Table 6. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts and percent of students in membership in city, suburban, town, and rural locales, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2006

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 6. Number of regular public elementary and secondary school districts and percent of students in membership in city, suburban, town, and rural locales, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07

State or jurisdiction	Total number of districts	Total number of students	City		Suburban		Town		Rural
State or jurisdiction	Total number of districts	Total number of students	Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students	Number of districts	Percent of students
United States¹	13,862	48,105,937	746	30.4	2,772	38.3	2,477	12.4	7,603	18.9

Alabama	133	743,632	16	29.4	17	17.5	30	11.7	69	41.4
Alaska	53	132,197	2	48.6	1	1.1	7	21.6	43	28.7
Arizona	238	970,913	35	53.1	17	21.2	37	10.1	127	15.6
Arkansas	254	474,532	16	27.7	9	9.1	54	25.4	166	37.8
California	989	6,211,439	156	48.1	272	39.7	167	7.0	388	5.1

Colorado	179	792,946	11	33.1	17	45.4	34	9.8	117	11.7
Connecticut	169	553,331	14	26.4	77	55.8	14	5.7	64	12.1
Delaware	19	114,678	1	5.3	8	59.1	7	29.4	3	6.2
District of Columbia	1	56,943	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Florida	67	2,656,176	7	16.1	22	72.0	14	3.5	24	8.4

Georgia	182	1,628,620	14	17.3	18	40.5	45	9.8	105	32.4
Hawaii	1	180,728	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Idaho	125	267,533	8	30.1	7	17.8	28	24.1	82	28.0
Illinois	873	2,100,994	31	31.7	320	45.6	171	11.2	348	11.5
Indiana	294	1,034,588	24	31.0	49	24.9	76	18.0	143	26.1

Iowa	365	483,122	13	30.1	8	5.4	74	27.6	270	36.9
Kansas	323	469,215	7	24.7	10	17.4	65	29.0	216	28.9
Kentucky	175	646,360	8	25.2	19	10.7	55	24.0	93	40.1
Louisiana	68	653,683	9	35.9	9	24.9	20	19.9	30	19.3
Maine	287	193,176	6	13.0	15	12.1	26	20.9	177	54.0

Maryland	24	851,640	2	11.6	10	76.7	2	1.6	10	10.0
Massachusetts	250	806,419	13	23.0	170	70.4	17	1.6	48	5.1
Michigan	552	1,601,774	36	26.0	138	40.8	85	13.0	292	20.2
Minnesota	340	807,241	10	19.8	32	33.3	74	23.4	222	23.5
Mississippi	152	494,135	5	10.8	7	10.2	55	31.8	85	47.2

Missouri	524	912,229	12	19.4	42	33.3	91	21.5	378	25.8
Montana	425	144,258	7	25.1	4	1.6	54	37.1	360	36.3
Nebraska	269	287,135	5	38.6	4	9.1	39	25.4	206	27.0
Nevada	17	422,782	2	17.3	1	71.8	8	8.8	6	2.1
New Hampshire	183	203,498	2	14.7	30	33.6	26	18.3	113	33.4

New Jersey	593	1,372,748	13	9.7	443	79.7	24	1.6	112	9.1
New Mexico	95	328,220	7	43.7	4	6.5	31	32.4	52	17.4
New York	697	2,757,907	25	43.6	260	36.4	111	7.6	300	12.4
North Carolina	125	1,417,237	12	37.0	9	7.9	19	7.3	79	47.8
North Dakota	198	96,577	3	29.8	2	9.5	12	20.8	178	39.8

Ohio	614	1,758,645	21	17.8	188	41.8	117	14.9	286	25.6
Oklahoma	540	639,032	7	21.4	19	21.5	100	26.6	414	30.4
Oregon	199	559,858	12	33.8	17	26.1	60	29.3	108	10.7
Pennsylvania	501	1,760,453	16	19.7	208	46.5	97	13.8	180	20.0
Rhode Island	32	136,940	3	34.6	20	55.1	1	2.5	8	7.8

South Carolina	101	703,119	7	12.4	17	41.8	20	16.0	43	29.9
South Dakota	171	121,158	2	27.1	0	0.0	14	21.4	149	51.5
Tennessee	136	978,368	12	32.5	13	22.5	33	11.6	78	33.3
Texas	1,033	4,513,835	68	42.6	85	30.1	219	12.7	659	14.6
Utah	40	504,079	5	15.9	7	62.2	12	16.5	16	5.4

Vermont	292	90,504	2	6.7	9	12.1	33	29.7	194	51.5
Virginia	134	1,207,663	16	23.6	17	40.6	20	4.6	77	31.2
Washington	296	1,026,121	20	31.0	51	44.8	54	13.2	171	11.0
West Virginia	57	281,938	5	16.2	4	16.3	16	27.8	32	39.7
Wisconsin	425	870,584	15	30.5	65	24.5	92	22.4	253	22.6
Wyoming	52	85,034	2	28.9	0	0.0	17	47.1	29	24.0

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

DoDDS: DoDS Overseas²	9	60,891	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
DDESS: DoDS Domestic²	7	26,631	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Bureau of Indian Education	20	—	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
American Samoa	1	16,427	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Guam	1	—	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Northern Mariana Islands	1	11,695	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Puerto Rico	1	544,138	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
U.S. Virgin Islands	1	16,284	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
— Not available.
† Not applicable. Locale codes are not assigned to these areas.
¹ U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
² DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: Details may not sum to totals because not all districts could be assigned to a locale category. 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. City includes the categories of City, Large Territory, City, Mid-size Territory, and City, Small Territory. Suburban includes the categories of Suburb, Large Territory, Suburb, Mid-size Territory, and Suburb, Small Territory. Town includes the categories of Town, Fringe Territory, Town, Distant Territory, and Town, Remote Territory. Rural includes the categories of Rural, Fringe, Rural, Distant, and Rural, Remote. See Glossary for more detail.
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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