Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07

				Student/teacher ratio				Student/staff ratio
State or jurisdiction	Total student membership		Total staff	Total student/ teacher ratio¹	Kinder- garten student/ teacher ratio	Elementary student/ teacher ratio²	Secondary student/ teacher ratio³	Total student/ other instructional and student support staff ratio⁴	Total student/ admin- istrative staff ratio⁵	Total student/ admin- istrative and all other support staff ratio⁶

United States⁷	49,298,945		6,163,962	15.5	21.1	20.2	12.0	44.1	230.0	31.9

Alabama	743,632		109,816	13.2	11.0	16.4	9.9	59.6	223.7	20.6
Alaska	132,608		16,853	16.8	22.7	21.8	11.2	41.2	107.3	31.5
Arizona	1,065,082		102,390	20.2	29.6	19.0	20.7	41.6	373.6	53.5
Arkansas	476,409		71,616	13.6	12.2	22.7	8.7	33.8	196.5	25.7
California	6,406,821	⁸	579,825	20.9	21.6	20.7	23.4	66.7	369.9	41.9

Colorado	794,026		97,364	16.9	19.6	23.7	10.1	36.0	216.1	35.0
Connecticut	575,100		86,709	14.7	23.7	14.3	14.6	27.2	162.0	26.7
Delaware	122,254		15,403	15.2	29.4	21.0	9.2	44.2	170.7	33.9
District of Columbia	72,850	⁸	12,194	13.5	20.3	16.8	8.1	34.4	139.0	17.9
Florida	2,671,513		321,600	16.4	21.1	26.6	12.5	56.7	273.9	27.9

Georgia	1,629,157		227,616	14.3	16.8	17.1	10.3	42.1	181.2	26.0
Hawaii	180,728	⁸	21,061	16.0	22.8	21.8	10.3	40.5	242.3	46.2
Idaho	267,380		26,312	18.1	37.2	23.4	11.4	65.4	310.2	44.6
Illinois	2,118,276		221,553	15.0	26.2	25.3	10.3	49.9	545.9	65.3
Indiana	1,045,940		134,681	17.1	23.5	21.8	11.3	40.1	250.2	25.4

Iowa	483,122		69,690	13.6	14.7	17.8	9.5	34.5	149.9	30.9
Kansas	469,506		53,762	13.3	22.6	19.4	7.6	40.7	201.2	136.2
Kentucky	683,173	⁸	98,812	15.8	42.6	20.3	19.3	36.1	175.0	21.9
Louisiana	675,851		95,226	14.7	21.4	14.4	13.3	39.4	225.3	25.9
Maine	193,986		36,785	11.5	13.0	11.5	11.9	21.0	116.9	23.0

Maryland	851,640		113,474	14.6	20.4	16.3	11.1	47.7	126.6	30.3
Massachusetts	968,661		136,563	13.2	25.3	15.0	14.3	31.2	172.1	39.4
Michigan	1,714,709		212,320	17.5	31.5	29.2	13.7	42.2	202.5	27.4
Minnesota	840,565		106,701	16.2	23.5	22.1	11.6	27.7	213.0	43.2
Mississippi	495,026		68,815	15.3	20.4	23.0	10.8	36.8	172.9	25.9

Missouri	920,353		127,020	13.7	16.6	18.7	8.8	30.2	201.6	42.1
Montana	144,418		19,023	13.9	15.9	14.0	13.7	42.2	204.8	35.7
Nebraska	287,580		42,938	13.4	17.3	13.9	11.8	34.0	177.7	27.1
Nevada	424,240	⁸	33,949	18.5	34.5	24.8	15.4	76.0	344.1	126.0
New Hampshire	203,551		32,174	13.1	24.6	12.3	13.7	24.6	184.9	31.5

New Jersey	1,388,850	⁸	205,372	12.4	25.7	19.8	8.5	30.9	499.8	32.5
New Mexico	328,220		46,551	14.9	16.2	14.4	15.4	33.2	176.7	27.2
New York	2,809,649		373,360	12.8	15.2	17.5	11.2	50.6	238.5	35.0
North Carolina	1,444,481		196,657	13.8	18.1	18.9	8.7	36.3	124.5	38.7
North Dakota	96,670		15,157	12.1	19.8	12.8	10.4	32.8	110.7	31.4

Ohio	1,836,096		242,574	16.6	26.6	24.6	11.6	43.5	249.8	23.3
Oklahoma	639,391		81,831	15.1	23.8	21.4	10.5	47.5	227.9	29.4
Oregon	562,574		51,067	21.3	37.5	20.4	23.1	83.7	299.7	37.5
Pennsylvania	1,871,060		241,024	15.2	26.3	23.9	12.2	42.0	276.9	30.2
Rhode Island	151,612		17,902	13.3	26.5	18.3	8.3	45.7	283.4	67.0

South Carolina	703,119		74,709	14.1	22.3	14.1	14.7	53.3	168.0	121.6
South Dakota	121,158		17,297	13.4	22.1	14.0	14.9	31.5	232.5	33.9
Tennessee	978,368	⁸	123,218	15.7	18.7	15.3	15.7	49.7	272.5	27.4
Texas	4,599,509		616,155	14.8	18.4	21.4	10.7	49.4	184.9	26.1
Utah	523,586	⁸	47,365	22.1	41.1	31.5	15.8	52.3	333.7	45.9

Vermont	95,399		19,232	10.8	16.7	18.1	8.8	15.6	161.4	29.4
Virginia	1,220,440		239,815	11.6	21.9	21.6	5.8	28.6	192.7	15.0
Washington	1,026,774		102,948	19.1	31.7	25.6	15.0	65.6	258.1	37.3
West Virginia	281,939		39,217	14.5	22.8	23.6	11.1	49.8	222.7	25.2
Wisconsin	876,700		105,033	14.8	18.3	21.2	9.4	45.3	245.0	41.6
Wyoming	85,193		15,233	12.6	18.6	17.5	7.9	24.5	127.7	21.9
					0.0
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁹	60,891		8,338	11.7	20.8	27.9	8.3	63.3	203.0	37.2
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁹	26,631		3,574	13.1	20.7	21.8	5.8	72.6	166.4	29.0
Bureau of Indian Education	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
American Samoa	16,427		1,869	16.9	24.7	18.5	17.3	37.4	135.8	55.5
Guam	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands	11,695		1,160	20.2	33.0	24.7	12.6	39.9	307.8	50.6
Puerto Rico	544,138		71,962	13.5	14.3	17.3	11.6	83.2	276.9	24.3
U.S. Virgin Islands	16,284		3,020	10.6	19.2	15.8	6.2	26.7	114.7	25.2
— Not available.
¹ Total teachers include prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes.
² Elementary students includes students in grades 1–8.
³ Secondary students includes students in grades 9–12.
⁴ Other instructional and student support staff includes aides, librarians, library support staff, and student support staff.
⁵ Administrative staff includes school and local education agency (LEA) administrators.
⁶ Administrative and all other support staff includes school, LEA, and all other support staff.
⁷ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁸ State membership totals in California, Kentucky, and Nevada include imputed values for one grade. In the District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas, one or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail derived from the State Nonfiscal or School Universe surveys.
⁹ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependent schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts. Some staff counts were imputed based on current-year data. Some staff counts were adjusted or disaggregated from reported totals. See table 3 for more information.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2006–07, Version 1a.

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