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| Standard errors for number and percentage distribution of private schools, by school level and selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (see the data table) | |||||||||||
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| Selected characteristics | Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 336.4 | † | 184.6 | † | 62.7 | † | 232.5 | † | |||
| NCES typology | |||||||||||
| Catholic | 48.6 | 0.30 | 38.0 | 0.40 | 6.3 | 0.95 | 21.2 | 0.22 | |||
| Parochial | 17.3 | 0.17 | 14.5 | 0.24 | 6.3 | 0.27 | # | 0.02 | |||
| Diocesan | 21.0 | 0.12 | 19.6 | 0.15 | # | 0.43 | 7.4 | 0.08 | |||
| Private | 26.0 | 0.08 | 15.7 | 0.09 | # | 0.36 | 19.9 | 0.21 | |||
| Other religious | 227.7 | 0.50 | 124.2 | 0.50 | 20.2 | 0.47 | 199.7 | 1.01 | |||
| Conservative Christian | 102.3 | 0.36 | 58.1 | 0.35 | 8.7 | 0.35 | 83.9 | 0.92 | |||
| Affiliated | 86.5 | 0.28 | 43.6 | 0.25 | # | 0.25 | 74.5 | 0.69 | |||
| Unaffiliated | 159.2 | 0.42 | 113.5 | 0.55 | 18.2 | 0.51 | 109.0 | 0.79 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 193.1 | 0.50 | 121.7 | 0.58 | 47.7 | 1.09 | 96.5 | 0.93 | |||
| Regular | 117.6 | 0.35 | 69.8 | 0.35 | 14.0 | 0.54 | 73.1 | 0.74 | |||
| Special emphasis | 100.9 | 0.31 | 73.9 | 0.38 | 44.3 | 1.41 | 37.5 | 0.41 | |||
| Special education | 47.5 | 0.15 | 4.7 | 0.03 | 10.4 | 0.40 | 46.1 | 0.51 | |||
| Program emphasis | |||||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 292.1 | 0.49 | 144.2 | 0.38 | 24.5 | 1.23 | 231.5 | 1.24 | |||
| Montessori | 69.9 | 0.22 | 49.9 | 0.25 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 49.0 | 0.54 | |||
| Special program emphasis | 67.0 | 0.23 | 19.6 | 0.10 | 37.3 | 1.27 | 51.1 | 0.54 | |||
| Special education | 54.8 | 0.17 | 12.7 | 0.07 | 10.4 | 0.40 | 46.8 | 0.52 | |||
| Vocational/ technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Alternative | 81.1 | 0.27 | 46.0 | 0.26 | 25.5 | 0.88 | 58.4 | 0.65 | |||
| Early childhood | 11.7 | 0.04 | # | 0.01 | † | † | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
| Less than 50 | 235.6 | 0.50 | 152.8 | 0.64 | 58.6 | 1.63 | 187.7 | 1.28 | |||
| 50-149 | 140.5 | 0.33 | 83.5 | 0.46 | 20.1 | 0.72 | 109.4 | 0.98 | |||
| 150-299 | 44.2 | 0.25 | 38.5 | 0.27 | 5.2 | 0.43 | 19.4 | 0.40 | |||
| 300-499 | 17.6 | 0.13 | 15.5 | 0.14 | 5.1 | 0.40 | 9.4 | 0.23 | |||
| 500-749 | 8.4 | 0.06 | # | 0.04 | # | 0.25 | 8.4 | 0.15 | |||
| 750 or more | 10.0 | 0.05 | 5.1 | 0.03 | 2.2 | 0.29 | 7.6 | 0.13 | |||
| Region | |||||||||||
| Northeast | 36.0 | 0.27 | 26.8 | 0.27 | 10.4 | 0.75 | 20.2 | 0.50 | |||
| Midwest | 146.9 | 0.46 | 118.3 | 0.53 | 14.3 | 0.67 | 86.4 | 0.89 | |||
| South | 225.9 | 0.59 | 91.6 | 0.46 | 12.8 | 0.60 | 183.9 | 1.32 | |||
| West | 198.2 | 0.57 | 104.8 | 0.51 | 58.8 | 1.64 | 111.3 | 1.07 | |||
| Community type | |||||||||||
| Central city | 202.7 | 0.53 | 108.0 | 0.48 | 26.3 | 1.17 | 101.5 | 1.02 | |||
| Urban fringe/large town | 126.8 | 0.44 | 67.2 | 0.37 | 25.7 | 0.77 | 76.9 | 0.97 | |||
| Rural/small town | 222.1 | 0.60 | 115.1 | 0.53 | 42.7 | 1.15 | 193.2 | 1.40 | |||
| † Not applicable. | |||||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002. | |||||||||||
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