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| Table 96. | Public elementary schools, by grade span and average school size, by state: 1993-94 |
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| | Schools, by grade span || Average
| |______________________________________________________________________________|| number
| |Prekindergarten,| Prekinder- | Prekinder- | Prekinder- | | || of
State or other area | Total | kindergarten, | garten, | garten, | garten, | Grades | Other ||students
| | or 1st grade |kindergarten,|kindergarten,|kindergarten,|4, 5, or 6| grade || per
| |to grades 3 or 4|or 1st grade |or 1st grade |or 1st grade | to | spans ||school\1\
| | | to grade 5 | to grade 6 | to grade 8 |6, 7, or 8| ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 || 9
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United States .....| 60,052 | 4,870 | 18,444 | 17,217 | 4,566 | 9,573 | 5,382 || 468
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Alabama ..............| 849 | 79 | 230 | 206 | 80 | 171 | 83 || 487
Alaska ...............| 190 | 5 | 26 | 108 | 19 | 15 | 17 || 357
Arizona ..............| 829 | 52 | 126 | 339 | 147 | 106 | 59 || 562
Arkansas .............| 646 | 79 | 53 | 375 | 10 | 75 | 54 || 395
California ...........| 5,588 | 187 | 1,507 | 2,533 | 531 | 636 | 194 || 610
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Colorado .............| 1,005 | 30 | 454 | 254 | 11 | 187 | 69 || 424
Connecticut ..........| 764 | 80 | 275 | 165 | 43 | 133 | 68 || 449
Delaware .............| 118 | 42 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 29 | 25 || 563
District of Columbia .| 117 | 7 | 3 | 95 | 4 | 5 | 3 || 432
Florida ..............| 1,824 | 29 | 1,118 | 231 | 27 | 336 | 83 || 761
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Georgia ..............| 1,364 | 43 | 676 | 137 | 31 | 269 | 208 || 620
Hawaii ...............| 184 | 1 | 33 | 123 | 7 | 16 | 4 || 611
Idaho ................| 378 | 34 | 80 | 163 | 21 | 46 | 34 || 370
Illinois .............| 3,095 | 338 | 547 | 664 | 711 | 450 | 385 || 406
Indiana...............| 1,397 | 58 | 540 | 469 | 41 | 214 | 75 || 437
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Iowa .................| 1,075 | 137 | 298 | 305 | 22 | 202 | 111 || 287
Kansas ...............| 1,042 | 71 | 300 | 276 | 142 | 157 | 96 || 289
Kentucky .............| 991 | 51 | 395 | 231 | 123 | 169 | 22 || 425
Louisiana ............| 983 | 118 | 283 | 209 | 64 | 202 | 107 || 513
Maine ................| 555 | 85 | 91 | 86 | 113 | 91 | 89 || 257
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Maryland .............| 1,016 | 23 | 546 | 196 | 12 | 182 | 57 || 537
Massachusetts ........| 1,416 | 211 | 438 | 287 | 71 | 232 | 177 || 422
Michigan .............| 2,304 | 194 | 871 | 557 | 61 | 399 | 222 || 434
Minnesota ............| 1,126 | 141 | 200 | 500 | 27 | 130 | 128 || 437
Mississippi ..........| 565 | 72 | 88 | 150 | 54 | 109 | 92 || 514
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Missouri..............| 1,413 | 87 | 378 | 476 | 124 | 215 | 133 || 381
Montana ..............| 541 | 34 | 71 | 242 | 77 | 48 | 69 || 186
Nebraska .............| 1,018 | 61 | 96 | 508 | 163 | 58 | 132 || 166
Nevada ...............| 303 | 9 | 117 | 92 | 22 | 41 | 22 || 540
New Hampshire ........| 357 | 59 | 68 | 88 | 47 | 63 | 32 || 357
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New Jersey ...........| 1,778 | 260 | 424 | 319 | 267 | 304 | 204 || 436
New Mexico ...........| 521 | 23 | 188 | 158 | 4 | 92 | 56 || 409
New York .............| 2,926 | 258 | 892 | 869 | 71 | 492 | 344 || 597
North Carolina .......| 1,504 | 91 | 623 | 250 | 121 | 317 | 102 || 515
North Dakota .........| 369 | 16 | 21 | 247 | 46 | 16 | 23 || 190
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Ohio .................| 2,667 | 328 | 721 | 838 | 91 | 440 | 249 || 423
Oklahoma .............| 1,200 | 55 | 322 | 235 | 301 | 192 | 95 || 340
Oregon ...............| 893 | 51 | 304 | 265 | 99 | 134 | 40 || 369
Pennsylvania .........| 2,364 | 296 | 840 | 637 | 61 | 385 | 145 || 469
Rhode Island .........| 242 | 40 | 43 | 90 | 4 | 27 | 38 || 385
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South Carolina .......| 788 | 87 | 312 | 105 | 19 | 187 | 78 || 547
South Dakota .........| 455 | 32 | 100 | 140 | 75 | 76 | 32 || 204
Tennessee ............| 1,108 | 100 | 287 | 270 | 224 | 161 | 66 || 498
Texas ................| 4,408 | 434 | 1,599 | 785 | 101 | 933 | 556 || 551
Utah .................| 469 | 10 | 101 | 313 | 3 | 35 | 7 || 559
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Vermont ..............| 302 | 31 | 20 | 118 | 60 | 23 | 50 || 213
Virginia .............| 1,352 | 86 | 639 | 201 | 4 | 252 | 170 || 522
Washington ...........| 1,256 | 61 | 385 | 504 | 50 | 165 | 91 || 450
West Virginia.........| 633 | 65 | 150 | 282 | 35 | 75 | 26 || 293
Wisconsin ............| 1,481 | 107 | 486 | 390 | 120 | 241 | 137 || 371
Wyoming ..............| 283 | 22 | 67 | 126 | 5 | 40 | 23 || 215
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Outlying areas | | | | | | | ||
American Samoa .......| 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 2 || 457
Guam .................| 29 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 || 798
Northern Marianas ....| 21 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 || 244
Puerto Rico ..........| 1,012 | 103 | 37 | 753 | 4 | 40 | 75 || 294
Virgin Islands .......| 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 549
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\1\Average for schools reporting enrollment data. NOTE.--Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by level, such as special education schools for the disabled. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared June 1995.) |
