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Table 2. Number of operating public schools and districts, student membership, teachers, and pupil/teacher ratio, by
State or jurisdiction: School year 2018–19




State or jurisdiction	Number of operating schools¹	Number of operating districts	Student Membership²	Teachers²	Pupil/Teacher Ratio
United States³	98,780	19,289	50,694,061	3,169,762	16.0

Alabama	1,528	177	739,716	42,114	17.6
Alaska	507	54	130,963	7,657	17.1
Arizona	2,344	704	1,141,511	48,510	23.5
Arkansas	1,079	294	495,291	38,019	13.0
California	10,434	2,170	6,272,734	271,805	23.1

Colorado	1,915	270	911,536	53,147	17.2
Connecticut	1,022	204	526,634	42,828	12.3
Delaware	225	46	138,405	9,624	14.4
District of Columbia	228	68	88,493	7,312	12.1
Florida	4,181	76	2,846,444	164,399	17.3

Georgia	2,309	232	1,767,202	117,159	15.1
Hawaii	292	1	181,278	12,132	14.9
Idaho	746	168	310,522	16,745	18.5
Illinois	4,345	1,056	1,982,327	132,423	15.0
Indiana	1,916	431	1,055,706	61,155	17.3

Iowa	1,316	339	514,833	35,618	14.5
Kansas	1,314	311	497,733	36,724	13.6
Kentucky	1,534	186	677,821	41,827	16.2
Louisiana	1,383	204	711,783	38,913	18.3
Maine	599	276	180,461	15,034	12.0

Maryland	1,418	25	896,827	60,699	14.8
Massachusetts	1,852	432	962,297	73,868	13.0
Michigan	3,728	893	1,504,194	85,015	17.7
Minnesota	2,540	564	889,304	57,698	15.4
Mississippi	1,054	155	471,298	31,963	14.7

Missouri	2,427	564	913,441	68,498	13.3
Montana	823	487	148,844	10,575	14.1
Nebraska	1,081	279	326,392	23,912	13.6
Nevada	722	21	492,640	23,240	21.2
New Hampshire	494	308	178,515	14,644	12.2

New Jersey	2,573	688	1,400,069	116,189	12.0
New Mexico	882	146	333,537	21,139	15.8
New York	4,796	1024	2,700,833	212,157	12.7
North Carolina	2,657	330	1,552,497	100,220	15.5
North Dakota	523	221	113,845	9,470	12.0

Ohio	3,566	1,043	1,695,762	101,739	16.7
Oklahoma	1,807	597	698,891	42,448	16.5
Oregon	1,256	222	609,507	30,152	20.2
Pennsylvania	2,969	789	1,730,757	123,350	14.0
Rhode Island	320	64	143,436	10,749	13.3

South Carolina	1,265	102	780,882	52,730	14.8
South Dakota	697	166	138,975	9,865	14.1
Tennessee	1,862	147	1,007,624	64,116	15.7
Texas	8,979	1,226	5,433,471	359,576	15.1
Utah	1,061	161	677,031	29,753	22.8

Vermont	312	235	87,074	8,317	10.5
Virginia	2,115	215	1,289,367	86,974	14.8
Washington	2,445	336	1,123,736	61,837	18.2
West Virginia	721	57	267,976	18,912	14.2
Wisconsin	2,255	463	859,333	59,484	14.4
Wyoming	363	62	94,313	7,327	12.9

Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

DoDEA	—	—	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	174	174	43,706	5,585	7.8
American Samoa	29	1	12,106	—	—
Guam	44	4	29,719	2,163	13.7
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	847	1	307,282	25,424	12.1
U.S. Virgin Islands	26	2	10,718	1,020	10.5
— Not available.
¹ Operating schools/agencies include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year. The member LEAs within the New York City supervisory union are reported as a single LEA. The total number of operating schools/agencies excludes entities also reported by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The specific list of entities, along with the links to entities operated in those states, is available in the CCD Reference Library, document #5 (https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/reference_library.asp).
² The membership and staff counts are from the state education agency (SEA) data files referenced in the source notes. Data for teachers are expressed in full-time equivalents (FTE). Counts of public school teachers and enrollment include prekindergarten through grade 13. U.S. totals include 1,539,675 prekindergartners and 69,236 prekindergarten teachers.
³ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey", 2018–19, Provisional Version 1a, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey", 2018–19, Provisional Version 1a, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education", 2018–19, Provisional Version 1a.

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