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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06
NCES 2007-353
June 2007

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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 2005–06
  
  Total   Regular school districts   Administrative and
service agencies1		   State, federal,
and other agencies
State or jurisdiction Agencies Students   Agencies Students   Agencies Students   Agencies Students
United States2  17,755 48,978,555 14,199 48,013,931 1,439 290,819 2,117 673,805
 
Alabama  165 743,626 165 743,626 0 0 0 0
Alaska  54 133,288 54 133,288 0 0 0 0
Arizona  601 1,094,454 218 943,841 15 3,513 368 147,100
Arkansas  291 474,206 253 472,609 15 0 23 1,597
California  1,128 6,312,103 987 6,240,080 132 68,809 9 3,214
 
Colorado  201 779,826 179 779,219 21 607 1 0
Connecticut  196 575,058 166 549,744 6 6,698 24 18,616
Delaware  35 120,937 19 114,371 1 0 15 6,566
District of Columbia  53 76,876 1 59,616 0 0 52 17,260
Florida  74 2,675,024 67 2,663,973 0 0 7 11,051
 
Georgia  204 1,598,461 180 1,597,682 16 0 8 779
Hawaii  1 182,818 1 182,818 0 0 0 0
Idaho  123 261,982 122 261,907 0 0 1 75
Illinois  1,084 2,111,706 875 2,097,924 204 9,223 5 4,559
Indiana  364 1,035,074 294 1,026,106 29 84 41 8,884
 
Iowa  377 483,482 365 483,482 12 0 0 0
Kansas  312 467,916 300 467,292 0 0 12 624
Kentucky  196 679,689 176 679,621 18 0 2 68
Louisiana  88 654,526 68 648,313 0 0 20 6,213
Maine  329 195,498 285 195,174 39 0 5 324
 
Maryland  25 860,021 24 860,021 0 0 1 0
Massachusetts  495 971,909 350 808,121 86 142,017 59 21,771
Michigan  831 1,742,025 552 1,635,076 57 14,857 222 92,092
Minnesota  561 839,242 343 809,156 59 8,751 159 21,335
Mississippi  163 494,954 152 493,952 0 0 11 1,002
 
Missouri  532 917,905 524 915,870 0 0 8 2,035
Montana  509 145,416 430 145,259 77 0 2 157
Nebraska  514 286,646 474 285,547 36 607 4 492
Nevada  18 413,253 17 412,747 0 0 1 506
New Hampshire  264 205,767 179 205,636 81 0 4 131
 
New Jersey  669 1,395,052 615 1,380,119 0 0 54 14,933
New Mexico  89 326,761 89 326,761 0 0 0 0
New York  853 2,816,167 730 2,790,140 39 0 84 26,027
North Carolina  216 1,416,576 115 1,388,216 0 0 101 28,360
North Dakota  245 98,283 204 98,172 38 0 3 111
 
Ohio  1,044 1,839,683 614 1,769,274 109 0 321 70,409
Oklahoma  600 634,784 540 634,468 0 0 60 316
Oregon  221 536,944 200 535,176 20 1,724 1 44
Pennsylvania  730 1,830,684 501 1,752,402 101 7,138 128 71,144
Rhode Island  50 153,417 32 138,934 4 11,178 14 3,305
 
South Carolina  102 701,544 85 699,027 13 0 4 2,517
South Dakota  188 122,008 168 121,718 17 98 3 192
Tennessee  136 953,796 136 953,796 0 0 0 0
Texas  1,268 4,525,394 1,035 4,450,139 20 0 213 75,255
Utah  82 508,248 40 496,507 4 0 38 11,741
 
Vermont  363 96,643 302 94,160 60 2,459 1 24
Virginia  226 1,214,411 134 1,201,142 69 12,474 23 795
Washington  306 1,031,985 296 1,031,668 10 317 0 0
West Virginia  57 280,893 55 279,788 0 0 2 1,105
Wisconsin  460 875,174 440 874,098 17 0 3 1,076
Wyoming  62 86,420 48 86,155 14 265 0 0
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDS Overseas3  9 62,543 0 0 0 0 9 62,543
DDESS: DoDS Domestic3  7 28,386 0 0 0 0 7 28,386
Bureau of Indian Education  23 50,937 0 0 0 0 23 50,937
American Samoa  1 16,399 1 16,399 0 0 0 0
Guam  1 30,986 1 30,986 0 0 0 0
Northern Mariana Islands  1 11,718 1 11,718 0 0 0 0
Puerto Rico  1 563,490 1 563,490 0 0 0 0
U.S. Virgin Islands  1 16,750   1 16,750   0 0   0 0
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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2005–06, Version 1a.

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