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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 2020–21

               
               
               
State or jurisdiction Number of
operating schools1
Number of
operating districts1
  Student
Membership2
Teachers2   Pupil/Teacher
Ratio
United States3 98,609 19,254 49,356,945 3,032,471 15.44
 
Alabama 1,542 179 734,559 42,336 17.4
Alaska 503 54 129,872 7,558 17.2
Arizona 2,357 691 1,111,500 49,547 22.4
Arkansas 1,080 303 486,305 38,543 12.6
California 10,328 2,121 6,064,504 269,850 22.5
 
Colorado 1,927 272 883,199 54,319 16.3
Connecticut 1,001 206 509,058 42,580 12.0
Delaware 225 45 138,092 9,850 14.0
District of Columbia 235 68 89,883 7,678 11.7
Florida 4,219 77 2,791,707 161,413 17.3
 
Georgia 2,311 241 1,730,015 118,059 14.7
Hawaii 294 1 176,441 12,145 14.5
Idaho 774 178 307,581 17,582 17.5
Illinois 4,384 1,032 1,886,137
Indiana 1,902 435 1,033,964 65,758 15.7
 
Iowa 1,309 336 506,656 36,048 14.1
Kansas 1,310 335 481,750 38,007 12.7
Kentucky 1,532 185 658,809 42,458 15.5
Louisiana 1,353 193 693,150 38,369 18.1
Maine 595 277 172,455 15,143 11.4
 
Maryland 1,421 25 882,527 62,276 14.2
Massachusetts 1,845 426 921,712 75,147 12.3
Michigan 3,526 891 1,434,137 84,317 17.0
Minnesota 2,541 571 872,083 54,535 16.0
Mississippi 1,042 155 442,627 31,480 14.1
 
Missouri 2,444 564 882,477 68,924 12.8
Montana 826 483 146,252 10,942 13.4
Nebraska 1,086 279 324,697 23,943 13.6
Nevada 736 20 482,348 23,746 20.3
New Hampshire 496 310 169,027 14,800 11.4
 
New Jersey 2,565 701 1,373,960 116,530 11.8
New Mexico 886 147 316,840 21,577 14.7
New York 4,807 1054 2,606,748 213,537 12.2
North Carolina 2,683 348 1,513,677 101,057 15.0
North Dakota 488 221 114,955 9,473 12.1
 
Ohio 3,531 1,037 1,645,412 101,148 16.3
Oklahoma 1,789 595 694,113 43,110 16.1
Oregon 1,263 222 560,917 30,786 18.2
Pennsylvania 2,947 787 1,704,396 125,028 13.6
Rhode Island 314 64 139,184 10,669 13.0
 
South Carolina 1,266 102 766,819 53,703 14.3
South Dakota 706 166 139,566 10,020 13.9
Tennessee 1,880 148 985,207 64,667 15.2
Texas 9,002 1,229 5,372,806 370,719 14.5
Utah 1,088 163 680,659
 
Vermont 305 184 82,401 7,989 10.3
Virginia 2,125 214 1,251,639 87,049 14.4
Washington 2,506 336 1,087,354 61,810 17.6
West Virginia 710 60 253,930 18,630 13.6
Wisconsin 2,240 463 830,066 60,092 13.8
Wyoming 364 60   92,772 7,522   12.3
               
Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
               
DoDEA    
Bureau of Indian
Education
174 174 34,724 4,026 8.6
American Samoa 29 1 10,246
Guam 44 4 27,497 1,813 15.2
Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana
Islands
35 1
Puerto Rico 849 1 276,413 23,109 12.0
U.S. Virgin Islands 23 2   10,993 929   11.8
— 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 2020–21 include 1,224,167 Pre-kindergartners and 66,411 Pre-kindergarten teachers.
3U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
4The SY 2020–21 pupil/teacher ratio shown in this table includes only states which reported both membership and FTE teacher counts for SY 2020–21.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey", 2020–21, Provisional Version 1a, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey", 2020–21, Provisional Version 1a, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education", 2020–21, Provisional Version 1a.