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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07

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Table 4.  Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts, by student membership size and state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07
State or jurisdiction Total districts Number of districts with student membership1 Zero or not reported
100,000 or more 10,000– 99,999 5,000–9,999 3,000– 4,999 1,000–2,999 500–999 300–499 100–299 1–99
United States2  13,862 27 840 1,066 1,435 3,905 2,320 1,308 1,827 864 264
                       
Alabama  133 0 13 25 30 60 3 1 0 0 1
Alaska  53 0 3 2 2 9 9 10 13 5 0
Arizona  238 0 26 22 19 50 14 20 35 30 22
Arkansas  254 0 6 10 21 90 96 22 0 0 9
California  989 2 161 122 104 188 110 79 119 98 6
                       
Colorado  179 0 20 10 10 34 27 24 45 9 0
Connecticut  169 0 8 26 28 60 21 12 13 1 0
Delaware  19 0 4 4 6 5 0 0 0 0 0
District of Columbia  1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Florida  67 7 31 12 5 12 0 0 0 0 0
                       
Georgia  182 3 33 28 40 64 7 3 3 1 0
Hawaii  1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Idaho  125 0 0 7 10 32 17 19 26 8 0
Illinois  873 1 22 47 76 280 206 109 103 26 3
Indiana  294 0 24 32 39 151 40 1 5 0 2
                       
Iowa  365 0 7 9 14 85 134 63 44 9 0
Kansas  323 0 7 9 13 57 80 63 64 5 25
Kentucky  175 0 10 14 37 78 23 9 4 0 0
Louisiana  68 0 16 17 16 18 1 0 0 0 0
Maine  287 0 0 1 11 53 37 23 57 42 63
                       
Maryland  24 3 12 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0
Massachusetts  250 0 10 29 57 84 22 14 28 4 2
Michigan  552 1 23 53 76 238 76 32 23 29 1
Minnesota  340 0 15 23 26 100 89 48 31 6 2
Mississippi  152 0 5 14 37 74 17 2 3 0 0
                       
Missouri  524 0 19 17 35 110 115 78 112 37 1
Montana  425 0 0 3 6 21 31 37 121 206 0
Nebraska  269 0 3 4 9 24 51 60 100 3 15
Nevada  17 1 1 5 2 3 2 1 1 1 0
New Hampshire  183 0 2 3 11 47 28 22 29 29 12
                       
New Jersey  593 0 17 54 64 190 116 66 64 21 1
New Mexico  95 0 7 8 12 14 15 10 21 7 1
New York  697 1 17 69 99 285 121 55 34 15 1
North Carolina  125 2 35 30 22 24 3 1 1 1 6
North Dakota  198 0 2 3 1 7 16 28 85 53 3
                       
Ohio  614 0 18 53 89 326 113 8 3 2 2
Oklahoma  540 0 10 10 13 98 98 104 169 38 0
Oregon  199 0 13 17 19 40 33 13 32 30 2
Pennsylvania  501 1 16 62 114 242 57 7 1 1 0
Rhode Island  32 0 3 5 10 9 2 2 1 0 0
                       
South Carolina  101 0 20 20 18 22 6 1 0 0 14
South Dakota  171 0 2 0 2 16 29 32 73 11 6
Tennessee  136 1 19 23 35 42 11 4 1 0 0
Texas  1,033 2 89 75 84 242 214 106 183 36 2
Utah  40 0 13 4 6 10 3 2 2 0 0
                       
Vermont  292 0 0 0 1 20 32 34 95 56 54
Virginia  134 1 26 21 24 47 9 2 0 0 4
Washington  296 0 31 28 25 66 43 19 44 40 0
West Virginia  57 0 7 11 15 21 1 1 1 0 0
Wisconsin  425 0 11 20 36 140 127 55 33 3 0
Wyoming  52 0 2 1 3 15 15 6 5 1 4
                       
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
                       
DoDDS: DoDS Overseas3  9 0 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
DDESS: DoDS Domestic3  7 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0
Bureau of Indian Education  20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
American Samoa  1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Guam  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Northern Mariana Islands  1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Puerto Rico  1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
U.S. Virgin Islands  1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
2 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
3 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: This table includes districts operated by the Bureau of Indian Education and the Department of Defense although they are technically federally-operated. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2006-07, Version 1a.

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