Table 7.1b. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by region, state, and race/ethnicity: 2007

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Table 7.1b.

Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by region, state, and race/ethnicity: 2007–08

Region and state	Total enrollment	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native
Total	48,397,895	100.0	55.8	17.0	21.2	4.8	1.2
Northeast	8,059,559	100.0	63.4	15.4	15.4	5.6	0.3
Connecticut	568,405	100.0	65.3	13.8	16.6	3.9	0.4
Maine	190,737	100.0	94.1	2.6	1.1	1.5	0.7
Massachusetts	943,788	100.0	72.2	8.3	14.1	5.0	0.3
New Hampshire	200,772	100.0	92.5	1.9	3.1	2.2	0.3
New Jersey	1,379,626	100.0	55.0	17.3	19.4	8.2	0.2
New York	2,760,141	100.0	51.6	19.5	21.0	7.4	0.5
Pennsylvania	1,779,302	100.0	74.1	15.8	7.2	2.8	0.2
Rhode Island	146,228	100.0	69.0	8.9	18.3	3.1	0.7
Vermont	90,560	100.0	95.2	1.6	1.1	1.7	0.3
Midwest	10,555,854	100.0	72.6	15.2	8.5	2.8	0.9
Illinois	2,054,675	100.0	55.4	19.9	20.4	4.0	0.3
Indiana	1,006,651	100.0	78.9	12.7	6.8	1.4	0.3
Iowa	482,204	100.0	85.1	5.6	6.5	2.1	0.6
Kansas	463,890	100.0	73.2	8.9	13.5	2.6	1.7
Michigan	1,652,120	100.0	71.7	20.2	4.7	2.5	0.9
Minnesota	837,578	100.0	76.4	9.4	6.1	6.0	2.1
Missouri	917,188	100.0	76.1	17.9	3.7	1.8	0.4
Nebraska	291,244	100.0	75.4	8.0	12.9	2.0	1.7
North Dakota	95,052	100.0	86.0	2.0	2.1	1.0	8.8
Ohio	1,760,503	100.0	78.6	17.0	2.7	1.5	0.1
South Dakota	120,271	100.0	83.4	2.0	2.4	1.2	11.1
Wisconsin	874,478	100.0	76.8	10.5	7.6	3.6	1.5
South	18,149,304	100.0	50.4	25.8	20.0	2.8	1.1
Alabama	743,778	100.0	58.8	35.7	3.5	1.1	0.8
Arkansas	479,016	100.0	67.0	22.6	8.1	1.5	0.7
Delaware	122,574	100.0	53.0	33.0	10.4	3.2	0.4
District of Columbia	78,108	100.0	5.4	83.1	9.9	1.5	0.1
Florida	2,570,955	100.0	47.6	23.9	25.7	2.5	0.3
Georgia	1,600,235	100.0	47.5	39.2	10.0	3.1	0.2
Kentucky	654,134	100.0	85.2	10.9	2.7	1.1	0.1
Louisiana	680,911	100.0	49.2	46.0	2.7	1.4	0.8
Maryland	845,700	100.0	47.0	37.9	9.0	5.6	0.4
Mississippi	494,122	100.0	46.4	50.6	1.9	0.9	0.2
North Carolina	1,408,604	100.0	56.7	29.0	10.4	2.4	1.5
Oklahoma	642,065	100.0	58.1	10.8	10.0	1.9	19.2
South Carolina	709,204	100.0	53.7	39.3	5.1	1.5	0.4
Tennessee	963,839	100.0	68.6	24.8	4.9	1.5	0.2
Texas	4,673,455	100.0	34.8	14.3	47.2	3.4	0.3
Virginia	1,200,092	100.0	58.6	26.6	8.8	5.6	0.3
West Virginia	282,512	100.0	93.0	5.2	0.9	0.7	0.1
West	11,633,178	100.0	43.7	6.2	38.4	9.4	2.2
Alaska	123,277	100.0	57.1	4.0	6.1	7.5	25.3
Arizona	1,087,263	100.0	44.5	5.6	41.6	2.8	5.4
California	6,070,428	100.0	29.4	7.6	50.3	11.9	0.8
Colorado	801,867	100.0	61.5	6.0	27.9	3.4	1.2
Hawaii	179,897	100.0	19.4	2.3	4.6	73.0	0.6
Idaho	271,915	100.0	81.6	1.2	14.0	1.7	1.6
Montana	142,823	100.0	84.0	1.0	2.5	1.2	11.4
Nevada	429,362	100.0	43.1	11.0	36.4	7.9	1.5
New Mexico	327,670	100.0	29.5	2.6	55.6	1.4	10.9
Oregon	535,118	100.0	72.3	3.0	17.6	4.9	2.2
Utah	573,515	100.0	78.9	1.5	14.7	3.3	1.6
Washington	1,003,679	100.0	68.0	5.7	15.1	8.6	2.6
Wyoming	86,364	100.0	83.9	1.6	10.0	1.1	3.5
NOTE: Enrollment counts exclude schools with no reported enrollment or missing race/ethnicity information. Total enrollment including students with missing race/ethnicity information was 48,910,025. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2007–08.