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Table 99. Public secondary schools, by grade span and average school size, by state: 1998-99
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                          |       |          |                        Schools, by grade span                       ||  Voca-   ||Average of students
                          |Total, |  Total,  |_____________________________________________________________________||  tional  ||  per school\3\
   State or other area    |  all  |   all    |Grades 7| Grades | Grades | Grades  |  Grades  |Other spans|  Other  ||schools\2\||____________________
                          |secon- | regular  |to 8 and|7 to 12 |8 to 12 | 9 to 12 | 10 to 12 |ending with|  grade  ||          ||   All   | Regular
                          | dary  |secondary | 7 to 9 |        |        |         |          | grade 12  |  spans  ||          ||secondary|secondary
                          |schools|schools\1\|        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          || schools |schools\1\
__________________________|_______|__________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||__________||_________|__________
            1             |   2   |    3     |   4    |   5    |   6    |    7    |    8     |     9     |   10    ||    11    ||   12    |    13
__________________________|_______|__________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||__________||_________|__________
   United States .........|22,103 |   18,571 |  3,608 |  3,322 |    392 |  12,744 |      732 |       254 |   1,051 ||    1,077 ||     707 |      786
                          |_______|__________|________|________|________|_________|__________|___________|_________||__________||_________|__________
Alabama ..................|   416 |      301 |     36 |    174 |      9 |     183 |        9 |         1 |       4 ||       82 ||     677 |      710
Alaska ...................|    94 |       74 |     21 |     27 |      1 |      43 |        0 |         2 |       0 ||        4 ||     488 |      586
Arizona ..................|   370 |      332 |     83 |     25 |      5 |     220 |        7 |         1 |      29 ||       10 ||     763 |      813
Arkansas .................|   416 |      415 |     67 |    201 |      4 |      55 |       63 |         2 |      24 ||        1 ||     446 |      447
California ...............| 1,962 |    1,267 |    411 |    137 |      1 |   1,364 |       38 |         2 |       9 ||        0 ||     981 |    1,441
                          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
Colorado .................|   373 |      320 |     51 |     65 |      4 |     218 |       10 |         5 |      20 ||        7 ||     610 |      683
Connecticut ..............|   211 |      177 |     28 |     13 |      2 |     161 |        1 |         1 |       5 ||       17 ||     782 |      861
Delaware .................|    47 |       39 |     13 |      2 |      1 |      31 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        5 ||     919 |      936
District of Columbia .....|    31 |       28 |     10 |      1 |      0 |      20 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||     603 |      651
Florida ..................|   456 |      421 |     25 |     35 |     11 |     366 |        9 |         2 |       8 ||       35 ||   1,404 |    1,494
                          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
Georgia ..................|   306 |      292 |     20 |      7 |     11 |     261 |        3 |         0 |       4 ||        0 ||   1,198 |    1,245
Hawaii ...................|    51 |       49 |     14 |      9 |      0 |      27 |        0 |         0 |       1 ||        0 ||   1,326 |    1,377
Idaho ....................|   222 |      162 |     49 |     56 |      4 |      90 |       18 |         0 |       5 ||        0 ||     446 |      570
Illinois .................| 1,011 |      819 |    204 |     54 |     21 |     621 |       14 |        34 |      63 ||       26 ||     634 |      735
Indiana...................|   463 |      404 |     71 |    104 |      0 |     251 |        6 |         1 |      30 ||       29 ||     792 |      832
                          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
Iowa .....................|   446 |      408 |     63 |    100 |      2 |     271 |        8 |         0 |       2 ||        0 ||     415 |      439
Kansas ...................|   422 |      422 |     63 |     87 |      4 |     258 |        6 |         2 |       2 ||        0 ||     407 |      407
Kentucky .................|   459 |      329 |     40 |    100 |      3 |     305 |        4 |         5 |       2 ||       90 ||     620 |      682
Louisiana ................|   329 |      286 |     65 |     44 |     14 |     191 |        5 |         1 |       9 ||       12 ||     726 |      795
Maine ....................|   160 |      132 |     23 |     12 |      1 |     122 |        0 |         1 |       1 ||       27 ||     523 |      527
                          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
Maryland .................|   249 |      191 |     26 |      4 |      3 |     190 |        1 |         3 |      22 ||       25 ||   1,059 |    1,236
Massachusetts ............|   363 |      299 |     42 |     43 |     16 |     247 |        6 |         2 |       7 ||       44 ||     826 |      882
Michigan .................|   871 |      759 |    119 |    103 |     18 |     528 |       24 |        11 |      68 ||       51 ||     646 |      699
Minnesota ................|   715 |      450 |     81 |    229 |     41 |     219 |       62 |        36 |      47 ||        9 ||     458 |      687
Mississippi ..............|   310 |      222 |     33 |     53 |      2 |     115 |       11 |         1 |      95 ||       88 ||     675 |      675
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Missouri..................|   636 |      564 |     57 |    198 |      8 |     329 |       25 |         6 |      13 ||       60 ||     537 |      542
Montana ..................|   361 |      358 |    184 |      0 |      0 |     174 |        1 |         0 |       2 ||        0 ||     184 |      185
Nebraska .................|   351 |      348 |     38 |    206 |      2 |      87 |       10 |         2 |       6 ||        0 ||     343 |      346
Nevada ...................|    93 |       85 |     17 |     15 |      0 |      54 |        1 |         4 |       2 ||        3 ||   1,011 |    1,054
New Hampshire ............|    98 |       98 |     20 |      0 |      0 |      77 |        1 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||     662 |      662
                          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
New Jersey ...............|   432 |      383 |     64 |     36 |      8 |     264 |        6 |         1 |      53 ||       48 ||     917 |      977
New Mexico ...............|   189 |      161 |     42 |     34 |      1 |      96 |        8 |         0 |       8 ||        0 ||     621 |      707
New York .................|   935 |      838 |    114 |    166 |     16 |     557 |       24 |         1 |      57 ||       25 ||     943 |      980
North Carolina ...........|   376 |      349 |     25 |     22 |      7 |     307 |        7 |         1 |       7 ||        9 ||     932 |      982
North Dakota .............|   216 |      209 |     18 |    143 |      3 |      37 |        5 |         1 |       9 ||        7 ||     248 |      248
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Ohio .....................|   972 |      884 |    190 |    125 |     16 |     567 |       21 |        39 |      14 ||       77 ||     734 |      736
Oklahoma .................|   593 |      592 |    114 |      0 |      0 |     390 |       69 |         3 |      17 ||        0 ||     352 |      352
Oregon ...................|   281 |      237 |     42 |     32 |     12 |     184 |        3 |         2 |       6 ||        0 ||     647 |      749
Pennsylvania .............|   789 |      705 |    104 |    174 |     10 |     366 |       41 |         8 |      86 ||       80 ||     869 |      875
Rhode Island .............|    54 |       48 |      9 |      3 |      0 |      41 |        0 |         0 |       1 ||        3 ||     891 |      970
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South Carolina ...........|   280 |      226 |     33 |     20 |      7 |     194 |       15 |         9 |       2 ||       41 ||     871 |      918
South Dakota .............|   289 |      274 |    103 |      3 |      0 |     180 |        3 |         0 |       0 ||        5 ||     170 |      174
Tennessee ................|   366 |      334 |     47 |     43 |      5 |     263 |        5 |         0 |       3 ||       27 ||     795 |      817
Texas ....................| 1,912 |    1,477 |    326 |    205 |     36 |   1,056 |       37 |        31 |     221 ||       22 ||     652 |      815
Utah .....................|   243 |      199 |     86 |     25 |     11 |      52 |       57 |         2 |      10 ||        0 ||     863 |    1,030
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Vermont ..................|    70 |       55 |      8 |     22 |      0 |      26 |        0 |         0 |      14 ||       14 ||     626 |      637
Virginia .................|   349 |      319 |     35 |      9 |     39 |     246 |        8 |         3 |       9 ||       49 ||   1,017 |    1,095
Washington ...............|   577 |      438 |    124 |     53 |     25 |     290 |       35 |        18 |      32 ||        9 ||     629 |      795
West Virginia.............|   215 |      163 |     44 |     29 |      3 |     105 |       24 |         1 |       9 ||       35 ||     595 |      651
Wisconsin ................|   542 |      506 |     72 |     62 |      4 |     370 |       13 |         9 |      12 ||        1 ||     560 |      595
Wyoming ..................|   104 |       96 |     33 |      5 |      1 |      56 |        8 |         0 |       1 ||        0 ||     380 |      402
Bureau of Indian Affairs .|    27 |       27 |      1 |      7 |      0 |      19 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||     266 |      266
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Department of Defense     |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
   dependents schools ....|    40 |       40 |      4 |     25 |      0 |      10 |        1 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||     457 |      457
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  Outlying areas          |       |          |        |        |        |         |          |           |         ||          ||         |
American Samoa ...........|     6 |        5 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       6 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        1 ||     587 |      653
Guam .....................|     4 |        4 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       4 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||   2,090 |    2,090
Northern Marianas ........|     4 |        4 |      1 |      2 |      0 |       1 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        0 ||     845 |      845
Puerto Rico ..............|   365 |      359 |    179 |     26 |      1 |       5 |      143 |         0 |      11 ||       12 ||     601 |      603
Virgin Islands ...........|    11 |        8 |      6 |      0 |      0 |       5 |        0 |         0 |       0 ||        1 ||     868 |    1,036
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\1\Excludes vocational, special education, and alternative schools.
\2\Vocational schools are also included under appropriate grade span.
\3\Average for schools reporting enrollment data.

NOTE: Includes schools with no grade lower than 7. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as special education schools for the disabled.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared August 2000.)


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