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Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 2001-02

Table A-5. Number of regular public school districts, by membership size and by state: School year 2001–02 #151; Part 1

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State Total districts District membership size
100,000
or more
25,000 to
99,999
10,000 to
24,999
7,500 to
9,999
5,000 to
7,499
2,500 to
4,999
2,000 to
2,499
1,500 to
1,999
United States 14,559 25 218 573 342 725 2,031 801 1,071
 
Alabama 128 0 4 6 14 12 51 13 14
Alaska 53 0 1 2 1 1 3 3 4
Arizona 323 0 7 15 6 14 28 10 12
Arkansas 312 0 1 4 3 7 27 11 24
California 986 2 39 111 54 79 131 46 54
 
Colorado 178 0 8 10 2 7 17 2 11
Connecticut 166 0 0 7 8 20 39 17 11
Delaware 19 0 0 4 1 3 6 0 2
District of Columbia 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Florida 67 7 19 10 3 9 9 5 1
 
Georgia 180 1 10 21 10 20 54 13 25
Hawaii 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Idaho 114 0 2 3 2 4 14 4 9
Illinois 893 1 2 20 10 32 104 43 79
Indiana 294 0 2 17 9 25 55 33 53
 
Iowa 371 0 1 6 2 2 22 12 26
Kansas 304 0 2 5 2 7 18 12 14
Kentucky 176 0 2 7 5 12 55 27 14
Louisiana 66 0 7 11 8 8 22 3 5
Maine 282 0 0 0 1 0 24 12 5
 
Maryland 24 3 6 7 0 3 5 0 0
Massachusetts 350 0 3 7 6 24 75 28 16
Michigan 554 1 1 23 12 37 116 49 67
Minnesota 417 0 4 11 8 13 37 12 33
Mississippi 152 0 1 3 5 11 51 16 28
 
Missouri 524 0 2 15 6 10 48 25 23
Montana 452 0 0 1 1 3 5 2 6
Nebraska 555 0 2 1 2 2 11 2 5
Nevada 17 1 1 0 2 3 2 0 0
New Hampshire 178 0 0 2 0 3 17 7 14
 
New Jersey 603 0 3 13 17 33 85 43 58
New Mexico 89 0 1 6 4 4 13 4 6
New York 703 1 3 11 26 49 140 58 75
North Carolina 121 2 5 30 13 16 31 6 6
North Dakota 222 0 0 2 1 2 3 1 3
 
Ohio 662 0 5 12 15 39 136 69 96
Oklahoma 543 0 2 8 1 9 19 12 24
Oregon 198 0 3 8 4 14 24 13 11
Pennsylvania 501 1 1 14 13 47 163 56 72
Rhode Island 36 0 1 2 1 4 16 3 4
 
South Carolina 89 0 5 14 12 10 22 5 4
South Dakota 176 0 0 2 0 0 8 4 1
Tennessee 138 1 5 10 6 18 42 10 11
Texas 1,040 2 35 46 21 50 116 48 65
Utah 40 0 6 6 1 4 9 2 1
 
Vermont 292 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 5
Virginia 137 1 9 16 8 14 38 16 8
Washington 296 0 4 26 9 19 32 18 15
West Virginia 55 0 1 6 3 9 18 5 5
Wisconsin 433 0 1 10 4 12 62 15 41
Wyoming 48 0 0 2 0 1 5 4 5
Outlying areas, DoD Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs*
DODDS: DoDs Overseas 9 0 0 3 3 1 2 0 0
DDESS: DoDs Domestic 17 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1
Bureau of Indian Affairs 24 0 0 0 0 1 7 3 2
American Samoa 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Guam 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Marianas 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Puerto Rico 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Virgin Islands 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
 
*Table includes 26 Department of Defense and 24 Bureau of Indian Affairs school districts that are technically federally operated agencies; this is in order to report data for these agencies in the table.
NOTE: Table includes districts for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2001–02.
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