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The great majority of public school students, 98.2 percent, were enrolled in regular schools. An additional 0.5 percent were in special education schools, 0.4 percent in vocational schools, and 0.9 percent in alternative schools. These distributions were unchanged from the previous year. Mississippi, New Hampshire and North Dakota had only regular schools. With 7.7 percent of its pupils enrolled in non-regular schools, Delaware had the greatest proportion of students in these specialized schools.
High schools represented 18.7 percent of the schools reported, and enrolled 26.7 percent of the total number of students. About 4.9 percent of schools followed some other grade configuration, including schools that spanned all of grades kindergarten through 12 and those that were ungraded.
States varied in the organization of their regular education agencies. Hawaii and the District of Columbia each consist of a single school district. Seventeen of the other 49 states had no more than one or two districts that did not span all grades. On the other hand, in nine states less than half of the school districts included grades kindergarten through 12.
Among the 14,367 regular school districts with pupils in membership, 3,169 were responsible for only the elementary grades, beginning with grades prekindergarten, kindergarten, or one and ending at grade eight or below (table 4). These districts enrolled 5.9 percent of the nation's public school students. An additional 531 agencies could be characterized as secondary school districts, with a low grade of 7 or higher and a high grade of 12. Some 2.2 percent of all students attended schools in these districts. However, almost three out of four districts (10,537) provided instruction from the beginning of school through graduation. Fully 91.8 percent of all students were enrolled in these comprehensive school districts.
Three states did not report the number of students with individual education programs (IEPs), who participate in special education services. Among the states for which this information was available, the percentage of students with IEPs ranged from under 5.0 percent in Illinois and Michigan to 15 percent or more in Massachusetts, Missouri, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.
About two-thirds of the public school students in the United States in 1995-96 were white, non-Hispanic and about one-sixth were black, non-Hispanic. The highest proportion of American Indian/Alaskan native students was found in Alaska (comprising 24.5 percent of that state's students), while the greatest proportion of Asian/Pacific Islander students was in Hawaii (69.3 percent). More than one-third of the students were Hispanic in California, New Mexico and Texas. Over half of the students were black, non-Hispanic, in the District of Columbia (87.6 percent) and Mississippi (51.0 percent). White, non-Hispanic students comprised less than half of the student membership in six states, but represented 90 percent or more of the students in six other states. At the national level, none of the racial/ethnic groups changed by as much as 1 percent over the previous year.
Not all states collect and report all of the data items on these surveys. NCES estimates, or imputes, missing data at the state level if an item has been reported in the past. If an item has never been reported, it is not imputed but is shown as "missing." When information is missing for one or more states, as is the case with counts of students eligible for the federal Free Lunch Program, NCES does not calculate national totals. (A state is considered to have missing data if an item is reported by less than 70 percent of the schools or agencies.) Because some students may receive a public education outside a local school district or school (for example, in a state-operated residential school) the numbers of students on the school or agency reports are not used as the official state totals. The numbers of students shown in table 1 are taken from the State Nonfiscal Survey of the CCD. The percentages of students shown in tables are based on the School or Agency Surveys. It should be noted that this report, which includes only schools with pupils in membership, excludes a disproportionally high number of vocational schools whose enrollment is often attributed to regular school.
Regular schools do not focus primarily on special, vocational, or alternative education, although they may offer these programs in addition to the regular curriculum. A special education school focuses primarily on special education, with materials and instructional approaches adapted to meet the students' needs. A vocational education school focuses primarily on vocational education and provides education or training in at least one semiskilled or technical occupation. An alternative education school addresses the needs of students that typically cannot be met in the regular school setting, and provides nontraditional education.
Membership is the annual headcount of students enrolled in school on October 1, or the school day closest to that date. In any given year, some small schools will not have any pupils. And, in reporting to the CCD, states assign students who attend more than one school to a single school rather than prorating students across all the schools they attend.
Instructional levels are calculated from the lowest and highest grades for which students are reported in a school. Primary schools are those with a low grade of prekindergarten through grade 3 and a high grade of up to 8. Middle schools contain a low grade of 4 to 7 and a high grade ranging from 4 to 9. High schools have a low grade of 7 to 12 and must extend through grade 12. All other grade configurations, including schools that are completely ungraded, are grouped under the heading of "other."
Free lunch eligibility is the number of students in a school who apply for and are eligible to receive free lunch under the National School Lunch Act.
A dropout is a student who was enrolled at any time during the previous year, is not enrolled at the beginning of the current year, and has not graduated or transferred to another school.
The race/ethnicity categories used in the CCD are those approved, at the time these data were collected, by the federal Office of Management and Budget. They are mutually exclusive.
IEP counts are reported at the school district level and reflect the numbers of students with individual education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)- Part B.
School locale code is assigned on the basis of the school's mailing address. The locale code categories are:
Large city-- central city of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) or consolidated MSA (CMSA); with a population of at least 250,000.Regular school districts are agencies responsible for providing free public education for school-age children residing within their jurisdiction. This category excludes local supervisory unions that provide management services for a group of associated school districts; regional education service agencies that typically provide school districts with research, testing, or data processing services; state and federally operated school districts; and other agencies that do not fall into these groupings. This report excluded 399 regular school districts that did not report any students in membership for the 1994-95 school year, a condition that can occur when a small district has no pupils or contracts with another district to educate the students under its jurisdiction.Midsize city-- central city of an MSA or CMSA; with a population less than 250,000.
Urban fringe of a large city-- any incorporated place, Census-designated place (CDP), or non-place territory within a CMSA or MSA of a large city and defined as urban by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Urban fringe of a midsize city-- any incorporated place, CDP, or non-place within a CMSA or MSA of a midsize central city and defined as urban by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Large town-- an incorporated place or CDP with a population of at least 25,000 and located outside a CMSA or MSA.
Small town-- an incorporated place or CDP with a population between 2,500 and 24,999 and located outside a CMSA or MSA.
Rural-- any incorporated place, CDP, or non-place territory designated as rural by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Notes:
1/ See Key Terms. Although the outlying areas are included in the tables, national totals are limited to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Comparisons are based on the Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School Year 1994-95.
2/ There were 16,265 education agencies in 1995-96. Of these, 14,766 were regular school districts and 1,499 were agencies that typically offer research, administrative, or other support to client agencies. Some 399 of the regular school districts and 979 of the other agencies did not report students. The 14,887 agencies cited exclude the 1,378 without students. Tables are limited to the 14,367 regular school districts with students in membership.
Table 1.--Number of public elementary and secondary schools with membership and percentage of students in
membership, by type of school and by state: School year 1995-96
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type of school ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regular Special education Vocational education Alternative education Schools ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- having Total Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage State membership students schools of students schools of students schools of students schools of students ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 85,102 44,840,481 80,314 98.2 1,667 0.5 339 0.4 2,782 0.9 Alabama 1,316 746,149 1,281 99.6 17 0.1 3 0.0 15 0.2 Alaska 479 127,618 446 96.2 2 0.3 4 0.4 27 3.1 Arizona 1,079 743,566 1,026 98.1 14 0.1 6 0.6 33 1.3 Arkansas 1,095 453,257 1,094 99.5 0 0.0 1 0.5 0 0.0 California 7,875 5,536,406 6,993 96.7 127 0.5 0 0.0 755 2.8 Colorado 1,418 656,279 1,357 99.0 5 0.0 3 0.1 53 0.9 Connecticut 976 517,935 929 97.3 2 0.1 17 1.8 28 0.8 Delaware 181 108,461 146 92.3 28 2.7 5 4.9 2 0.1 District of Columbia 185 79,802 167 96.5 10 1.9 1 0.5 7 1.1 Florida 2,689 2,176,222 2,327 97.6 95 1.0 42 0.2 225 1.2 Georgia 1,763 1,311,126 1,735 99.5 8 0.1 1 0.1 19 0.3 Hawaii 246 187,180 241 99.9 4 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.1 Idaho 611 243,097 558 98.8 13 0.2 0 0.0 40 1.0 Illinois 4,125 1,943,623 3,820 97.4 234 1.2 27 0.7 44 0.7 Indiana 1,863 977,263 1,819 99.6 23 0.2 1 0.0 20 0.2 Iowa 1,551 502,343 1,509 99.1 17 0.3 0 0.0 25 0.6 Kansas 1,485 463,008 1,467 99.6 1 0.0 0 0.0 17 0.4 Kentucky 1,368 659,821 1,311 99.6 8 0.1 3 0.1 46 0.2 Louisiana 1,470 797,366 1,364 96.9 39 0.4 11 0.3 56 2.4 Maine 697 213,569 695 100.0 2 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Maryland 1,276 805,544 1,191 97.3 47 0.9 11 1.1 27 0.6 Massachusetts 1,831 915,007 1,760 96.2 1 0.0 43 3.4 27 0.4 Michigan 3,455 1,641,456 3,255 98.2 93 0.8 12 0.2 95 0.8 Minnesota 1,958 835,166 1,514 96.7 71 0.3 2 0.0 371 3.0 Mississippi 888 506,272 888 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Missouri 2,072 889,881 2,036 99.0 15 0.5 5 0.4 16 0.1 Montana 893 165,547 888 99.9 2 0.0 0 0.0 3 0.1 Nebraska 1,390 289,744 1,328 99.6 62 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 Nevada 419 265,041 384 98.1 11 0.4 2 0.7 22 0.9 New Hampshire 460 194,171 460 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 New Jersey 2,278 1,197,381 2,155 97.4 79 0.8 44 1.8 0 0.0 New Mexico 721 329,640 682 98.5 14 0.6 0 0.0 25 0.9 New York 4,148 2,813,230 3,976 97.0 83 0.7 25 1.2 64 1.0 North Carolina 1,975 1,183,090 1,902 99.3 26 0.4 2 0.0 45 0.4 North Dakota 573 119,100 573 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Ohio 3,704 1,836,015 3,658 99.6 23 0.1 14 0.2 9 0.1 Oklahoma 1,821 616,393 1,808 99.7 13 0.3 0 0.0 0 0.0 Oregon 1,216 527,914 1,166 99.0 15 0.1 0 0.0 35 0.9 Pennsylvania 3,113 1,787,533 3,078 98.3 11 1.0 14 0.6 10 0.1 Rhode Island 309 149,799 301 98.7 3 0.4 2 0.5 3 0.4 South Carolina 1,052 645,586 1,023 99.5 11 0.1 0 0.0 18 0.3 South Dakota 818 144,685 795 99.0 13 0.4 0 0.0 10 0.6 Tennessee 1,515 893,770 1,483 99.7 12 0.1 6 0.1 14 0.1 Texas 6,638 3,748,167 6,050 98.6 221 0.5 22 0.1 345 0.9 Utah 735 477,121 669 98.0 24 0.4 2 0.1 40 1.5 Vermont 362 105,565 323 98.6 38 1.4 0 0.0 1 0.0 Virginia 1,781 1,079,854 1,716 99.5 30 0.2 0 0.0 35 0.4 Washington 1,949 956,572 1,745 97.7 80 0.5 3 0.1 121 1.7 West Virginia 842 307,112 818 99.7 10 0.2 4 0.0 10 0.2 Wisconsin 2,037 870,175 2,010 99.4 9 0.1 0 0.0 18 0.5 Wyoming 401 99,859 394 99.2 1 0.1 1 0.3 5 0.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outlying areas DOD Dependents Sch 171 81,771 171 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 American Samoa 31 14,576 29 97.5 1 0.4 1 2.1 0 0.0 Guam 35 32,960 34 98.0 1 2.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Northern Marianas 24 8,809 24 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Puerto Rico 1,547 627,620 1,498 97.7 18 0.2 26 1.9 5 0.2 Virgin Islands 33 22,737 33 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Table excludes 2,023 schools for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals exclude outlying areas.
Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100. Percentages of less than 0.05 are rounded to 0.Number of students in membership reported on State Nonfiscal Survey.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, School Universe and State Nonfiscal Survey, 1995-96.
Table 2.--Number and percentage of schools with membership and percentage of
students in membership, by community type: School year 1995-96
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Percentage Percentage Community type schools of schools of students ---------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 85,102 100 100 Large city 10,726 12.6 17.2 Midsize city 12,259 14.4 16.3 Urban fringe large city 20,689 24.3 29.4 Urban fringe midsize city 7,592 8.9 9.7 Large town 1,446 1.7 1.7 Small town 10,947 12.9 11.2 Rural 21,443 25.2 14.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Community types classify the location of a school relative to populous areas. See technical notes for definitions of locale codes.
Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, School Universe, 1995-96.
Table 3.--Percentage of public elementary and secondary schools providing instruction and percentage of
students in membership, by specified level of instruction and by state: School year 1995-96
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Percentage by Instructional Level ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of schools Primary Middle High Other having ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State membership Schools Students Schools Students Schools Students Schools Students ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 85,102 59.3 50.7 17.1 19.5 18.7 26.7 4.9 3.1 Alabama 1,316 51.2 43.5 16.9 16.8 19.3 25.2 12.6 14.5 Alaska 479 34.9 47.5 6.9 13.0 14.0 23.9 44.3 15.5 Arizona 1,079 65.3 56.6 16.6 17.5 15.8 25.4 2.3 0.5 Arkansas 1,095 52.9 48.6 15.8 19.8 29.3 27.9 2.0 3.7 California 7,875 63.8 54.0 14.7 18.0 17.4 25.8 4.0 2.2 Colorado 1,418 59.1 50.9 17.8 21.5 20.3 26.5 2.8 1.2 Connecticut 976 63.1 53.1 18.1 20.7 16.0 25.4 2.8 0.7 Delaware 181 48.6 40.7 23.2 28.3 17.7 28.9 10.5 2.1 District of Columbia 185 63.2 61.8 14.6 15.7 12.4 17.9 9.7 4.6 Florida 2,689 57.6 51.0 15.4 20.2 13.4 21.0 13.6 7.9 Georgia 1,763 62.1 51.0 17.9 20.0 15.9 25.2 4.1 3.7 Hawaii 246 68.7 54.9 11.4 13.3 12.6 26.5 7.3 5.3 Idaho 611 53.8 47.9 16.5 22.3 24.7 27.4 4.9 2.4 Illinois 4,125 62.4 55.4 17.2 15.1 15.6 26.9 4.9 2.6 Indiana 1,863 63.1 49.3 16.2 18.3 18.6 30.8 2.1 1.6 Iowa 1,551 54.9 46.4 19.0 20.2 23.9 31.2 2.3 2.2 Kansas 1,485 58.7 51.1 16.6 19.7 24.0 28.7 0.8 0.5 Kentucky 1,368 59.2 48.6 17.0 20.4 20.5 30.8 3.2 0.2 Louisiana 1,470 54.0 47.9 19.0 19.8 17.1 25.6 9.9 6.7 Maine 697 64.6 49.9 17.5 21.3 15.4 26.7 2.6 2.1 Maryland 1,276 66.2 52.6 17.5 20.6 14.0 25.7 2.3 1.1 Massachusetts 1,831 66.0 52.8 16.3 18.8 15.8 26.0 1.9 2.5 Michigan 3,455 59.4 50.4 16.8 19.7 18.5 27.2 5.4 2.8 Minnesota 1,958 52.4 48.9 13.1 18.5 28.7 30.6 5.8 2.0 Mississippi 888 50.0 44.3 19.1 19.0 19.7 24.2 11.1 12.4 Missouri 2,072 56.4 48.5 16.3 19.6 23.9 29.7 3.4 2.2 Montana 893 54.1 49.6 26.1 20.4 19.6 29.3 0.2 0.6 Nebraska 1,390 68.4 52.1 7.2 14.6 22.5 32.7 1.9 0.6 Nevada 419 64.0 52.5 14.3 20.7 17.9 25.7 3.8 1.1 New Hampshire 460 62.6 51.0 20.4 22.5 16.1 24.6 0.9 1.9 New Jersey 2,278 63.6 53.1 17.1 17.8 13.4 25.7 5.8 3.3 New Mexico 721 59.2 49.1 20.8 23.0 17.9 26.7 2.1 1.2 New York 4,148 58.8 50.2 16.5 18.6 17.7 26.9 7.0 4.3 North Carolina 1,975 60.1 51.2 20.8 21.8 16.5 25.7 2.7 1.4 North Dakota 573 57.9 51.2 6.8 12.3 34.0 33.8 1.2 2.8 Ohio 3,704 59.1 48.6 18.4 19.5 18.7 29.1 3.9 2.8 Oklahoma 1,821 54.6 51.8 18.8 21.5 25.4 24.3 1.2 2.4 Oregon 1,216 61.8 48.6 16.9 21.2 16.9 28.2 4.4 2.0 Pennsylvania 3,113 62.5 48.4 16.9 19.6 19.1 29.6 1.5 2.4 Rhode Island 309 68.0 51.0 17.2 21.6 13.6 27.2 1.3 0.2 South Carolina 1,052 55.7 46.1 23.2 25.0 18.8 28.1 2.3 0.9 South Dakota 818 51.5 48.4 23.7 21.9 22.6 29.2 2.2 0.5 Tennessee 1,515 62.8 52.1 15.8 16.9 16.7 27.5 4.7 3.5 Texas 6,638 52.1 49.3 20.7 22.7 19.2 25.1 8.0 2.9 Utah 735 59.6 50.1 16.2 22.6 18.8 24.9 5.4 2.4 Vermont 362 69.9 54.6 6.6 9.2 13.5 29.6 9.9 6.6 Virginia 1,781 62.3 49.1 17.7 21.4 16.5 28.2 3.5 1.3 Washington 1,949 57.6 50.6 16.6 20.2 19.9 26.2 5.9 3.0 West Virginia 842 64.1 47.8 16.3 20.5 14.7 28.3 4.9 3.4 Wisconsin 2,037 60.3 49.3 17.2 18.9 20.9 30.3 1.6 1.6 Wyoming 401 59.1 48.4 21.9 23.9 18.7 27.1 0.2 0.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outlying areas DOD Dependents Sch 171 59.6 60.6 9.9 11.3 22.2 21.1 8.2 6.9 American Samoa 31 74.2 73.9 3.2 3.0 19.4 22.7 3.2 0.4 Guam 35 68.6 54.0 17.1 21.5 14.3 24.5 0.0 0.0 Northern Marianas 24 83.3 63.0 4.2 12.2 12.5 24.8 0.0 0.0 Puerto Rico 1,547 60.1 45.7 14.3 17.2 10.9 20.3 14.8 16.8 Virgin Islands 33 69.7 52.3 15.2 17.9 12.1 28.1 3.0 1.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Instructional levels are Primary (low grade Prekindergarten to 3, high grade up to 8); Middle (low grade 4 to 7, high grade 4 to 9); High (low grade 7 to 12, high grade 12 only); Other (any grade 4 to 7, high grade 4 to 9); High (low grade 7 to 12, high grade 12 only); Other (any configuration not falling within the previous three, including ungraded schools).
Table excludes 2,023 schools for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals exclude outlying areas.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, School Universe, 1995-96.Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100.
Table 4.--Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts providing instruction and
percentage of students in membership, by grade span and by state: School year 1995-96
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grade Span ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PK, K, 1 to 8 or below PK, K, 1 to 9 - 12 7, 8, 9, to 7 - 12 Other ----------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------ Total Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage Number of Percentage State districts districts of students districts of students districts of students districts of students ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 14367 3169 5.9 10537 91.8 531 2.2 130 0.1 Alabama 127 0 0.0 127 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Alaska 55 0 0.0 54 99.8 1 0.2 0 0.0 Arizona 214 108 29.9 85 61.2 17 8.9 4 0.0 Arkansas 311 0 0.0 311 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 California 999 592 21.8 302 68.9 103 9.2 2 0.2 Colorado 176 1 0.0 175 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Connecticut 166 47 5.8 110 92.4 8 1.4 1 0.3 Delaware 19 0 0.0 15 94.4 4 5.6 0 0.0 District of Columbia 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Florida 67 0 0.0 67 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Georgia 180 7 0.2 173 99.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 Hawaii 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Idaho 112 5 0.1 106 99.9 0 0.0 1 0.0 Illinois 905 397 25.9 403 63.1 105 11.0 0 0.0 Indiana 292 1 0.0 291 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Iowa 383 29 1.2 353 98.7 0 0.0 1 0.1 Kansas 304 2 0.0 302 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Kentucky 176 4 0.2 172 99.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 Louisiana 66 0 0.0 66 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Maine 228 110 12.4 112 86.6 5 1.0 1 0.0 Maryland 24 0 0.0 24 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Massachusetts 248 68 5.2 176 94.3 2 0.2 2 0.3 Michigan 593 44 0.2 526 99.6 5 0.0 18 0.1 Minnesota 383 38 0.8 335 98.9 9 0.2 1 0.0 Mississippi 153 0 0.0 149 99.7 3 0.2 1 0.1 Missouri 525 74 1.4 449 97.9 0 0.0 2 0.8 Montana 465 286 62.9 47 10.8 118 26.3 14 0.1 Nebraska 653 331 4.0 267 94.2 23 1.7 32 0.1 Nevada 17 1 0.0 16 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 New Hampshire 164 87 18.6 67 76.9 9 3.9 1 0.5 New Jersey 582 294 19.3 207 72.2 51 6.6 30 1.9 New Mexico 89 1 1.9 88 98.1 0 0.0 0 0.0 New York 709 43 1.0 647 98.4 10 0.6 9 0.1 North Carolina 119 0 0.0 119 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 North Dakota 234 45 2.5 178 96.8 7 0.6 4 0.1 Ohio 611 1 0.0 610 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Oklahoma 548 116 3.4 431 96.6 0 0.0 1 0.0 Oregon 233 53 3.5 171 94.1 9 2.4 0 0.0 Pennsylvania 500 2 0.0 498 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Rhode Island 36 4 1.5 31 97.5 0 0.0 1 0.9 South Carolina 95 2 0.1 91 99.7 1 0.1 1 0.2 South Dakota 173 7 0.9 166 99.1 0 0.0 0 0.0 Tennessee 138 14 2.3 124 97.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 Texas 1044 73 0.3 970 99.6 0 0.0 1 0.1 Utah 40 0 0.0 40 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Vermont 251 185 43.6 35 33.6 30 21.2 1 1.7 Virginia 132 1 0.0 131 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Washington 296 47 1.0 248 99.0 0 0.0 1 0.0 West Virginia 55 0 0.0 55 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Wisconsin 426 47 2.6 368 96.2 11 1.2 0 0.0 Wyoming 49 2 0.6 47 99.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outlying areas DOD Dependents Sch 12 0 0.0 12 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 American Samoa 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Guam 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Northern Marianas 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Puerto Rico 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Virgin Islands 1 0 0.0 1 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Grade span is determined by the highest and lowest grades for which student membership is reported among all schools associated with the district. Other includes all grade configurations not represented in the other categories and includes ungraded districts.
Table excludes 399 regular school districts for which no students were reported in membership. U.S. totals exclude outlying areas, but includes 12 Defense Department school districts for military personnel overseas.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Agency and School Universes 1995-96.Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100. Percentages of less than 0.05 are rounded to 0.
Table 5.--Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary school districts and
students, by district membership size: School year 1995-96
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Percentage Percentage District membership size districts of districts of students ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 14367 100.0 100.0 100000 or more 23 0.2 11.7 25000 to 99999 193 1.3 18.8 10000 to 24999 553 3.8 18.6 7500 to 9999 320 2.2 6.2 5000 to 7499 693 4.8 9.5 2500 to 4999 2027 14.1 16.0 2000 to 2499 870 6.1 4.4 1500 to 1999 1089 7.6 4.3 1000 to 1499 1595 11.1 4.5 800 to 999 855 6.0 1.7 600 to 799 922 6.4 1.4 450 to 599 952 6.6 1.1 300 to 449 1152 8.0 1.0 150 to 299 1424 9.9 0.7 1 to 149 1699 11.8 0.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and excludes 399 regular school districts for which no students were reported in membership.
Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Agency Universe, 1995-96.
Table 6.--Selected characteristics of public elementary and secondary school membership as
percentage of school membership by state: School year 1995-96
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Percentage Percentage American of membership of membership Indian / Asian / Black White Free lunch Individual Alaskan Pacific Non Non State eligible Education Program Native Islander Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States --- --- 1.1 3.7 13.5 16.9 64.7 Alabama --- 13.2 0.7 0.6 0.5 36.0 62.1 Alaska 23.8 13.8 24.5 4.4 2.7 4.6 63.7 Arizona --- 9.7 7.3 1.7 30.2 4.3 56.5 Arkansas 35.5 10.5 0.4 0.7 1.5 23.8 73.6 California 47.3 10.3 0.9 11.2 38.7 8.8 40.4 Colorado 22.4 10.1 1.1 2.5 18.4 5.5 72.5 Connecticut 24.6 13.4 0.2 2.4 11.8 13.4 72.2 Delaware 29.3 12.0 0.2 1.7 4.0 29.4 64.7 District of Columbia 69.4 8.9 0.0 1.4 7.0 87.6 4.0 Florida 37.2 13.1 0.2 1.8 15.3 25.3 57.5 Georgia 37.2 10.0 0.1 1.6 2.2 37.9 58.2 Hawaii 15.5 8.2 0.4 69.3 4.9 2.6 22.9 Idaho 23.4 9.7 1.3 1.2 7.8 0.6 89.1 Illinois --- 4.3 0.1 3.0 12.1 21.0 63.7 Indiana 22.2 13.6 0.2 0.8 2.3 11.1 85.6 Iowa 19.8 12.9 0.4 1.5 2.1 3.3 92.7 Kansas 31.7 11.4 1.1 1.9 6.1 8.5 82.5 Kentucky --- --- 0.1 0.6 0.4 9.8 89.1 Louisiana 50.1 13.4 0.5 1.3 1.1 46.0 51.0 Maine 24.3 13.4 0.6 0.9 0.4 0.8 97.3 Maryland 25.7 12.4 0.3 3.8 3.3 35.0 57.5 Massachusetts --- 17.1 0.2 3.8 9.3 8.2 78.5 Michigan 25.6 4.0 1.0 1.5 2.7 18.3 76.4 Minnesota 19.0 --- 1.9 3.9 2.0 4.8 87.4 Mississippi 54.5 13.2 0.4 0.6 0.3 51.0 47.7 Missouri --- 15.4 0.2 1.0 1.0 16.0 81.7 Montana 23.2 11.1 9.8 0.8 1.4 0.5 87.5 Nebraska 20.6 13.8 1.4 1.3 4.4 5.9 87.2 Nevada 32.7 10.6 1.9 4.5 17.2 9.5 66.8 New Hampshire 12.4 13.0 0.2 1.1 1.2 0.9 96.7 New Jersey 24.3 5.4 0.2 5.3 13.5 18.5 62.5 New Mexico --- 14.3 10.4 1.0 46.8 2.4 39.5 New York --- 12.4 0.4 5.0 17.4 20.3 56.9 North Carolina 30.3 12.4 1.5 1.3 1.9 30.7 64.6 North Dakota 20.2 10.2 7.7 0.8 1.1 0.8 89.6 Ohio --- 3.9 0.1 1.0 1.4 15.3 82.2 Oklahoma 36.1 11.6 15.0 1.3 3.9 10.4 69.5 Oregon 23.2 10.8 2.0 3.4 6.8 2.6 85.2 Pennsylvania --- 10.5 0.1 1.8 3.5 14.0 80.6 Rhode Island 26.7 16.5 0.5 3.3 10.3 7.0 78.9 South Carolina 39.7 11.3 0.2 0.7 0.7 41.7 56.7 South Dakota --- 11.3 13.9 0.7 0.7 0.9 83.7 Tennessee --- 14.2 0.4 0.9 0.8 23.0 74.9 Texas 40.3 11.6 0.3 2.3 36.7 14.3 46.4 Utah 19.8 11.0 1.4 2.2 5.4 0.7 90.3 Vermont 20.2 9.8 0.6 1.0 0.4 0.7 97.3 Virginia 25.5 13.0 0.2 3.5 3.2 26.5 66.6 Washington --- --- 2.6 6.5 7.8 4.7 78.3 West Virginia 39.8 15.1 0.1 0.4 0.3 4.0 95.2 Wisconsin 20.2 12.2 1.3 2.8 3.3 9.4 83.2 Wyoming 19.4 11.3 2.7 0.8 6.1 1.0 89.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outlying areas DOD Dependents Sch --- 8.2 1.0 9.5 8.5 22.3 58.7 American Samoa 94.9 2.5 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Guam 23.9 6.3 0.1 91.5 0.5 1.3 6.6 Northern Marianas 37.5 2.9 0.0 99.3 0.0 0.0 0.7 Puerto Rico 80.7 --- 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 Virgin Islands 64.0 3.0 0.0 0.4 14.1 84.6 0.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Data are shown as "---" if reported for less than 70 percent of schools or agencies. Percentages are based on schools and agencies reporting.
U.S. totals exclude outlying areas.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, School and Agency Universes, 1995-96.Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth and may not add to 100. Percentages of less than 0.05 are rounded to 0.
Table 7.--Number and percent of students dropping out of grades 9 through 12 who are
male or minority, among reporting states: School year 1994-95
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group 9-12 Percent Percent Group 9-12 Percent Dropouts Dropouts State Dropouts Dropouts who were Male who were Minority ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alabama 12,525 6.2 57.5 41.2 Arkansas 6,248 4.9 58.0 39.2 California 63,881 4.4 54.5 73.6 Connecticut 6,406 4.8 56.9 50.2 Delaware 1,389 4.6 61.8 42.2 District of Columbia 1,879 10.6 55.6 95.8 Georgia 30,158 9.0 58.2 45.9 Hawaii 2,465 4.9 55.5 71.0 Indiana 13,183 4.6 57.0 19.5 Iowa 5,120 3.4 57.8 11.5 Kansas 6,594 5.0 56.1 28.9 Louisiana 7,549 3.5 57.5 65.3 Maine 1,863 3.3 58.6 2.6 Massachusetts 8,384 3.5 58.8 40.4 Minnesota 12,219 5.1 57.1 29.6 Mississippi 8,700 6.4 59.9 54.6 Missouri 17,637 7.0 57.7 28.7 Nebraska 3,737 4.4 58.1 28.3 Nevada 6,703 10.3 54.1 39.4 New Mexico 7,826 8.5 52.8 68.1 New York 32,002 4.1 55.5 65.4 North Dakota 906 2.5 54.9 26.5 Ohio 28,281 5.3 59.9 28.5 Oregon 10,656 7.1 56.9 21.5 Pennsylvania 20,992 4.1 56.9 41.5 Rhode Island 1,852 4.6 59.2 29.5 Texas 26,042 2.7 50.8 66.3 Utah 5,107 3.5 55.5 14.0 West Virginia 4,091 4.2 57.9 5.1 Wyoming 2,010 6.7 57.5 18.8 Puerto Rico 3,615 2.2 48.5 100.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Agency Universe, 1995-96.
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