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Table 5.  Percentage distribution of students in membership in regular public elementary and secondary school districts with membership, by student membership size and state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10
 
Percentage distribution of students in districts with membership1
State or jurisdiction Total districts Total students   100,000
or more
10,000–
99,999
5,000–
9,999
3,000–
4,999
1,000–
2,999
500-999 300–499 100–299 1–99
United States2  13,629 48,022,447   12.3 41.5 15.1 11.4 14.2 3.5 1.1 0.7 0.1
                         
Alabama  133 748,889   0.0 42.5 25.9 13.3 18.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
Alaska  53 131,265   0.0 61.6 11.0 6.1 12.3 3.2 3.9 1.7 0.3
Arizona  224 958,968   0.0 63.6 17.4 7.8 8.4 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.2
Arkansas  244 474,897   0.0 23.9 13.2 17.1 29.6 13.5 2.6 0.1 0.0
California  958 6,099,547   13.2 58.3 13.9 6.7 5.8 1.3 0.4 0.3 0.1
                         
Colorado  178 825,242   0.0 75.1 9.4 4.2 6.9 1.9 1.4 1.0 0.1
Connecticut  169 538,756   0.0 27.1 24.6 23.1 20.9 3.0 0.8 0.5 #
Delaware  19 117,628   0.0 45.1 26.7 21.6 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
District of Columbia  1 43,866   0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Florida  67 2,627,390   52.1 43.4 3.0 0.7 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
                         
Georgia  180 1,660,643   16.1 55.5 11.4 9.4 7.2 0.4 0.1 # 0.0
Hawaii  1 180,196   100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Idaho  116 266,707   0.0 40.8 15.5 18.8 16.2 4.2 2.7 1.7 0.1
Illinois  869 2,101,445   19.4 18.5 15.9 14.0 21.8 7.1 2.1 1.0 0.1
Indiana  294 1,026,053   0.0 35.5 21.8 13.5 25.4 3.6 # 0.1 0.0
                         
Iowa  361 491,255   0.0 23.6 12.8 12.2 25.4 18.3 5.6 2.1 0.1
Kansas  316 474,026   0.0 35.9 14.8 9.6 19.9 11.7 5.3 2.8 0.1
Kentucky  174 679,901   0.0 37.5 15.5 21.1 22.7 2.7 0.5 0.1 0.0
Louisiana  69 651,930   0.0 65.4 19.2 9.3 6.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Maine  246 188,694   0.0 0.0 6.3 22.0 52.6 10.8 3.2 3.7 1.4
                         
Maryland  24 848,252   43.9 50.5 3.4 1.6 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Massachusetts  244 792,874   0.0 23.1 24.8 27.3 21.3 2.3 0.6 0.6 #
Michigan  551 1,510,716   0.0 27.5 21.6 18.1 26.9 4.8 0.7 0.4 0.1
Minnesota  337 798,508   0.0 35.6 20.2 13.7 19.4 7.9 2.3 0.9 #
Mississippi  152 491,651   0.0 21.4 20.1 27.0 28.2 2.9 0.1 0.2 0.0
                         
Missouri  523 897,385   0.0 36.6 12.6 16.7 18.9 9.2 3.1 2.6 0.3
Montana  417 141,693   0.0 7.4 12.3 13.0 22.5 14.9 9.6 15.3 5.1
Nebraska  253 294,948   0.0 36.0 15.3 9.1 13.4 11.0 8.3 6.8 0.2
Nevada  17 423,859   72.4 15.3 9.1 1.8 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.1 #
New Hampshire  180 197,131   0.0 13.8 5.7 19.3 39.9 13.4 4.2 2.9 0.8
                         
New Jersey  603 1,368,811   0.0 21.5 26.3 19.1 24.5 6.0 1.6 0.9 0.1
New Mexico  89 331,436   0.0 60.1 15.0 12.9 6.6 3.1 1.3 0.8 0.2
New York  696 2,721,522   37.3 9.0 17.4 14.5 17.0 3.7 0.9 0.3 #
North Carolina  115 1,444,409   19.2 55.4 16.2 5.6 3.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
North Dakota  185 94,997   0.0 22.6 21.7 3.4 13.5 9.4 11.1 15.8 2.6
                         
Ohio  615 1,672,054   0.0 20.4 20.0 20.1 33.4 5.8 0.3 # #
Oklahoma  532 653,592   0.0 35.6 9.3 8.2 24.3 10.9 6.4 5.0 0.4
Oregon  190 558,960   0.0 47.6 19.9 11.9 14.4 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.2
Pennsylvania  500 1,682,891   9.8 13.4 22.0 24.5 27.1 2.9 0.2 # #
Rhode Island  32 130,623   0.0 34.5 23.8 21.5 18.8 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.0
                         
South Carolina  85 715,590   0.0 63.3 22.3 8.0 5.4 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
South Dakota  156 123,558   0.0 27.6 0.0 8.8 26.2 16.2 9.1 12.1 0.1
Tennessee  140 972,549   11.2 49.2 16.6 13.4 8.5 0.9 0.2 # #
Texas  1,032 4,728,202   9.8 59.0 10.8 6.8 8.9 3.1 0.9 0.7 #
Utah  41 548,397   0.0 85.4 6.2 4.4 3.7 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
                         
Vermont  291 89,999   0.0 0.0 0.0 3.9 27.1 27.9 15.7 20.6 4.7
Virginia  134 1,231,205   14.0 57.6 11.7 8.2 7.8 0.7 # #  
Washington  295 1,034,698   0.0 55.1 18.9 9.7 11.4 3.0 0.8 0.8 0.2
West Virginia  55 281,828   0.0 37.6 25.6 22.2 13.9 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Wisconsin  425 864,898   0.0 28.0 14.5 16.8 27.1 9.9 2.7 1.0 #
Wyoming  48 87,913   0.0 28.8 15.1 7.7 32.4 12.2 2.3 1.5 0.0
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas3  9  
DDESS: DoDs Domestic3  7  
Bureau of Indian Education  196 41,351   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 26.1 22.6 42.9 5.5
American Samoa  1  
Guam  1  
Commonwealth of the
  Northern Marianas Islands 
1 10,961   0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Puerto Rico  1 493,393   100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
U.S. Virgin Islands  2 15,493   0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
—Not available. The Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas and domestic ), American Samoa and Guam did not report membership to the Common Core of Data for the 2009–10 school year.
# Rounds to zero.
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
2 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
3 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: This table includes districts operated by the Bureau of Indian Education and the Department of Defense although they are technically federally-operated. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district. 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), “Local Education Agency Universe Survey,” 2009–10, Version Provisional 2a.