School Choice in the United States: 2019

List of Figures
Figure 1.1. Percentage distribution of students ages 5 through 17 attending kindergarten through 12th grade, by school type or participation in homeschooling: Selected years, 1999 through 2016
Table 1.1. Traditional public and public charter school enrollment, by school level: Fall 2000 and fall 2016
Figure 1.2. Traditional public school enrollment, by school level: Selected years, fall 2000 through fall 2016
Figure 1.3. Public charter school enrollment, by school level: Selected years, fall 2000 through fall 2016
Figure 1.4. Private school enrollment, by grade level: Fall 1999 through fall 2015
Figure 1.5. Number of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12th grade, by grade equivalent: Selected years, 1999 through 2016
Figure 2.1. Percentage of all public school students enrolled in public charter schools, by state: Fall 2016
Figure 2.2. Percentage distribution of students in traditional public schools and public charter schools, by race/ethnicity, and percentage of traditional public schools and public charter schools, by racial/ethnic concentration: 2016–17
Figure 2.3. Percentage distribution of students in traditional public schools and public charter schools and percentage distribution of traditional public schools and public charter schools, by percentage of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch: 2016–17
Figure 2.4. Percentage distribution of traditional public schools and public charter schools, by school level and enrollment size: 2016–17
Figure 2.5. Percentage distribution of traditional public schools and public charter schools, by school locale and region: 2016–17
Figure 3.1. Percentage distribution of elementary and secondary enrollment, by private school religious orientation, public school type, and student race/ethnicity: Fall 2015
Figure 3.2. Percentage distribution of private school enrollment in prekindergarten through grade 12, for each school religious orientation, by school level: Fall 2015
Figure 3.3. Percentage distribution of private school enrollment in prekindergarten through grade 12, for each school religious orientation, by school enrollment: Fall 2015
Figure 3.4. Percentage distribution of private school enrollment in prekindergarten through grade 12, for each school religious orientation, by school locale: Fall 2015
Table 3.1. Number and percentage of private school students enrolled in prekindergarten through grade 12, for each affiliation of school enrolling 50,000 or more students: Fall 2015
Figure 4.1. Percentage distribution of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12, by school type and number of parents in the household: 2016
Figure 4.2. Percentage distribution of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12, by school type and highest education level of parents: 2016
Figure 4.3. Percentage distribution of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12, by school type and poverty status of household: 2016
Figure 5.1. Percentage of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12, by student’s race/ethnicity and grade equivalent: 2016
Figure 5.2. Percentage of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12, by locale and region: 2016
Figure 5.3. Percentage of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12, by selected family/household characteristics: 2016
Figure 5.4. Percentage of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12 whose parents identified each listed reason as their most important reason for homeschooling: 2016
Figure 6.1. Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scale score of 8th-and 4th-graders in traditional public and public charter schools: 2017
Figure 6.2. Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scale score of 8th-and 4th-graders in traditional public and public charter schools: 2017
Figure 7.1. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported that gangs were present at school during the school year, by school type: Selected years, 2001 through 2017
Figure 7.2. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported seeing hate-related graffiti at school during the school year, by school type: Selected years, 2001 through 2017
Figure 7.3. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being called hate-related words at school during the school year, by school type: Selected years, 2001 through 2017
Figure 7.4. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school during the school year, by school type: Selected years, 2005 through 2017
Figure 8.1. Percentage of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 whose parents reported having public school choice, by household locale and region: 2016
Figure 8.2. Percentage of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 whose parents considered other schools, reported current school was their first choice, or moved to their current neighborhood for the public school, by school type: 2016
Figure 8.3. Percentage of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 whose parents considered other schools, reported current school was their first choice, or moved to their current neighborhood for the public school, by family poverty status: 2016
Figure 8.4. Percentage of students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 whose parents considered other schools, reported current school was their first choice, or moved to their current neighborhood for the public school, by highest education level of parents: 2016
Figure 8.5. Percentage of students enrolled in grades 3 through 12 whose parents were very satisfied with various aspects of their children’s schools, by school type: 2016

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