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Table 2. Public school student membership and percentage distribution of public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11
Student membership1 Percentage distribution of student membership
State or jurisdiction Total students reported2 American
Indian/
Alaska
Native 		Asian Native Hawaiian/ Pacific IslanderHispanic Black White Two or more races American
Indian/
Alaska
Native 		Asian Native Hawaiian/ Pacific IslanderHispanic Black White Two or more races
Reporting states3  49,402,385 564,949 2,287,310 170,031 11,399,633 7,911,927 25,907,184 1,161,351 1.1 4.6 0.3 23.1 16.0 52.4 2.4
                             
Alabama  755,552 6,102 9,614 139 35,389 261,255 440,519 2,534 0.8 1.3 0.0 4.7 34.6 58.3 0.3
Alaska  132,104 30,433 7,816 2,740 7802 4,788 68,967 9,558 23.0 5.9 2.1 5.9 3.6 52.2 7.2
Arizona  1,071,751 55,312 30,080 2,347 452,283 59,549 459,348 12,832 5.2 2.8 0.2 42.2 5.6 42.9 1.2
Arkansas  482,114 3,369 6,828 2,151 47,340 103,637 312,372 6,417 0.7 1.4 0.4 9.8 21.5 64.8 1.3
California  6,217,174 43,546 688,613 35,807 3,197,490 416,299 1,655,539 179,880 0.7 11.1 0.6 51.4 6.7 26.6 2.9
                             
Colorado  843,316 7,452 24,493 1,844 266,098 40,537 479,327 23,565 0.9 2.9 0.2 31.6 4.8 56.8 2.8
Connecticut  560,546 2,100 24,070 296 104,312 74,130 347,739 7,899 0.4 4.3 0.1 18.6 13.2 62.0 1.4
Delaware  129,403 635 4,393 48 15,988 41,737 64,784 1,818 0.5 3.4 0.0 12.4 32.3 50.1 1.4
District of Columbia  71,284 52 963 64 8,980 55,441 5,093 691 0.1 1.4 0.1 12.6 77.8 7.1 1.0
Florida  2,643,347 10,493 64,900 2,980 740,786 607,134 1,137,860 79,194 0.4 2.5 0.1 28.0 23.0 43.0 3.0
                             
Georgia  1,677,067 3,959 55,150 1,630 200,086 621,222 745,145 49,875 0.2 3.3 0.1 11.9 37.0 44.4 3.0
Hawaii  179,601 1,071 63,125 61,954 7,996 4,444 25,962 15,049 0.6 35.1 34.5 4.5 2.5 14.5 8.4
Idaho  275,859 3,846 3,577 976 43,795 2,819 216,683 4,163 1.4 1.3 0.4 15.9 1.0 78.5 1.5
Illinois  2,091,654 6,846 85,509 2,266 479,515 384,701 1,072,617 60,200 0.3 4.1 0.1 22.9 18.4 51.3 2.9
Indiana  1,047,232 3,376 16,948 522 88,133 126,783 765,473 45,997 0.3 1.6 0.0 8.4 12.1 73.1 4.4
                             
Iowa  495,775 2,362 9,914 709 42,295 25,215 404,160 11,120 0.5 2.0 0.1 8.5 5.1 81.5 2.2
Kansas  483,701 6,184 12,037 759 79,129 35,958 329,036 20,598 1.3 2.5 0.2 16.4 7.4 68.0 4.3
Kentucky  673,128 941 9,123 420 26,188 72,915 551,461 12,080 0.1 1.4 0.1 3.9 10.8 81.9 1.8
Louisiana  696,558 6,585 10,140 382 18,145 316,083 338,126 7,097 0.9 1.5 0.1 2.6 45.4 48.5 1.0
Maine  189,077 1,385 1,990 102 2,766 3,347 174,828 4,659 0.7 1.1 0.1 1.5 1.8 92.5 2.5
                             
Maryland  852,211 3,047 48,693 1,246 98,404 305,310 366,004 29,507 0.4 5.7 0.1 11.5 35.8 42.9 3.5
Massachusetts  955,563 2,382 52,770 1,053 147,524 78,825 650,166 22,843 0.2 5.5 0.1 15.4 8.2 68.0 2.4
Michigan  1,587,067 13,003 41,553 1,522 92,734 301,176 1,107,198 29,881 0.8 2.6 0.1 5.8 19.0 69.8 1.9
Minnesota  838,037 16,296 50,153 551 60,175 77,015 618,819 15,028 1.9 6.0 0.1 7.2 9.2 73.8 1.8
Mississippi  490,526 930 4,550 99 12,360 244,634 225,697 2,256 0.2 0.9 0.0 2.5 49.9 46.0 0.5
                             
Missouri  918,710 4,341 16,984 1,096 41,691 156,941 686,147 11,510 0.5 1.8 0.1 4.5 17.1 74.7 1.3
Montana  141,693 15,734 1,194 367 4,996 1,378 115,827 2,197 11.1 0.8 0.3 3.5 1.0 81.7 1.6
Nebraska  298,500 4,413 6,013 337 47,900 19,990 211,205 8,642 1.5 2.0 0.1 16.0 6.7 70.8 2.9
Nevada  437,149 5,705 26,682 4,527 169,236 43,225 169,220 18,554 1.3 6.1 1.0 38.7 9.9 38.7 4.2
New Hampshire  194,711 653 5,244 126 7,231 3,821 174,778 2,858   0.3 2.7 0.1 3.7 2.0 89.8 1.5
                             
New Jersey  1,402,548 1,864 121,265 3,254 309,673 234,395 722,642 9,455 0.1 8.6 0.2 22.1 16.7 51.5 0.7
New Mexico  338,122 34,530 4,194 203 200,774 7,151 88,009 3,261 10.2 1.2 0.1 59.4 2.1 26.0 1.0
New York  2,734,955 14,541 226,894 0 611,873 519,113 1,346,498 16,036 0.5 8.3 0.0 22.4 19.0 49.2 0.6
North Carolina  1,490,605 22,199 36,411 1,127 187,967 394,635 792,461 55,805 1.5 2.4 0.1 12.6 26.5 53.2 3.7
North Dakota  96,323 8,789 1,072 195 95 2,318 80,661 3,193 9.1 1.1 0.2 0.1 2.4 83.7 3.3
                             
Ohio  1,754,191 2,519 30,048 593 60,506 285,091 1,301,921 73,513 0.1 1.7 0.0 3.4 16.3 74.2 4.2
Oklahoma  659,911 116,597 12,252 1,864 81,009 67,107 360,125 20,957 17.7 1.9 0.3 12.3 10.2 54.6 3.2
Oregon  561,328 10,406 21,720 3,513 115,102 14,599 372,194 23,794 1.9 3.9 0.6 20.5 2.6 66.3 4.2
Pennsylvania  1,793,284 2,892 55,885 1,029 149,247 280,981 1,276,052 27,198 0.2 3.1 0.1 8.3 15.7 71.2 1.5
Rhode Island  143,793 951 4,158 210 29,917 11,457 93,683 3,417 0.7 2.9 0.1 20.8 8.0 65.2 2.4
                             
South Carolina  725,838 2,111 9,582 870 46,202 263,034 387,520 16,519 0.3 1.3 0.1 6.4 36.2 53.4 2.3
South Dakota  126,128 14,683 1,731 137 4,352 3,144 100,680 1,401 11.6 1.4 0.1 3.5 2.5 79.8 1.1
Tennessee  987,422 1,902 15,772 1,068 60,549 236,013 664,947 7,171 0.2 1.6 0.1 6.1 23.9 67.3 0.7
Texas  4,935,715 23,607 169,358 6,131 2,480,792 638,377 1,539,026 78,424 0.5 3.4 0.1 50.3 12.9 31.2 1.6
Utah  585,552 7,816 10,726 9,216 88,285 8,468 456,510 4,531 1.3 1.8 1.6 15.1 1.4 78.0 0.8
                             
Vermont  96,858 268 1,496 67 1,307 1,787 89,899 2,034 0.3 1.5 0.1 1.3 1.8 92.8 2.1
Virginia  1,251,440 4,251 73,220 1,713 142,536 301,427 677,123 51,170 0.3 5.9 0.1 11.4 24.1 54.1 4.1
Washington  1,043,788 17,570 75,098 9,025 187,783 50,048 655,984 48,280 1.7 7.2 0.9 18.0 4.8 62.8 4.6
West Virginia  282,879 338 2,006 57 3,139 14,786 260,278 2,275 0.1 0.7 0.0 1.1 5.2 92.0 0.8
Wisconsin  872,286 11,625 30,583 582 80,826 86,665 648,801 13,204 1.3 3.5 0.1 9.3 9.9 74.4 1.5
Wyoming  89,009 2,937 720 117 10,932 1,022 72,070 1,211   3.3 0.8 0.1 12.3 1.1 81.0 1.4
Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
Department of Defense (DoDEA)  — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Bureau of Indian Education  41,962 41,962 0 † 0 0 0 † 100.0 0.0 † 0.0 0.0 0.0 †
American Samoa  — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Guam  31,618 320 6,997 21,748 33 69 590 1,861 1.0 22.1 68.8 0.1 0.2 1.9 5.9
Commonwealth of the
  Northern Mariana Islands 		 11,105 0 4,248 6,747 0 0 66 44 0.0 38.3 60.8 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.4
Puerto Rico  473,735 463 35 47 472,649 76 461 4 0.1 # # 99.8 # 0.1 #
U.S. Virgin Islands  15,495 28 49 18 3,086 11,890 228 196   0.2 0.3 0.1 19.9 76.7 1.5 1.3
— Not available.
† Not applicable. These states report membership in the 5-race category and thus do not report data for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and "Two or more races".
# Rounds to zero.
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
2 Totals exclude students for whom race/ethnicity was not reported.
3 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino. Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2010–11, Version 1a.

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