Table 7.2. Percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by region, state, and race/ethnicity: 2004

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Table 7.2.

Percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by region, state, and race/ethnicity: 2004

Region and state	Total enrollment	Total	White	Total minority	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native
Total	48,359,608	100.0	57.9	42.1	17.3	19.2	4.5	1.2
Northeast
Connecticut	577,390	100.0	67.5	32.5	13.8	15.0	3.4	0.4
Maine	198,820	100.0	95.5	4.5	1.9	0.8	1.3	0.5
Massachusetts	975,574	100.0	74.2	25.8	8.9	11.8	4.8	0.3
New Hampshire	206,852	100.0	93.8	6.2	1.6	2.6	1.8	0.3
New Jersey	1,393,334	100.0	57.1	42.9	17.7	17.7	7.2	0.2
New York	2,836,337	100.0	53.1	46.9	19.9	19.8	6.7	0.5
Pennsylvania	1,828,089	100.0	75.5	24.5	16.0	6.0	2.3	0.1
Rhode Island	156,496	100.0	70.9	29.1	8.6	16.8	3.2	0.6
Vermont	97,772	100.0	95.8	4.2	1.4	0.9	1.5	0.5
Midwest
Illinois	2,081,705	100.0	57.0	43.0	20.7	18.4	3.7	0.2
Indiana	1,021,348	100.0	81.0	19.0	12.4	5.2	1.1	0.3
Iowa	478,319	100.0	87.4	12.6	4.8	5.4	1.9	0.6
Kansas	458,442	100.0	75.9	24.1	8.7	11.6	2.3	1.4
Michigan	1,739,570	100.0	72.7	27.3	19.9	4.2	2.2	1.0
Minnesota	838,503	100.0	79.3	20.7	8.2	5.0	5.5	2.1
Missouri	905,449	100.0	77.3	22.7	17.9	2.9	1.5	0.4
Nebraska	285,761	100.0	78.5	21.5	7.4	10.8	1.7	1.6
North Dakota	100,513	100.0	87.2	12.8	1.2	2.4	0.9	8.3
Ohio	1,797,318	100.0	79.1	20.9	17.1	2.3	1.4	0.1
South Dakota	122,798	100.0	84.6	15.4	1.6	1.9	1.0	10.9
Wisconsin	864,757	100.0	78.3	21.7	10.5	6.3	3.4	1.5
South
Alabama	730,140	100.0	59.7	40.3	36.1	2.4	1.0	0.8
Arkansas	463,115	100.0	69.2	30.8	23.0	6.0	1.3	0.6
Delaware	119,091	100.0	56.2	43.8	32.3	8.5	2.7	0.3
District of Columbia	76,714	100.0	4.6	95.4	84.5	9.5	1.4	#
Florida	2,639,336	100.0	50.5	49.5	24.1	23.0	2.1	0.3
Georgia	1,519,197	100.0	50.5	49.5	38.9	7.9	2.7	0.2
Kentucky	636,880	100.0	86.6	13.4	10.5	1.8	0.9	0.2
Louisiana	724,281	100.0	48.3	51.7	47.7	1.9	1.4	0.7
Maryland	865,561	100.0	49.5	50.5	38.1	7.0	5.0	0.4
Mississippi	495,376	100.0	47.0	53.0	50.8	1.3	0.8	0.2
North Carolina	1,385,754	100.0	57.4	42.6	31.6	7.5	2.0	1.5
Oklahoma	629,476	100.0	60.6	39.4	10.8	8.2	1.6	18.7
South Carolina	699,723	100.0	54.0	46.0	40.8	3.6	1.2	0.3
Tennessee	941,091	100.0	70.0	30.0	25.1	3.3	1.4	0.2
Texas	4,405,215	100.0	37.7	62.3	14.2	44.7	3.0	0.3
Virginia	1,188,296	100.0	60.6	39.4	27.1	7.1	4.9	0.3
West Virginia	280,129	100.0	93.9	6.1	4.8	0.6	0.6	0.1
West
Alaska	132,970	100.0	58.3	41.7	4.6	4.1	6.7	26.3
Arizona	1,043,298	100.0	48.3	51.7	5.0	38.2	2.3	6.2
California	6,213,073	100.0	31.9	68.1	8.1	47.7	11.5	0.8
Colorado	765,976	100.0	63.5	36.5	5.9	26.2	3.2	1.2
Hawaii	183,185	100.0	20.0	80.0	2.4	4.5	72.5	0.6
Idaho	256,084	100.0	83.5	16.5	1.0	12.4	1.5	1.6
Montana	146,705	100.0	84.5	15.5	0.8	2.3	1.1	11.3
Nevada ¹	400,083	100.0	50.8	49.2	10.7	30.2	6.7	1.7
New Mexico	326,102	100.0	31.9	68.1	2.5	53.3	1.2	11.1
Oregon	533,119	100.0	75.4	24.6	3.3	14.5	4.6	2.3
Utah	494,574	100.0	82.7	17.3	1.2	11.6	3.0	1.6
Washington	1,015,184	100.0	70.7	29.3	5.7	12.9	8.0	2.7
Wyoming	84,733	100.0	85.6	14.4	1.4	8.6	1.0	3.4
# Rounds to zero. ¹ Nevada did not report race/ethnicity data in 2004. The percentage distribution shown here is from 2003. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Total percentage distribution is based on students for whom race/ethnicity was reported and estimates for Nevada. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2004-05.