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| Number and percentage distribution of private school students, by community type and selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (Standard Errors for this table) | |||||||||||
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| Selected characteristics | Total | Central city | Urban fringe/ large town |
Rural/small town | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 5,341,513 | 100.0 | 2,276,808 | 100.0 | 2,276,823 | 100.0 | 787,882 | 100.0 | |||
| NCES typology | |||||||||||
| Catholic | 2,515,524 | 47.1 | 1,142,738 | 50.2 | 1,140,523 | 50.1 | 232,263 | 29.5 | |||
| Parochial | 1,221,685 | 22.9 | 516,997 | 22.7 | 583,047 | 25.6 | 121,641 | 15.4 | |||
| Diocesan | 925,288 | 17.3 | 430,602 | 18.9 | 405,666 | 17.8 | 89,020 | 11.3 | |||
| Private | 368,552 | 6.9 | 195,139 | 8.6 | 151,810 | 6.7 | 21,602 | 2.7 | |||
| Other religious | 1,924,874 | 36.0 | 745,261 | 32.7 | 783,038 | 34.4 | 396,575 | 50.3 | |||
| Conservative Christian | 823,469 | 15.4 | 297,376 | 13.1 | 348,907 | 15.3 | 177,186 | 22.5 | |||
| Affiliated | 562,686 | 10.5 | 237,270 | 10.4 | 240,626 | 10.6 | 84,789 | 10.8 | |||
| Unaffiliated | 538,718 | 10.1 | 210,614 | 9.3 | 193,505 | 8.5 | 134,599 | 17.1 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 901,114 | 16.9 | 388,809 | 17.1 | 353,262 | 15.5 | 159,044 | 20.2 | |||
| Regular | 622,715 | 11.7 | 282,519 | 12.4 | 225,625 | 9.9 | 114,571 | 14.5 | |||
| Special emphasis | 176,987 | 3.3 | 70,333 | 3.1 | 75,034 | 3.3 | 31,620 | 4.0 | |||
| Special education | 101,412 | 1.9 | 35,956 | 1.6 | 52,603 | 2.3 | 12,853 | 1.6 | |||
| School level | |||||||||||
| Elementary | 2,883,010 | 54.0 | 1,203,451 | 52.9 | 1,323,748 | 58.1 | 355,811 | 45.2 | |||
| Secondary | 835,328 | 15.6 | 422,557 | 18.6 | 327,176 | 14.4 | 85,594 | 10.9 | |||
| Combined | 1,623,175 | 30.4 | 650,800 | 28.6 | 625,899 | 27.5 | 346,476 | 44.0 | |||
| Program emphasis | |||||||||||
| Regular elementary/ secondary | 4,932,957 | 92.4 | 2,115,400 | 92.9 | 2,101,909 | 92.3 | 715,647 | 90.8 | |||
| Montessori | 84,525 | 1.6 | 31,457 | 1.4 | 39,968 | 1.8 | 13,099 | 1.7 | |||
| Special program emphasis | 127,179 | 2.4 | 54,987 | 2.4 | 49,683 | 2.2 | 22,509 | 2.9 | |||
| Special education | 115,164 | 2.2 | 42,592 | 1.9 | 58,047 | 2.6 | 14,525 | 1.8 | |||
| Vocational/ technical | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Alternative | 74,695 | 1.4 | 30,186 | 1.3 | 24,292 | 1.1 | 20,216 | 2.6 | |||
| Early childhood | 4,672 | 0.1 | 1,073 | 0.1 | 2,634 | 0.1 | 965 | 0.1 | |||
| Size (number of students) | |||||||||||
| Less than 50 | 232,342 | 4.4 | 59,396 | 2.6 | 72,452 | 3.2 | 100,494 | 12.8 | |||
| 50-149 | 765,056 | 14.3 | 256,749 | 11.3 | 277,526 | 12.2 | 230,781 | 29.3 | |||
| 150-299 | 1,408,132 | 26.4 | 578,974 | 25.4 | 597,686 | 26.3 | 231,472 | 29.4 | |||
| 300-499 | 1,223,135 | 22.9 | 520,617 | 22.9 | 567,508 | 24.9 | 135,010 | 17.1 | |||
| 500-749 | 829,642 | 15.5 | 365,034 | 16.0 | 407,782 | 17.9 | 56,826 | 7.2 | |||
| 750 or more | 883,205 | 16.5 | 496,038 | 21.8 | 353,870 | 15.5 | 33,298 | 4.2 | |||
| Region | |||||||||||
| Northeast | 1,336,770 | 25.0 | 539,916 | 23.7 | 633,784 | 27.8 | 163,071 | 20.7 | |||
| Midwest | 1,354,861 | 25.4 | 517,265 | 22.7 | 595,050 | 26.1 | 242,546 | 30.8 | |||
| South | 1,641,474 | 30.7 | 731,000 | 32.1 | 615,015 | 27.0 | 295,459 | 37.5 | |||
| West | 1,008,408 | 18.9 | 488,628 | 21.5 | 432,974 | 19.0 | 86,806 | 11.0 | |||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002. | |||||||||||
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