Table 216.30.

Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students and schools, by traditional or charter school status and selected characteristics: Selected years, 1999-2000 through 2011-12

Selected characteristic	1999-2000			Charter schools						2011-12
	Total, all public schools	Traditional (noncharter) schools	Charter schools	2001-02	2003-04	2005-06	2007-08	2009-10	2010-11	Total, all public schools	Traditional (noncharter) schools	Charter schools
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Enrollment (in thousands)	46,689	46,350	340	571	789	1,013	1,277	1,610	1,787	49,256	47,199	2,058
Percentage distribution      of students
Sex	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Male	51.4	51.4	51.0	50.8	50.3	49.9	49.5	49.5	49.5	51.4	51.4	49.6
Female	48.6	48.6	49.0	49.2	49.7	50.1	50.5	50.5	50.5	48.6	48.6	50.4
Race/ethnicity	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White	61.8	61.9	42.5	42.6	41.8	40.5	38.8	37.3	36.2	51.7	52.4	35.6
Black	17.1	16.9	33.5	32.5	31.9	32.1	31.8	30.3	28.9	15.8	15.2	28.7
Hispanic	15.9	15.9	19.6	20.1	21.5	22.4	24.5	26.0	27.3	23.7	23.6	28.0
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.1	4.1	2.8	3.1	3.2	3.6	3.8	3.9	3.7	5.1	5.1	4.0
American Indian/    Alaska Native	1.2	1.2	1.5	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.1	0.9
Two or more races	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4	2.9	2.6	2.6	2.8
Percent of students eligible      for free or reduced-price      lunch program	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
0 to 25.0	44.9	45.0	36.9	42.5	33.2	36.1	19.8	20.6	26.7	23.7	23.8	21.9
25.1 to 50.0	25.4	25.5	12.7	14.3	17.1	15.9	16.5	18.8	18.9	27.6	28.0	18.4
50.1 to 75.0	16.0	16.1	13.0	14.7	16.1	17.4	18.9	20.2	20.4	25.2	25.4	21.0
More than 75.0	12.2	12.2	14.3	15.2	18.4	22.0	21.2	30.7	30.7	18.9	18.3	30.8
Missing/school does not      participate	1.4	1.2	23.2	13.3	15.2	8.6	23.6	9.7	3.2	4.6	4.4	7.9
Number of teachers1	2,636,277	2,622,678	13,599	23,415	36,406	49,142	69,725	84,983	91,126	3,028,283	2,920,353	107,929
Pupil/teacher ratio1	16.6	16.6	18.8	17.7	17.6	17.3	15.9	17.3	18.0	16.3	16.3	17.6
Total number of schools	92,012	90,488	1,524	2,348	2,977	3,780	4,388	4,952	5,274	98,328	92,632	5,696
Percentage distribution      of schools
School level	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Elementary2	69.7	70.0	54.6	50.6	52.0	52.1	53.3	54.1	54.3	67.8	68.6	54.9
Secondary3	24.3	24.3	25.9	24.2	26.2	28.0	27.8	26.8	25.9	24.8	24.8	24.9
Combined4	4.4	4.2	18.6	21.6	21.0	18.6	18.3	18.8	19.5	6.4	5.6	19.5
Other	1.6	1.6	0.9	3.6	0.8	1.3	0.6	0.3	0.2	1.0	1.0	0.7
Size of enrollment	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than 300	31.4	30.7	77.1	73.6	71.1	69.6	65.6	61.5	59.0	30.5	28.9	55.8
300 to 499	26.4	26.7	12.0	13.6	15.6	16.5	19.3	20.8	22.3	27.7	28.0	23.1
500 to 999	32.6	33.0	8.6	9.9	10.1	10.9	12.0	14.0	14.8	32.8	33.8	17.0
1,000 or more	9.5	9.7	2.4	2.8	3.2	3.0	3.1	3.7	3.9	9.0	9.3	4.2
Racial/ethnic concentration
More than 50 percent White	70.9	71.2	51.1	50.9	48.7	46.5	43.2	40.3	38.4	59.7	61.1	37.5
More than 50 percent Black	11.1	10.8	26.5	23.8	24.5	26.4	26.5	25.8	25.4	10.3	9.4	25.3
More than 50 percent Hispanic	8.8	8.7	11.4	12.5	13.6	15.1	17.8	19.8	20.8	15.0	14.6	21.8
Percent of students eligible      for free or reduced-price      lunch program	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
0 to 25.0	42.3	42.3	44.5	47.8	28.7	32.7	20.2	19.3	27.7	19.7	19.7	18.7
25.1 to 50.0	25.6	25.9	11.1	11.7	16.0	15.2	15.5	17.2	17.4	25.8	26.3	17.9
50.1 to 75.0	16.8	16.9	10.2	12.0	16.0	16.9	18.8	20.9	20.1	25.7	26.1	19.9
More than 75.0	11.9	11.9	12.4	13.5	19.9	22.7	22.4	32.8	33.1	20.5	19.7	33.8
Missing/school does not      participate	3.3	3.0	21.9	14.9	19.5	12.5	23.0	9.8	1.7	8.3	8.2	9.7
Locale	—	—	—	—	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
City	—	—	—	—	52.7	52.5	54.3	54.8	55.5	26.2	24.4	55.4
Suburban	—	—	—	—	22.0	22.2	22.0	21.1	21.3	27.3	27.7	21.2
Town	—	—	—	—	9.6	9.4	8.5	8.0	7.6	13.6	14.0	7.4
Rural	—	—	—	—	15.8	16.0	15.2	16.1	15.6	32.9	33.9	16.0
Region	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Northeast	16.1	16.3	7.2	10.1	9.2	9.0	8.6	9.1	9.5	15.5	15.9	9.7
Midwest	28.9	29.0	24.9	22.6	23.7	27.4	26.5	24.0	23.1	26.1	26.3	22.3
South	33.1	33.2	28.9	28.4	26.7	26.5	28.2	29.5	29.5	34.9	35.1	30.8
West	21.8	21.6	38.9	38.9	40.3	37.2	36.6	37.4	37.9	23.5	22.7	37.2

—Not available.

1 Data for 2010 include imputations for teachers in California and Vermont.

2 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.

3 Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.

4 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.

5 The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program. To be eligible for free lunch under the program, a student must be from a household with an income at or below 130 percent of the poverty threshold; to be eligible for reduced-price lunch, a student must be from a household with an income between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty threshold.

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1999-2000 through 2011-12. (This table was prepared March 2014.)