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
	Total, all public schools	Traditional (noncharter) schools	Charter schools	Total, all public schools		Traditional (noncharter) schools		Charter schools
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
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
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
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.)