Digest of Education Statistics: 2005
Digest of Education Statistics: 2005

NCES 2006-030
June 2006


Table 97. Public secondary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2003-04
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                      |          |          |                                                     |          |  Average number of
                      |          |          |                Schools, by grade span               |          |students per school\3\
                      |          |          |_____________________________________________________|          |______________________
                      |          |Total, all|Grades|      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          | 
                      |Total, all|   regular|7 to 8|Grades|Grades| Grades|Grades|Other spans|Other|          |       All|    Regular
                      | secondary| secondary|   and|     7|     8|      9|    10|ending with|grade|Vocational| secondary|  secondary
State or jurisdiction |   schools|schools\1\|7 to 9| to 12| to 12|  to 12| to 12|   grade 12|spans|schools\2\|  schools | schools\1\
______________________|__________|__________|______|______|______|_______|______|___________|_____|__________|__________|___________
1                     |         2|         3|     4|     5|     6|      7|     8|          9|   10|        11|        12|         13
______________________|__________|__________|______|______|______|_______|______|___________|_____|__________|__________|___________
   United States .....|    22,782|    18,810| 3,251| 3,175|   665| 13,910|   685|        297|  799|     1,100|       722|        816
                      |__________|__________|______|______|______|_______|______|___________|_____|__________|__________|___________
Alabama ..............|       403|       308|    33|    88|     7|    233|    32|          5|    5|        75|       667|        691
Alaska ...............|        85|        72|    18|    19|     2|     43|     2|          0|    1|         2|       522|        585
Arizona ..............|       560|       466|    86|    46|    13|    398|     5|          2|   10|        73|       665|        699
Arkansas .............|       424|       400|    53|   190|     5|    106|    44|          2|   24|        20|       434|        439
California ...........|     2,187|     1,373|   334|   274|    34|  1,505|    20|          6|   14|         0|       955|      1,447
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Colorado .............|       401|       339|    60|    64|     4|    262|     4|          3|    4|         2|       612|        694
Connecticut ..........|       240|       180|    30|    11|     6|    163|     7|         15|    8|        17|       778|        959
Delaware .............|        44|        36|    11|     1|    24|      7|     0|          0|    1|         5|       958|      1,006
District of Columbia .|        43|        38|    11|     2|     1|     29|     0|          0|    0|         2|       462|        488
Florida ..............|       481|       456|    17|    35|    19|    385|     4|          5|   16|        26|     1,482|      1,558
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Georgia ..............|       356|       341|    15|     3|     6|    326|     1|          0|    5|         0|     1,178|      1,222
Hawaii ...............|        54|        53|    11|     8|     0|     34|     0|          0|    1|         0|     1,196|      1,215
Idaho ................|       223|       160|    38|    52|     3|    109|    16|          0|    5|         9|       440|        557
Illinois .............|     1,005|       792|   158|    62|    24|    630|    12|         31|   88|        54|       698|        814
Indiana ..............|       448|       397|    71|    85|     2|    259|     1|          1|   29|        29|       812|        837
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Iowa .................|       424|       389|    54|    88|     0|    271|     7|          2|    2|         0|       413|        442
Kansas ...............|       423|       419|    63|    90|     4|    258|     6|          1|    1|         0|       412|        415
Kentucky .............|       337|       254|    27|    62|     5|    235|     2|          5|    1|        10|       629|        767
Louisiana ............|       312|       279|    50|    46|   181|     29|     1|          1|    4|         9|       697|        741
Maine ................|       156|       129|    17|    10|     1|    126|     1|          0|    1|        27|       541|        541
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Maryland .............|       269|       196|    21|     7|     1|    221|     3|          5|   11|        25|     1,148|      1,333
Massachusetts ........|       334|       285|    36|    34|     8|    252|     1|          1|    2|        40|       878|        915
Michigan .............|       843|       703|   107|    89|    22|    553|    18|          5|   49|        45|       703|        791
Minnesota ............|       836|       470|    78|   217|    55|    275|    89|         63|   59|        12|       396|        660
Mississippi ..........|       327|       232|    36|    60|     6|    188|    25|          3|    9|        89|       634|        634
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Missouri .............|       650|       576|    66|   192|     2|    343|    21|         11|   15|        61|       550|        554
Montana ..............|       362|       358|   186|     0|     0|    174|     1|          0|    1|         0|       173|        175
Nebraska .............|       333|       333|    25|   196|     0|    106|     6|          0|    0|         0|       342|        342
Nevada ...............|       127|       100|    19|    20|     4|     76|     1|          4|    3|         3|       968|      1,125
New Hampshire ........|        97|        97|    18|     0|     0|     76|     2|          0|    1|         0|       734|        734
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
New Jersey ...........|       462|       397|    65|    36|     7|    325|    14|          2|   13|        55|     1,015|      1,095
New Mexico ...........|       205|       169|    34|    37|     6|    112|     6|          1|    9|         1|       556|        645
New York .............|       995|       880|   100|   138|    28|    622|    16|          0|   91|        25|       906|        962
North Carolina .......|       390|       372|    19|     8|    21|    332|     4|          2|    4|         7|     1,016|      1,046
North Dakota .........|       200|       193|    14|   131|     4|     37|     4|          1|    9|         7|       234|        234
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Ohio .................|     1,003|       915|   160|   137|    37|    583|    28|         17|   41|        75|       697|        714
Oklahoma .............|       583|       583|   100|     0|     0|    400|    62|          3|   18|         0|       346|        346
Oregon ...............|       274|       241|    37|    33|     5|    187|     7|          3|    2|         0|       686|        762
Pennsylvania .........|       802|       713|   104|   160|     9|    412|    29|          9|   79|        81|       899|        909
Rhode Island .........|        68|        50|     8|     0|     0|     50|     4|          1|    5|        13|       860|        987
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
South Carolina .......|       285|       227|    29|    14|     9|    206|    13|          9|    5|        40|       922|        961
South Dakota .........|       281|       266|    96|    11|     0|    174|     0|          0|    0|         0|       158|        163
Tennessee ............|       354|       317|    28|    27|     3|    257|    19|         12|    8|        23|       813|        842
Texas ................|     1,835|     1,480|   344|   182|    12|  1,225|    16|         10|   46|        30|       763|        916
Utah .................|       309|       220|    95|    35|    11|     60|    74|          7|   27|         2|       674|        916
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Vermont ..............|        69|        55|     8|    21|     0|     40|     0|          0|    0|        14|       642|        642
Virginia .............|       412|       346|    31|     5|    36|    295|     3|          0|   42|        48|     1,103|      1,151
Washington ...........|       592|       447|   111|    66|    23|    335|    25|         15|   17|        10|       627|        792
West Virginia ........|       178|       132|    18|    19|     2|    123|    10|          3|    3|        33|       618|        676
Wisconsin ............|       593|       482|    70|    57|    10|    402|    14|         31|    9|         1|       525|        628
Wyoming ..............|       108|        94|    31|     7|     3|     61|     5|          0|    1|         0|       331|        365
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Bureau of Indian      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
   Affairs ...........|        26|        26|     1|     8|     0|     17|     0|          0|    0|         0|       365|        365
Department of Defense |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
   dependents schools |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
  Domestic schools ...|         7|         7|     2|     0|     0|      5|     0|          0|    0|         0|       504|        504
  Overseas schools ...|        39|        39|     2|    22|     1|     14|     0|          0|    0|         0|       469|        469
                      |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
Other jurisdictions   |          |          |      |      |      |       |      |           |     |          |          |
  American Samoa .....|         6|         5|     0|     0|     0|      6|     0|          0|    0|         1|       676|        737
  Guam ...............|         4|         4|     0|     0|     0|      4|     0|          0|    0|         0|     2,256|      2,256
  Northern Marianas ..|         6|         6|     1|     1|     0|      4|     0|          0|    0|         0|       682|        682
  Puerto Rico ........|       358|       335|   172|    28|     0|      5|   142|          0|   11|        14|       584|        590
  Virgin Islands .....|        10|         8|     5|     0|     0|      4|     1|          0|    0|         1|       850|        950
______________________|__________|__________|______|______|______|_______|______|___________|_____|__________|__________|___________
\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 some special education schools for the disabled.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2003-04. (This table was prepared July 2005.)