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Digest of Education Statistics: 2004
Digest of Education Statistics: 2004

NCES 2006-005
October 2005


Table 99. Public charter schools and students, by school origin status and selected school characteristics: 1999-2000

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                           |                          Schools and students                      |            School origin status
School                     |                                                                    |         (percentage distribution)
characteristic             |____________________________________________________________________|________________________________________
                           |  Number of|       Number of|     Average|  Percent of|   Percent of|       Newly| Pre-existing|  Pre-existing
                           |    schools|        students|  enrollment|     schools|     students|     created|public school|private school
___________________________|___________|________________|____________|____________|_____________|____________|_____________|_____________
1                          |          2|               3|           4|           5|            6|           7|            8|            9
___________________________|___________|________________|____________|____________|_____________|____________|_____________|_____________
   Total ..................|1,010 (4.3)|266,721(3,957.0)|  264  (3.6)| 100.0  (0.0| 100.0   (0.0| 73.6 (0.60)|  16.5 (0.40)|   9.9 (0.40)
                           |___________|________________|____________|____________|_____________|____________|_____________|_____________
State                      |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Arizona .................|  207 (2.8)| 39,860(1,593.8)|  193  (7.1)|  20.5(0.20)|  14.9 (0.50)| 78.3 (1.40)|   5.3 (0.80)|  16.4 (1.30)
  California ..............|  133 (1.3)| 64,152(2,540.8)|  482 (17.4)|  13.2(0.10)|  24.1 (0.80)| 55.7 (1.80)|    ‡    (†) |    ‡    (†)
  Michigan ................|  135 (0.6)| 36,052  (698.8)|  267  (5.1)|  13.4(0.10)|  13.5 (0.30)| 76.4 (1.20)|   6.5 (0.60)|  17.2 (1.00)
  All other states ........|  535 (3.7)|126,656(2,243.9)|  237  (4.1)|  53.0(0.30)|  47.5 (0.70)| 75.6 (0.80)|  16.7 (0.60)|   7.8 (0.60)
                           |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
Locale                     |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Central city ............|  537 (8.2)|139,307(3,148.5)|  260  (4.8)|  53.1(0.80)|  52.2 (1.00)| 76.3 (0.70)|  11.9 (0.60)|  11.8 (0.60)
  Urban fringe/large town .|  324 (6.9)|108,807(3,272.5)|  336  (8.3)|  32.1(0.70)|  40.8 (1.00)| 68.5 (0.90)|  23.4 (0.80)|   8.1 (0.60)
  Rural/small town ........|  150 (5.8)| 18,607(1,039.6)|  124  (4.9)|  14.8(0.60)|   7.0 (0.40)| 75.4 (1.90)|  17.8 (1.60)|   6.9 (1.10)
                           |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
School level               |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Elementary ..............|  586 (5.9)|158,801(2,238.7)|  271  (3.6)|  58.0(0.60)|  59.5 (0.90)| 72.2 (0.60)|  17.3 (0.50)|  10.5 (0.50)
  Secondary ...............|  235 (6.4)| 58,218(2,952.0)|  248  (9.7)|  23.2(0.60)|  21.8 (0.90)| 75.3 (1.50)|  18.9 (1.30)|   5.8 (0.60)
  Combined ................|  190 (5.0)| 49,702(2,192.0)|  262 (10.7)|  18.8(0.50)|  18.6 (0.70)| 76.0 (1.40)|  11.1 (1.00)|  12.9 (1.20)
                           |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
Enrollment                 |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Less than 300 ...........|  730 (6.9)| 94,271(1,425.3)|  129  (1.3)|  72.3(0.70)|  35.4 (0.80)| 78.9 (0.70)|   9.2 (0.50)|  11.9 (0.50)
  300 to 999 ..............|  251 (6.6)|130,683(3,568.7)|  520  (5.3)|  24.9(0.60)|  49.0 (1.00)| 64.4 (1.20)|  30.5 (1.00)|   5.2 (0.60)
  1,000 or more ...........|   29 (2.1)| 41,766(3,090.0)|1,448 (38.4)|   2.9(0.20)|  15.7 (1.00)| 21.0 (4.00)|  79.0 (4.00)|   0.0 (0.00)
                           |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
School origin status       |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Newly created ...........|  744 (6.6)|166,060(3,483.1)|  223  (4.1)|  73.6(0.60)|  62.3 (0.90)|100.0 (0.00)|    †      (†|           (†)
  Pre-existing public .....|  166 (4.4)| 83,811(2,760.3)|  503 (14.6)|  16.5(0.40)|  31.4 (0.90)|   †      (†| 100.0 (0.00)|           (†)
  Pre-existing private ....|  100 (4.0)| 16,849  (871.2)|  169  (5.5)|   9.9(0.40)|   6.3 (0.40)|   †      (†|    †      (†| 100.0 (0.00)
                           |           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
Percent minority enrollment|           |                |            |            |             |            |             |
  Less than 10.0 ..........|  180 (5.3)| 41,115(1,583.6)|  228  (7.6)|  17.8(0.52)|   15.4(0.60)| 72.9 (1.35)|  17.7 (1.21)|   9.4 (0.90)
  10.0 to 24.9 ............|  197 (6.3)| 45,279(2,163.2)|  230  (8.6)|  19.5(0.62)|   17.0(0.76)| 71.7 (1.36)|  18.3 (1.22)|  10.0 (0.94)
  25.0 to 49.9 ............|  147 (5.7)| 43,462(2,584.2)|  295 (15.0)|  14.6(0.56)|   16.3(0.88)| 74.3 (1.57)|  14.8 (1.14)|  10.9 (1.22)
  50.0 to 75.0 ............|  136 (4.8)| 36,986(1,976.3)|  272 (11.1)|  13.5(0.48)|   13.9(0.71)| 70.2 (1.86)|  22.0 (1.64)|   7.8 (1.09)
  More than 75.0 ..........|  349 (7.2)| 99,878(2,939.4)|  286  (6.2)|  34.6(0.68)|   37.4(1.03)| 76.2 (0.88)|  13.4 (0.65)|  10.4 (0.76)
___________________________|___________|________________|____________|____________|_____________|____________|_____________|_____________

†Not applicable.
‡Reporting standards not met.

NOTE: This tabulation includes all public charter schools operating in the 1998-99 school year. Public charter schools that first opened in the 1999-2000 school year, or later, are not included in these data. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Questionnaire," 1999-2000 and "Charter School Questionnaire," 1999-2000. (This table was prepared December 2002.)