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Table 101 | Public elementary schools, by grade span and average school size, by state: 1997-98 |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | Schools, by grade span ||Average of students |Total, | Total, |___________________________________________________________________|| per school\2\ | all | all | Prekinder- | Prekinder- | Prekinder- | Prekinder- |Grades | ||___________________ State or other area |elemen-| regular |garten, kin- |garten, kin-|garten, kin-|garten, kin-| 4, 5, |Other || All | Regular | tary | elemen- |dergarten, or| dergarten, | dergarten, | dergarten, | or 6, |grade ||elemen- | elemen- |schools| tary |1st grade to |or 1st grade|or 1st grade|or 1st grade| to 6, |spans || tary | tary | |schools\1\|grades 3 or 4| to grade 5 | to grade 6 | to grade 8 |7, or 8| ||schools |schools\1\ ______________________|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 || 10 | 11 ______________________|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________ United States .....|62,739 | 61,769 | 4,981 | 21,501 | 14,880 | 4,604 |10,944 |5,829 || 478 | 484 |_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________ Alabama ..............| 881 | 871 | 85 | 259 | 198 | 80 | 177 | 82 || 489 | 494 Alaska ...............| 202 | 193 | 6 | 34 | 104 | 24 | 19 | 15 || 340 | 353 Arizona ..............| 981 | 951 | 52 | 215 | 300 | 186 | 141 | 87 || 545 | 553 Arkansas .............| 687 | 687 | 96 | 92 | 322 | 4 | 103 | 70 || 391 | 391 California ...........| 6,010 | 5,950 | 215 | 2,061 | 2,090 | 593 | 810 | 241 || 626 | 631 | | | | | | | | || | Colorado .............| 1,096 | 1,094 | 32 | 514 | 233 | 27 | 210 | 80 || 420 | 420 Connecticut ..........| 807 | 797 | 83 | 325 | 128 | 41 | 145 | 85 || 460 | 464 Delaware .............| 118 | 113 | 43 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 23 || 579 | 596 District of Columbia .| 121 | 120 | 7 | 16 | 79 | 4 | 11 | 4 || 435 | 438 Florida ..............| 2,031 | 1,960 | 26 | 1,304 | 141 | 31 | 418 | 111 || 777 | 797 | | | | | | | | || | Georgia ..............| 1,445 | 1,444 | 31 | 790 | 141 | 23 | 303 | 157 || 663 | 664 Hawaii ...............| 190 | 189 | 1 | 38 | 123 | 8 | 16 | 4 || 624 | 627 Idaho ................| 403 | 397 | 32 | 90 | 166 | 14 | 57 | 44 || 359 | 364 Illinois .............| 3,092 | 2,993 | 331 | 560 | 611 | 729 | 469 | 392 || 432 | 442 Indiana...............| 1,393 | 1,381 | 68 | 578 | 396 | 31 | 238 | 82 || 455 | 458 | | | | | | | | || | Iowa .................| 1,073 | 1,066 | 115 | 326 | 253 | 21 | 218 | 140 || 285 | 287 Kansas ...............| 1,019 | 1,013 | 79 | 296 | 263 | 126 | 169 | 86 || 292 | 292 Kentucky .............| 982 | 972 | 54 | 423 | 215 | 90 | 183 | 17 || 432 | 437 Louisiana ............| 1,016 | 1,004 | 109 | 296 | 201 | 79 | 211 | 120 || 481 | 486 Maine ................| 545 | 545 | 76 | 81 | 90 | 105 | 93 | 100 || 258 | 258 | | | | 0 | | 0 | | || | Maryland .............| 1,056 | 1,016 | 21 | 600 | 154 | 22 | 202 | 57 || 552 | 566 Massachusetts ........| 1,487 | 1,478 | 207 | 491 | 253 | 75 | 261 | 200 || 439 | 440 Michigan .............| 2,614 | 2,559 | 216 | 1,010 | 542 | 82 | 474 | 290 || 424 | 429 Minnesota ............| 1,221 | 1,078 | 135 | 276 | 439 | 35 | 177 | 159 || 422 | 465 Mississippi ..........| 569 | 569 | 85 | 97 | 136 | 52 | 118 | 81 || 527 | 527 | | | | | | | | || | Missouri..............| 1,504 | 1,490 | 110 | 489 | 360 | 99 | 277 | 169 || 393 | 396 Montana ..............| 524 | 523 | 31 | 85 | 238 | 64 | 47 | 59 || 183 | 183 Nebraska .............| 980 | 941 | 54 | 130 | 456 | 153 | 66 | 121 || 175 | 181 Nevada ...............| 339 | 331 | 14 | 144 | 92 | 17 | 47 | 25 || 608 | 620 New Hampshire ........| 414 | 414 | 50 | 97 | 63 | 47 | 70 | 87 || 334 | 334 | | | | | | | | || | New Jersey ...........| 1,792 | 1,790 | 284 | 453 | 274 | 251 | 321 | 209 || 472 | 472 New Mexico ...........| 542 | 531 | 29 | 196 | 158 | 4 | 101 | 54 || 392 | 398 New York .............| 3,014 | 3,011 | 262 | 1,013 | 704 | 89 | 554 | 392 || 616 | 616 North Carolina .......| 1,609 | 1,596 | 75 | 834 | 118 | 115 | 365 | 102 || 546 | 549 North Dakota .........| 349 | 349 | 11 | 28 | 223 | 46 | 18 | 23 || 189 | 189 | | | | | | | | || | Ohio .................| 2,781 | 2,760 | 347 | 820 | 738 | 83 | 517 | 276 || 420 | 422 Oklahoma .............| 1,218 | 1,209 | 61 | 355 | 190 | 293 | 213 | 106 || 341 | 342 Oregon ...............| 937 | 910 | 55 | 411 | 179 | 66 | 175 | 51 || 376 | 384 Pennsylvania .........| 2,348 | 2,346 | 271 | 883 | 567 | 60 | 412 | 155 || 490 | 490 Rhode Island .........| 255 | 253 | 36 | 85 | 61 | 4 | 37 | 32 || 405 | 407 | | | | | | | | || | South Carolina .......| 798 | 795 | 82 | 349 | 89 | 21 | 198 | 59 || 546 | 547 South Dakota .........| 502 | 500 | 24 | 108 | 134 | 105 | 80 | 51 || 179 | 180 Tennessee ............| 1,127 | 1,125 | 119 | 314 | 222 | 220 | 184 | 68 || 517 | 517 Texas ................| 4,729 | 4,618 | 500 | 1,767 | 734 | 94 | 1,056 | 578 || 542 | 552 Utah .................| 489 | 484 | 16 | 97 | 314 | 4 | 38 | 20 || 543 | 545 | | | | | | | | || | Vermont ..............| 265 | 249 | 22 | 22 | 115 | 63 | 17 | 26 || 238 | 250 Virginia .............| 1,414 | 1,407 | 67 | 741 | 159 | 11 | 286 | 150 || 533 | 535 Washington ...........| 1,348 | 1,298 | 62 | 474 | 451 | 59 | 203 | 99 || 450 | 464 West Virginia.........| 610 | 605 | 78 | 165 | 221 | 41 | 81 | 24 || 300 | 302 Wisconsin ............| 1,528 | 1,511 | 98 | 592 | 312 | 103 | 283 | 140 || 367 | 370 Wyoming ..............| 284 | 283 | 18 | 65 | 121 | 8 | 46 | 26 || 196 | 196 |=======|==========|=============|============|============|============|=======|======||========|========== Department of Defense | | | | | | | | || | dependents schools .| 106 | 106 | 7 | 22 | 52 | 10 | 14 | 1 || 502 | 502 | | | | | | | | || | Outlying areas | | | | | | | | || | American Samoa .......| 24 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 || 490 | 490 Guam .................| 32 | 32 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 || 746 | 746 Northern Marianas ....| 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 || 270 | 270 Puerto Rico ..........| 940 | 939 | 90 | 20 | 758 | 3 | 34 | 35 || 312 | 312 Virgin Islands .......| 24 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 || 494 | 513 ______________________|_______|__________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_______|______||________|__________ |
\1\Excludes special education and alternative schools.
\2\Average for schools reporting enrollment data. NOTE. --Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey. (This table was prepared April 1999.)
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