Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2007

Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff Counts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-08

NCES 2010-309
November 2009

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Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2007–08

				Student/teacher ratio				Student/staff ratio
State or jurisdiction	Total student membership		Total staff	Total student/ teacher ratio¹	Kinder- garten student/ teacher ratio	Elemen- tary student/ teacher ratio²	Secondary student/ teacher ratio³	Total student/other instructional and student support staff ratio⁴	Total student/ administrative staff ratio⁵	Total student/ administrative and all other support staff ratio⁶
United States⁷	49,292,507		6,215,635	15.5	20.6	20.1	11.9	43.4	227.2	31.2

Alabama	744,865	⁸	111,656	14.8	10.8	20.1	10.2	60.5	222.1	17.0
Alaska	131,029		16,593	17.2	23.0	22.9	11.3	40.2	104.7	31.3
Arizona	1,087,447		104,670	20.1	27.5	18.9	20.8	42.1	365.0	53.4
Arkansas	479,016		70,331	14.1	13.2	19.9	10.3	35.9	199.4	24.8
California	6,343,471	⁸	583,625	20.8	21.7	20.7	23.4	65.6	357.8	40.6

Colorado	801,867		99,326	16.8	19.3	20.8	11.3	34.7	198.3	35.3
Connecticut	570,626		86,762	14.5	24.0	14.1	14.4	28.0	164.3	25.7
Delaware	122,574		15,524	15.0	28.1	20.4	9.2	44.8	163.9	34.3
District of Columbia	78,422		12,532	12.4	68.0	15.4	7.7	33.0	103.3	27.8
Florida	2,666,811		329,726	15.8	19.6	25.3	12.1	55.8	263.1	27.5

Georgia	1,649,589		235,083	14.1	16.6	16.6	10.3	39.7	188.1	25.7
Hawaii	179,897		21,657	15.8	22.9	21.2	10.3	37.4	232.7	44.8
Idaho	272,119		27,149	18.1	32.8	23.5	11.3	65.1	311.7	42.0
Illinois	2,112,805		214,459	15.5	27.4	25.1	10.9	46.0	444.4	83.7
Indiana	1,046,766		139,460	16.8	20.4	21.8	11.3	38.3	244.1	24.0

Iowa	485,115		71,794	13.4	14.6	17.3	9.4	32.7	192.8	28.3
Kansas	468,295		54,232	13.2	21.4	19.5	7.6	39.4	198.9	133.3
Kentucky	666,225		100,362	15.3	42.3	20.4	19.4	34.4	168.2	20.8
Louisiana	681,038		99,625	14.0	22.0	13.8	12.5	37.6	220.3	25.4
Maine	196,245		39,918	11.9	16.6	11.0	12.6	22.0	125.4	16.0

Maryland	845,700		116,857	14.3	20.9	15.9	10.8	44.1	121.7	29.2
Massachusetts	962,958		123,114	13.6	22.5	13.4	12.5	29.6	139.2	90.5
Michigan	1,692,739	⁸	208,987	17.6	31.4	29.3	14.3	42.3	202.8	27.4
Minnesota	837,578		108,432	15.8	22.9	21.1	11.4	27.2	207.2	43.0
Mississippi	494,122		71,144	14.7	19.5	22.2	10.5	35.1	168.5	25.3

Missouri	917,188		133,607	13.4	18.7	18.0	8.6	45.0	194.6	24.5
Montana	142,823		19,179	13.6	15.5	13.8	13.5	40.7	198.6	35.9
Nebraska	291,244		43,672	13.3	16.8	13.7	11.6	33.6	173.2	27.5
Nevada	429,362		35,574	18.3	33.1	24.8	15.1	65.1	317.1	129.4
New Hampshire	200,772		32,573	13.0	24.4	12.1	13.5	24.0	168.6	30.0

New Jersey	1,382,348		201,552	12.4	26.2	18.8	8.9	32.6	489.8	32.9
New Mexico	329,040	⁸	46,699	14.8	19.8	14.3	15.0	31.0	139.8	31.0
New York	2,765,435		374,080	13.1	14.4	18.1	12.0	47.1	223.1	32.5
North Carolina	1,489,492		203,287	14.0	18.9	19.4	8.6	35.8	229.0	33.3
North Dakota	95,059		15,385	11.8	17.3	12.6	10.2	31.5	108.5	30.1

Ohio	1,827,184		243,579	16.6	22.7	23.8	11.2	42.3	234.4	23.1
Oklahoma	642,065		86,758	13.7	22.6	20.0	8.9	47.0	229.3	29.3
Oregon	565,586		64,619	18.8	21.2	18.4	19.9	40.4	267.7	32.7
Pennsylvania	1,801,971	⁸	254,476	13.3	24.5	18.9	9.4	41.3	216.8	28.8
Rhode Island	147,629		17,559	13.1	24.8	18.0	8.2	56.5	273.9	54.1

South Carolina	712,317	⁸	66,087	15.0	23.3	38.6	6.8	55.7	238.1	606.2
South Dakota	121,606		17,019	12.9	21.7	14.1	15.1	60.4	118.3	28.6
Tennessee	964,259		126,646	14.9	18.6	14.7	15.2	50.2	280.0	26.3
Texas	4,674,832		635,715	14.5	18.3	21.1	10.5	48.9	180.8	25.8
Utah	576,244		48,515	23.7	40.3	32.9	17.1	55.0	372.5	50.5

Vermont	94,038		19,184	10.7	17.4	17.8	8.6	15.6	135.3	28.8
Virginia	1,230,857		204,384	17.1	21.4	25.3	10.3	28.1	195.3	15.7
Washington	1,030,247		103,714	19.1	30.0	25.6	14.9	65.5	255.6	36.9
West Virginia	282,535		38,309	13.9	19.6	20.5	7.8	51.1	155.9	28.3
Wisconsin	874,633		104,981	14.8	18.0	21.0	9.4	44.5	259.5	41.4
Wyoming	86,422		15,464	12.5	18.9	16.4	8.1	24.6	125.6	22.0

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas⁹	57,247		6,265	13.8	22.5	28.6	8.4	100.4	208.2	54.2
DDESS: DoDs Domestic⁹	27,548	⁸	3,994	12.3	21.9	24.4	6.3	53.2	170.0	28.1
Bureau of Indian Education	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
American Samoa	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Guam	–		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands	11,299		1,111	20.5	34.5	24.8	13.4	40.4	269.0	51.8
Puerto Rico	526,565		71,847	12.9	–	15.5	10.7	92.9	257.2	23.6
U.S. Virgin Islands	15,903		3,137	10.5	18.8	16.6	8.7	28.3	119.6	18.7
— Not available.
¹ Total teachers include prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes.
² Elementary students includes students in grades 1-8.
³ Secondary students includes students in grades 9-12.
⁴ Other instructional and student support staff includes aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, librarians, library support staff, and student support staff.
⁵ Administrative staff includes school and local education agency (LEA) administrators.
⁶ Administrative and all other support staff includes school, LEA, and all other support staff.
⁷ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁸ State membership totals in California include adjusted values for one grade. In Alabama, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Department of Defense Domestic schools one or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail derived from the State Nonfiscal or School Universe surveys.
⁹ DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependent schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts. Some staff counts were imputed based on current-year data. Some staff counts were adjusted or disaggregated from reported totals.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2007-08, Version 1a.

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