Fresno Unified	44	CA	79,046	77,555	76,460	76,621	75,468
Davidson County	45	TN	72,713	73,731	73,715	74,312	75,080
Anne Arundel County Public Schools	46	MD	73,565	73,066	73,400	73,653	74,776
Guilford County Schools	47	NC	68,951	71,722	72,389	72,951	72,758
Brevard	48	FL	75,233	74,785	74,369	73,098	72,412
Va Beach City Public Schools	49	VA	74,303	72,538	72,477	71,554	71,182
Greenville 01	50	SC	67,551	67,537	69,444	70,441	70,969
Granite District	51	UT	67,345	67,502	75,982	70,166	70,595
Davis District	52	UT	61,735	62,193	70,323	66,614	69,689
Fort Bend Independent School District	53	TX	66,104	67,014	67,992	68,708	69,374
Mesa Unified District	54	AZ	74,626	74,128	73,044	70,346	67,471
Pasco	55	FL	62,768	64,689	66,314	66,784	67,147
Alpine District	56	UT	55,383	56,460	63,856	62,281	65,918
North East Independent School District	57	TX	59,817	61,255	62,181	63,452	65,498
Washoe County School District	58	NV	64,246	64,954	65,663	65,421	64,838
Seminole	59	FL	67,530	66,351	65,378	64,927	64,457
Arlington Independent School District	60	TX	63,397	63,082	62,863	63,045	63,487
El Paso Independent School District	61	TX	63,811	62,857	62,123	62,322	63,378
Aldine Independent School District	62	TX	58,093	58,831	60,083	61,526	62,792
Mobile County	63	AL	65,643	65,097	64,375	62,531	62,767
Elk Grove Unified	64	CA	60,735	61,881	62,294	62,172	62,483
Volusia	65	FL	65,627	65,867	64,488	63,018	62,306
Loudoun County Public Schools	66	VA	47,306	50,383	53,961	56,894	60,003
Douglas County School District No Re 1	67	CO	48,041	50,370	52,983	58,723	59,932
Chesterfield County Public Schools	68	VA	57,239	58,455	58,969	59,080	59,509
Katy Independent School District	69	TX	48,247	51,201	54,402	56,862	59,078
Garland Independent School District	70	TX	57,425	56,955	57,169	57,510	57,861
Santa Ana Unified	71	CA	59,310	57,286	57,061	57,439	56,937
Knox County	72	TN	54,427	59,663	54,490	55,535	56,758
Boston	73	MA	57,349	56,388	56,168	55,923	55,371
Tucson Unified District	74	AZ	60,557	60,333	59,327	57,391	55,369
San Antonio Independent School District	75	TX	56,422	55,406	54,779	54,696	55,327
San Francisco Unified	76	CA	56,236	56,183	55,069	55,183	55,140
Plano Independent School District	77	TX	53,238	52,997	53,683	54,203	54,939
San Bernardino City Unified	78	CA	58,661	57,398	56,727	54,727	53,837
Capistrano Unified	79	CA	51,245	51,512	52,390	52,681	53,381
Cumberland County Schools	80	NC	53,201	53,621	53,295	54,288	53,035
Columbus City School District	81	OH	58,961	56,003	55,269	53,536	52,810
Forsyth County Schools	82	NC	50,165	51,325	51,738	52,906	52,795
Pasadena Independent School District	83	TX	49,227	49,851	50,757	51,578	52,303
Osceola	84	FL	49,798	52,012	52,742	51,941	52,139
Corona Norco Unified	85	CA	47,510	49,865	51,322	52,138	52,052
Cherry Creek 5	86	CO	48,573	49,684	50,601	51,199	51,786
Lewisville Independent School District	87	TX	47,497	49,060	49,636	50,216	50,840
Howard County Public Schools	88	MD	48,596	49,048	49,542	49,905	50,641
Clayton County	89	GA	52,657	52,533	52,717	49,508	50,204
Conroe Independent School District	90	TX	42,613	44,460	46,524	47,996	49,629
Anchorage School District	91	AK	49,714	49,230	48,857	48,837	49,592
Henrico County Public Schools	92	VA	47,747	47,680	48,620	48,991	49,407
Brownsville Independent School District	93	TX	48,260	48,334	48,837	48,587	49,121
Atlanta Public Schools	94	GA	50,770	50,631	49,991	49,032	48,909
Jordan District	95	UT	77,110	78,299	85,651	81,485	48,853
Omaha Public Schools	96	NE	46,686	47,044	47,763	48,014	48,692
Cleveland Municipal	97	OH	58,788	55,593	52,954	49,952	48,392
Wichita	98	KS	48,547	46,938	46,788	47,260	48,324
Shelby County	99	TN	45,922	47,126	46,918	47,448	48,211
Garden Grove Unified	100	CA	49,574	48,802	48,669	48,574	47,950
NOTE: The 100 largest school districts were defined as regular school districts with the largest enrollments in the 2009–10 school year. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district. Data include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Education.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), , "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2009–10, Version 1a; 2008–09, Version 1a; 2007–08, Version 1b; 2006–07, Version 1c; and 2005–06, Version 1a.