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 2009–10 |
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Student/teacher ratio | Student/staff ratio | ||||||||||
State or jurisdiction | Total student membership1 | Total staff | Total student/ teacher ratio2 | Kindergarten student/ teacher ratio | Elementary student/ teacher ratio3 | Secondary student/ teacher ratio4 | Total student/other instructional and student support staff ratio5 | Total student/ administrative support staff ratio6 | Total student/ administrative and all other support staff ratio7 | ||
United States8 | 49,373,307 | 6,355,351 | 15.4 | 20.5 | 19.1 | 12.1 | 42.2 | 211.6 | 30.2 | ||
Alabama | 748,889 | 94,058 | 15.8 | 12.0 | 21.3 | 10.8 | 61.5 | 209.1 | 25.9 | ||
Alaska | 131,661 | 17,743 | 16.3 | 23.1 | 21.1 | 10.7 | 39.9 | 85.5 | 29.2 | ||
Arizona | 1,077,831 | 100,320 | 20.7 | 27.8 | 19.8 | 21.2 | 44.0 | 365.5 | 55.1 | ||
Arkansas | 480,559 | 74,311 | 12.9 | 11.1 | 18.6 | 9.3 | 27.1 | 194.4 | 31.1 | ||
California | 6,263,449 | 9 | 594,796 | 20.0 | 21.9 | 18.7 | 22.4 | 68.1 | 301.2 | 39.0 | |
Colorado | 832,368 | 103,354 | 17.0 | 18.5 | 21.1 | 11.5 | 33.6 | 206.6 | 35.6 | ||
Connecticut | 563,985 | 92,877 | 12.9 | 23.2 | 12.7 | 12.2 | 25.3 | 141.5 | 25.7 | ||
Delaware | 126,801 | 16,977 | 14.7 | 25.6 | 20.4 | 8.9 | 36.8 | 164.0 | 33.0 | ||
District of Columbia | 69,433 | 9 | 12,256 | 10.9 | 16.5 | 12.6 | 7.7 | 22.3 | 101.4 | 39.7 | |
Florida | 2,634,522 | 335,446 | 14.3 | 20.1 | 25.7 | 11.9 | 61.5 | 269.7 | 28.3 | ||
Georgia | 1,667,685 | 234,694 | 14.4 | 17.8 | 16.9 | 10.4 | 40.5 | 187.6 | 25.7 | ||
Hawaii | 180,196 | 21,653 | 15.8 | 27.5 | 20.6 | 10.2 | 35.9 | 247.5 | 46.7 | ||
Idaho | 276,299 | 27,701 | 18.2 | 34.5 | 23.5 | 11.4 | 64.2 | 317.6 | 41.2 | ||
Illinois | 2,104,175 | 221,771 | 15.2 | 30.3 | 14.3 | 14.2 | 47.2 | 208.3 | 82.7 | ||
Indiana | 1,046,661 | 9 | 142,724 | 16.8 | 19.8 | 22.0 | 11.2 | 33.9 | 242.3 | 24.2 | |
Iowa | 491,842 | 72,546 | 13.7 | 14.7 | 17.6 | 9.4 | 31.4 | 184.7 | 28.7 | ||
Kansas | 474,489 | 67,531 | 13.7 | 21.6 | 19.4 | 8.3 | 31.0 | 204.2 | 33.6 | ||
Kentucky | 680,089 | 9 | 118,431 | 15.3 | 41.7 | 20.4 | 18.9 | 30.4 | 142.8 | 15.0 | |
Louisiana | 690,915 | 102,874 | 13.9 | 22.9 | 13.9 | 11.8 | 33.8 | 212.3 | 25.1 | ||
Maine | 189,225 | 37,081 | 11.6 | 16.4 | 10.9 | 11.8 | 21.8 | 100.7 | 19.7 | ||
Maryland | 848,412 | 115,288 | 14.6 | 19.8 | 16.3 | 11.1 | 43.3 | 117.6 | 30.5 | ||
Massachusetts | 957,053 | 123,167 | 13.7 | 19.9 | 13.7 | 12.3 | 28.2 | 146.0 | 91.2 | ||
Michigan | 1,649,082 | 9 | 204,625 | 17.8 | 29.7 | 29.9 | 14.4 | 40.5 | 201.8 | 27.2 | |
Minnesota | 837,053 | 109,066 | 15.8 | 22.8 | 21.1 | 11.4 | 26.5 | 201.6 | 43.2 | ||
Mississippi | 492,481 | 70,782 | 14.9 | 20.5 | 22.6 | 10.4 | 35.5 | 164.7 | 25.0 | ||
Missouri | 917,982 | 132,047 | 13.5 | 17.4 | 18.7 | 8.5 | 44.0 | 204.5 | 25.3 | ||
Montana | 141,807 | 19,429 | 13.5 | 16.2 | 13.8 | 13.0 | 38.2 | 198.6 | 35.4 | ||
Nebraska | 295,368 | 45,835 | 13.3 | 18.6 | 14.3 | 10.4 | 30.3 | 181.4 | 25.9 | ||
Nevada | 428,947 | 33,747 | 19.4 | 35.1 | 26.5 | 15.5 | 67.4 | 411.4 | 127.3 | ||
New Hampshire | 197,140 | 9 | 32,911 | 12.7 | 23.9 | 12.0 | 13.0 | 22.4 | 160.6 | 30.2 | |
New Jersey | 1,396,029 | 213,783 | 12.1 | 28.3 | 14.3 | 10.2 | 30.7 | 217.1 | 32.9 | ||
New Mexico | 334,419 | 47,565 | 14.7 | 20.5 | 24.4 | 11.4 | 31.9 | 151.7 | 29.6 | ||
New York | 2,766,052 | 421,929 | 12.9 | 14.5 | 17.7 | 11.9 | 47.6 | 219.6 | 21.3 | ||
North Carolina | 1,483,397 | 9 | 200,461 | 14.1 | 15.7 | 19.5 | 9.0 | 36.9 | 217.6 | 33.3 | |
North Dakota | 95,073 | 15,983 | 11.4 | 15.2 | 12.1 | 9.8 | 29.4 | 108.8 | 29.5 | ||
Ohio | 1,764,297 | 244,232 | 15.8 | 21.6 | 23.0 | 10.2 | 39.0 | 247.2 | 23.0 | ||
Oklahoma | 654,802 | 85,036 | 15.3 | 21.2 | 20.2 | 9.0 | 42.4 | 231.7 | 29.3 | ||
Oregon | 582,839 | 62,969 | 20.3 | 21.8 | 19.0 | 20.7 | 41.7 | 284.9 | 34.0 | ||
Pennsylvania | 1,786,103 | 9 | 253,869 | 13.6 | 24.6 | 19.0 | 9.7 | 40.6 | 211.0 | 27.2 | |
Rhode Island | 145,118 | 18,638 | 12.8 | 25.2 | 17.4 | 7.9 | 46.3 | 269.7 | 45.3 | ||
South Carolina | 723,143 | 67,358 | 15.4 | 23.2 | 14.6 | 15.0 | 52.4 | 221.6 | 496.7 | ||
South Dakota | 123,713 | 18,631 | 13.3 | 21.7 | 14.1 | 14.8 | 36.0 | 109.3 | 28.1 | ||
Tennessee | 972,549 | 9 | 127,743 | 14.9 | 19.0 | 15.1 | 15.1 | 47.4 | 278.8 | 27.4 | |
Texas | 4,850,210 | 662,369 | 14.6 | 17.9 | 21.2 | 10.1 | 48.4 | 170.9 | 25.6 | ||
Utah | 582,793 | 51,660 | 22.9 | 39.0 | 32.1 | 16.2 | 49.4 | 342.4 | 49.1 | ||
Vermont | 92,431 | 9 | 19,337 | 10.6 | 16.2 | 18.0 | 8.3 | 15.1 | 144.2 | 27.2 | |
Virginia | 1,245,340 | 9 | 202,907 | 17.6 | 22.0 | 25.5 | 10.7 | 28.2 | 198.5 | 16.0 | |
Washington | 1,035,347 | 103,938 | 19.4 | 26.7 | 25.7 | 14.4 | 65.3 | 263.4 | 36.1 | ||
West Virginia | 282,662 | 39,205 | 13.9 | 19.9 | 20.6 | 7.6 | 45.2 | 152.5 | 28.1 | ||
Wisconsin | 872,436 | 105,229 | 14.9 | 18.4 | 20.9 | 9.3 | 43.5 | 253.6 | 40.8 | ||
Wyoming | 88,155 | 16,468 | 12.3 | 18.2 | 16.3 | 7.7 | 22.7 | 120.8 | 21.0 | ||
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions | |||||||||||
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
DDESS: DoDs Domestic10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Bureau of Indian Education | 41,351 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
American Samoa | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Guam | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands | 10,961 | 1,155 | 19.9 | 31.6 | 24.0 | 12.7 | 35.6 | 261.0 | 47.0 | ||
Puerto Rico | 493,393 | 63,198 | 12.6 | 16.7 | 9.2 | 95.1 | 313.3 | 30.0 | |||
U.S. Virgin Islands | 15,493 | 2,854 | 10.9 | 19.7 | 17.1 | 11.0 | 20.3 | 142.1 | 32.4 | ||
— Not available. | |||||||||||
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. | |||||||||||
2 Total teachers include prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes. | |||||||||||
3 Elementary students includes students in grades 1–8. | |||||||||||
4 Secondary students includes students in grades 9–12. | |||||||||||
5 Other instructional and student support staff includes instructional aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, librarians, library support staff, and student support staff. | |||||||||||
6 Administrative staff includes school and school district administrators. | |||||||||||
7 Administrative and all other support staff includes district- and school-level administrative support staff and all other support staff. | |||||||||||
8 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia. | |||||||||||
9 In California, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia one or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail by race/ethnicity from the State Nonfiscal Survey or the sum of grade detail from the School Universe survey. | |||||||||||
10 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 edited 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," 2009–10, Version 1a. |