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| Table 99. - | Public elementary schools, by grade span and average school size, by state: 1996-97 |
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| | | Schools, by grade span ||Average of students
|Total, | Total, |___________________________________________________________________|| per school\2\
| all | all | Prekinder- | Prekinder- | Prekinder- | Prekinder- |Grades | ||___________________
State or other area |elemen-| regular |garten, kin- |garten, kin-|garten, kin-|garten, kin-| 4, 5, |Other || All | Regular
| tary | elemen- |dergarten, or| dergarten, | dergarten, | dergarten, | or 6, |grade ||elemen- | elemen-
|schools| tary |1st grade to |or 1st grade|or 1st grade|or 1st grade| to 6, |spans || tary | tary
| |schools\1\|grades 3 or 4| to grade 5 | to grade 6 | to grade 8 |7, or 8| ||schools |schools\1\
______________________|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 || 10 | 11
______________________|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________
United States .....|61,805 | 60,912 | 4,910 | 20,570 | 15,578 | 4,543 |10,499 |5,705 || 478 | 483
|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________
Alabama ..............| 874 | 862 | 87 | 251 | 194 | 79 | 177 | 86 || 489 | 495
Alaska ...............| 191 | 190 | 5 | 27 | 108 | 20 | 16 | 15 || 357 | 358
Arizona ..............| 934 | 912 | 53 | 204 | 291 | 172 | 128 | 86 || 560 | 568
Arkansas .............| 680 | 680 | 93 | 68 | 352 | 7 | 95 | 65 || 394 | 394
California ...........| 5,835 | 5,787 | 175 | 1,872 | 2,240 | 569 | 741 | 238 || 629 | 633
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Colorado .............| 1,079 | 1,077 | 35 | 504 | 231 | 19 | 209 | 81 || 422 | 422
Connecticut ..........| 782 | 775 | 81 | 306 | 142 | 40 | 142 | 71 || 465 | 468
Delaware .............| 120 | 112 | 39 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 29 | 24 || 567 | 601
District of Columbia .| 129 | 128 | 8 | 13 | 87 | 4 | 12 | 5 || 413 | 415
Florida ..............| 1,969 | 1,911 | 26 | 1,233 | 191 | 33 | 384 | 102 || 783 | 801
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Georgia ..............| 1,420 | 1,420 | 30 | 757 | 129 | 22 | 297 | 185 || 661 | 661
Hawaii ...............| 189 | 188 | 0 | 34 | 126 | 7 | 17 | 5 || 623 | 627
Idaho ................| 393 | 387 | 32 | 86 | 166 | 15 | 56 | 38 || 365 | 370
Illinois .............| 3,076 | 2,978 | 325 | 551 | 648 | 725 | 466 | 361 || 427 | 438
Indiana...............| 1,410 | 1,392 | 65 | 578 | 421 | 29 | 233 | 84 || 445 | 450
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Iowa .................| 1,071 | 1,062 | 123 | 316 | 263 | 20 | 209 | 140 || 288 | 290
Kansas ...............| 1,028 | 1,022 | 74 | 299 | 265 | 129 | 168 | 93 || 290 | 291
Kentucky .............| 974 | 963 | 57 | 400 | 225 | 92 | 175 | 25 || 423 | 427
Louisiana ............| 1,007 | 984 | 112 | 287 | 211 | 75 | 209 | 113 || 494 | 497
Maine ................| 546 | 545 | 78 | 84 | 88 | 110 | 92 | 94 || 262 | 262
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Maryland .............| 1,043 | 1,002 | 17 | 591 | 165 | 21 | 193 | 56 || 551 | 566
Massachusetts ........| 1,471 | 1,462 | 211 | 478 | 258 | 78 | 246 | 200 || 437 | 437
Michigan .............| 2,530 | 2,492 | 208 | 984 | 556 | 71 | 453 | 258 || 433 | 435
Minnesota ............| 1,100 | 972 | 137 | 222 | 434 | 33 | 142 | 132 || 434 | 478
Mississippi ..........| 569 | 569 | 82 | 92 | 136 | 51 | 113 | 95 || 522 | 522
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Missouri..............| 1,494 | 1,481 | 104 | 488 | 370 | 106 | 268 | 158 || 392 | 395
Montana ..............| 526 | 525 | 33 | 79 | 244 | 66 | 41 | 63 || 187 | 187
Nebraska .............| 999 | 961 | 55 | 124 | 465 | 156 | 63 | 136 || 172 | 178
Nevada ...............| 327 | 319 | 13 | 140 | 89 | 15 | 43 | 27 || 595 | 608
New Hampshire ........| 411 | 411 | 49 | 82 | 79 | 48 | 65 | 88 || 329 | 329
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New Jersey ...........| 1,770 | 1,764 | 270 | 432 | 297 | 261 | 306 | 204 || 456 | 457
New Mexico ...........| 541 | 530 | 30 | 193 | 157 | 4 | 100 | 57 || 399 | 404
New York .............| 3,004 | 3,001 | 277 | 984 | 739 | 81 | 540 | 383 || 614 | 614
North Carolina .......| 1,544 | 1,534 | 83 | 721 | 190 | 112 | 331 | 107 || 548 | 550
North Dakota .........| 349 | 349 | 13 | 26 | 227 | 44 | 17 | 22 || 190 | 190
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Ohio .................| 2,718 | 2,701 | 329 | 809 | 776 | 81 | 483 | 240 || 425 | 427
Oklahoma .............| 1,220 | 1,210 | 52 | 357 | 199 | 295 | 212 | 105 || 340 | 341
Oregon ...............| 913 | 891 | 59 | 390 | 179 | 78 | 162 | 45 || 382 | 389
Pennsylvania .........| 2,344 | 2,343 | 292 | 823 | 620 | 61 | 395 | 153 || 488 | 488
Rhode Island .........| 255 | 254 | 36 | 78 | 67 | 4 | 38 | 32 || 399 | 399
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South Carolina .......| 796 | 792 | 90 | 334 | 91 | 20 | 198 | 63 || 544 | 546
South Dakota .........| 508 | 505 | 25 | 105 | 138 | 98 | 77 | 65 || 178 | 179
Tennessee ............| 1,127 | 1,124 | 119 | 314 | 221 | 220 | 183 | 70 || 515 | 515
Texas ................| 4,654 | 4,550 | 475 | 1,733 | 764 | 92 | 1,039 | 551 || 547 | 556
Utah .................| 479 | 475 | 10 | 100 | 311 | 4 | 36 | 18 || 548 | 550
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Vermont ..............| 270 | 248 | 18 | 20 | 119 | 63 | 16 | 34 || 237 | 254
Virginia .............| 1,395 | 1,389 | 80 | 713 | 163 | 7 | 282 | 150 || 533 | 535
Washington ...........| 1,324 | 1,286 | 72 | 450 | 454 | 56 | 196 | 96 || 452 | 462
West Virginia.........| 622 | 618 | 57 | 186 | 228 | 37 | 87 | 27 || 296 | 298
Wisconsin ............| 1,508 | 1,493 | 97 | 568 | 334 | 103 | 272 | 134 || 371 | 374
Wyoming ..............| 287 | 286 | 19 | 69 | 120 | 7 | 47 | 25 || 201 | 201
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Department of Defense | | | | | | | | || |
dependents schools .| 109 | 109 | 7 | 25 | 53 | 10 | 14 | 0 || 503 | 503
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Outlying areas | | | | | | | | || |
American Samoa .......| 24 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 || 473 | 473
Guam .................| 30 | 30 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 || 839 | 839
Northern Marianas ....| 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 || 266 | 266
Puerto Rico ..........| 960 | 959 | 96 | 24 | 759 | 4 | 35 | 42 || 306 | 306
Virgin Islands .......| 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 || 512 | 512
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\1\Excludes special education and alternative schools.
\2\Average for schools reporting enrollment data. NOTE.--Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared August 1998.) |
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