Return to Data Tables | Download Excel (17 KB) |
Table 2. Number of operating public elementary and secondary schools and districts, student membership, teachers, and pupil/teacher ratio, by state
or jurisdiction: School year 2023–24
State or jurisdiction | Number of operating schools1 |
Number of operating districts1 |
Student Membership2 |
Teachers2 | Pupil/Teacher Ratio |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United States3 | 99,297 | 19,186 | 49,404,386 | 3,253,091 | 15.2 | ||
Alabama | 1,524 | 156 | 748,650 | 42,858 | 17.5 | ||
Alaska | 494 | 54 | 131,243 | 7,221 | 18.2 | ||
Arizona | 2,427 | 685 | 1,117,630 | 49,260 | 22.7 | ||
Arkansas | 1,101 | 304 | 484,978 | 38,755 | 12.5 | ||
California | 10,326 | 2,108 | 5,837,338 | 268,195 | 21.8 | ||
Colorado | 1,908 | 272 | 865,661 | 53,776 | 16.1 | ||
Connecticut | 1,010 | 208 | 512,652 | 43,104 | 11.9 | ||
Delaware | 234 | 45 | 141,842 | 9,909 | 14.3 | ||
District of Columbia | 245 | 72 | 92,794 | 8,335 | 11.1 | ||
Florida | 4,229 | 82 | 2,872,335 | 155,800 | 18.4 | ||
Georgia | 2,327 | 253 | 1,749,701 | 123,640 | 14.2 | ||
Hawaii | 295 | 1 | 169,308 | 12,113 | 14.0 | ||
Idaho | 801 | 190 | 316,414 | 17,965 | 17.6 | ||
Illinois | 4,400 | 1,031 | 1,846,264 | 136,492 | 13.5 | ||
Indiana | 1,917 | 444 | 1,032,723 | 67,374 | 15.3 | ||
Iowa | 1,318 | 336 | 508,112 | 36,068 | 14.1 | ||
Kansas | 1,348 | 337 | 483,505 | 37,167 | 13.0 | ||
Kentucky | 1,544 | 177 | 657,520 | 42,972 | 15.3 | ||
Louisiana | 1,316 | 190 | 708,190 | 48,864 | 14.5 | ||
Maine | 593 | 275 | 172,545 | 15,288 | 11.3 | ||
Maryland | 1,408 | 25 | 890,122 | 62,754 | 14.2 | ||
Massachusetts | 1,832 | 424 | 914,958 | 77,630 | 11.8 | ||
Michigan | 3,485 | 882 | 1,426,491 | 86,022 | 16.6 | ||
Minnesota | 2,696 | 574 | 869,967 | 59,181 | 14.7 | ||
Mississippi | 1,032 | 152 | 436,523 | 33,694 | 13.0 | ||
Missouri | 2,475 | 565 | 891,248 | 69,786 | 12.8 | ||
Montana | 821 | 479 | 149,291 | 10,828 | 13.8 | ||
Nebraska | 1,098 | 279 | 329,162 | 24,052 | 13.7 | ||
Nevada | 762 | 20 | 479,574 | 22,533 | 21.3 | ||
New Hampshire | 507 | 212 | 166,594 | 14,494 | 11.5 | ||
New Jersey | 2,558 | 698 | 1,392,567 | 118,031 | 11.8 | ||
New Mexico | 888 | 153 | 311,719 | 21,596 | 14.4 | ||
New York4 | 4,814 | 1071 | 2,533,449 | 217,522 | 11.6 | ||
North Carolina | 2,716 | 357 | 1,544,289 | 100,994 | 15.3 | ||
North Dakota | 507 | 221 | 119,033 | 9,639 | 12.3 | ||
Ohio | 3,577 | 1,057 | 1,675,300 | 100,659 | 16.6 | ||
Oklahoma | 1,778 | 594 | 698,761 | 42,751 | 16.3 | ||
Oregon | 1,296 | 222 | 547,424 | 31,083 | 17.6 | ||
Pennsylvania | 2,926 | 786 | 1,692,829 | 129,545 | 13.1 | ||
Rhode Island | 312 | 67 | 136,154 | 10,735 | 12.7 | ||
South Carolina | 1,270 | 96 | 793,860 | 57,243 | 13.9 | ||
South Dakota | 712 | 165 | 141,467 | 10,315 | 13.7 | ||
Tennessee | 1,905 | 148 | 1,004,625 | 66,417 | 15.1 | ||
Texas | 9,217 | 1,232 | 5,532,518 | 376,582 | 14.7 | ||
Utah | 1,096 | 155 | 689,883 | 33,537 | 20.6 | ||
Vermont | 306 | 188 | 82,455 | 7,962 | 10.4 | ||
Virginia | 2,129 | 208 | 1,258,852 | 94,035 | 13.4 | ||
Washington | 2,553 | 342 | 1,093,745 | 62,552 | 17.5 | ||
West Virginia | 682 | 65 | 246,883 | 18,688 | 13.2 | ||
Wisconsin | 2,224 | 468 | 814,202 | 59,623 | 13.7 | ||
Wyoming | 358 | 61 | 91,036 | 7,452 | 12.2 | ||
Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions | |||||||
DoDEA | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Bureau of Indian Education | 174 | 174 | 36,779 | 2,903 | 12.7 | ||
American Samoa | 29 | 1 | — | — | — | ||
Guam | 45 | 5 | — | 1,684 | — | ||
Northern Marianas | 35 | 1 | 9,217 | 539 | 17.1 | ||
Puerto Rico | 858 | 1 | 240,910 | 24,591 | 9.8 | ||
U.S. Virgin Islands | 20 | 2 | 10,312 | 908 | 11.4 | ||
— Not available. | |||||||
1Operating schools/districts include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year. | |||||||
2The student membership and teacher counts are from the state education agency (SEA) data files referenced in the source note below. Data for teachers are expressed in full-time equivalents (FTE). Counts include Pre-Kindergarten through grade 13. Specifically, U.S. totals for SY 2023–24 include 1,462,046 Pre-kindergartners and 73,012 Pre-kindergarten teachers. Student membership excludes adult education students. | |||||||
3U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia. | |||||||
4The member LEAs within the New York City supervisory union are reported as a single LEA. Refer to the EDFacts Directory (FS029) file specifications for additional information on the relationship between the CCD directory variables UNION and LEA_TYPE (https://www.ed.gov/edfacts-file-specifications). | |||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2023–24, Final Version 1a, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2023–24, Final Version 1a, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2023–24, Final Version 1a. |
Return to Data Tables | Download Excel (17 KB) |