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Table 25. Number and percentage of private schools that had library media centers, by religious or nonsectarian orientation of school: United States, 2017–18

Religious or nonsectarian orientation 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 32,461   22,991   70.8  
       
Religious orientation 21,548  16,632  77.2 
Roman Catholic 7,047  6,334  89.9 
African Methodist Episcopal 223  179  80.4 
Amish 1,474  444  30.1 
Assembly of God 333  226 ! 68.1 
Baptist 1,727  1,201  69.6 
       
Brethren 50  43  87.0 
Calvinist 93  86  93.0 
Christian (unspecified) 4,545  3,459  76.1 
Church of Christ 191 ! 83  ‡ 
Church of God 85  46  53.8 
       
Church of God in Christ ‡  ‡  87.4 
Church of the Nazarene 65  43  67.0 
Disciples of Christ ‡  ‡  100.0 
Episcopal 352  303  86.1 
Friends 74  67  90.2 
       
Greek Orthodox 28  19  66.4 
Islamic 251  178  70.9 
Jewish 967  736  76.1 
Latter Day Saints ‡  ‡  ‡ 
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod 929  807  86.9 
       
Evangelical Lutheran Church In America 109  73  67.4 
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 391  299 ! 76.5 
Other Lutheran 54  40  74.7 
Mennonite 770  550  71.4 
Methodist 299  210  70.4 
       
Pentecostal 279  196  70.3 
Presbyterian 196  146  74.5 
Seventh-Day Adventist 717  618  86.2 
Other 278  225  81.0 
       
Nonsectarian 10,913   6,359   58.3  
‡ Reporting standards not met. There were fewer than 15 sample cases or the coefficient of variation is 50 percent or greater.
! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent (i.e., the standard error is at least 30 percent and less than 50 percent of the estimate).
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or missing values in cells where reporting standards were not met. These estimates include private schools that provide instruction for one or more of grades kindergarten through twelve (or comparable ungraded levels).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2017–18.

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