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Table 1. Number of rural school districts identified by metro-centric and urban-centric locale code systems: School year 2003-04
Regions and states | Total districts |
Metro-centric rural |
Urban-centric rural |
Rural added |
Rural unchanged |
Rural dropped |
Net change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
U.S. Total | 16,763 | 8,221 | 8,315 | 579 | 7,736 | 485 | 94 |
Northeast | 3,483 | 1,303 | 1,304 | 99 | 1,205 | 98 | 1 |
Connecticut | 192 | 66 | 69 | 6 | 63 | 3 | 3 |
Maine | 237 | 179 | 178 | 8 | 170 | 9 | -1 |
Massachusetts | 381 | 92 | 88 | 11 | 77 | 15 | -4 |
New Hampshire | 165 | 107 | 108 | 7 | 101 | 6 | 1 |
New Jersey | 645 | 109 | 116 | 16 | 100 | 9 | 7 |
New York | 816 | 325 | 314 | 16 | 298 | 27 | -11 |
Pennsylvania | 694 | 191 | 186 | 20 | 166 | 25 | -5 |
Rhode Island | 48 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 2 |
Vermont | 305 | 224 | 233 | 13 | 220 | 4 | 9 |
South | 3,792 | 2,019 | 2,119 | 248 | 1,871 | 148 | 100 |
Alabama | 133 | 63 | 66 | 6 | 60 | 3 | 3 |
Arkansas | 330 | 224 | 234 | 18 | 216 | 8 | 10 |
Delaware | 33 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -3 |
District of Columbia | 39 | † | † | † | † | † | † |
Florida | 74 | 26 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 7 | -3 |
Georgia | 198 | 88 | 102 | 25 | 77 | 11 | 14 |
Kentucky | 178 | 94 | 92 | 15 | 77 | 17 | -2 |
Louisiana | 89 | 37 | 36 | 5 | 31 | 6 | -1 |
Maryland | 24 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
Mississippi | 163 | 89 | 91 | 13 | 78 | 11 | 2 |
North Carolina | 214 | 99 | 106 | 16 | 90 | 9 | 7 |
Oklahoma | 544 | 423 | 420 | 22 | 398 | 25 | -3 |
South Carolina | 102 | 37 | 43 | 11 | 32 | 5 | 6 |
Tennessee | 137 | 71 | 74 | 9 | 65 | 6 | 3 |
Texas | 1,255 | 636 | 680 | 65 | 615 | 21 | 44 |
Virginia | 222 | 79 | 107 | 34 | 73 | 6 | 28 |
West Virginia | 57 | 36 | 31 | 2 | 29 | 7 | -5 |
Midwest | 6,303 | 3,335 | 3,295 | 123 | 3,172 | 163 | -40 |
Illinois | 1,040 | 389 | 351 | 16 | 335 | 54 | -38 |
Indiana | 329 | 147 | 145 | 9 | 136 | 11 | -2 |
Iowa | 370 | 273 | 263 | 1 | 262 | 11 | -10 |
Kansas | 308 | 221 | 224 | 7 | 217 | 4 | 3 |
Michigan | 804 | 355 | 353 | 16 | 337 | 18 | -2 |
Minnesota | 513 | 244 | 255 | 14 | 241 | 3 | 11 |
Missouri | 533 | 377 | 378 | 11 | 367 | 10 | 1 |
Nebraska | 535 | 446 | 439 | 12 | 427 | 19 | -7 |
North Dakota | 253 | 194 | 195 | 1 | 194 | 0 | 1 |
Ohio | 988 | 287 | 292 | 23 | 269 | 18 | 5 |
South Dakota | 185 | 151 | 149 | 0 | 149 | 2 | -2 |
Wisconsin | 445 | 251 | 251 | 13 | 238 | 13 | 0 |
West | 3,185 | 1,564 | 1,597 | 109 | 1,488 | 76 | 33 |
Alaska | 55 | 40 | 42 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 2 |
Arizona | 583 | 156 | 193 | 44 | 149 | 7 | 37 |
California | 1,059 | 403 | 402 | 27 | 375 | 28 | -1 |
Colorado | 186 | 117 | 116 | 5 | 111 | 6 | -1 |
Hawaii | 1 | † | † | † | † | † | † |
Idaho | 115 | 75 | 74 | 2 | 72 | 3 | -1 |
Montana | 447 | 378 | 373 | 7 | 366 | 12 | -5 |
Nevada | 18 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
New Mexico | 89 | 49 | 54 | 5 | 49 | 0 | 5 |
Oregon | 205 | 115 | 107 | 1 | 106 | 9 | -8 |
Utah | 67 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 2 | -1 |
Washington | 301 | 170 | 173 | 11 | 162 | 8 | 3 |
Wyoming | 59 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
† Not applicable. | |||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Locale Code File," 2003-04. |