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Table 2. Number of rural schools identified by metro-centric and urban-centric locale code systems: School year 2003-04
Regions and states | Total schools |
Metro-centric rural |
Urban-centric rural |
Rural added |
Rural unchanged |
Rural dropped |
Net change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
U.S. Total | 98,492 | 29,667 | 30,677 | 3,444 | 27,233 | 2,434 | 1,010 |
Northeast | 15,912 | 3,436 | 3,496 | 414 | 3,082 | 354 | 60 |
Connecticut | 1,271 | 232 | 239 | 24 | 215 | 17 | 7 |
Maine | 710 | 450 | 453 | 31 | 422 | 28 | 3 |
Massachusetts | 1,934 | 224 | 219 | 30 | 189 | 35 | -5 |
New Hampshire | 475 | 242 | 240 | 16 | 224 | 18 | -2 |
New Jersey | 2,481 | 221 | 249 | 52 | 197 | 24 | 28 |
New York | 5,001 | 869 | 919 | 129 | 790 | 79 | 50 |
Pennsylvania | 3,303 | 897 | 873 | 116 | 757 | 140 | -24 |
Rhode Island | 344 | 36 | 44 | 10 | 34 | 2 | 8 |
Vermont | 393 | 265 | 260 | 6 | 254 | 11 | -5 |
South | 32,999 | 10,937 | 11,396 | 1,530 | 9,866 | 1,071 | 459 |
Alabama | 1,563 | 703 | 745 | 94 | 651 | 52 | 42 |
Arkansas | 1,166 | 598 | 627 | 66 | 561 | 37 | 29 |
Delaware | 208 | 43 | 34 | 7 | 27 | 16 | -9 |
District of Columbia | 209 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Florida | 3,629 | 558 | 577 | 115 | 462 | 96 | 19 |
Georgia | 2,487 | 762 | 822 | 149 | 673 | 89 | 60 |
Kentucky | 1,474 | 680 | 706 | 105 | 601 | 79 | 26 |
Louisiana | 1,574 | 533 | 526 | 66 | 460 | 73 | -7 |
Maryland | 1,424 | 275 | 273 | 23 | 250 | 25 | -2 |
Mississippi | 1,055 | 510 | 512 | 54 | 458 | 52 | 2 |
North Carolina | 2,279 | 1,033 | 1,063 | 119 | 944 | 89 | 30 |
Oklahoma | 1,831 | 940 | 955 | 66 | 889 | 51 | 15 |
South Carolina | 1,177 | 473 | 526 | 107 | 419 | 54 | 53 |
Tennessee | 1,693 | 648 | 678 | 95 | 583 | 65 | 30 |
Texas | 8,317 | 2,012 | 2,234 | 367 | 1,867 | 145 | 222 |
Virginia | 2,093 | 728 | 715 | 49 | 666 | 62 | -13 |
West Virginia | 820 | 440 | 402 | 48 | 354 | 86 | -38 |
Midwest | 27,824 | 10,051 | 10,182 | 726 | 9,456 | 595 | 131 |
Illinois | 4,493 | 1,090 | 1,032 | 84 | 948 | 142 | -58 |
Indiana | 2,024 | 703 | 690 | 52 | 638 | 65 | -13 |
Iowa | 1,512 | 800 | 791 | 29 | 762 | 38 | -9 |
Kansas | 1,445 | 712 | 734 | 47 | 687 | 25 | 22 |
Michigan | 4,126 | 1,184 | 1,191 | 79 | 1,112 | 72 | 7 |
Minnesota | 2,637 | 791 | 829 | 63 | 766 | 25 | 38 |
Missouri | 2,439 | 994 | 1,032 | 86 | 946 | 48 | 38 |
Nebraska | 1,294 | 772 | 797 | 56 | 741 | 31 | 25 |
North Dakota | 567 | 396 | 406 | 11 | 395 | 1 | 10 |
Ohio | 4,237 | 1,194 | 1,219 | 122 | 1,097 | 97 | 25 |
South Dakota | 765 | 567 | 580 | 22 | 558 | 9 | 13 |
Wisconsin | 2,285 | 848 | 881 | 75 | 806 | 42 | 33 |
West | 21,757 | 5,243 | 5,603 | 774 | 4,829 | 414 | 360 |
Alaska | 530 | 307 | 329 | 36 | 293 | 14 | 22 |
Arizona | 2,042 | 383 | 502 | 149 | 353 | 30 | 119 |
California | 9,324 | 1,329 | 1,415 | 219 | 1,196 | 133 | 86 |
Colorado | 1,734 | 475 | 520 | 76 | 444 | 31 | 45 |
Hawaii | 284 | 52 | 65 | 30 | 35 | 17 | 13 |
Idaho | 703 | 308 | 322 | 32 | 290 | 18 | 14 |
Montana | 870 | 661 | 652 | 14 | 638 | 23 | -9 |
Nevada | 563 | 112 | 139 | 33 | 106 | 6 | 27 |
New Mexico | 828 | 293 | 313 | 44 | 269 | 24 | 20 |
Oregon | 1,304 | 393 | 400 | 46 | 354 | 39 | 7 |
Utah | 899 | 176 | 165 | 19 | 146 | 30 | -11 |
Washington | 2,283 | 545 | 565 | 65 | 500 | 45 | 20 |
Wyoming | 393 | 209 | 216 | 11 | 205 | 4 | 7 |
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. |