| Districts2 | 17,662 | 100 | 0.6 | | 500 | 2.8 |
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| Schools3 | 98,579 | 16,328 | 16.6 | | 31,660 | 32.1 |
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| Students | 49,588,626 | 11,270,624 | 22.7 | | 21,406,915 | 43.2 |
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| Teachers (full-time equivalent)4 | 3,145,078 | 614,484 | 19.5 | | 1,207,746 | 38.4 |
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| High school completers (2003–04)5 | 2,634,542 | 520,117 | 19.7 | | 1,068,296 | 40.5 |
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| Median pupil/teacher ratio6 | 16 | 16 | † | | 16 | † |
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| Average enrollment7 | 518 | 702 | † | | 690 | † |
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| † Not applicable. |
| 1 Totals may differ from other published estimates due to inclusion of Puerto Rico, the outlying areas, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Department of Defense dependents schools. |
| 2 Totals for number of districts may differ from published estimates since they exclude closed, inactive, and future school districts. |
| 3 Totals for number of schools may differ from published estimates since they exclude closed, inactive, and future schools. |
| 4 Full-time equivalent (FTE) is the amount of time required to perform an assignment stated as a proportion of a full-time position. It is computed by dividing the amount of time employed by the amount of time normally required for a full-time position. FTE is not a head count; for example, 2 half-time employees represent 1 FTE. |
| 5 Includes high school diploma recipients as well as other high school completers (e.g., certificates of attendance), but not high school equivalencies (e.g., GEDs). |
| 6 Includes only schools where student membership was greater than zero and for which pupil/teacher ratio data were available. The median is given because it is unaffected by very high or very low values. |
| 7 Includes only schools where membership was greater than zero. |
| NOTE: Data include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, four outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas and domestic). The 500 largest school districts include 22 school districts that are some other configuration besides prekindergarten (PK) or K–12, although all of the 100 largest school districts are PK or K–12. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2004–05, Version 1b, "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2004–05, Version 1c, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2004–05, Version 1e. |
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