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| Table 20. Number and percentage of private schools that had library media centers, by selected characteristics: United States, school year 2021–22 | ||||||
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| Selected characteristic | Total number of schools | Total number of schools that reported having a library media center | Percent of schools that reported having a library media center | |||
| Total | 29,727 | 20,279 | 68.2 | |||
| Private school typology | ||||||
| Catholic | 6,122 | 5,202 | 85.0 | |||
| Parochial | 1,789 | 1,552 | 86.8 | |||
| Diocesan | 3,247 | 2,779 | 85.6 | |||
| Private | 1,086 | 870 | 80.2 | |||
| Other religious | 13,507 | 9,334 | 69.1 | |||
| Conservative Christian | 3,549 | 2,718 | 76.6 | |||
| Other affiliated | 3,441 | 2,656 | 77.2 | |||
| Unaffiliated | 6,516 | 3,959 | 60.8 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 10,099 | 5,744 | 56.9 | |||
| Regular | 4,729 | 2,865 | 60.6 | |||
| Special emphasis | 3,597 | 1,870 | 52.0 | |||
| Special education | 1,773 | 1,009 | 56.9 | |||
| School level | ||||||
| Elementary/Middle | 17,692 | 11,617 | 65.7 | |||
| Secondary/High | 3,509 | 2,407 | 68.6 | |||
| Combined/Other | 8,526 | 6,255 | 73.4 | |||
| Program emphasis | ||||||
| Regular elementary/secondary | 20,186 | 15,278 | 75.7 | |||
| Montessori | 2,441 | 1,159 | 47.5 | |||
| Special program emphasis | 918 | 610 | 66.5 | |||
| Special education | 2,011 | 1,153 | 57.3 | |||
| Vocational/technical | 28 | 20 | 70.9 | |||
| Alternative | 1,439 | 860 | 59.8 | |||
| Early childhood | 2,705 | 1,199 | 44.3 | |||
| Size (number of students) | ||||||
| Less than 50 | 11,878 | 6,343 | 53.4 | |||
| 50–149 | 8,075 | 5,682 | 70.4 | |||
| 150–299 | 5,260 | 4,242 | 80.6 | |||
| 300–499 | 2,536 | 2,222 | 87.6 | |||
| 500–749 | 1,139 | 1,026 | 90.1 | |||
| 750 or more | 839 | 765 | 91.2 | |||
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast | 6,370 | 3,993 | 62.7 | |||
| Midwest | 6,928 | 5,078 | 73.3 | |||
| South | 10,562 | 7,532 | 71.3 | |||
| West | 5,867 | 3,677 | 62.7 | |||
| Urbanicity type | ||||||
| City | 10,119 | 7,090 | 70.1 | |||
| Suburban | 11,259 | 7,464 | 66.3 | |||
| Town | 2,590 | 1,947 | 75.2 | |||
| Rural | 5,760 | 3,779 | 65.6 | |||
| NOTE: These estimates include private schools which provide instruction for one or more of grades kindergarten through twelve (or comparable ungraded levels). Beginning with the 2021–22 PSS, the way ungraded levels were categorized in the school level variable was changed, and data in this table are based on the new categorization. Caution should be exercised when comparing estimates by school level over time. For more information, see the PSS User's Manual (Iaconelli et al., 2023, NCES 2024-011). | ||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2021–22. | ||||||
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