Table 2. Number of operating public schools and districts, student membership, teachers, and pupil/teacher ratio, by state or jurisdiction:
School year 2019–20




State or jurisdiction	Number of operating schools¹	Number of operating districts	Student Membership²	Teachers²	Pupil/Teacher Ratio
United States³	98,507	19,247	50,710,441	3,198,170	15.9

Alabama	1,533	179	744,235	42,022	17.7
Alaska	506	54	132,017	7,484	17.6
Arizona	2,326	696	1,152,586	48,912	23.6
Arkansas	1,076	293	496,927	38,629	12.9
California	10,378	2,140	6,163,001	271,805⁴	22.7

Colorado	1,920	271	913,223	53,901	16.9
Connecticut	1,004	206	523,690	42,386	12.4
Delaware	222	44	139,930	9,747	14.4
District of Columbia	230	64	89,878	7,409	12.1
Florida	4,192	76	2,858,461	166,002	17.2

Georgia	2,304	234	1,769,657	117,837	15.0
Hawaii	293	1	181,088	12,221	14.8
Idaho	751	171	311,096	17,207	18.1
Illinois	4,351	1,056	1,943,117	132,815	14.6
Indiana	1,912	429	1,051,411	61,712	17.0

Iowa	1,310	336	517,324	35,737	14.5
Kansas	1,311	332	497,963	36,603	13.6
Kentucky	1,535	185	691,996	42,223	16.4
Louisiana	1,363	193	710,439	38,589	18.4
Maine	594	275	180,291	14,826	12.2

Maryland	1,420	25	909,404	61,485	14.8
Massachusetts	1,847	429	959,394	75,152	12.8
Michigan	3,552	891	1,495,925	84,838	17.6
Minnesota	2,545	569	893,203	55,630	16.1
Mississippi	1,047	154	466,002	31,578	14.8

Missouri	2,431	565	910,466	69,145	13.2
Montana	826	485	149,917	10,675	14.0
Nebraska	1,082	279	330,018	24,028	13.7
Nevada	726	21	496,934	25,509	19.5
New Hampshire	496	309	177,351	14,695	12.1

New Jersey	2,565	702	1,411,917	117,060	12.1
New Mexico	884	145	331,206	21,850	15.2
New York	4,819	1046	2,692,589	217,398	12.4
North Carolina	2,664	342	1,560,350	100,777	15.5
North Dakota	485	224	116,185	9,284	12.5

Ohio	3,536	1,037	1,689,867	105,998	15.9
Oklahoma	1,794	596	703,719	43,315	16.2
Oregon	1,255	222	610,648	30,238	20.2
Pennsylvania	2,958	788	1,732,449	124,294	13.9
Rhode Island	316	64	143,557	10,704	13.4

South Carolina	1,265	101	786,879	53,556	14.7
South Dakota	700	166	139,949	9,930	14.1
Tennessee	1,878	147	1,014,744	64,784	15.7
Texas	8,991	1,227	5,495,398	364,478	15.1
Utah	1,071	159	684,694	30,256	22.6

Vermont	308	187	86,759	8,042	10.8
Virginia	2,122	215	1,297,012	87,147	14.9
Washington	2,473	334	1,142,073	62,212	18.4
West Virginia	725	60	263,486	18,854	14.0
Wisconsin	2,255	462	855,400	59,801	14.3
Wyoming	360	61	94,616	7,391	12.8

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

DoDEA	—	—	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	174	174	38,199	5,263	7.3
American Samoa	29	1	10,448	—	—
Guam	44	4	28,812	2,119	13.6
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	847	1	292,518	24,840	11.8
U.S. Virgin Islands	23	2	10,907	976	11.2
— Not available.
¹Operating schools/districts 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.
²The 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. Specifically, U.S. totals for SY 2019–20 include 1,503,103 prekindergartners and 70,346 prekindergarten teachers.
³U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁴As of publication, California had not submitted SY 2019–20 FTE teacher data. The reported FTE teacher count for California shown in this table is imputed.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey", 2019–20, Provisional Version 1a, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey", 2019–20, Provisional Version 1a, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education", 2019–20, Provisional Version 1a.

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