Table 43.

Percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: Fall 1998 and fall 2008

State or jurisdiction	Percentage distribution, fall 1998						Percentage distribution, fall 2008
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Other1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
United States	100.0	63.0	17.0	14.9	3.9	1.1	100.0	54.9	17.0	21.5	5.0	1.2	0.5
Alabama	100.0	61.5	36.2	0.9	0.7	0.7	100.0	58.8	35.3	3.9	1.2	0.8	—
Alaska	100.0	62.5	4.6	3.0	5.1	24.8	100.0	53.3	3.5	5.8	7.2	23.1	7.0
Arizona	100.0	55.0	4.5	31.7	1.9	6.9	100.0	44.4	5.8	41.4	3.0	5.5	—
Arkansas	100.0	72.8	23.5	2.5	0.8	0.4	100.0	66.6	22.4	8.6	1.6	0.7	—
California	100.0	37.9	8.7	41.4	11.1	0.9	100.0	27.9	7.3	49.0	11.7	0.7	3.4
Colorado	100.0	70.6	5.6	19.9	2.7	1.2	100.0	60.9	6.0	28.4	3.6	1.2	—
Connecticut	100.0	71.2	13.6	12.4	2.6	0.3	100.0	64.5	13.9	17.1	4.2	0.4	—
Delaware	100.0	62.4	30.4	4.9	2.0	0.2	100.0	52.1	33.2	10.9	3.4	0.4	—
District of Columbia	100.0	4.3	85.9	8.3	1.6	#	100.0	6.0	81.5	10.8	1.6	0.1	—
Florida	100.0	55.3	25.5	17.2	1.8	0.3	100.0	47.0	24.0	26.1	2.6	0.3	—
Georgia	100.0	56.4	38.1	3.4	2.0	0.1	100.0	47.2	39.0	10.4	3.3	0.2	—
Hawaii	100.0	20.8	2.4	4.6	71.7	0.4	100.0	19.5	2.3	4.6	72.9	0.6	—
Idaho	100.0	87.1	0.7	9.7	1.2	1.2	100.0	81.2	1.3	14.1	1.7	1.6	—
Illinois	100.0	61.4	21.4	13.9	3.2	0.2	100.0	54.3	20.0	21.3	4.2	0.2	—
Indiana	100.0	84.7	11.4	2.8	0.9	0.2	100.0	78.3	12.8	7.1	1.5	0.3	—
Iowa	100.0	91.4	3.6	2.8	1.7	0.5	100.0	84.5	5.8	7.0	2.2	0.6	—
Kansas	100.0	80.6	8.6	7.5	2.1	1.2	100.0	72.8	8.8	14.0	2.8	1.6	—
Kentucky	100.0	88.4	10.4	0.7	0.4	0.1	100.0	84.7	11.0	3.0	1.1	0.1	—
Louisiana	100.0	49.7	47.1	1.3	1.3	0.7	100.0	48.8	46.1	2.9	1.4	0.8	—
Maine	100.0	97.0	1.0	0.5	0.9	0.6	100.0	93.7	2.7	1.2	1.6	0.8	—
Maryland	100.0	55.0	36.6	4.0	4.0	0.3	100.0	46.2	38.0	9.5	5.9	0.4	—
Massachusetts	100.0	77.1	8.6	10.0	4.2	0.2	100.0	69.9	8.2	14.3	5.2	0.3	2.0
Michigan	100.0	74.7	19.5	3.0	1.7	1.0	100.0	71.4	20.2	4.8	2.7	0.9	—
Minnesota	100.0	84.8	5.8	2.6	4.7	2.0	100.0	75.6	9.6	6.4	6.2	2.2	—
Mississippi	100.0	47.7	51.0	0.5	0.6	0.1	100.0	46.3	50.5	2.1	0.9	0.2	—
Missouri	100.0	80.1	17.1	1.4	1.1	0.3	100.0	76.0	17.8	3.9	1.9	0.4	—
Montana	100.0	86.8	0.5	1.6	0.8	10.2	100.0	83.7	1.0	2.6	1.2	11.4	—
Nebraska	100.0	84.8	6.3	5.9	1.4	1.5	100.0	74.6	8.1	13.5	2.1	1.7	—
Nevada	100.0	61.2	9.9	22.0	5.1	1.8	100.0	42.3	11.2	36.9	8.1	1.5	—
New Hampshire	100.0	96.2	1.0	1.4	1.2	0.2	100.0	91.9	2.1	3.3	2.4	0.3	—
New Jersey	100.0	61.6	18.1	14.3	5.8	0.2	100.0	54.0	17.1	19.9	8.5	0.2	0.3
New Mexico	100.0	37.2	2.3	48.8	1.0	10.8	100.0	28.9	2.6	56.1	1.4	11.0	—
New York	100.0	55.6	20.4	18.1	5.6	0.4	100.0	51.1	19.3	21.4	7.7	0.5	—
North Carolina	100.0	62.5	31.2	3.1	1.7	1.5	100.0	54.3	31.2	10.6	2.5	1.4	—
North Dakota	100.0	89.9	1.0	1.2	0.7	7.3	100.0	85.3	2.2	2.2	1.1	9.2	—
Ohio	100.0	81.5	15.8	1.5	1.1	0.1	100.0	78.4	16.9	2.8	1.7	0.1	—
Oklahoma	100.0	67.0	10.7	4.9	1.4	16.0	100.0	57.3	10.9	10.5	2.1	19.2	—
Oregon	100.0	82.9	2.7	8.7	3.7	2.1	100.0	71.7	3.1	18.1	5.0	2.1	—
Pennsylvania	100.0	79.4	14.6	4.0	1.9	0.1	100.0	73.6	15.8	7.5	2.9	0.2	—
Rhode Island	100.0	76.4	7.6	12.3	3.3	0.5	100.0	68.6	9.0	18.5	3.2	0.7	—
South Carolina	100.0	55.7	42.0	1.2	0.9	0.2	100.0	53.8	38.8	5.5	1.6	0.4	—
South Dakota	100.0	87.5	1.0	1.0	0.9	9.6	100.0	81.3	2.5	2.7	1.3	12.2	—
Tennessee	100.0	76.7	20.9	1.2	1.0	0.1	100.0	68.3	24.6	5.2	1.6	0.2	—
Texas	100.0	44.1	14.4	38.6	2.5	0.3	100.0	34.0	14.2	47.9	3.6	0.4	—
Utah	100.0	87.9	0.8	7.2	2.5	1.5	100.0	79.4	1.4	14.5	3.3	1.4	—
Vermont	100.0	97.1	0.9	0.4	1.0	0.5	100.0	94.0	1.7	1.2	1.5	0.2	1.5
Virginia	100.0	64.9	27.2	3.9	3.7	0.2	100.0	58.2	26.4	9.2	5.9	0.3	—
Washington	100.0	76.1	5.1	9.1	7.1	2.6	100.0	67.1	5.7	15.8	8.9	2.6	—
West Virginia	100.0	94.9	4.2	0.5	0.3	0.1	100.0	92.8	5.4	0.9	0.7	0.1	—
Wisconsin	100.0	81.9	9.8	3.8	3.1	1.4	100.0	76.3	10.5	8.0	3.7	1.5	—
Wyoming	100.0	88.6	1.0	6.7	0.8	2.9	100.0	83.3	1.6	10.4	1.1	3.5	—
Bureau of Indian Education	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	—
DoD, overseas	100.0	58.5	21.0	8.4	11.1	0.9	100.0	55.7	16.5	16.5	10.6	0.6	—
DoD, domestic	—	—	—	—	—	—	100.0	53.0	17.6	23.9	4.7	0.8	—
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Guam	100.0	2.2	0.4	0.2	97.1	0.1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Northern Marianas	100.0	0.8	0.0	0.0	99.2	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	100.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.1	#	99.8	#	#	—
U.S. Virgin Islands	100.0	0.9	84.7	13.9	0.4	0.1	100.0	1.3	83.0	15.3	0.3	0.1	—

—Not available.

#Rounds to zero.

1 Includes data for states reporting students of two or more races.

NOTE: Percentage distribution based on students for whom race/ethnicity was reported, which may be less than the total number of students in the state. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. DoD = Department of Defense. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1998-99 and 2008-09. (This table was prepared November 2010.)