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| Percentage distribution of private school students, by program emphasis and selected characteristics: United States, 2003–04 |
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| Selected characteristic | Total | Regular elementary/ secondary |
Montessori | Special program emphasis |
Special education |
Vocational/ technical programs |
Alternative | Early childhood |
| Total | 100.0 | 90.6 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 2.2 | ‡ | 2.1 | 0.1 |
| NCES typology | ||||||||
| Catholic | 100.0 | 98.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ‡ | 0.1 | ‡ |
| Parochial | 100.0 | 99.3 | ‡ | 0.6 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 0.0 |
| Diocesan | 100.0 | 98.5 | ‡ | 1.0 | 0.2 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
| Private | 100.0 | 95.5 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 0.6 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
| Other religious | 100.0 | 93.2 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 0.3 | ‡ | 2.2 | 0.1 |
| Conservative Christian | 100.0 | 94.6 | ‡ | 2.7 | ‡ | ‡ | 2.5 | ‡ |
| Affiliated | 100.0 | 93.1 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 0.3 | ‡ | 1.4 | ‡ |
| Unaffiliated | 100.0 | 91.3 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 0.7 | ‡ | 2.6 | 0.2 |
| Nonsectarian | 100.0 | 65.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 11.3 | ‡ | 7.4 | 0.4 |
| Regular | 100.0 | 99.4 | † | † | † | † | † | 0.6 |
| Special emphasis | 100.0 | † | 34.6 | 33.4 | † | ‡ | 31.8 | † |
| Special education | 100.0 | † | † | † | 100.0 | † | † | † |
| School level | ||||||||
| Elementary | 100.0 | 93.2 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 0.6 | ‡ | 1.2 | 0.2 |
| Secondary | 100.0 | 92.7 | ‡ | 3.3 | 1.2 | ‡ | 2.5 | † |
| Combined | 100.0 | 84.9 | 0.6 | 5.3 | 5.6 | ‡ | 3.6 | ‡ |
| Size (number of students) | ||||||||
| Less than 50 | 100.0 | 68.9 | 8.7 | 3.3 | 9.3 | ‡ | 8.9 | 1.0 |
| 50–149 | 100.0 | 77.6 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 7.4 | ‡ | 5.1 | 0.3 |
| 150–299 | 100.0 | 92.2 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 2.0 | ‡ | 2.1 | 0.0 |
| 300–499 | 100.0 | 95.2 | ‡ | 2.6 | 0.8 | ‡ | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| 500–749 | 100.0 | 96.5 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | ‡ | ‡ | 0.0 |
| 750 or more | 100.0 | 93.4 | ‡ | 5.4 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 0.0 |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 100.0 | 90.5 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 4.1 | ‡ | 1.8 | 0.2 |
| Midwest | 100.0 | 93.9 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 0.9 | ‡ | 1.1 | 0.1 |
| South | 100.0 | 90.3 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 1.9 | ‡ | 2.6 | # |
| West | 100.0 | 86.8 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 2.1 | ‡ | 3.3 | 0.1 |
| Community type | ||||||||
| Central city | 100.0 | 90.8 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 2.0 | ‡ | 1.8 | 0.1 |
| Urban fringe/large town | ||||||||
| 100.0 | 90.5 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 | ‡ | 1.9 | 0.1 | |
| Rural/small town | 100.0 | 90.3 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 1.9 | ‡ | 4.2 | ‡ |
| † Not applicable. | ||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | ||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding or missing values in cells with too few sample cases. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2003–2004. | ||||||||
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