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Table 5. Average student membership size of regular public elementary and secondary schools with membership, by instructional level, membership size of largest and smallest school, and state or jurisdiction: School year 2009–10
| Total number of schools2 | Average student membership1 size | Largest school4 | Smallest school | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All schools3 | Primary schools | Middle schools | High schools | Other schools | ||||||
| State or jurisdiction | ||||||||||
| United States5 | 88,182 | 546.4 | 450.8 | 574.8 | 854.3 | 425.0 | 8,539 | 1 | ||
| Alabama | 1,347 | 553.0 | 473.0 | 533.5 | 740.5 | 663.8 | 2,510 | 55 | ||
| Alaska | 450 | 261.3 | 317.5 | 460.1 | 595.8 | 85.2 | 2,276 | 3 | ||
| Arizona | 1,912 | 555.9 | 509.6 | 559.0 | 739.7 | 358.0 | 4,276 | 4 | ||
| Arkansas | 1,078 | 444.2 | 416.3 | 465.4 | 473.7 | 524.6 | 3,333 | 21 | ||
| California | 8,377 | 712.2 | 530.6 | 803.0 | 1,481.3 | 589.7 | 4,899 | 1 | ||
| Colorado | 1,683 | 484.2 | 409.0 | 481.8 | 741.7 | 530.5 | 5,006 | 6 | ||
| Connecticut | 1,040 | 525.3 | 404.8 | 584.4 | 959.1 | 387.0 | 2,854 | 1 | ||
| Delaware | 181 | 633.9 | 511.4 | 682.3 | 1,091.8 | 472.0 | 2,044 | 109 | ||
| District of Columbia | 198 | 333.9 | 294.3 | 310.1 | 523.6 | 415.6 | 1,483 | 27 | ||
| Florida | 3,222 | 797.7 | 627.5 | 883.4 | 1,589.7 | 428.5 | 4,186 | 1 | ||
| Georgia | 2,236 | 740.7 | 621.2 | 749.7 | 1,183.8 | 410.0 | 3,482 | 1 | ||
| Hawaii | 284 | 633.7 | 510.4 | 767.1 | 1,330.7 | 252.0 | 2,639 | 8 | ||
| Idaho | 632 | 428.9 | 363.3 | 489.7 | 585.2 | 376.0 | 2,789 | 2 | ||
| Illinois | 4,005 | 519.5 | 424.3 | 470.4 | 942.1 | 619.8 | 8,077 | 1 | ||
| Indiana | 1,867 | 558.7 | 435.3 | 591.3 | 940.1 | 565.6 | 4,389 | 19 | ||
| Iowa | 1,402 | 341.2 | 298.7 | 337.0 | 452.0 | 299.1 | 2,266 | 1 | ||
| Kansas | 1,380 | 339.8 | 303.3 | 361.1 | 415.0 | 255.0 | 2,267 | 1 | ||
| Kentucky | 1,217 | 550.1 | 454.7 | 568.8 | 878.3 | 446.1 | 2,169 | 11 | ||
| Louisiana | 1,259 | 518.3 | 465.3 | 496.4 | 737.0 | 482.7 | 2,355 | 4 | ||
| Maine | 619 | 297.5 | 223.5 | 355.4 | 508.6 | 201.6 | 1,426 | 4 | ||
| Maryland | 1,321 | 626.8 | 463.5 | 698.1 | 1,336.1 | 361.5 | 3,007 | 12 | ||
| Massachusetts | 1,755 | 520.4 | 412.4 | 595.6 | 904.8 | 310.8 | 4,029 | 4 | ||
| Michigan | 3,247 | 477.1 | 386.5 | 513.3 | 739.9 | 345.5 | 2,669 | 3 | ||
| Minnesota | 1,647 | 489.5 | 415.6 | 589.3 | 603.4 | 351.4 | 3,262 | 1 | ||
| Mississippi | 924 | 532.8 | 489.0 | 515.7 | 672.1 | 471.9 | 1,975 | 12 | ||
| Missouri | 2,165 | 418.1 | 349.7 | 474.5 | 546.0 | 442.1 | 2,378 | 16 | ||
| Montana | 822 | 172.4 | 162.4 | 126.2 | 261.0 | † | 1,956 | 1 | ||
| Nebraska | 1,020 | 288.9 | 243.0 | 380.6 | 350.2 | † | 2,513 | 2 | ||
| Nevada | 590 | 726.3 | 560.2 | 858.8 | 1,231.7 | 556.8 | 3,243 | 5 | ||
| New Hampshire | 483 | 408.2 | 299.4 | 460.9 | 727.5 | 94.3 | 3,315 | 1 | ||
| New Jersey | 2,358 | 573.9 | 439.8 | 609.5 | 1,152.8 | 413.4 | 3,336 | 7 | ||
| New Mexico | 804 | 407.2 | 358.0 | 388.9 | 581.3 | 369.1 | 2,789 | 1 | ||
| New York | 4,577 | 585.4 | 499.4 | 597.9 | 861.2 | 427.3 | 4,853 | 18 | ||
| North Carolina | 2,507 | 589.0 | 505.8 | 648.4 | 879.1 | 256.9 | 2,948 | 3 | ||
| North Dakota | 471 | 197.5 | 172.9 | 363.6 | 191.4 | 509.3 | 2,113 | 2 | ||
| Ohio | 3,643 | 481.6 | 402.4 | 490.8 | 668.1 | 530.9 | 8,115 | 8 | ||
| Oklahoma | 1,786 | 366.0 | 359.7 | 375.5 | 356.5 | 727.0 | 2,343 | 9 | ||
| Oregon | 1,252 | 437.7 | 354.7 | 516.3 | 668.7 | 213.3 | 3,193 | 1 | ||
| Pennsylvania | 3,117 | 558.5 | 430.3 | 598.9 | 888.7 | 693.6 | 8,539 | 14 | ||
| Rhode Island | 295 | 473.8 | 337.3 | 556.9 | 940.8 | 126.0 | 1,853 | 60 | ||
| South Carolina | 1,132 | 637.3 | 532.3 | 601.6 | 1,042.7 | 601.9 | 3,265 | 14 | ||
| South Dakota | 670 | 182.7 | 176.0 | 158.2 | 221.7 | 37.0 | 2,338 | 3 | ||
| Tennessee | 1,672 | 578.4 | 477.6 | 591.9 | 946.1 | 487.9 | 2,643 | 1 | ||
| Texas | 7,489 | 637.0 | 549.1 | 620.5 | 1,059.9 | 437.9 | 4,697 | 1 | ||
| Utah | 851 | 668.7 | 574.4 | 795.0 | 941.1 | 646.3 | 2,982 | 3 | ||
| Vermont | 307 | 280.5 | 209.4 | 315.0 | 608.8 | 298.1 | 1,394 | 13 | ||
| Virginia | 1,866 | 665.6 | 502.9 | 722.6 | 1,236.7 | 634.6 | 4,067 | 7 | ||
| Washington | 1,864 | 527.9 | 420.1 | 567.0 | 936.8 | 388.8 | 2,655 | 1 | ||
| West Virginia | 692 | 406.8 | 311.7 | 460.2 | 730.8 | 514.6 | 1,883 | 30 | ||
| Wisconsin | 2,132 | 406.3 | 344.2 | 416.9 | 577.2 | 307.2 | 2,408 | 2 | ||
| Wyoming | 334 | 260.3 | 217.0 | 292.0 | 379.5 | 155.0 | 1,550 | 1 | ||
| Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions | ||||||||||
| DoDDS: DoDs Overseas6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| DDESS: DoDs Domestic6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Bureau of Indian Education | 173 | 239.0 | 202.3 | 165.0 | 319.8 | 296.4 | 1,190 | 11 | ||
| American Samoa | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Guam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands |
30 | 365.4 | 281.9 | 561.3 | 660.8 | 54.0 | 1,213 | 30 | ||
| Puerto Rico | 1,446 | 327.1 | 253.5 | 380.6 | 559.7 | 402.1 | 1,305 | 24 | ||
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 31 | 496.9 | 378.9 | 436.7 | 1,266.3 | 142.0 | 1,535 | 93 | ||
| — Not available. | ||||||||||
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||||
| 1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. | ||||||||||
| 2 Total number of schools excludes schools also reported by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The number of schools shared with the BIE include two in Arizona, one in Michigan, and eight in North Dakota. | ||||||||||
| 3 All schools include primary, middle, high, and other schools. | ||||||||||
| 4 This column includes virtual schools. The largest operating regular school in 2009–10 was the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, Midland, Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||
| 5 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia. | ||||||||||
| 6 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Instructional levels are primary (low-grade prekindergarten to 3, high-grade up to 8); middle (low-grade 4 to 7, high-grade 4 to 9); high (low-grade 7 to 12, high-grade 12 only); and other (any configuration not falling within the previous three, including ungraded schools). | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2009–10, Version Provisional 2a. | ||||||||||
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