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

NCES 2009-303
October 2008

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Table 2.  Number of public elementary and secondary local education agencies and number of students in membership, by agency type and state or jurisdiction: School year 2006–07
State or jurisdiction Total   Regular school districts   Administrative and service agencies1   State, federal, and other agencies
Agencies Students Agencies Students Agencies Students Agencies Students
United States2  17,492 49,140,702   13,862 48,105,937   1,347 348,305   2,283 686,460
                       
Alabama  163 743,632   133 743,632   1 0   29 0
Alaska  54 132,608   53 132,197   0 0   1 411
Arizona  608 1,065,082   238 970,913   3 96   367 94,073
Arkansas  292 476,409   254 474,532   15 0   23 1,877
California  1,130 6,287,004   989 6,211,439   131 72,457   10 3,108
                       
Colorado  201 793,569   179 792,946   22 623   0 0
Connecticut  198 574,909   169 553,331   6 6,766   23 14,812
Delaware  39 122,254   19 114,678   1 0   19 7,576
District of Columbia  56 72,750   1 56,943   0 0   55 15,807
Florida  77 2,671,513   67 2,656,176   0 0   10 15,337
                       
Georgia  204 1,629,157   182 1,628,620   16 0   6 537
Hawaii  1 180,728   1 180,728   0 0   0 0
Idaho  129 267,600   125 267,533   0 0   4 67
Illinois  1,082 2,118,276   873 2,100,994   203 9,432   6 7,850
Indiana  367 1,045,940   294 1,034,588   29 97   44 11,255
                       
Iowa  376 483,122   365 483,122   11 0   0 0
Kansas  332 469,506   323 469,215   0 0   9 291
Kentucky  195 646,634   175 646,360   18 0   2 274
Louisiana  99 675,851   68 653,683   0 0   31 22,168
Maine  303 193,986   287 193,176   8 0   8 810
                       
Maryland  25 851,640   24 851,640   0 0   1 0
Massachusetts  392 968,661   250 806,419   78 137,309   64 24,933
Michigan  842 1,714,709   552 1,601,774   57 14,274   233 98,661
Minnesota  548 840,565   340 807,241   58 8,828   150 24,496
Mississippi  163 495,026   152 494,135   0 0   11 891
                       
Missouri  550 920,353   524 912,229   0 0   26 8,124
Montana  509 144,418   425 144,258   77 0   7 160
Nebraska  309 287,580   269 287,135   36 0   4 445
Nevada  19 423,184   17 422,782   0 0   2 402
New Hampshire  268 203,551   183 203,498   83 0   2 53
                       
New Jersey  647 1,388,548   593 1,372,748   0 0   54 15,800
New Mexico  95 328,220   95 328,220   0 0      
New York  832 2,809,649   697 2,757,907   37 20,899   98 30,843
North Carolina  242 1,444,481   125 1,417,237   2 0   115 27,244
North Dakota  238 96,670   198 96,577   37 0   3 93
                       
Ohio  1,034 1,836,096   614 1,758,645   109 0   311 77,451
Oklahoma  600 639,391   540 639,032   0 0   60 359
Oregon  223 562,574   199 559,858   20 1,603   4 1,113
Pennsylvania  737 1,871,060   501 1,760,453   104 49,678   132 60,929
Rhode Island  52 151,612   32 136,940   4 10,921   16 3,751
                       
South Carolina  102 703,119   101 703,119   0 0   1 0
South Dakota  188 121,158   171 121,158   14 0   3 0
Tennessee  136 978,368   136 978,368   0 0   0 0
Texas  1,261 4,599,509   1,033 4,513,835   20 0   208 85,674
Utah  99 523,586   40 504,079   4 0   55 19,507
                       
Vermont  358 95,399   292 90,504   60 2,185   6 2,710
Virginia  231 1,220,440   134 1,207,663   73 12,777   24 0
Washington  308 1,026,774   296 1,026,121   10 360   2 293
West Virginia  57 281,938   57 281,938   0 0   0 0
Wisconsin  459 876,700   425 870,584   0 0   34 6,116
Wyoming  62 85,193   52 85,034   0 0   10 159
                       
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
                       
DoDDS: DoDS Overseas3  9 60,891   0 0   0 0   9 60,891
DDESS: DoDS Domestic3  7 26,631   0 0   0 0   7 26,631
Bureau of Indian Education  20 —   0 0   0 0   20 —
American Samoa  1 16,427   1 16,427   0 0   0 0
Guam  1 —   1 —   0 0   0 0
Northern Mariana Islands  1 11,695   1 11,695   0 0   0 0
Puerto Rico  1 544,138   1 544,138   0 0   0 0
U.S. Virgin Islands  1 16,284   1 16,284   0 0   0 0
— Not available.
1 Administrative and service agencies include supervisory unions and regional education service agencies. See Glossary for more detail.
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: Table includes operating agencies only. 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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