Table 95.

Public elementary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2005-06

State or jurisdiction	Total, all elementary schools	Total, all regular elementary schools1	Schools, by grade span						Average number of students per school2
			Prekinder- garten, kindergarten, or 1st grade to grades 3 or 4	Prekinder- garten, kindergarten, or 1st grade to grade 5	Prekinder- garten, kindergarten, or 1st grade to grade 6	Prekinder- garten, kindergarten, or 1st grade to grade 8	Grade 4, 5, or 6 to grade 6, 7, or 8	Other grade spans	All elementary schools	Regular elementary schools1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
United States	67,291	65,163	4,987	24,060	12,569	5,595	12,545	7,535	473	479
Alabama	951	937	89	306	168	66	215	107	486	486
Alaska	186	186	2	20	109	17	17	21	328	328
Arizona	1,303	1,266	73	244	348	381	173	84	523	526
Arkansas	747	720	119	146	207	5	145	125	403	405
California	6,754	6,573	209	2,506	2,040	680	1,041	278	585	600
Colorado	1,221	1,218	29	546	280	67	228	71	412	413
Connecticut	614	599	40	64	266	47	43	154	449	454
Delaware	140	138	26	59	6	6	32	11	545	552
District of Columbia	153	150	6	24	80	11	20	12	291	296
Florida	2,622	2,457	33	1,563	141	91	542	252	712	732
Georgia	1,847	1,728	33	990	68	17	428	311	668	668
Hawaii	208	207	1	65	109	5	26	2	545	548
Idaho	424	421	40	128	138	24	72	22	374	376
Illinois	3,325	3,075	307	796	356	715	545	606	444	452
Indiana	1,480	1,416	120	586	338	28	272	136	458	462
Iowa	1,017	1,013	103	338	200	17	222	137	295	296
Kansas	976	975	90	309	233	92	183	69	299	299
Kentucky	994	981	44	484	131	92	206	37	445	450
Louisiana	925	900	84	328	110	87	203	113	461	468
Maine	503	503	59	96	73	101	89	85	248	248
Maryland	1,104	1,077	14	648	118	40	226	58	518	526
Massachusetts	1,476	1,471	196	510	157	98	294	221	429	430
Michigan	2,709	2,693	224	992	396	176	524	397	405	407
Minnesota	1,668	1,134	117	318	385	58	209	581	394	437
Mississippi	599	599	76	115	129	38	133	108	512	512
Missouri	1,549	1,540	126	489	348	114	300	172	372	373
Montana	482	479	19	48	231	115	47	22	170	171
Nebraska	833	826	0	0	539	195	77	22	210	211
Nevada	406	406	4	206	86	21	70	19	692	692
New Hampshire	381	381	54	117	38	48	80	44	352	352
New Jersey	1,929	1,918	287	546	185	276	362	273	475	477
New Mexico	607	592	29	230	127	14	128	79	346	353
New York	3,254	3,233	284	1,234	468	142	707	419	548	550
North Carolina	1,805	1,799	74	1,024	52	119	437	99	540	542
North Dakota	352	314	10	46	170	47	23	56	182	182
Ohio	2,774	2,757	376	725	530	212	522	409	409	409
Oklahoma	1,203	1,203	74	339	148	311	221	110	357	357
Oregon	810	804	40	345	161	85	146	33	374	375
Pennsylvania	2,351	2,350	267	822	479	160	433	190	466	466
Rhode Island	265	253	26	103	40	3	43	50	374	376
South Carolina	858	856	50	429	64	25	221	69	554	555
South Dakota	431	430	14	116	98	104	79	20	183	183
Tennessee	1,267	1,260	167	469	104	181	277	69	503	505
Texas	5,418	5,295	596	2,149	735	110	1,224	604	553	563
Utah	561	548	13	107	363	12	39	27	523	533
Vermont	274	241	12	25	112	66	17	42	209	225
Virginia	1,699	1,503	40	833	157	8	305	356	539	540
Washington	1,461	1,373	60	574	371	71	244	141	428	446
West Virginia	582	578	85	232	80	37	110	38	323	325
Wisconsin	1,546	1,541	121	619	202	146	304	154	354	355
Wyoming	247	246	25	52	95	14	41	20	197	198
Bureau of Indian Education	107	107	7	4	23	67	4	2	229	229
DoD, domestic	57	57	15	16	6	1	9	10	402	402
DoD, overseas	101	101	6	20	35	4	16	20	423	423
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	24	24	1	0	0	21	1	1	500	500
Guam	32	32	0	23	0	0	7	2	686	686
Northern Marianas	22	22	0	2	9	0	2	9	323	323
Puerto Rico	894	892	49	3	802	3	23	14	286	286
Virgin Islands	23	23	0	0	22	0	1	0	393	393

1 Excludes special education and alternative schools. 2 Average for schools reporting enrollment data. Enrollment data were available for 65,698 out of 67,291 public elementary schools in 2005-06. NOTE: Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled. DoD = Department of Defense. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Com­mon Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005-06. (This table was prepared June 2007.)