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Table 216.30. | Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students and schools, by traditional or charter school status and selected characteristics: 2009-10 and 2019-20 |
Selected characteristic | 2009-10 | 2019-20 | |||||||
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Total, all public schools |
Traditional (noncharter) schools |
Charter schools |
Total, all public schools |
Traditional (noncharter) schools |
Charter schools |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||
Fall enrollment (in thousands) | 49,082 | 47,471 | 1,610 | 50,438 | 47,007 | 3,431 | |||
Percentage distribution of students |
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Sex | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
Male | 51.4 | 51.4 | 49.5 | 51.4 | 51.5 | 49.7 | |||
Female | 48.6 | 48.6 | 50.5 | 48.6 | 48.5 | 50.3 | |||
Race/ethnicity |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
White | 54.1 | 54.7 | 37.3 | 46.5 | 47.6 | 30.4 | |||
Black | 16.8 | 16.3 | 30.3 | 15.0 | 14.2 | 24.9 | |||
Hispanic | 22.2 | 22.0 | 26.0 | 27.6 | 27.1 | 35.3 | |||
Asian/Pacific Islander | 5.0 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 4.5 | |||
Asian | 4.9 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 4.2 | |||
Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||
American Indian/ Alaska Native |
1.2 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |||
Two or more races | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.2 | |||
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program1 |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
0 to 25.0 | 24.7 | 24.8 | 20.6 | 20.5 | 20.8 | 16.6 | |||
25.1 to 50.0 | 28.8 | 29.1 | 18.8 | 28.6 | 29.3 | 19.8 | |||
50.1 to 75.0 | 25.1 | 25.3 | 20.2 | 25.5 | 25.9 | 20.8 | |||
More than 75.0 | 18.6 | 18.2 | 30.7 | 24.3 | 23.6 | 34.1 | |||
Missing/school does not participate |
2.9 | 2.7 | 9.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 8.6 | |||
Number of teachers |
3,074,941 | 2,989,958 | 84,983 | 3,143,713 | 2 | 2,969,855 | 2 | 173,858 | 2 |
Pupil/teacher ratio3 | 16.0 | 15.9 | 17.3 | 15.9 | 2 | 15.8 | 2 | 17.8 | 2 |
Total number of schools |
98,817 | 93,865 | 4,952 | 98,469 | 90,922 | 7,547 | |||
Percentage distribution of schools |
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School level | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
Prekindergarten | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.5 | |||
Elementary | 53.2 | 53.7 | 43.6 | 53.1 | 53.6 | 47.0 | |||
Middle | 16.8 | 17.1 | 11.6 | 16.5 | 17.0 | 10.5 | |||
Secondary and high | 23.8 | 23.4 | 30.9 | 23.9 | 23.6 | 27.7 | |||
Other, ungraded, and not applicable/not reported |
5.2 | 4.8 | 13.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 14.4 | |||
Size of enrollment |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
Less than 300 | 31.4 | 29.8 | 61.5 | 30.0 | 28.8 | 43.6 | |||
300 to 499 | 27.6 | 28.0 | 20.8 | 28.2 | 28.5 | 24.5 | |||
500 to 999 | 32.0 | 32.9 | 14.0 | 32.3 | 33.0 | 24.7 | |||
1,000 or more | 9.0 | 9.3 | 3.7 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 7.1 | |||
Racial/ethnic concentration |
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More than 50 percent White | 62.0 | 63.1 | 40.3 | 53.3 | 55.3 | 30.1 | |||
More than 50 percent Black | 11.2 | 10.4 | 25.8 | 9.5 | 8.4 | 22.1 | |||
More than 50 percent Hispanic | 13.9 | 13.5 | 19.8 | 18.0 | 17.1 | 28.8 | |||
No majority racial/ethnic group |
11.1 | 11.1 | 11.6 | 17.6 | 17.5 | 17.6 | |||
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program1 |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
0 to 25.0 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 19.3 | 17.5 | 17.6 | 15.7 | |||
25.1 to 50.0 | 27.0 | 27.5 | 17.2 | 26.7 | 27.5 | 17.7 | |||
50.1 to 75.0 | 25.5 | 25.7 | 20.9 | 25.6 | 26.0 | 21.1 | |||
More than 75.0 | 19.9 | 19.2 | 32.8 | 25.4 | 24.4 | 37.2 | |||
Missing/school does not participate |
7.2 | 7.1 | 9.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 8.3 | |||
Locale |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
City | 26.1 | 24.6 | 54.8 | 27.5 | 25.1 | 56.6 | |||
Suburban | 27.4 | 27.7 | 21.1 | 31.4 | 31.9 | 25.7 | |||
Town | 14.2 | 14.5 | 8.0 | 13.2 | 13.8 | 6.0 | |||
Rural | 32.4 | 33.2 | 16.1 | 28.0 | 29.3 | 11.7 | |||
Region |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
Northeast | 15.5 | 15.9 | 9.1 | 15.1 | 15.5 | 10.3 | |||
Midwest | 26.7 | 26.8 | 24.0 | 25.9 | 26.4 | 19.7 | |||
South | 34.5 | 34.8 | 29.5 | 34.9 | 35.0 | 33.9 | |||
West | 23.3 | 22.5 | 37.4 | 24.1 | 23.1 | 36.1 |
1 The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) 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. Data for 2019-20 include students whose NSLP eligibility has been determined through direct certification. | |||||||||
2 Includes imputations for California. | |||||||||
3 Pupil/teacher ratio based on schools that reported both enrollment and teacher data. | |||||||||
NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. 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," 2009-10 and 2019-20; and Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE), "Public School File," 2019-20. (This table was prepared October 2021.) |