Table 104.

Public secondary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2008-09

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	24,348	19,349	3,037	3,104	657	15,518	728	374	930	1,409	704	807
Alabama	395	311	36	65	11	254	21	1	7	73	689	712
Alaska	86	67	16	19	2	47	2	0	0	3	475	571
Arizona	674	470	80	34	7	531	9	4	9	172	610	734
Arkansas	388	355	57	128	8	141	34	1	19	24	474	485
California	2,535	1,547	375	314	19	1,767	26	15	19	76	904	1,352
Colorado	417	352	61	55	2	284	7	2	6	5	605	689
Connecticut	259	193	34	14	5	179	17	7	3	17	746	931
Delaware	47	32	5	1	27	14	0	0	0	6	965	1,021
District of Columbia	37	27	0	3	1	26	1	0	6	1	439	538
Florida	656	475	19	54	22	494	12	20	35	53	1,224	1,558
Georgia	440	419	17	8	7	366	4	1	37	1	1,122	1,134
Hawaii	52	51	11	8	0	33	0	0	0	0	1,187	1,208
Idaho	232	154	40	49	1	115	24	0	3	11	440	586
Illinois	1,019	814	155	74	16	649	11	52	62	53	846	859
Indiana	434	417	74	87	1	264	2	1	5	29	857	868
Iowa	434	377	49	76	0	291	9	4	5	0	396	443
Kansas	389	385	56	76	5	244	6	0	2	1	423	425
Kentucky	478	246	29	50	19	301	9	12	58	126	598	826
Louisiana	313	258	40	48	77	119	18	0	11	6	630	712
Maine	149	120	11	16	2	119	1	0	0	27	513	521
Maryland	270	203	17	5	8	210	2	10	18	24	1,078	1,287
Massachusetts	368	318	36	36	4	291	0	1	0	39	858	876
Michigan	1,133	742	97	108	23	805	40	32	28	62	567	724
Minnesota	818	482	56	257	23	369	59	38	16	12	421	607
Mississippi	335	238	33	63	6	196	26	2	9	90	640	643
Missouri	658	579	71	184	3	350	18	12	20	63	540	545
Montana	352	348	180	1	0	171	0	0	0	0	167	169
Nebraska	310	307	28	172	2	104	1	3	0	0	356	359
Nevada	105	91	16	15	19	46	1	5	3	1	921	1,019
New Hampshire	105	105	17	0	0	84	1	0	3	0	661	661
New Jersey	485	397	57	36	10	351	15	6	10	55	973	1,100
New Mexico	224	197	41	20	3	143	8	0	9	1	514	557
New York	1,063	1,010	75	131	10	756	21	1	69	28	837	837
North Carolina	519	481	23	13	5	408	6	6	58	10	836	884
North Dakota	187	179	12	98	1	63	3	1	9	7	209	210
Ohio	1,006	924	132	137	80	611	9	11	26	72	657	674
Oklahoma	562	557	80	0	0	427	39	3	13	0	350	352
Oregon	307	277	29	46	15	206	6	2	3	0	603	657
Pennsylvania	826	730	106	154	11	458	63	8	26	87	841	854
Rhode Island	80	57	12	3	1	62	1	0	1	10	739	833
South Carolina	276	226	26	10	2	213	16	3	6	39	975	983
South Dakota	249	241	74	1	0	174	0	0	0	0	170	173
Tennessee	359	322	26	24	13	265	12	10	9	21	855	908
Texas	2,092	1,504	317	176	81	1,187	46	41	244	0	704	943
Utah	354	241	101	52	8	77	76	19	21	6	687	887
Vermont	72	56	8	19	0	30	0	0	15	15	565	575
Virginia	389	345	33	6	36	305	4	0	5	32	1,173	1,189
Washington	568	384	80	70	54	320	23	11	10	12	651	878
West Virginia	125	108	2	18	4	94	0	2	5	31	637	732
Wisconsin	618	549	66	57	1	444	16	27	7	8	493	541
Wyoming	99	81	21	13	2	60	3	0	0	0	318	375
Bureau of Indian Education	20	20	1	6	1	12	0	0	0	0	324	324
DoD, domestic	7	7	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	472	472
DoD, overseas	27	27	0	12	0	15	0	0	0	0	475	475
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	724	724
Puerto Rico	401	369	194	29	0	3	161	1	13	29	505	495
U.S. Virgin Islands	9	8	4	0	0	5	0	0	0	1	890	890

—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 22,793 out of 24,348 public secondary schools in 2008-09.

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," 2008-09. (This table was prepared July 2010.)