Table 99.

Public secondary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2007-08

State or jurisdiction	Total, all secondary schools	Total, all regular secondary schools1	Schools, by grade span							Vocational schools2	Average number of students per school3
			Grades 7 to 8 and 7 to 9	Grades 7 to 12	Grades 8 to 12	Grades 9 to 12	Grades 10 to 12	Other spans ending with grade 12	Other grade spans		All secondary schools	Regular secondary schools1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
United States	24,426	19,264	3,047	3,278	777	15,179	748	378	1,019	1,409	706	816
Alabama	414	314	34	96	19	226	28	3	8	73	681	709
Alaska	84	65	16	20	3	43	2	0	0	3	494	601
Arizona	667	470	76	36	7	527	10	3	8	166	696	729
Arkansas	393	360	59	134	8	127	42	1	22	24	484	494
California	2,449	1,495	342	321	42	1,679	25	13	27	76	901	1,355
Colorado	410	344	61	60	1	274	7	1	6	5	619	710
Connecticut	261	195	35	12	11	184	11	2	6	17	756	941
Delaware	46	34	7	1	27	10	0	0	1	6	952	1,008
District of Columbia	38	30	6	3	1	26	1	0	1	5	549	606
Florida	668	475	20	67	30	488	9	19	35	51	1,276	1,667
Georgia	435	392	11	14	8	350	7	2	43	3	1,137	1,201
Hawaii	53	52	11	9	0	33	0	0	0	0	1,191	1,210
Idaho	231	154	40	47	1	115	24	0	4	11	440	593
Illinois	1,007	802	150	67	19	634	11	57	69	55	745	847
Indiana	439	420	75	89	1	265	1	1	7	29	853	866
Iowa	449	381	48	80	1	302	9	4	5	0	392	450
Kansas	392	387	58	81	4	239	8	0	2	1	430	432
Kentucky	465	240	30	43	24	295	12	9	52	126	586	803
Louisiana	310	263	41	49	68	125	18	0	9	6	637	709
Maine	153	124	15	10	2	115	9	0	2	27	525	533
Maryland	277	208	20	6	8	213	2	6	22	24	1,065	1,270
Massachusetts	370	315	33	36	6	293	0	1	1	39	860	894
Michigan	1,082	745	102	96	37	664	64	39	80	55	569	749
Minnesota	894	482	63	298	40	391	57	32	13	11	405	625
Mississippi	321	226	29	60	8	188	26	2	8	89	652	658
Missouri	684	587	80	204	1	350	21	11	17	63	548	557
Montana	352	348	180	1	0	171	0	0	0	0	172	173
Nebraska	329	325	28	181	1	116	1	1	1	0	360	361
Nevada	134	111	23	7	8	87	2	5	2	1	998	1,158
New Hampshire	106	106	18	0	0	85	0	0	3	0	681	681
New Jersey	503	401	60	40	8	352	18	7	18	55	930	1,094
New Mexico	230	200	39	30	7	137	9	0	8	2	527	572
New York	1,059	980	89	132	10	722	24	3	79	29	862	878
North Carolina	516	486	26	10	7	439	6	5	23	10	830	867
North Dakota	186	179	11	105	2	56	3	1	8	6	215	216
Ohio	1,015	928	131	142	80	605	9	17	31	75	664	684
Oklahoma	564	560	84	0	0	417	45	3	15	0	354	355
Oregon	302	270	30	41	12	211	7	1	0	0	620	679
Pennsylvania	815	720	101	162	13	449	59	9	22	87	863	875
Rhode Island	75	52	9	4	0	59	2	0	1	12	795	906
South Carolina	275	222	24	14	5	210	14	3	5	40	974	983
South Dakota	270	257	80	1	1	188	0	0	0	0	164	166
Tennessee	345	308	24	27	18	248	13	10	5	22	868	924
Texas	2,158	1,482	316	215	109	1,185	37	47	249	1	702	948
Utah	305	219	85	45	23	68	48	12	24	8	715	934
Vermont	72	56	8	19	0	30	0	0	15	15	582	592
Virginia	385	343	33	6	36	272	3	0	35	31	1,183	1,197
Washington	574	388	83	67	53	327	24	9	11	11	652	885
West Virginia	130	116	10	19	1	93	2	3	2	31	657	715
Wisconsin	631	561	69	60	4	434	14	36	14	8	495	543
Wyoming	103	86	24	11	2	62	4	0	0	0	310	358
Bureau of Indian    Education	21	21	2	5	0	14	0	0	0	0	—	—
DoD, domestic	7	7	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	476	476
DoD, overseas	32	32	2	13	0	17	0	0	0	0	453	453
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	6	5	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	1	—	—
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—
Northern Marianas	6	6	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	727	727
Puerto Rico	398	368	191	28	1	3	158	0	17	27	529	518
U.S. Virgin Islands	10	8	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	1	803	896

—Not available.

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. Enrollment data were available for 22,800 out of 24,426 public secondary schools in 2007-08.

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. 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," 2007-08. (This table was prepared September 2009.)