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The information provided in this publication was reported by state education agencyofficials to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for the Common Core ofData (CCD). It relates to student membership in public schools and school districts inthe United States and outlying areas during the 1995-96 school year, and to revenuesand expenditures for fiscal year 1995.

The 100 largest public school districts, representing less than 1 percent of allschool districts in the nation, were responsible for the education of 23 percent ofall public school students.

The 100 largest districts employed 21 percent of the nation's public schoolteachers, and accounted for 17 percent of all public schools and 18 percent ofpublic high school graduates.

The 100 largest school districts had larger school sizes than the average schooldistrict (707 compared to 513). In addition to larger school sizes, the 100 largestschool districts also had a higher mean pupil-teacher ratio, 18.5 to 1 compared to17.2 to 1 for the average school district.

Three states, Florida, Texas, and California, accounted for over one-third of the100 largest school districts.

The proportion of minority students in the 100 largest school districts wasalmost double that proportion of minority students in all schools (65 comparedto 36 percent).

Among schools that reported free lunch eligibility, 45 percent of the students inthe 100 largest school districts were eligible for free lunch compared to 33percent of all students in reporting states.

Current expenditures per pupil in the 100 largest school districts ranged from alow of $2,417 in the Puerto Rico Department of Education to a high of $10,925in Newark, New Jersey Public Schools.

Among the 20 largest districts, seven have increased in size by over 20 percentsince 1986. Conversely, Detroit City, Chicago, and Puerto Rico haveexperienced declines in membership since 1986.

Characteristics of the 100 Largest School Districts

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to John Sietsema and Jonaki Bose from NCES who guided this project with theirsage advice. Thanks are also due to Michael Freeman, Kathy Chamberlain, and Stephanie Brownfrom the Census Bureau for the creation and production of the tables.

The author gratefully acknowledges the comments and suggestions of the reviewers. Reviewersfrom outside the Department of Education include: Andy Rogers, Los Angeles Unified SchoolDistrict and Sharon Lewis, Council of Great City Schools. Reviewers from the Department ofEducation include: from NCES, Bob Burton, Charles Hammer, Charlene Hoffinan, Frank Johnson,and William Sonnenberg; and the Office of the Under Secretary and the Office of the DeputySecretary.

This is the eighth in the current series of reports on the largest school districts in the Nation. Themost recently previously published report is Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public SchoolDistricts in the United States: 1993-94, which was published in October 1996. Copies of bothreports are available from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement by calling, toll-free, 1-877-4ED-PUBS.

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iv Characteristics of the 100 Largest School Districts

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

HighlightsAcknowledgments ivIntroduction 1

Overview of Largest Districts 1

Where Are the 100 Largest School Districts? 2

How Do These Districts Compare With the Average School District? 2Basic Tables 7Methodology 3 1

Related Data Sources 35Appendices 37

Text TablesA. Selected statistics for the nation (including outlying areas), the 100 largest,

and the 500 largest school districts: School year 1995-96B. Number and percentage of districts and students by district membership size for

regular public elementary and secondary school districts in the nation(including outlying areas): School year 1995-96

C. Percentage of students eligible for free lunch and percentage of minority enrollmentin the 100 and 500 largest school districts: School year 1995-96

D. Membership trends in the 20 largest school districts in the United States: Schoolyears 1986-87 to 1995-96

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Basic Tables1. Selected statistics for the 100 largest school districts in the United States: School

year 1995-96 10

2. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by type of school: School year 1995-96 12

3. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States, by type of school, and number of studentswith Individualized Education Programs: School year 1995-96 14

4. Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary schools with assignedmembership in the 100 largest school districts in the United States, by membershipsize: School year 1995-96 16

5. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States, by grade ranges: School year 1995-96 18

6. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by specified instructional level: School year 1995-96 20

7. Median pupil-teacher ratios in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100largest school districts in the United States, by specified instructional level: Schoolyear 1995-96 22

8. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by specified minority membership categories, andminority students as a percentage of school district membership: School year1995-96 24

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9. Selected student characteristics as a percentage of school district membership,and percentage of schools for which characteristic is reported, in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States: School year 1995-96 26

10. Revenues by source, current expenditures, and current expenditures per pupil forthe 100 largest school districts in the United States: Fiscal year 1995 28

AppendicesA. The 500 largest public school districts in the United States and outlying areas: School

year 1995-96 38B. Alphabetical list and rank (by size) of the 500 largest public school districts in the

United States and outlying areas: School year 1995-96 46C. Selected statistics for the 100 largest school districts in the United States: School

year 1994-95 50D. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school

districts in the United States, by type of school: School year 1994-95 52E. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest

school districts in the United States, by type of school, and number of studentswith Individualized Education Programs: School year 1994-95 54

F. Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary schools with assignedmembership in the 100 largest school districts in the United States, by membershipsize: School year 1994-95 56

G. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States, by grade ranges: School year 1994-95 58

H. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by specified instructional level: School year 1994-95 60

I. Median pupil-teacher ratios in public elementary and secondary schools in the100 largest school districts in the United States, by specified instructional level:School year 1994-95 62

J. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by specified minority membership categories, andminority students as a percentage of school district membership: School year1994-95 64

K. Selected student characteristics as a percentage of school district membership,and percentage of schools for which characteristic is reported, in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States: School year 1994-95 66

L. Revenues by source, current expenditures, and current expenditures per pupil forthe 100 largest school districts in the United States: Fiscal year 1994 68

vi Characteristics of the 100 Largest School Districts

Introduction

Introduction

This publication provides basic descriptive information about the 100 largest school districts inthe United States, Department of Defense Schools and outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam,Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). Almost one in every four public schoolstudents in this nation is served by one of these largest districts. They are distinguished fromsmaller districts by characteristics in addition to sheer size, such as average and median schoolsize, pupil-teacher ratios, number of high school graduates, number of pupils receiving specialeducation services, and minority enrollment as a proportion of total enrollment.

The above information is found in the ten basic tables. Four text tables precede the basic tablesfor the purpose of establishing a meaningful context for the information on the 100 largestdistricts. Following the basic tables, appendix A lists the 500 largest school districts with someidentifying information and basic statistical data. Appendix B is an alphabetical list of the 500districts indicating their rank by size. Appendices C through L contain the basic tableinformation for the 1994-95 school year.

Overview of Largest Districts

In the 1995-96 school year, there were 16,282 public school districts in the United States and itsoutlying areas, close to 89,000 schools and over 45.6 million students in public education. Therewere 2.6 million teachers in the 1995-96 school year and 2.6 million graduates in the 1994-95school year. The 100 largest school districts made up less than one percent of all total publicschool districts and served 23 percent of the total public elementary and secondary schoolpopulation, 10.4 of the 45.6 million students (table A).

Table A. Selected statistics for the nation*, the 100 largest, and the 500 largest school disbicts:

School year 1995-96

National total

100 largest districts 500 largest districts

Total

Percentage of

national total Total

Percentage of

national total

Districts 16,282 100 0.6 500 3.1

Schools 88,981 14,764 16.6 28,176 31.7

Students 45,628,954 10,437,831 22.9 19,296,476 42.3

FTE Teachers 2,647,387 563,582 21.3 1,043,547 39.4

Graduates (1994-95) 2,560,518 462,198 18.1 894,265 34.9

Pupil/teacher ratio 17.2 18.5 18.5

Average school size 512.8 707.0 684.9

Graduates as a percentage of all students 5.6 4.4 4.6

Not applicable.

' Includes outlying areas and Department of Defense schools.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/

Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey', 1995-96 and the "State Nonfiscal Survey', 1995-96.

The 100 largest school districts represent more than 16 percent of schools and employ 21 percentof all teachers. The 500 largest districts make up 3 percent of all school districts and serve 19.3million students, or 42 percent of the total public elementary and secondary school studentpopulation in the United States.


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All of the 100 largest school districts have over 40,000 students and 24 of these school districtshave over 100,000 students. The largest school district in the country is the New York CityPublic Schools, with 1,049,039 students in 1,108 schools. .(The New York City School Districtis so large it has more students than the fifth- through tenth-size ranked school districts addedtogether). The second largest is the Los Angeles Unified School District, with 647,612 studentsin 642 schools. The Puerto Rico Department of Education, with 621,121 students in 1,561schools, is third in size (table 1).

Where Are the 100 Largest School Districts?

The District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico each have only one school district for theentire jurisdiction, and each is represented among the 100 largest school districts (table 1).There are 35 states that have at least one of the 100 largest school districts. Two states, Floridaand Texas, have 13 districts among the 100 largest, and California has 11. There are only a fewmore states that have more than one district represented: Georgia and Maryland have 5,Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia have 4, Ohio has 3, and Arizona,Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, and South Carolina have 2. The following states haveone school district among the 100 largest: Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania,Washington, and Wisconsin.

As expected, these 100 school districts tend to be in cities and counties having large populations,with administrative offices typically located in large cities and their environs. Many of thedistricts are in states where school districts are coterminous with counties. Over 70 percent ofthese districts are located in coastal states, although several are located in the large cities of thenorth-central states.

How Do These Districts Compare With the Average School District?

General CharacteristicsBy definition, the 100 largest school districts are large, and when compared to the membershipdistribution of all school districts, they are considerably larger than most. In the 1995-96 schoolyear, 74 percent of all regular school districts had memberships of fewer than 5,000 students.All of the 100 largest school districts had memberships of more than 40,000 students (table B).Even though only 26 percent of regular school districts had over 5,000 students, 81 percent ofstudents were in these school districts (see the Methodology section for a definition of regulardistricts and schools).

The average school district in America has 5.5 schools compared to the 100 largest schooldistricts, which average 147.6 schools. Two of the largest school districts, New .York CityPublic Schools and the Puerto Rico Department of Education, include over 1,000 schools in theirdistricts (table 1). The 100 largest school districts, on average, serve considerably more students(104,378 compared to 2,802), and employ more teachers (5,636 compared to 163) per districtthan the average school district.

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Table B. Nunber and percentage of clistricts and students by clistrict membership size for regular publicelementary and secondary school districts in the nationi: School year 1995-96

Districts Students Cumulative totals

Nunter Percentage

Cumulative

percentage Nunter Percentage

Cumulative

percentage Districts Students

Total 14,783 100.0 45,160,131 100.0

100,00 or more 24 0.2 0.2 5,628,090 12.9 12.9 24 5,828,090

25,000 to 99,999 194 1.3 1.5 8,365,537 18.5 31.4 218 14,193,627

10,000 to 24,999 557 3.8 5.3 8,295,732 18.4 49.8 775 22,489,359

7,500 to 9,999 323 2.2 7.5 2,778,083 6.2 56.0 1,098 25,267,442

5,000 to 7,499 697 4.7 12.2 4,227,307 9.4 65.3 1,795 29,494,749

2,500 to 4,999 2,031 13.7 25.9 7,096,937 15.7 81.0 3,826 36,591,686

2,003 to 2,499 870 5.9 31.8 1,947,797 4.3 85.3 4,696 38,539,483

1,500 to 1,999 1,089 7.4 39.2 1,888,640 4.2 89.5 5,785 40,428,123

1,000 to 1,499 1,595 10.8 50.0 1,975,507 4.4 93.9 7,380 42,403,630

800 to 999 855 5.8 55.7 764,085 1.7 95.6 8,235 43,167,715

600 to 799 922 6.2 62.0 639,969 1.4 97.0 9,157 43,807,684

450 to 599 962 6.4 68.4 496,257 1.1 98.1 10,109 44,303,941

300 to 449 1,152 7.8 76.2 429,905 1.0 99.1 11,261 44,733,846

150 to 299 1,424 9.6 85.8 312,821 0.7 99.7 12,685 45,046,667

1 to 149 1,699 11.5 97.3 113,464 0.3 100.0 14,384 45,160,131

02 322 2.2 99.5 0 0.0 100.0 14,706 45,160,131

Not reported 77 0.5 100.0 - 14,783 45,160,131

-Not applicable.1 lndudes outlying areas and Departrrent of Defense sthools.2 Merrbership may be 0 in two situations 1) where the school distrid does not operate schools but pays tuition for its students in a

neighboring district, and 2) where the district provides senAces for students who are accounted for in sone other district(s).

SOURCE U.S. Departrent of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Corm-on Core of Data, "Public Elen-entary/

Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey', 1995-96

School CharacteristicsThe 100 largest school districts have more students per school than the average school district(707 compared to 513) (table A). In fact, 15 of the 100 largest school districts had an averageregular school size of over 1,000 students (table 4). In addition to larger school sizes, the 100largest school districts also have a higher mean pupil-teacher ratio, 18.5 to 1 compared to 17.2 to1 for the average school district. The Santa Ana Unified school district has the highest pupil-teacher ratio at 27.3 and the Newark City school district had the smallest with 14.1 to 1 (table 7).

Nationally, the number of high school graduates as a percentage of all students in the 100 largestschool districts was lower than that of the average district: 4.4 percent of students were graduatesin the 100 largest school districts compared to 5.6 percent for the average school (table A).

Student Body CompositionThe 100 largest school districts are not homogeneous and certain student characteristics, such asrace/ethnicity, poverty level, and disability status vary across the districts.

A substantial number of the 100 largest school districts have a disproportionately highpercentage of racial/ethnic minorities in their student population. The 100 largest districts, with23 percent of the nation's public school students, served 36 percent of the 16.6 million minority

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public school students'. The proportion of minority students in the 100 largest school districtsis almost double the proportion of minority students in all schools. In the 1995-96 school year,65 percent of the students in the 100 largest school districts were minority students compared to36 percent of students nationally (table C). In fact, 9 of the 10 largest school districts had over75 percent minority membership (table 8).

Even with the relatively high minority membership in the 100 largest school districts, 46 of theseschool districts report 50 percent or more of their students as white, non-Hispanic (table 9). Ofthese 46 districts, 16 report minority representation of less than 25 percent of their student bodyand 10 of them have less than 20 percent minority students (table 8). In 22 districts, half or moreof the membership is black, non-Hispanic; 7 districts report that the majority of their students areHispanic; and in one district, the majority of the students are Asian/Pacific Islanders (table 9).

Table C. Percentage of students eligible for free lunch and100 and 500 largest school districts: School year 1995-96

percentage of minority enrollment in the

100 Largest

school districts500 Largest

school districtsAs a percentageof total reporting

Of those who reported free lunch,membership eligible for free lunch 45.1 39.9 *32.8

Percentage of schools reporting free lunch 77.9 80.6 76.5

Total minority enrollment 65.4 54.8 36.3American Indian/Alaskan native 0.5 0.7 1.1

Asian/Pacific Islander 6.3 5.7 3.8Hispanic 27.8 23.0 14.7

Black/non-Hispanic 30.8 25.4 16.7

Mite/non-Hispanic 34.6 45.1 63.6

Percentage of schools reporting minority enrollment 100.0 99.6 99.3*This percent should be interpreted with caution; nine states (AL, AZ, IL, KY, MA, PA, SD, TN, and WA) do not reportfree lunch eligibility and are not included in the national total. Also, any unit reporting more then 95 percent free lunch

eligibility is adjusted to 95 percent for confidentiality.

NOTE: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/

Secondary Education School Universe Suivey", 1995-96.

Students in the 100 largest school districts were also more likely to be eligible for free lunch.Among schools that reported free lunch eligibility, 45 percent of students in the 100 largestschool districts were eligible compared to 33 percent of all students (table C). Among the 83 ofthe 100 largest school districts that reported free lunch, 30 districts reported over 50 percent oftheir students to be eligible for this program (table 9).

Ten percent of students in the 100 largest school districts had individualized education programs(IEPs) for student with disabilities. In the largest school district, New York City Public Schools,12 percent, or 124,209 students, were reported to have IEPs (table 3). Most of these students

I The numbers of students in different racial/ethnic categories are reported at the school level and are aggregated up tothe school distict level. The national figure was calculated by taking the percent of minority students among thosedistricts that reported race/ethnicity (99.3 percent of districts) and applying this to the total number of public schoolstudents.


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were in regular schools, only three percent of schools in the 100 largest school districts arespecial education schools (table 2).

Revenues and expenditures2In school year 1994-95, $280 billion dollars was collected for public elementary and secondaryeducation; 22 percent ($62 billion) of this amount of revenue went to the 100 largest schooldistricts. Of the $62 billion revenue to the 100 largest school districts, a little less than one-third($19 billion) was received by the 5 largest schools districts (New York City Public Schools, LosAngeles Unified, Puerto Rico Department of Education, City of Chicago School District, andDade County School District). The dollars from the federal government received by 99 of the100 largest school districts comprised from 2 to 15 percent of the revenues: the exception wasPuerto Rico (29 percent) (table 10).

The 100 largest school districts spent $55 billion (23 percent) of the $243 billion spent on thenation as a whole. The two largest school districts, New York City Public Schools and LosAngeles Unified, spent one out of five of the dollars expended by the 100 largest school districts.All of the 100 largest school districts devoted more than 50 percent of their current expendituresto instruction. Puerto Rico spent the highest percent (73) on instruction among the 100 largestschool districts.

The average current expenditures per pupil were $5,463 for all districts, just slightly higher thanthe $5,434 in the 100 largest school districts. Of the 100 largest school districts, 7 districts spentmore than $7,000 per pupil (with Newark school district spending $10,925 per pupil) and twoschool districts, Puerto Rico and the Arlington School District, Texas, that spent less than $3,000per pupil. Current expenditures per pupil in the 100 largest school districts ranged from a low of$2,417 in the Puerto Rico Department of Education to a high of $10,925 in Newark, New JerseyPublic Schools (table 10). (See the Methodology section for a further definition of specificrevenues and expenditures).

Changes in the membership of the 20 largest school districts between 1986 and 1995The 20 largest school districts in the United States have for the most part remained relativelystable over the past seven years; only two school districts among the 20 largest in the 1995-96school year were not in the 20 largest in the 1986-87 school year (table D).

Sixteen of the 20 largest school districts in 1995-96 had increased their membership by 10percent or more between the 1986-87 and 1995-96 school years and 7 increased membership byover 20 percent. The five largest school districts were the same in the 1986-87 and 1995-96school years, with just slight shifting in relative rank among them. Only 3 of the 20 districtsdecreased in student membership between the 1986-87 and 1995-96 school years.

Clark County School District, Nevada had the greatest growth of the 1995-96 largest schooldistricts with a 75 percent increase in membership (moving from the 19th largest district in1986-87 to the 1 1 th largest in 1995-96). Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida, also hadlarge increases (58 and 56 percent, respectively) between 1986-87 and 1995-96.

National revenue and expenditure data was calculated from the state-level National Public EducationFinance Survey (NPEFS). The percentage distribution was based on school district level data found on theF-33 survey. Department of Defense schools are not included in these national totals.

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Some of the districts serving large cities have experienced losses; for example, Detroit andChicago registered declines of 6 and 4 percent, respectively. Puerto Rico, not a city district,indicates a 9 percent loss over the 9-year period.

The 20 largest districts in both years accounted for approximately 12 percent of the students inthe nation's public elementary and secondary schools. In the fall of 1986, these 20 districtsenrolled 4,804,644 pupils out of a national total (including outlying areas) of 40,499,050. In1995-96, they had 5,402,925 students out of 45,628,954.

Table ID. Membership trends in the 20 largest school cistricts in the United States: School years1986-87 to 1995-86

1995 rank

by size Narre of reporting district State

1986 rank

by size

lvientership

1986 to

1995

change

Percentage

change betwaen

1986 to 19951995 19861 New York City Rblic Schools NY 1 1,049,039 938,606 110,433 122 Los Angeles Wed CA 3 647,612 589,099 58,513 103 Puerto Rco Deptartment of Education PR 2 821,121 679,489 (58,368) -94 Oty of Chicago School Dstrict 29 IL 4 412921 431,298 (18,377) -45 Dade County School Dsbict FL 5 333,817 243,693 93,127 376 Fhiladelphia City SD PA 7 210,503 193,119 20,384 11

7 BroAend County Sthool Dstrict FL 11 208,359 131,725 76,634 588 Houston ISD TX 6 206,704 194,389 12315 69 Hamii Departmant of Edumticn HI 9 187,104 164,336 22,768 1410 Detroit City School District M 8 173,750 185,499 (11,749) -611 Clark County School Disbid NV 19 1E6,788 95,416 71,372 7512 Dallas ISD TX 10 148,839 132,389 16,450 1213 lilleborough County Schod Cistrict FL 14 143,192 115,373 27,819 2414 Fairfax Cnty Public Schools VA 12 140,820 128,241 12,579 1015 Palm Beach County School Distri ct FL 25 1,215 84,685 47,530 5616 San Dego City Unified CA 13 130,360 115,441 14,919 1317 Cuval County Schodl Dstrict FL 18 191023, 102,9E6 20,944 2018 Orange County Schcd Dstrid FL 27 123,166 84,125 39,040 4619 Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 17 122,415 103,301 19,114 1920 Montgomary County Ridlic Schools N1D 20 120,291 94,457 25,834 27

SOURCE U.S Department of Education, Naticnal Center for Education Statistics, CaT1110r1 Core of Data, "Public Elementary/

Secondary Eduthbon Agency Universe Suney', 199546.


Basic Tables

Basic Tables

Table 1 presents basic data: numbers of students receiving educational services; full-timeequivalent (FTE) teachers; 1994-95 graduates; and schools for each of the 100 largest districts.Also shown is information to fully identify each school district and its city, state, and county,since the name of the district is not always sufficient for this purpose. On this and all the othertables, the districts are shown in decreasing order of size (pupils in membership as of October1995). Since the districts are arrayed by number of pupils, it is easy to note the differences in thenumbers of teachers, graduates, and schools as they relate to districts of similar size. Forexample, Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland, though smaller in size than DuvalCounty School District, Florida, has more graduates and teachers. For all school districts otherthan the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Boston, and Virginia school districts, the teacher count wasderived from the school universe. The Minneapolis, St. Paul, Boston, and the Virginia schooldistricts' teacher counts were taken from the agency universe. The number of graduates for theCleveland City School District was obtained from Ohio, whose SEA staff directly contacted theschool district, whereas for the remaining districts data were obtained from the agency universe.(For a more detailed description of the surveys see the methodology section).

Table 2 presents the number of schools in the 100 largest districts, by type of school. All buttwo of the districts (Shelby County and Charleston County School Districts) have specializedschools devoted to special, vocational, or alternative education. It can be seen from this tablethat districts vary widely in their use of specialized versus general schools in educating studentswith special needs.

Table 3 presents the numbers of students assigned to these schools. It should be noted thatstudents attending a specialized school are often counted at their nonspecialized (regular) homeschool rather than at the specialized school they attend. The number of students havingIndividualized Education Programs (IEP) in accordance with the Individuals with DisabilitiesEducation Act-Part B, is shown in the last column of table 3.

In tables 4 through 9 only schools with student membership (or regular schools havingmembership, as specified in table 4) are used in the data sets from which these tables are derived.In tables 5 through 9 this restriction to schools with membership was required to determine pupilmembership by grade in order to determine school categories.

Table 4 provides information on school characteristics in the 100 largest school districts bydisplaying an array of school size (pupils in membership) at different percentile levels, as well asmean school size for each district (computed using regular schools having membership). Forexample, the table shows that in New York City Public Schools 25 percent of the schools have apupil membership of 597 or fewer, and another 25 percent have a membership of 1,161 or more.Dividing all the students in regular schools by the number of such schools yields a mean, oraverage, size of 1,005 students. If all the regular schools in NeW York City were listed by size,the school at the mid-point on the list (the median) would have 841 pupils in membership.

The average school size ranges from a low of 410 pupils (Puerto Rico Department of Education)to a high of 1,232 (Gwinnett County, Georgia) for these districts. The largest school in thesedistricts, and also the largest school in the United States, is the 5,294 student J. F. Kennedy HighSchool in the New York City Public Schools.

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In table 5, data are given on the number of students assigned to graded (three categories) andungraded classes. In accounting for their students, 48 of the 100 largest districts assign all oftheir students to numbered grades and 52 use the "ungraded" status for students in some settings,such as special education, vocational education, and other specialized and alternative programs.In this table, students assigned to all types of schools are counted in the grade for which they arereported.

Table 6 answers the question of how many "elementary" and "high" schools there are in anyselection of school districts. Since nearly every conceivable grade span is found among the14,000 plus schools in the 100 largest districts, the following four categories are used: primary(low grade of prekindergarten to 3; high grade up to 8), middle (low grade 4 to 7; high grade 4 to9), high (low grade 7 to 12; high grade 12), and other (all other configurations). Although 91 ofthese school districts have some schools in the "other" category, only in the Puerto Rico schoolsystem is the number very high (229, or 15 percent). Several districts that have fewer pupils thanPuerto Rico, however, have higher percentages of schools in this category: Columbus City, Ohio(19 percent), Volusia County, Florida (18 percent); and, Lee County School District, Florida (17percent).

Table 7 presents median pupil-teacher ratios for the schools found in the categories establishedin table 6. Since teacher counts by school were not available for the Minneapolis, St. Paul,Boston, and Virginia school districts, no pupil-teacher ratio could be calculated for the schools inthe district. Among the 100 largest districts, the median pupil-teacher ratio for all schools in adistrict varied from 14.1:1 in Newark, New Jersey to 27.3:1 in Santa Anna Unified, California.

Table 8 gives the number of schools in each district in five categories of minority concentration,as well as the overall minority student percentage for each district. In this report, minority isdefined as all other than white, non-Hispanic. Nine out of the 10 largest school districts (theexception being Broward County, Florida) have more than 75 percent minority studentmembership.

Whereas table 8 dealt with the number of schools in each district having a strong minoritypresence of any kind, table 9 presents the percentage of students in the district by specificracial/ethnic category. This table illustrates that some school districts are made up of manyminority groups while others have high concentrations ofone minority group. For example, theNew York City Public Schools have 37 percent Hispanic students and 36 percent black studentswhile the Philadelphia City School District has a much higher percentage of black students (64percent) than any other minority group.

Also shown in table 9 is the number of students eligible for free lunch. Responses in this datacategory were available for 83 districts out of the 100 largest. Among these districts, thepercentages of students eligible for free lunch under the Federal program vary greatly. Of the 83districts that did report free lunch, 30 districts reported that over 50 percent of their studentswere eligible for free lunch.

Table 10 deals with the school district revenues and expenditures and is based on fiscal year1995 local government financial data collected by the Governments Division of the U.S. CensusBureau. It presents the amount of revenue received, by source (local, state, and federal), currentexpenditures and those current expenditures for instruction, and, current expenditures per pupil

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in membership for fiscal year 1995. Data for Puerto Rico were obtained from the NationalPublic Education Financial Survey. Among the 100 largest school districts, Newark City, NewJersey, had the highest expenditure per pupil ($10,925), and Puerto Rico Department ofEducation, the lowest ($2,417). Overall, there were 6 school districts with per pupil expendituresgreater than $7,000 and 11 school districts with per pupil expenditures less than $4,000.

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Table 1. Selected statistics for the 100 largest school districts in the United States: School year 1995-96

Name of reporting district City State CountyNumber of

students'

Number of full-time equivalent(FTE) teacheri

Number of1994-95

graduatesNumber of

schools

New York City Public Schools New York NY lOngs 1,049,039 55,538 35,026 1,108Los Angeles Unified Los Angeles CA Los Angeles 647,612 26,438 24,887 642Puerto Rico Department of Education Hato Rey PR San Juan 621,121 39,933 49,955 1,561City of Chicago School District 29 Chicago IL Cook 412,921 22,941 14,818 555Dade County School District Mthmi FL Dade 333,817 16,648 14,587 322

Philadelphia City SD Philadelphia PA Philadelphia 210,503 11,105 8,446 258Broward County School District Fort Lauderdale FL Broward 208,359 9,897 8,222 192Houston ISD Houston TX Harris 206,704 11,935 6,786 272Hawaii Department of Education Honolulu HI Honolulu 187,104 10,500 9,980 246Detroit City School District Detroit MI Wayne 173,750 7,687 6,075 268

Clark County School District Las Vegas NV Clark 166,788 8,186 6,541 198Dallas ISO Dallas TX Dallas 148,839 8,922 4,677 203Hillsborough County School District Tampa FL Hillsborough 143,192 8,492 5,886 172Fairfax County Public Schools Fairfax VA Fairfax 140,820 9,981 8,850 210Palm Beach County School District West Palm Beach FL Palm Beach 132,215 7,090 5,645 133

San Diego City Unified San Diego CA San Diego 130,360 5,786 5,731 164Duval County School District Jacksonville FL Duval 123,910 6,090 4,607 155Orange County School District Orlando FL Orange 123,165 6,394 5,323 157Prince Georges County Public Schools Upper Marlboro MD Prince George's 122,415 7,054 6,788 179Montgomery County Public Schools Rockville MD Montgomery 120,291 7,188 6,825 181

Baltimore City Public School System Baltimore MD Baltimore City 109,980 6,291 3,569 180Memphis City School District Memphis TN Shelby 109,286 5,699 4,555 163Pinellas County School District Largo FL Pinellas 104,335 6,030 4,668 147Baltimore County Public Schools Towson MD Baltimore 101,564 6,302 5,459 158Milwaukee School District Milwaukee WI Milwaukee 98,378 5,673 2,934 155

Jefferson (KY) County Louisville KY Jefferson 93,070 5,516 5,279 150Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Charlotte NC Mecklenburg 89,544 5,356 4,055 126Albuquerque Public Schools Albuquerque NM Bemalillo 89,019 5,526 4,273 122De Kalb County School District Decatur GA De Kalb 87,291 5,279 4,228 106Orleans Parish School Board New Orleans LA Orleans 85,596 3,876 3,267 121

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 Golden CO Jefferson 85,495 4,005 4,411 142Gwinnett County School District Lawrenceville GA Gwinnett 84,555 4,820 3,957 71Cobb County School District Marietta GA Cobb 82,870 4,889 4,055 86Wake County Schools Raleigh NC Wake 81,438 4,953 3,798 98Long Beach Unified Long Beach CA Los Angeles 80,520 3,249 3,217 82

District of Columbia Public Schools Washington DC District of Columbia 79,802 5,305 3,061 186Fresno Unified Fresno CA Fresno 77,880 3,295 2,974 89Granite School District Salt Lake City UT Salt Lake 77,106 3,206 4,657 97Virginia Beach City Public Schools Virginia Beach VA Virginia Beach City 76,508 4,987 3,613 82Austin ISD Austin TX Travis 74,772 4,537 2,887 103

Cleveland City SD Cleveland OH Cuyahoga 74,380 4,323 21,638131

Fort Worth ISO Fort Worth TX Tarrant 74,021 4,165 2,426 129Polk County School District Bartow FL Polk 72,807 4,029 3,096 119Jordan School District Sandy UT Salt Lake 71,702 2,877 4,361 72Anne Arundel County Public Schools Annapolis MD Anne Arundel 71,383 4,144 4,020 111

Nashville-Davidson County SD Nashville TN Davidson 70,913 4,168 2,840 122Mesa Unified School District Mesa AZ Maricopa 70,035 3,327 3,270 71Brevard County School District Melbourne FL Brevard 65,621 3,568 3,012 83Mobile County School District Mobile AL Mobile 65,602 3,603 3,333 88Denver County #1 Denver CO Denver 64,322 3,271 2,721 112

El Paso ISD El Paso TX El Paso 64,260 4,068 2,921 80Boston School District Boston MA Suffolk 63,293 4,080 2,813 123Columbus City SD Columbus OH Franklin 63,082 4,018 2,096 144Tucson Unified District Tucson AZ Pima 62,317 3,179 2,497 110San Francisco Unified San Francisco CA San Francisco 61,889 2,972 3,398 111

San Antonio !SD San Antonio TX Bexar 60,794 3,692 1,949 111East Baton Rouge Parish School Board Baton Rouge LA East Baton Rouge 60,761 3,693 3,016 105Atlanta City School District Atlanta GA Fulton 60,209 3,637 2,175 102Davis School District Farmington UT Davis 58,782 2,356 3,738 75Northside ISO San Antonio TX Bexar 57,409 3,658 2,993 74

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Table 1. Selected statistics for the 100 largest school districts in the United States: School year 1995-96(Continued)

Name of reportin_g district City State CountyNumber of

students'

Number of full-time equivalent(FTE) teachers

Number of1994-95

graduatesNumber of

schools

Guilford County Schools Greensboro NC Guilford 57,211 3,574 3,078 93

Volusia County School District Deland FL Volusia 56,788 3,236 2,585 71

Fulton County School District Atlanta GA Fulton 56,338 3,509 2,527 55

Jefferson Parish School Board Harvey LA Jefferson 56,021 3,423 2,276 83

Portland School District 1J Portland OR Multnomah 55,130 3,073 2,757 101

Greenville County School District Greenville SC Greenville 54,619 3,265 2,804 92

Seminole County School District Sanford FL Seminole 54,603 2,664 2,570 55

Knox County School District Knoxville TN Knox 52,627 2,958 2,774 86

Oakland Unified Oakland CA Alameda 52,452 2,262 1,647 89

Cincinnati City SD Cincinnati OH Hamilton 52,172 3,082 - 82

Arlington ISD Arlington TX Tarrant 51,960 3,037 2,406 61

Cumberland County Schools Fayetteville NC Cumberland 51,148 2,868 2,621 72

Lee County School District Fort Myers FL Lee 50,945 2,571 2,142 71

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Houston TX Harris 50,817 3,113 2,418 49

Santa Ana Unified Santa Ana CA Orange 50,268 1,844 1,759 44

Sacramento City Unified Sacramento CA Sacramento 50,104 1,944 1,883 75

Caddo Parish School Board Shreveport LA Caddo 49,578 2,910 2,314 74

Chesterfield County Public Schools Chesterfield VA Chesterfield 49,057 3,372 2,652 56

Buffalo City SD Buffalo NY Erie 48,540 3,279 2,013 75

San Juan Unified Carmichael CA Sacramento 47,581 2,049 2,730 87

Washoe County School District Reno NV Washoe 47,572 2,697 2,000 81

Anchorage School District Anchorage AK Anchorage 47,318 2,461 2,158 84

Ysleta ISD El Paso TX El Paso 47,144 2,944 2,495 67

Prince William County Public Schools Manassas VA Prince William 47,072 2,928 2,591 68

Seattle Seattle WA IGng 46,757 2,420 2,463 114

Minneapolis Minneapolis MN Hennepin 46,612 - 1,549 144

Newark City Newark NJ Essex 45,805 3,538 1,413 80

Shelby County School District Memphis TN Shelby 45,686 2,118 2,422 44

Wichita Wichita KS Sedgwich 45,626 2,707 2,537 106

Escambla County School District Pensacola FL Escambla 45,215 2,547 2,225 72

Aldine ISD Houston TX Harris 45,139 2,975 1,587 48

San Bernardino City Unified San Bernardino CA San Bernardino 45,091 1,855 1,565 58

Indianapolis Public Schools Indianapolis IN Marlon 44,896 2,796 1,461 95

North East ISD San Antonio TX Bexar 44,447 2,844 2,376 53

Omaha Public Schools Omaha NE Douglas 44,247 2,786 2,132 82

Garland ISD Garland TX Dallas 43,553 2,465 1,750 60

Charleston County School District Charleston SC Charleston 43,480 2,694 1,756 71

Garden Grove Unified Garden Grove CA Orange 43,413 1,659 2,246 63

Alpine School District American Fork UT Utah 42,763 1,693 2,709 48

St. Paul St. Paul MN Ramsey 42,520 - 1,533 142

- Data not available or not applicable.

Count of students receiving educational services from the school district may differ somewhat from the counts of students in tables 3 and 5,which reflect the count of students from the schools aggregated up to the school district.2 The number of 1994-95 graduates from the Cleveland City School District came directly from the Ohio Department of Education and is notcontained on the 1995-96 Public Elementary/Secondary Agency Universe file.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondaryEducation Agency Universe Survey", 1995-96.

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Table 2. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by type of school: School year 1995-96

Name of reporting district StateTotal number

of schools

Type of schooll

RegularSpecial

educationVocationaleducation

Other andalternative2

New York City Public Schools NY 1,108 969 60 18 61Los Angeles Unified CA 642 562 18 0 62Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 1,561 1,501 22 28 10City of Chicago School District 29 I L 555 531 24 0 0Dade County School District FL 322 285 4 6 27

Philadelphia City SD PA 258 247 5 6 oBroward County School District FL 192 173 10 5 4Houston ISO TX 272 250 3 5 14Hawaii Department of Education HI 246 241 4 o 1Detroit City School District MI 268 243 15 6 4

Clark County School District NV 198 175 6 3 14Dallas MD Tx 203 190 2 2 9Hillsborough County School District FL 172 151 10 3 8Fairfax County Public Schools VA 210 177 21 1 11Palm Beach County School District FL 133 122 1 4 6

San Diego City Unified CA 164 155 3 o 6Duval County School District FL 155 144 s 0 6Orange County School District FL 157 125 6 4 22Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 179 166 9 2 2Montgomery County Public Schools MD 181 174 6 o 1

Battimore City Public School System MD 180 161 11 3 5Memphis City School District TN 163 151 6 5 1Pinellas County School District FL 147 116 4 s 22Baltimore County Public Schools MD 158 141 6 3 8Milwaukee School District WI 155 152 1 0 2

Jefferson (KY) County KY 150 139 3 1 7Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 126 118 2 o 6Albuquerque Public Schools NM 122 112 1 o 9De Kalb County School District GA 106 101 4 o 1

Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 109 2 4 6

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 co 142 135 2 1 4Gwinnett County School District GA 71 68 2 0 1Cobb County School District GA 86 85 0 o 1Wake County Schools NC 98 94 :1 o 3Long-Beach Unified cA 82

,79 o 0 3

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 186 167 11 1 7Fresno Unified CA 89 82 2 o 5Granite School District UT 97 86 3 0 8Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 82 76 2 1 3Austin MD TX 103 94 6 o 3

Cleveland City SD OH 131 124 2 4 1Fort Worth ISD TX 129 101 11 o 17Polk County School District FL 119 94 3 3 19Jordan School District UT 72 68 3 o 1Anne Arundel County Public Schools mo 111 106 4 o 1

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 122 117 3 o 2Mesa Unified School District AZ 71 65 2 o 4Brevard County School District FL 83 72 6 o 5Mobile County School District AL 88 87 1 o oDenver County #1 CO 112 108 o 1 3

El Paso ISD TX 80 74 1 1 4Boston School District MA 123 116 1 1 sColumbus City SD OH 144 137 3 4 0Tucson Unified District AZ 110 102 1 0 7San Francisco Unified CA 111 107 0 0 4

San Antonio ISD TX 111 93 8 o 10East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 105 95 3 2 5Atlanta City School District GA 102 99 0 0 3Davis School District UT 75 68 2 0 5Northside ISD D( 74 56 15 0 3

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Table 2. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by type of school: School year 1995-96 (Continued)


of schools

Type of schooll

RegularSpecial


Other andatternative2

Guilford County Schools NC 93 89 2 1 1

Volusia County School District FL 71 60 1 0 10

Fulton County School District GA 55 53 0 0 2

Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 79 4 0 0

Portland School District 1J OR 101 89 4 0 8

Greenville County School District SC 92 85 3 4 0Seminole County School District FL 55 46 2 0 7

Knox County School District TN 86 81 2 2 1

Oakland'Unified CA 89 80 3 0 6Cincinnati City SD OH 82 80 2 0 0

Arlington ISO TX 61 55 3 0 3

Cumberland County Schools NC 72 70 1 0 1

Lee County School District FL 71 59 4 4 4Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49 45 2 0 2

Santa Ma Unified CA 44 41 1 0 2

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Sacramento City Unified CA 75 73 0 0 2

Caddo Parish School Board LA 74 63 2 0 9Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 56 55 0 1 0

Buffalo City SD NY 75 68 1 5 1

San Juan Unified CA 87 72 4 0 11

Washoe County School District NV 81 75 1 1 4Anchorage School District AK 84 71 2 3 8Ysleta ISD TX 67 54 2 0 11

Prince William County Public Schools VA 68 60 4 0 4

Seattle WA 114 91 17 0 6

Minneapolis MN 144 70 4 0 70Newark City NJ 80 75 5 0 0Shelby County School District TN 44 44 0 0 0

Wichita KS 106 95 0 0 11

Escambia County School District FL 72 63 3 1 5

Aldine ISD TX 48 47 1 0 0San Bernardino City Unified CA 58 52 3 0 3

Indianapolis Public Schools IN 95 84 6 0 5

North East ISD TX 53 46 3 0 4Omaha Public Schools NE 82 80 2 0 0

Garland ISD TX 60 56 1 0 3

Charleston County School District SC 71 71 0 0 0Garden Grove Unified CA 63 59 2 0 . 2

Alpine School District UT 48 44 3 0 1

St. Paul MN 142 55 2 0 85

1 Type of school is a mutually exclusive category. There are cases in which special education, vocational education, and alternative programs

reside in other types of schools.

2 Educational programs in nontraditional settings, such as storefronts and "boot camps."

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1995-96, and "Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey", 1995-96.

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Table 3. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districtsin the United States, by type of school, and number of students with Individualized Education Programs:School year 1995-96

Name of reporting district State

Totalnumber ofstudents'

Type of school Students withindividualized educ-

ational programsRegularSpecial


Other andafternative2

New York City Public Schools NY 1,047,489 973,898 17,404 28,025 28,162 124,209Los Angeles Unified CA 647,612 625,832 4,203 - 17,577 65,228Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 627,620 613,374 1,343 11,677 1,226 -City of Chicago School District 29 IL 412,921 407,301 5,620 - - 16,599Dade County School District FL 333,809 323,501 5,153 191 4,964 31,359

Philadelphia City SD PA 210,503 204,126 1,159 5,218 - 22,023Broward County School District FL 208,359 200,208 5,956 462 1,733 22,459Houston ISD TX 206,704 201,707 661 1,799 2,537 20,734Hawaii Department of Education HI 187,190 186,927 87 - 176 15,369

. Detroit City School District MI 180,664 174,599 3,122 1635 1,308 10,285

Clark County School District NV 166,767 162,484 724 1,809 1,750 17,025Dallas ISD TX 148,839 146,133 545 182 1,979 13,112Hillsborough County School District FL 143,192 141,386 865 - 941 18,431Fairfax County Public Schools VA 140,820 138,002 977 - 1,841 18,626Palm Beach County School District FL 132,215 131,030 88 376 721 17,432

San Diego City Unified CA 130,360 126,902 623 - 2,835 13,296Duval County School District FL 123,910 122,001 802 - 1,107 19,124Orange County School District FL 123,091 120,732 647 262 1,450 15,440Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 122,415 119,278 1,983 287 867 11,922Montgomery County Public Schools MD 120,291 119,318 782 - 191 13,442

Baltimore City Public School System MD 109,980 102,489 1,524 4,252 1,715 17,444Memphis City School District TN 111,140 110,524 431 - 185 13,630Pinellas County School District FL 101,998 98,010 924 134 2,930 17,595Baltimore County Public Schools MD 101,564 95,649 1,052 2,967 1,896 12,282Milwaukee School District WI . 98,378 95,640 104 - 2,634 13,804

Jefferson (KY) County KY 93,070 92,565 237 36 232 -Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 89,544 88,357 271 - 916 8,707Albuquerque Public Schools NM 88,891 87,060 381 - 1,450 14,385De Kalb County School District GA 87,291 85,884 483 - 924 7,341Orleans Parish School Board LA 85,484 81,131 103 1,424 2,826 10,085

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 85,392 84,480 177 279 456 7,297Gwinnett County School District GA 84,555 83,800 212 - 543 7,489Cobb County School District GA 82,870 82,515 - - 355 8,483Wake County Schools NC 81,438 81,139 - - 299 10,134Long Beach Unified CA 80,520 79,493 - - 1,027 6,579

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 79,802 76,980 1,510 400 912 7,081Fresno Unified CA 77,880 75,329 63 - 2,488 8,886Granite School District UT 77,106 75,380 280 - 1,446 8,511Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 76,508 75,784 176 - 548 9,721Austin ISD TX 74,772 74,409 278 - 85 8,550

Cleveland City SD OH 74,380 71,881 95 2,004 400 3,347Fort Worth ISD TX 74,021 70,519 456 - 3,046 8,228Polk County School District FL 72,693 69,218 283 812 2,380 8,528Jordan School District UT 71,702 70,858 280 - 564 6,422Anne Arundel County Public Schools mo 71,383 70,854 426 103 9,576

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 70,455 70,197 203 - 55 -Mesa Unified School District AZ 67,785 67,425 101 - 259 5,389Brevard County School District FL 65,451 65,132 151 - 168 9,679Mobile County School District AL 65,400 65,322 78 - - 9,209Denver County #1 CO 64,322 63,570 - 50 702 7,138

El Paso ISD TX 64,260 63,383 88 507 282 5,623Boston School District MA 63,293 62,531 134 - 628 13,074Columbus City SD OH 63,080 62,562 285 233 - 1,658Tucson Unified District AZ 61,343 60,643 14 - 686 5,970San Francisco Unified CA 61,889 60,631 - - 1,258 6,696

San Antonio ISD TX 60,794 59,414 1,016 - 364 6,943East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 60,761 57,968 348 182 2,263 10,245Atlanta City School District GA 60,209 60,036 - - 173 3,605Davis School District UT 58,782 57,344 44 - 1,394 6,040Northside ISD TX 57,409 56,677 524 - 208 8,336

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Table 3. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districtsin the United States, by type of school, and number of students with Individualized Education Programs:School year 1995-96 (Continued)


Totalnumber ofstudents'

Type of school Students withindMdualized educ-

ational programsRegularSpecial



Guilford County Schools NC 57,211 56,549 218 - 444 7,125Volusia County School District FL 56,740 55,939 85 - 716 8,160Fulton County School District GA 56,338 55,323 - - 1,015 10,816Jefferson Parish School Board LA 56,021 55,305 716 - - 8,437Portland School District 1J OR 53,237 52,224 116 - 897 5,484

Greenville County School District SC 54,638 54,489 149 - - 6,794Seminole County School District FL 54,587 53,678 115 - 794 6,005Knox County School District TN 53,081 52,798 172 - 111 9,108Oakland Unified CA 52,452 51,382 153 - 917 5,176Cincinnati City SD OH 52,172 51,764 408 - - 2,082

Arlington ISD TX 51,960 50,032 1,421 - 507 4,765Cumberland County Schools NC 51,148 51,011 108 - 29 4,973Lee County School District FL 50,676 49,307 748 136 485 7,085Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 50,817 50,486 61 - 270 5,576Santa Ana Unified CA 50,268 49,568 10 - 690 4,511

Sacramento City Unified CA 50,104 49,478 - - 626 5,566Caddo Parish School Board LA 49,578 43,139 117 - 6,322 6,994Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 49,057 49,057 - - - 7,033Buffalo City SD NY 48,540 43,895 47 4,208 390 6,844San Juan Unified CA 47,581 46,417 240 - 924 5,362

Washoe County School District NV 47,572 47,266 114 - 192 5,022Anchorage School District AK 46,697 44,970 369 458 900 6,808Ysleta ISD TX 47,144 45,634 55 - 1,455 3,908Prince William County Public Schools VA 47,072 46,824 102 - 146 6,299Seattle WA 46,757 44,218 891 1,648 -Minneapolis MN 46,604 42,511 94 3,999Newark City NJ 45,805 45,225 580 3,022Shelby County School District TN 45,672 45,672 - 5,373Wichita KS 46,504 45,482 - 1,022 5,244Escambia County School District FL 45,215 44,256 361 7 591 6,211

Aldine ISD TX 45,139 45,078 61 - - 5,248San Bernardino City Unified CA 45,091 43,881 219 - 991 4,697Indianapolis Public Schools IN 44,896 44,686 108 - 102 7,820North East ISO TX 44,447 43,991 170 - 286 7,567Omaha Public Schools NE 44,247 44,043 204 - - 6,491

Garland ISD TX 43,553 43,155 18 - 380 5,009Charleston County School District SC 43,485 43,485 - - 4,861Garden Grove Unified CA 43,413 42,839 177 - 397 4,075Alpine School District UT 42,763 41,991 208 - 564 4,148St. Paul MN 42,520 35,655 170 - 6,695 -- Data not available or not applicable.

Student distribution by type of school is based on the student counts in the schools aggregated up to the school district. This count may differsomewhat from the count of students receiving educational services reported from the school district in table 1.2 Educational programs in nontraditional settings, such as storefronts and "boot camps."

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1995-96, and "Public Eleinentary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey", 1995-96.

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Table 4. Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary schools with assigned membershipin the 100 largest school districts In the United States, by membership size: School year 1995-96


Regular

schools Mean

with mem- member-

bership ship

Standard

deviation

Distribution of schools, by membership size

10th

Minimum percentile

25th

percentile Median

75th

percentile

90th

percentile Maximum

New York City Public Schools NY 969 1,005.1 711.1 7 403 597 841 1,161 1,610 5,294Los Angeles Unified CA 562 1,113.6 811.9 48 391 534 868 1,391 2,130 5,176Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 1,498 409.5 265.3 10 115 200 372 557 764 1,977City of Chicago School District 29 IL 529 769.9 456.4 132 351 494 653 911 1,380 4,106Dade County School District FL 285 1,135.1 731.4 64 494 672 980 1,390 2,057 4,933

Philadelphia City SD PA 247 826.4 516.8 223 382 509 705 918 1,260 3,198Broward County School District FL 173 1,157.3 538.8 395 662 808 1,004 1,326 1,927 2,950Houston ISD TX 250 806.8 521.0 22 359 494 704 928 1,405 3,557Hawaii Department of Education HI 241 775.6 464.5 9 335 461 657 949 1,394 2,383Detroit City School District MI 237 736.7 423.6 87 330 503 644 853 1,102 2,980

Clark County School District NV 175 928.5 621.9 15 468 599 736 1,016 1,733 3,350Dallas ISD TX 190 769.1 430.5 1 341 533 717 908 1,258 3,584Hillsborough County School District FL 150 942.6 432.6 333 493 696 829 1,089 1,539 2,554Fairfax County Public Schools VA 177 779.7 561.4 231 352 450 626 852 1,379 3,963Palm Beach County School District FL 122 1,074.0 543.7 162 580 720 923 1,293 1,775 3,117

San Diego City Unified CA 155 818.7 452.8 32 358 495 716 1,025 1,504 2,558Duval County School District FL 144 847.2 499.0 148 377 477 697 1,145 1,587 2,660Orange County School District FL 123 981.6 643.7 48 472 637 778 1,079 1,762 3,768Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 166 718.5 431.9 267 415 490 588 739 1,107 2,856Montgomery County Public Schools MD 174 685.7 381.6 71 348 447 573 776 1,193 2,377

Baltimore City Public School System MD 161 636.6 342.5 77 335 410 558 744 1,113 2,291Memphis City School District TN 150 736.8 330.2 214 382 519 675 877 1,145 2,136Pinellas County School District FL 115 852.3 418.2 132 412 596 729 1,054 1,656 1,973Baltimore County Public Schools VD 141 678.4 284.1 272 400 477 585 831 1,078 1,821Milwaukee School District WI 152 629.2 337.7 75 326 413 564 704 986 1,934

Jefferson (KY) County KY 139 665.9 366.0 37 361 451 533 810 1,185 1,890Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 118 748.8 374.9 39 383 500 680 876 1,241 2,009Albuquerque Public Schools NM 112 777.3 505.7 256 410 498 590 846 1,395 2,512De Kalb County School District GA 101 850.3 446.0 325 452 557 750 1,050 1,274 3,373Orleans Parish School Board LA 109 744.3 325.6 242 368 476 666 928 1,261 1,814

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 129 654.9 392.7 99 297 427 563 730 1,019 2,678Gwinnett County School District GA 68 1,232.4 437.8 560 713 960 1,103 1441 1,914 2,486Cobb County School District GA 85 970.8 461.6 295 484 678 840 1,131 1,619 2,488Wake County Schools NC 94 863.2 391.6 245 494 592 723 1,010. 1,499 2,025Long Beach Unified CA 79 1,006.2 787.0 14 439 643 851 1,059 1,315 4,162

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 167 461.0 212.0 29 214 332 435 549 712 1,397Fresno Unified CA 82 918.6 563.9 224 446 609 832 975 1,231 3,382Granite School District UT 86 876.5 443.3 423 463 559 737 1,003 1,472 2,290Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 76 997.2 530.2 250 484 651 788 1,344 1,813 2,493Austin ISD TX 94 791.6 440.5 12 375 493 707 964 1,395 2,522

Cleveland City SD OH 113 636.1 325.1 201 332 424 582 738 985 1,995Fort Worth ISD TX 101 698.2 336.4 16 405 481 667 817 1,032 2,179Polk County School District FL 94 736.4 339.1 193 407 502 657 834 1,297 1,774Jordan School District UT 68 1,042.0 506.5 473 599 663 945 1,176 1,502 2,770Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 106 668.4 408.9 168 276 413 581 757 1,112 2,158

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 115 610.4 377.1 79 300 373 506 709 1109 2,764Mesa Unified School District AZ 65 1,037.3 538.0 20 705 791 887 1,081 1,548 2,912Brevard County School District FL 72 904.6 368.2 164 552 645 776 1,069 1,439 2,027Mobile County School District AL 87 750.8 387.7 70 292 482 732 948 1,162 2,052Denver County #1 CO 108 588.6 335.0 62 253 401 516 672 995 1,934

El Paso ISD TX 74 856.5 442.8 288 437 553 738 970 1,448 2,222Boston School District MA 116 539.1 360.8 17 206 305 436 676 923 2,377Columbus City SD OH 136 460.0 212.1 51 265 331 413 550 720 1,247Tucson Unified District AZ 102 594.5 394.6 33 267 372 488 654 1,095 2,415San Francisco Unified CA 107 566.6 450.0 47 231 335 437 598 898 2,705

San Antonio ISO TX 93 638.9 406.9 8 264 407 563 746 1,115 2,078East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 95 010.2 297.1 204 306 390 516 799 1,085 1,424Atlanta City School District GA 99 606.4 331.4 177 293 364 518 730 1,014 1,915Davis School District UT 68 843.3 414.9 324 461 552 733 940 1,387 2,136Northside ISD TX 56 1,012.1 660.9 123 506 669 859 1,103 1,388 3,110

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Table 4. Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary schools with assigned membershipin the 100 largest school districts in the United States, by membership size: School year 1995-96 (Continued)

Name of reporting district

Regular

schools Mean

with mem- member-

State bership ship

Standard

deviation

Distribution of schools, by membership size

10th

Minimum percentile

25th

percentile Median

75th

percentile

90th

percentile Maximum

Guilford County Schools NC 89 635.4 292.5 271 364 405 543 772 1,035 1,450

Volusia County School District FL 60 932.3 516.1 50 332 559 844 1,293 1,751 2,420

Fulton County School District GA 53 1,043.8 409.4 543 618 744 936 1,210 1,614 2,637

Jefferson Parish School Board LA 79 700.1 426.5 134 296 429 603 847 1,156 2,672

Portland School District 1J OR 89 586.8 320.4 184 271 370 518 705 1,068 1,624

Greenville County School District SC 85 641.0 330.3 100 259 380 593 826 1,144 1,780

Seminole County School District FL 46 1,166.9 580.2 3 780 867 932 1,287 2,186 2,782

Knox County School District TN 79 668.3 396.9 113 185 351 566 886 1,208 1,887

Oakland Unified CA 80 642.3 370.4 148 285 378 520 814 1,159 1,904

Cincinnati City SD OH 79 655.2 386.4 251 353 448 561 684 956 2,185

Arlington ISD TX 55 909.7 408.9 95 546 639 819 1,034 1,395 2,400

Cumberland County Schools NC 70 728.7 439.9 88 276 431 635 906 1,432 2,036

Lee County School District FL 59 835.7 386.7 40 289 600 857 961 1,358 2,002

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 45 1,121.9 571.5 540 680 815 924 1,180 2,152 2,966

Santa Ana Unified CA 41 1,209.0 587.1 479 707 830 1,040 1,226 2,074 2,859

Sacramento City Unified CA 73 677.8 491.9 183 358 439 553 672 960 3,165

Caddo Parish School Board LA 63 684.7 401.7 119 264 410 606 777 1,256 2,072

Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 55 891.9 383.3 412 556 656 724 1,074 1,495 2,190

Buffalo City SD NY 68 645.5 244.9 53 334 497 611 840 949 1,338

San Juan Unified CA 72 644.7 384.3 49 383 438 503 654 1,047 1,898

Washoe County School District NV 75 630.2 356.3 48 368 445 531 661 859 2,115

Anchorage School District AK 68 661.3 433.2 172 341 420 527 695 1,082 2,253

Ysleta ISD TX 54 845.1 464.9 17 432 586 745 988 1,395 2,626

Prince William County Public Schools VA 59 793.6 518.3 367 451 503 605 836 1,271 2,863

Seattle WA 88 502.5 332.1 131 223 284 394 547 957 1,663

Minneapolis *I 70 607.3 329.7 111 294 401 573 713 979 1,980

Newark City NJ 74 611.1 350.6 93 223 380 547 776 1,059 1,932

Shelby County School District TN 44 1,038.0 479.4 323 378 707 1,021 1,270 1,581 2,507

Wichita KS 95 478.8 382.9 67 194 236 369 518 965 1,928

Escambia County School District FL 62 713.8 461.9 103 193 379 647 841 1,310 2,097

Aldine ISD TX 47 959.1 551.8 38 364 796 895 978 1,080 2,864

San Bernardino City Unified CA 52 843.9 485.3 337 459 588 743 922 1,110 2,759

Indianapolis Public Schools IN 84 532.0 436.1 119 246 331 411 528 805 2,848

North East ISD TX 46 956.3 611.0 7 497 543 775 1,061 1,585 2,776

Omaha Public Schools NE 79 557.5 379.7 30 222 315 478 627 897 2,241

Garland ISD TX 56 770.6 481.8 289 335 472 698 860 1,053 2,266

Charleston County School District SC 71 612.5 307.2 126 301 395 529 751 1,035 1,704

Garden Grove Unified CA 59 726.1 348.4 334 410 509 634 775 1,334 1,818

Alpine School District UT 44 954.3 487.8 71 543 643 839 1,078 1,517 2,517

St. Paul MN 55 648.3 384.3 42 269 422 558 789 1,083 1,993

How to read this table: Using Dade County as an example, the table shows that 25 percent of the schools have a pupil membership of 672 or less,

and another 25 percent have a membership of 1,390 or more. Dividing affstudents in regular schools by the number of such schoolsyields a mean, or average, size of 1,135.1 students. If all the regular schools in Dade County were listed by size, the school district at the

mid-point on the list (the median) would have 980 pupils in membership.


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Table 5. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by grade ranges: School year 1995-96


Totalnumber ofstudents*

Grade rangePK to 6 7 to 9 10 to 12 Ungraded

New York City Public Schools NY 1,047,489 548,953 237,346 182,881 78,309Los Angeles Unified CA 647,612 378,537 138,847 109,145 21,083Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 627,620 346,923 146,338 115,658 18,701City of Chicago School District 29 IL 412,921 242,448 89,600 64,274 16,599Dade County School District FL 333,809 195,795 78,641 59,373 -Philadelphia City SD PA 210,503 113,940 51,111 36,083 9,369Broward County School District FL 208,359 125,509 47,649 35,201 -Houston ISD Tx 206,704 129,890 48,138 28,676 -Hawaii Department of Education HI 187,190 107,815 44,094 35,195 86Detroit City School District MI 180,664 107,868 38,337 23,124 11,335

Clark County School District NV 166,767 98,1641 37,310 30,805 488Dallas ISD TX 148,839 93,319 35,092 20,428 -Hillsborough County School District FL 143,192 85,580 34,024 23,588 -Fairfax County Public Schools. VA 140,820 73,107 31,156 29,119 7,438Palm Beach County School District FL 132,215 78,356 31,498 22,361 -San Diego City Unified CA 130,360 78,217 28,442 22,418 1,283Duval County School District FL 123,910 76,097 28,900 18,913 -Orange County School District FL 123,091 70,986 28,937 23,168 -Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 122,415 67,679 27,997 22,951 3,788Montgomery County Public Schools ND 120,291 67,074 25,365 22,047 4,905

Baltimore City Public School System MD 109,980 68,638 26,125 15,217 -Memphis City School District TN 111,140 63,842 25,344 19,036 2,918Pinellas County School District FL 101,998 59,750 24,938 17,310 -Baltimore County Public Schools MD 101,564 59,916 23,050 18,271 327Milwaukee School District WI 98,378 61,441 22,097 14,840 -Jefferson (KY) County KY 93,070 48,841 22,296 19,460 2,473Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 89,544 51,739 20,382 15,481 1,942Albuquerque Public Schools NM 88,891 46,326 21,510 17,897 3,158De Kalb County School District GA 87,291 50,169 21,277 15,845 -Orleans Parish School Board LA 85,484 50,604 19,069 15,811 -Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 85,392 47,585 20,806 16,968 33Gwinnett County School District GA 84,555 49,379 19,974 15,202 -Cobb County School District GA 82,870 47,205 19,695 15,970 -Wake County Schools NC 81,438 47,216 18,224 13,605 2,393Long Beach Unified CA 80,520 47,244 17,153 14,459 1,664

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 79,802 49,814 14,960 11,568 3,460Fresno Unified CA 77,880 46,693 18,558 12,599 30Granite School District UT 77,106 39,954 18,614 17,257 1,281Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 76,508 42,936 18,374 14,013 1,185Austin ISD TX 74,772 46,263 17,755 10,754 -Cleveland City SD OH 74,380 45,230 18,808 10,342 -Fort Worth ISD TX 74,021 46,098 17,170 10,753 -Polk County School District FL 72,693 42,885 18,163 11,645 -Jordan School District UT 71,702 36,918 17,110 15,873 1,801Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 71,383 40,422 17,221 13,026 714

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 70;455 40,805 16,512 11,169 1,969Mesa Unified School District AZ 67,785 39,487 14,907 13,377 14Brevard County School District FL 65,451 38,446 15,224 11,781 -Mobile County School District AL 65,400 36,938 16,919 11,543 -Denver County #1 CO 64,322 40,433 14,147 9,732 10

El Paso ISD TX 64,260 37,529 15,857 10,874 -Boston School District MA 63,293 37,413 13,869 12,011 -Columbus City SD OH 63,080 38,393 14,665 9,570 452Tucson Unified District AZ 61,343 36,201 14,141 11,001 -San Francisco Unified CA 61,889 33,789 14,163 13,695 242

San Antonio ISD TX 60,794 37,719 14,228 8,847East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 60,761 32,855 14,468 11,188 2,250Atlanta City School District GA 60,209 36,826 14,547 8,836 -Davis School District UT 58,782 29,828 13,901 13,836 1,217Northside ISD TX 57,409 32,569 14,111 10,729 -

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Table 5. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by grade ranges: School year 1995-96 (Continued)


Totalnumber ofstudents*

Grade rangePK to 6 7 to 9 10 to 12 Ungraded

Guilford County Schools NC 57211 32,736 13,398 10,253 824Volusia County School District FL 56,740 33,000 14,064 9,676 -Fulton County School District GA 56,338 32,867 12,489 10,982 -Jefferson Parish School Board LA 56,021 32,203 13,712 9,881 225Portland School District 1J OR 53,237 30,553 12,043 9,641 1,000

Greenville County School District SC 54,638 30,396 13,795 10,447 -Seminole County School District FL 54,587 30,809 13,608 10,170 -Knox County School District TN 53,081 29,358 12,296 10,164 1263Oakland Unified CA 52,452 33,144 11,565 7,743 -Cincinnati City SD OH 52,172 31,291 12,366 7,259 1,256

Arlington ISD TX 51,960 30,701 11,893 9,366 -Cumberland County Schools NC 51,148 29,395 11,356 9,277 1,120Lee County School District FL 50,676 30,009 11,388 9,279 -Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 50,817 29,638 12,064 9,115 -Santa Ana Unified CA 50,268 31,402 11,303 7,412 151

Sacramento City Unified CA 50,104 29,361 11,410 7,778 1,555Caddo Parish School Board LA 49,578 27,839 12,701 9,038 -Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 49,057 27,538 11,534 9,681 304Buffalo City SD NY 48,540 28,086 9,786 7,618 3,050San Juan Unified CA 47,581 25,397 11,188 10,986 10

Washoe County School District NV 47,572 27,809 10,806 8,762 195Anchorage School District AK 46,697 27,572 10,009 9,116 -Ysleta ISD TX 47,144 25,731 11,744 9,669 -Prince William County Public Schools VA 47,072 26,223 11,391 8,879 579Seattle WA 46,757 27,162 9,886 9,709 -Minneapolis PM 46,604 29,067 10,148 7,389 -Newark City NJ 45,805 26,832 9,563 6,388 3,022Shelby County School District TN 45,672 25,147 11,248 8,772 505Wichita KS 46,504 26,929 10,582 8,803 190Escambia County School District FL 45,215 26,167 10,222 8,826 -Aldine !SD TX 45,139 27,194 11,235 6,710 -San Bernardino City Unified CA 45,091 27,658 11,279 5,880 274Indianapolis Public Schools IN 44,896 27,366 11,652 5,878 -North East ISD TX 44,447 24,847 10,934 8,666 -Omaha Public Schools NE 44,247 25,705 10,298 8,244 -Garland ISD TX 43,553 25,969 10,270 7,314 -Charleston County School District SC 43,485 26,048 10,617 6,820 -Garden Grove Unified CA 43,413 25258 9,884 8,094 177Alpine School District UT 42,763 21,734 10,055 9,979 995St. Paul MN 42,520 25,774 9,160 7,586 -- Data not available or not applicable.

Student distribution by type of school is based on the student counts in the schools aggregated up to the school district. This count may differsomewhat from the count of students receiving educational services reported from the school district In table 1.


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Table 6. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districtsin the United States, by specified instructional level: School year 1995-96

Name of reporting district StateSchools having

membershipInstructional level

Primary Middle High Other

New York City Public Schools NY 1,107 660 188 131 128Los Angeles Unified CA 642 439 71 106 26Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 1,547 929 221 168 229City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 453 20 63 17Dade County School District FL 316 200 47 51 18

Philadelphia City SD PA 256 171 42 34 9Broward County School District FL 191 118 31 26 16Houston ISD TX 272 182 40 39 11Hawaii Department of Education HI 246 169 28 31 18Detroit City School District MI 257 173 38 30 16

Clark County School District NV 197 127 29 30 11Dallas ISD TX 203 132 31 35 5Hillsborough County School District FL 161 105 22 15 19Fairfax County Public Schools VA 203 133 22 28 20Palm Beach County School District FL 130 80 21 22 7

San Diego City Unified CA 164 116 22 20 6Duval County School District FL 154 101 22 16 15Orange County School District FL 153 91 24 20 18Prince Georges County Public Schools tia) 179 129 27 22 1

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 181 126 30 22 3

Baltimore City Public School System ND 180 125 28 20 7Memphis City School District TN 155 100 20 28 7Pinellas County School District FL 144 80 24 26 14Baltimore County Public Schools VD 158 104 29 25 0Milwaukee School District WI 155 114 21 17 3

Jefferson (KY) County KY 149 89 25 31 4Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 126 78 29 15 4Albuquerque Public Schools NM 122 79 23 18 2De Kalb County School District GA 106 79 5 20 2Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 80 15 24 2

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 135 91 20 18 6Gwinnett County School District GA 71 43 13 13 2Cobb County School District GA 86 55 18 13 0Wake County Schools NC 97 63 20 13 1

Long Beach Unified CA 82 57 15 7 3

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 185 117 27 23 18Fresno Unified CA 88 62 13 11 2Granite School District UT 97 62 15 16 4Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 79 52 14 12 1

Austin ISD TX 103 66 16 15 6

Cleveland City SD OH 119 81 18 15 5Fort Worth ISD TX 129 72 24 18 15Polk County School District FL 116 62 20 21 13Jordan School District UT 72 47 14 8 3Anne Arundel County Public Schools 14/0 111 79 17 12 3

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 119 81 20 13 5Mesa Unified School District AZ 69 47 12 6 4Brevard County School District FL 82 51 13 9 9Mobile County School District AL 88 56 15 14 3Denver County #1 CO 111 79 18 13 1

El Paso ISD TX 80 52 13 10 5Boston School District MA 122 81 20 19 2Columbus City SD OH 143 74 20 22 27Tucson Unified District AZ 110 74 19 15 2San Francisco Unified CA 111 76 17 16 2

San Antonio ISD TX 111 69 19 13 10East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 105 66 17 17 5Atlanta City School District GA 102 72 16 14 0Davis School District UT 75 48 13 10 4Northside LSD TX 74 40 11 13 10

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Guilford County Schools NC 92 62 16 14 0Volusia County School District FL 71 43 8 7 13Fulton County School District GA 55 33 11 11 0Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 55 15 9 4Portland School District 1J OR 101 66 17 14 4

Greenville County School District SC 88 56 16 14 2Seminole County School District FL 55 31 10 6 8Knox County School District TN 82 54 13 13 2Oakland Unified CA 89 59 17 10 3Cincinnati City SD OH 81 60 8 6 7

Arlington ISD TX 61 41 11 8 1

Cumberland County Schools NC 72 50 12 9 1

Lee County School District FL 69 36 12 9 12Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49 34 6 8 1

Santa Ana Unified CA 44 30 7 6 1

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 60 8 7 0Caddo Parish School Board LA 74 49 11 12 2Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 55 35 11 9 0Buffalo City SD NY 75 53 3 14 5San Juan Unified CA 87 52 10 12 13

Washoe County School District NV 79 55 11 9 4Anchorage School District AK 80 55 7 11 7Ys leta ISD TX 67 35 10 20 2Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 41 11 9 5Seattle WA 111 72 11 20 8

Minneapolis MN 118 68 13 25 12Newark City NJ 79 56 6 11 6Shelby County School District TN 44 27 10 7 0Wichita KS 105 71 16 15 3Escambia County School District FL 71 42 13 9 7

Aldine ISD TX 48 25 15 6 2San Bernardino City Unified CA 58 41 9 6 2Indianapolis Public Schools IN 90 64 17 6 3North East ISD TX 53 32 10 9 2Omaha Public Schools NE 81 57 12 10 2

Garland ISD TX 60 40 12 6 2Charleston County School District SC 71 44 16 11 0Garden Grove Unified CA 63 43 9 9 2Alpine School District UT 48 31 8 6 3St. Paul MN 130 73 15 32 10

NOTE: Primary = low grade, PK to 3; high grade, up to 8.Middle = low grade, 4 to 7; high grade, 4 to 9.High = low grade, 7 to 12; high grade 12.Other = any other combination, including PK, K, or 1 to 12.


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Table 7. Median pupil-teacher ratios in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States, by specified instructional level: School year 1995-96


Schools having

membership

Instructional level


New York City Public Schools NY 19.2 19.4 17.7 22.7 14.2Los Angeles Unified CA 25.1 25.3 24.9 23.9 8.6Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 15.4 15.1 15.5 19.7 14.8City of Chicago School District 29 IL 18.3 18.5 16.8 17.7 10.7Dade County School District FL 18.8 18.4 24.4 20.7 7.1

Philadelphia City SD PA 19.0 19.5 17.8 20.2 19.8Broward County School District FL 21.5 21.3 23.1 22.2 12.6Houston ISD TX 17.2 17.5 16.8 17.5 10.0Hawaii Department of Education HI 18.2 18.5 17.4 17.8 14.5Detroit City School District MI 24.9 27.0 21.0 21.2 12.4

Clark County School District NV 19.7 19.1 22.2 23.3 6.3Dallas ISD TX 17.3 17.7 14.8 15.5 0.1Hillsborough County School District FL 17.2 17.4 18.6 16.1 13.1Fairfax County Public Schools VA - - - - -Palm Beach County School District FL 18.0 18.0 19.6 18.1 10.1

San Diego City Unified CA 23.6 23.2 24.6 24.4 20.1Duval County School District FL 20.5 19.7 21.7 20.9 11.8Orange County School District FL 18.6 18.4 21.4 19.9 5.3Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 18.7 19.9 16.8 18.3 5.2Montgomery County Public Schools MD 18.3 19.1 16.0 17.8 6.7

Baltimore City Public School System MD 18.9 19.9 16.7 17.7 5.4Memphis City School District TN 19.1 18.8 20.5 20.8 7.1Pinellas County School District FL 18.6 18.7 19.3 18.2 6.4Baltimore County Public Schools MD 17.6 19.0 15.3 15.8 -Milwaukee School District WI 18.0 19.0 16.0 18.0 5.5

Jefferson (KY) County KY 16.7 16.5 18.2 16.2 4.8Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 17.2 17.9 16.5 16.2 12.3Albuquerque Public Schools NM 15.5 15.5 14.7 19.3 4.5De Kalb County School District GA 17.2 17.1 15.4 17.8 8.8Orleans Parish School Board LA 21.8 21.8 21.2 23.9 9.7

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 21.7 22.0 21.1 22.0 6.6Gwinnett County School District GA 17.4 17.3 16.8 19.4 6.3Cobb County School District GA 16.7 16.4 16.5 18.8Wake County Schools NC 15.9 15.9 15.5 16.2 2.9Long Beach Unified CA 24.5 24.2 24.4 27.8 19.9

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 20.4 21.3 15.1 16.0 9.6Fresno Unified CA 24.3 24.9 21.7 23.6 46.2Granite School District UT 22.7 23.3 22.1 20.5 12.0Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA - - - - -Austin ISO TX 15.9 15.8 16.4 19.3 4.2

Cleveland City SD OH 17.2 17.6 16.3 18.6 16.8Fort Worth ISO TX 17.9 18.6 17.7 17.1 7.0Polk County School District FL 18.0 18.0 19.8 17.5 -Jordan School District UT 23.4 24.1 23.5 22.5 3.7Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 19.0 20.0 17.9 18.2 6.3

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 22.8 24.1 20.6 21.3 6.8Mesa Unified School District AZ 21.2 21.4 20.3 22.8 -Brevard County School District FL 17.5 17.4 18.3 17.0 13.8Mobile County School District AL 18.0 17.0 19.3 20.5 10.2Denver County #1 CO 20.1 20.8 18.8 18.9 10.2

El Paso ISD TX 15.7 15.7 15.7 16.3 14.9Boston School District MA - - - - -Columbus City SD OH 18.9 20.7 14.7 16.9 19.6Tucson Unified District AZ 20.2 21.1 17.3 20.9 5.5San Francisco Unified CA 22.4 23.6 20.9 20.6 24.5

San Antonio ISD TX 16.2 16.1 17.0 15.0 8.0East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 16.0 15.4 17.7 17.4 5.7Atlanta City School District GA 16.3 15.4 16.9 18.5 -Davis School District UT 23.5 24.0 22.7 21.4 6.8Northside ISD TX 15.0 15.3 15.1 16.8 5.5

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Schools having

membership

Instructional level


Guilford County Schools NC 16.4 16.6 14.0 17.4 -Volusia County School District FL 16.5 16.0 17.8 17.4 9.4

Fulton County School District GA 15.8 16.5 15.1 15.8 -Jefferson Parish School Board LA 16.8 16.8 17.8 16.2 4.8

Portland School District 1J OR 19.8 21.1 17.4 18.2 12.5

Greenville County School District SC 17.0 17.1 16.5 17.3 4.8

Seminole County School District FL 19.2 19.0 20.8 20.3 4.2

Knox County School District TN 18.1 18.1 19.2 15.8 5.0

Oakland Unified CA 24.0 25.1 21.5 23.0 7.5

Cincinnati City SD OH 20.4 21.1 14.2 20.3 20.0

Arlington ISD TX 17.4 17.8 16.1 15.9 3.4

Cumberland County Schools NC 16.6 17.3 16.0 16.6 3.9

Lee County School District FL 19.3 19.3 19.3 20.3 16.2

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 16.8 17.3 15.4 14.9 17.9

Santa Ana Unified CA 27.3 26.8 28.5 27.5 3.3

Sacramento City Unified CA 26.2 26.0 26.6 27.3 -Caddo Parish School Board LA 17.6 16.9 19.0 19.2 4.3

Chesterfield County Public Schools VA - - - - -Buffalo City SD NY 15.1 16.1 13.0 13.0 13.2

San Juan Unified CA 25.5 26.7 24.9 24.1 12.5

Washoe County School District NV 19.8 19.6 19.9 21.5 4.3

Anchorage School District AK 19.5 19.8 18.6 20.4 9.0

Ysleta ISD TX 16.1 16.2 15.0 17.6 8.4

Prince William County Public Schools VA - - - - -Seattle WA 19.0 18.7 20.9 19.7

Minneapolis MN - - - - -Newark City NJ 14.1 15.4 11.9 10.9 4.8

Shelby County School District TN 19.1 18.8 21.6 18.2 -Wichita KS 17.2 17.3 15.8 17.7 0.4

Escambia County School District FL 17.5 17.5 19.1 16.6 10.6

Aldine ISD TX 15.6 16.5 13.7 16.3 6.0

San Bernardino City Unified CA 25.0 25.2 22.6 24.6 109.0

Indianapolis Public Schools IN 16.0 15.7 16.8 18.2 -North East ISD TX 15.3 15.2 16.6 15.9 9.2

Omaha Public Schools NE 16.5 17.1 13.5 16.1 8.3

Garland ISD TX 17.7 17.7 18.1 17.5 22.5

Charleston County School District SC 16.0 15.2 17.7 15.5 -Garden Grove Unified CA 26.4 26.3 26.6 26.7 8.7

Alpine School District UT 22.2 21.8 25.0 22.6 7.0

St. Paul MN - - - - -- Data not available or not applicable.

NOTE: Primary = low grade, PK to 3; high grade, up to 8.Middle = low grade, 4 to 7; high grade, 4 to 9.High = low grade, 7 to 12; high grade 12.Other = any other combination, Including PK, K, or 1 to 12.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education StatistiCs, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1995-96.

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Table 8. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by specified minority membership categories, and minority students as a percentage ofschool district membership: School year 1995-96


Schoolshaving

membership

Minority membership percentage Total percent-age of minority

students

0 - 20percent

21 - 40percent

41 - 60percent

61 - 80percent

81 - 100percent

New York City Public Schools NY 1,107 20 64 115 120 788 83.5Los Angeles Unified CA 642 3 26 53 113 447 88.7Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 1,547 0 0 0 0 1,547 100.0City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 0 17 35 79 422 89.2Dade County School District FL 316 0 6 26 55 229 85.8

Philadelphia City SD PA 256 8 22 34 34 158 79.6Broward County School District FL 191 22 53 48 31 37 51.0Houston ISD TX 272 1 3 19 25 224 88.5Hawaii Department of Education HI 246 0 8 24 89 125 77.1Detroit City School District MI 257 0 4 4 16 233 94.3

Clark County School District NV 197 38 79 44 22 14 39.3Dallas ISD TX 203 1 7 10 23. 162 88.1Hillsborough County School District FL 161 17 54 56 25 9 43.0Fairfax County Public Schools VA 203 39 86 52 22 4 34.4Palm Beach County School District FL 130 21 34 38 13 24 45.0

San Diego City Unified CA 164 1 17 46 43 57 70.0Duval County School District FL 154 15 59 33 15 32 45.2Orange County School District FL 153 10 50 46 25 22 47.7Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 179 0 8 17 32 122 81.5Montgomery County Public Schools MD 181 24 57 57 37 6 44.2

Baltimore City Public School System MD 180 14 3 10 21 132 85.7Memphis City School District TN 155 1 9 14 15 116 84.3Pinellas County School District FL 144 54 72 16 0 2 24.6Baltimore County Public Schools MD 158 82 37 15 10 14 29.5Milwaukee School District WI 155 0 2 34 43 76 76.4

Jefferson (KY) County KY 149 8 95 41 5 0 33.2Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 126 7 23 66 21 9 46.5Albuquerque Public Schools NM 122 9 33 23 24 33 55.2De Kalb County School District GA 106 2 3 20 19 62 82.5Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 1 3 2 4 111 94:3

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 135 117 15 3 0 0 13.4Gwinnett County School District GA 71 52 9 7 3 0 19.5Cobb County School District GA 86 48 20 11 6 1 22.3Wake County Schools NC 97 14 58 21 3 1 31.5Long Beach Unified CA 82 1 1 11 28 41 79.4

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 185 0 6 3 5 171 96.0Fresno Unified CA 88 1 9 14 24 40 76.1Granite School District UT 97 79 17 1 0 0 13.0Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 79 18 44 13 4 0 31.0Austin ISD TX 103 10 12 17 28 36 61.1

Cleveland City SD OH 119 0 9 11 30 69 79.3Fort Worth ISD TX 129 7 14 21 26 61 73.0Polk County School District FL 116 12 73 27 4 0 31.8Jordan School District UT 72 69 2 1 0 0 5.6Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 69 20 17 2 3 21.3

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 119 7 47 36 21 8 46.4Mesa Unified School District AZ 69 40 13 12 3 1 24.0Brevard County School District FL 82 55 15 9 3 0 20.1Mobile County School District AL 88 21 11 21 11 24 50.8Denver County #1 CO 111 0 2 27 36 46 72.9

El Paso ISD TX 80 0 1 9 22 48 81.3Boston School District MA 122 0 0 8 41 73 82.2Columbus City SD OH 143 7 25 46 56 9 57.2Tucson Unified District AZ 110 10 27 28 26 19 53.5San Francisco Unified CA 111 0 0 2 26 83 86.9

San Antonio ISD TX 111 0 0 4 5 102 94.4East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 105 6 14 17 28 40 63.6Atlanta City School District GA 102 2 2 1 8 89 93.4Davis School District UT 75 74 1 0 0 0 5.5Northside ISD TX 74 1 9 29 20 15 59.0

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Table 8. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by specified minority membership categories, and minority students as a percentage ofschool district membership: School year 1995-96 (Continued)


Schoolshaving

membership


students0 - 20

percent21 - 40percent

41 - 60percent

61 - 80percent

81 - 100percent

Guilford County Schools NC 92 16 25 26 18 7 42.8

Volusia County School District FL 71 30 24 10 6 1 24.1

Fulton County School District GA 55 18 3 12 1 21 49.2

Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 4 21 28 19 11 52.7

Portland School District 1J OR 101 40 37 13 7 4 32.3

Greenville County School District SC 88 27 35 21 3 2 29.1

Seminole County School District FL 55 19 24 7 5 0 27.6

Knox County School District TN 82 62 12 1 0 7 15.4

Oakland Unified CA 89 0 3 4 6 76 93.2

Cincinnati City SD OH 81 4 6 13 27 31 68.9

Arlington ISO TX 61 14 16 20 9 2 38.5

Cumberland County Schools NC 72 2 22 20 24 4 52.4

Lee County School District FL 69 19 35 11 4 0 27.8

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49 15 18 14 2 0 32.7

Santa Ana Unified CA 44 o o 0 3 41 96.0

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 0 4 16 26 29 71.5

Caddo Parish School Board LA 74 3 14 16 9 32 61.6

Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 55 32 12 9 2 0 22.7

Buffalo City SD NY 75 0 2 24 34 15 65.8

San Juan Unified CA 87 49 30 8 0 0 21.6

Washoe County School District NV 79 41 20 9 6 3 25.9

Anchorage School District AK *80 19 35 20 4 1 30.2

Ysleta MD TX 67 0 0 0 19 48 88.4

Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 19 27 18 2 0 30.9

Seattle WA 111 2 13 50 31 15 58.9

Minneapolis MN 118 4 8 38 40 28 63.4

Newark City NJ 79 0 3 3 1 72 91.4

Shelby County School District TN 44 25 12 7 0 0 22.4

Wichita KS 105 4 62 27 9 3 39.3

Escambia County School District FL 71 18 20 18 8 7 38.9

Aldine ISD TX 48 0 1 3 11 33 79.8

San Bernardino City Unified CA 58 0 0 5 35 18 73.4

Indianapolis Public Schools IN 90 1 10 31 48 0 59.5

North East ISD TX 53 5 18 9 19 2 44.2

Omaha Public Schools NE 81 12 35 20 12 2 39.1

Garland !SD TX 60 0 27 31 2 0 40.2

Charleston County School District SC *71 2 15 16 12 25 59.4

Garden Grove Unified CA 63 0 5 7 22 29 74.4

Alpine School District UT 48 48 0 0 0 0 5.0

St. Paul MN 130 9 16 55 33 17 54.1

*Only 79 schools in the Anchorage School District and 70 schools in the Charleston County School District reported minority membership in 1995-96and are represented in the minority membership percentage on this table.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1995-96, and "Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey', 1995-96.

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Table 9. Selected students characteristics as a percentage of school district membership, and percentage ofschools for which characteristic is reported, in the 100 largest school districts in the United States:School year 1995-96


Schoolshaving

member-ship

Students eligiblefor free lunch

Percentageof

membership

Percentageof schools

reporting

New York City Public Schools NY 1,107 - 0,0Los Angeles Unified , CA 642 73.2 100.0Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 1547 80.7 98.3City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 - 0.0Dade County School District FL 316 52.9 100.0

Philadelphia City SD PA 256 - 0.0Broward County School District FL 191 31.6 100.0Houston ISD TX 272 60.4 100.0Hawaii Department of Education HI 246 15.5 100.0Detroit City School District MI 257 63.4 100.0

Clark County School District NV 197 36.7 82.7Dallas ISD TX 203 64.9 100.0Hillsborough County School District FL 161 41.5 100.0Fairfax County Public Schools VA 203 12.7 90.1Palm Beach County School District FL 130 30.4 100.0

San Diego City Unified CA 164 64.2 100.0Duval County School District FL 154 38.3 100.0Orange County School District FL 153 32.6 100.0Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 179 31.6 100.0Montgomery County Public Schools MD 181 16.9 100.0

Baltimore City Public School System MD 180 65.2 100.0Memphis City School District TN 155 - 0.0Pinellas County School District FL 144 30.8 100.0Baltimore County Public Schools MD 158 19.6 100.0Milwaukee School District WI 155 65.9 100.0

Jefferson (KY) County KY 149 - 0.0Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 126 29.5 99.2Albuquerque Public Schools NM 122 0.0De Kalb County School District GA 106 41.8 100.0Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 70.2 100.0

Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 135 9.9 100.0Gwinnett County School District GA 71 10.3 100.0Cobb County School District GA 86 13.6 100.0Wake County Schodls NC 97 16.7 100.0Long Beach Unified CA 82 64.2 100.0

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 185 66.9 97.3Fresno Unified CA 88 62.0 100.0Granite School District UT 97 19.9 97.9Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 79 17.0 92.4Austin ISD TX 103 42.5 100.0

Cleveland City SD OH 119 - 99.2Fort Worth ISD TX 129 53.3 100.0Polk County School District FL 116 44.1 100.0Jordan School District UT 72 12.7 98.6Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 11.4 100.0

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 119 - 0.0Mesa Unified School District AZ 69 - 0.0Brevard County School District FL 82 24.3 100.0Mobile County School District AL 88 - 0.0Denver County #1 CO 111 50.6 100.0

El Paso ISD TX 80 58.6 100.0Boston School District MA 122 0.0Columbus City SD OH 143 0.2 100.0Tucson Unified District AZ 110 - 0.0San Francisco Unified CA 111 64.6 100.0

San Antonio MD TX 111 79.8 100.0East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 105 45.9 100.0Atlanta City School District GA 102 74.0 100.0Davis School District UT 75 12.3 97.3Northside ISD TX 74 30.5 100.0

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Racial/ethnic composition of district as Percent-a percentage of membership age of

American schoolsIndian/ Asian/ Black/ White/ reporting

Alaskan Pacific non- non- race/Native Islander Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic ethnicity

0.40.3-0.20.1

0.20.30.10.40.3

0.90.50.30.20.3

0.70.10.30.40.3

0.51.30.20.21.1

0.10.44.20.1-0.70.10.20.20.4

-0.80.90.10.3

0.20.20.20.30.1

1.23.20.20.31.3

0.10.40.23.70.7

0.1

0.10.10.3

0.3 4

9.6 37.2 36.4 16.5 100.06.9 67.3 14.3 11.3 100.0- 100.0 - - 100.03.2 31.3 54.5 10.8 100.01.3 50.6 33.8 14.2 100.0

4.7 11.2 63.5 20.4 100.02.5 13.4 34.9 49.0 100.02.7 50.8 34.9 11.5 100.0

69.3 4.9 2.6 22.9 100.00.9 2.8 90.3 5.7 100.0

5.3 19.4 13.8 60.7 100.01.7 43.4 42.6 11.9 100.01.9 16.8 24.0 57.0 100.0

13.6 9.3 11.3 65.6 100.01.9 13.6 29.1 55.0 100.0

19.1 33.3 16.9 30.0 100.02.7 2.5 39.9 54.8 100.03.3 16.1 28.0 52.3 100.03.9 5.3 71.9 18.5 100.0

12.5 12.0 19.3 55.8 100.0

0.6 0.4 84.3 14.3 100.00.8 0.5 81.7 15.7 100.02.6 2.7 19.2 75.4 100.03.3 1.1 24.9 70.5 100.03.5 12.1 59.8 23.6 100.0

1.2 0.5 31.5 66.8 100.03.5 2.0 40.6 53.5 100.01.9 45.6 3.6 44.8 100.04.1 3.8 74.5 17.5 100.02.6 1.3 90.4 5.7 100.0

2.8 8.8 1.1 86.6 100.06.1 3.9 9.4 80.5 100.02.8 2.6 16.8 77.7 100.02.9 1.9 26.5 68.5 100.0

20.4 37.4 21.1 20.6 100.0

1.4 7.0 87.6 4.0 100.022.6 41.8 10.9 23.9 100.0

4.7 6.5 0.9 87.0 100.05.3 2.5 23.0 69.0 100.02.2 40.3 18.3 38.9 100.0

1.1 7.5 70.5 20.7 100.02.5 36.4 34.0 27.0 100.00.8 7.6 23.2 68.2 100.01.6 3.4 0.3 94.4 100.02.2 1.4 17.5 78.7 100.0

3.1 1.3 41.6 52.9 100.01.7 16.3 2.8 76.0 100.01.8 3.5 14.6 79.9 100.01.4 0.3 48.9 49.2 100.03.9 46.4 21.3 27.1 100.0

1.0 75.6 4.5 18.7 100.09.2 24.6 47.9 17.8 100.02.4 0.8 53.9 42.8 100.02.3 41.0 6.5 46.5 100.0

48.2 20.5 17.5 13.1 100.0

0.3 83.1 10.9 5.6 100.02.2 0.4 60.9 36.4 100.01.2 1.8 90.4 6.6 100.01.5 2.7 0.9 94.5 100.02.0 50.0 6.9 41.0 100.0

Table 9. Selected students characteristics as a percentage of school district membership, and percentage ofschools for which characteristic is reported, in the 100 largest school districts in the United States:School year 1995-96 (Continued)


Schoolshaving

member-State ship


Racial/ethnic composition of district asa percentage of membership

Percent-age of

schoolsreporting

race/ethnicity

AmericanIndian/

AlaskanNative

Asian/Pacific

Islander Hispanic

Black/non-

Hispanic

White/non-

Hispanic

Percentageof

membership


reporting

Guilford County Schools NC 92 27.0 100.0 0.7 2.7 1.3 38.2 57.2 100.0Volusia County School District FL 71 33.3 100.0 0.2 1.0 6.7 16.2 75.9 100.0Fulton County School District GA 55 27.7 100.0 0.1 3.4 3.0 42.8 50.8 100.0Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 51.3 100.0 0.5 4.2 6.4 41.7 47.3 100.0Portland School District 1J OR 101 - 0.0 2.3 8.8 5.2 16.1 67.7 100.0

Greenville County School District SC 88 24.5 96.6 - 1.0 1.0 26.8 71.2 98.9Seminole County School District FL 55 20.0 100.0 0.2 2.8 10.0 14.7 72.4 100.0Knox County School District TN 82 - 0.0 0.1 1.4 0.6 13.3 84.6 100.0Oakland Unified CA 89 60.0 100.0 0.5 20.2 20.6 52.0 6.8 100.0Cincinnati City SD OH 81 - 0.0 0.1 0.9 0.3 67.7 31.1 100.0

Arlington ISD TX 61 23.5 100.0 0.6 6.3 15.6 15.9 61.5 100.0Cumberland County Schools NC 72 36.4 100.0 1.6 1.7 4.5 44.7 47.6 100.0Lee County School District FL 69 34.8 100.0 0.2 1.0 10.9 15.7 72.2 100.0Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49 13.4 100.0 0.2 7.3 16.4 8.9 67.3 100.0Santa Ana Unified CA 44 73.3 100.0 - 5.8 88.9 1.3 4.0 100.0

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 59.4 100.0 1.5 26.6 22.2 21.2 28.5 100.0Caddo Parish School Board LA 74 48.0 100.0 0.1 0.5 0.5 60.5 38.4 100.0Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 55 12.0 83.6 0.1 2.6 1.3 18.6 77.3 100.0Buffalo City SD NY 75 63.3 100.0 1.3 1.2 10.2 53.1 34.2 100.0San Juan Unified CA 87 28.8 100.0 2.0 5.9 8.3 5.5 78.4 100.0

Washoe County School District NV 79 27.0 94.9 2.6 4.7 15.0 3.7 74.1 100.0Anchorage School District AK *80 14.6 100.0 11.0 7.1 4.4 8.6 68.9 100.0Ysleta ISD TX 67 58.1 100.0 0.5 0.5 84.6 2.8 11.6 100.0Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 15.0 87.9 0.7 3.5 6.0 20.7 69.1 100.0Seattle WA 111 - 0.0 3.0 24.9 8.0 23.0 41.1 100.0

Minneapolis MN 118 54.4 100.0 6.5 12.2 4.4 40.4 36.6 100.0Newark City NJ 79 75.7 100.0 - 0.8 27.2 63.4 8.6 100.0Shelby County School District TN 44 - 0.0 0.3 1.8 1.0 19.3 77.6 100.0Wichita KS 105 42.0 100.0 1.9 4.8 10.4 22.3 60.7 100.0Escambia County School District FL 71 45.6 100.0 0.5 2.9 1.1 34.3 61.1 100.0

Aldine ISD TX 48 53.5 100.0 0.1 4.0 40.4 35.4 20.2 100.0San Bernardino City Unified CA 58 70.2 100.0 1.5 4.8 48.5 18.6 26.6 100.0Indianapolis Public Schools IN 90 64.5 92.2 0.1 0.7 1.4 57.2 40.6 100.0North East ISD TX 53 25.4 100.0 0.1 2.3 33.2 8.6 55.8 100.0Omaha Public Schools NE 81 36.6 100.0 1.5 1.3 6.6 29.7 60.9 100.0

Garland ISD TX 60 25.2 100.0 0.6 5.3 19.9 14.3 59.8 100.0Charleston County School District SC 71 46.9 100.0 0.1 1.0 0.8 58.4 39.6 98.6Garden Grove Unified CA 63 48.2 100.0 0.3 31.4 41.3 1.4 25.6 100.0Alpine School District UT 48 15.1 95.8 0.7 1.4 2.7 0.3 95.0 100.0St. Paul MN 130 48.8 100.0 1.5 24.7 6.8 21.2 45.9 100.0

- Data not available or not applicable. The Ohio Department of Education reported 0.0 students eligible in each school record for the Cleveland CitySchool District.

Only 79 schools in the Anchorage School District and 70 schools in the Charleston County School District reported minority membership in 1995-96and are represented in the racial/ethnic composition on this table.


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Totalstudents'

Fall 1994

Revenues and expenditures, 1994-95 (in thousands of dollars) Currentexpenditures

per pupil

Revenues, by source Current expenditures

Total Federal State Local Total Instructional2

New York City Public Schools NY 1,022,534 $8,025,686 $846,971 $3,275,295 $3,903,420 $7,788,536 $5,545,767 $7,617Los Angeles Unified SD CA 632,973 3,771,981 465,823 2,251,218 1,054,940 3,276,287 2,146,781 5,176Puerto Rico Department of Education PR 621,121 1,641,580 479,419 1,166,632 529 1,501,485 1,093,038 2,417City of Chicago School District 29 IL 407,241 2,915,237 351,759 1,042,832 1,630,017 2,469,471 1,505,547 6,064Dade County School District FL 321,615 2,183,071 182,832 1,159,150 841,089 1,844,088 1,085,450 5,734

Philadelphia City School District PA 208,710 1,389,214 163,445 684,446 541,323 1,065,286 657,215 5,104Houston ISD TX 202,149 1,048,677 114,850 274,572 659,255 967,353 560,358 4,785Broward County School District FL 199,255 1,317,698 77,867 661,136 578,695 1,024,098 570,890 5,140Hawaii Department of Education HI 183,869 1,173,579 82,547 1,062,296 28,736 1,028,730 636,952 5,595Detroit Public Schools MI 170,855 1,261,256 107,607 997,451 156,198 1,187,944 794,609 6,953

Clark County School District NV 156,348 834,032 41,500 525,651 556,988 716,702 419,790 4,584Dallas ISD TX 145,019 777,547 74,611 178,546 524,390 744,392 441,327 5,133Hillsborough County School District FL 138,575 886,056 80,868 496,803 308,385 747,392 424,198 5,393Fairfax County Public Schools VA 137,646 987,175 28,527 182,328 848,795 923,369 565,285 6,708San Diego City Unified CA 128,555 740,952 62,022 309,152 369,778 844,437 377,380 5,013

Palm Beach County School District FL 127,519 926,775 52,541 268,358 605,876 691,125 437,330 5,420Duval County School District FL 121,362 670,683 49,826 377,064 243,793 560,115 320,032 4,615Orange County School District FL 118,666 745,661 48,312 318,107 379,242 580,058 302,649 4,888Prince George's County Public Schools MD 118,478 816,911 40,610 341,338 434,963 776,806 453,918 6,557Montgomery County Public Schools MD 117,082 1,057,931 29,312 190,634 837,985 914,754 584,113 7,813

Baltimore City Public School System MD 113,428 696,533 78,621 402,644 215,268 670,933 437,655 5,915Memphis City School District TN 108,643 529,532 60,884 221,208 247,440 480,269 299,223 4,421Pinellas County School District FL 102,170 658,123 39,781 301,216 317,126 525,942 309,197 5,148Baltimore County Public Schools MD 99,231 681,565 27,500 215,564 438,501 635,453 351,370 6,404Milwaukee School District WI 398,009 730,362 75,760 417,162 237,440 712,360 449,289 6,922

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 93,407 555,444 42,556 275,869 237,019 511,270 317,883 5,474Albuquerque Public Schools NM 89,001 449,417 31,788 346,779 70,850 373,790 227,673 4,200Orleans Parish School Board LA 86,028 401,791 61,861 202,424 137,506 375,127 234,824 4,361Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 86,023 458,342 30,524 276,279 151,539 445,564 273,901 5,180Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 84,018 541,438 13,947 211,108 316,383 466,601 238,919 5,554

De Kalb County School District GA 83,722 513,712 23,582 206,084 284,066 482,571 320,799 5,764Cobb County School District GA 80,479 401,695 6,787 191,879 203,029 379,596 246,974 4,717District of Columbia Public Schools DC 80,450 700,111 65,527 0 834,584 666,938 336,543 8,290Gwinnett County School District GA 80,220 442,880 9,362 195,744 237,774 371,929 240,091 4,636Granite School District UT 78,590 297,466 20,517 169,658 107,291 266,530 16,366 3,391

Long Beach Unified CA 78,127 452:033 54,825 288,497 108,711 370,907 238,171 4,747Fresno Unified CA 77,023 425,873 49,767 275,693 100,413 373,510 234,340 4,849Wake County Public Schools NC 76,922 479,473 17,395 239,411 222,667 357,563 221,495 4,648Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 75,926 386,470 27,304 190,213 206,682 350,790 226,169 4,620Cleveland City School District OH 73,803 512,249 68,679 275,610 167,960 480,505 281,352 6,511

Austin ISD TX 73,191 409,617 26,922 81,488 301,207 354,093 212,369 4,838Fort Worth ISD TX 72,342 384,875 34,941 166,797 183,137 344,092 195,813 4,756Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 71,574 361,966 27,621 131,194 203,151 342,535 216,349 4,786Polk County School District FL 71,297 379,653 33,100 225,015 121,538 331,874 185,461 4,655Jordan School District UT 70,761 298,781 12,841 160,055 125,885 240,330 161,718 3,396

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 70,588 490,992 17,021 162,425 311,546 435,691 253,993 6,172Mesa Unified School District AZ 69,160 311,891 16,191 168,534 127,166 267,656 168,304 3,870Columbus City School District OH 65,809 439,538 40,923 151,251 247,364 407,461 217,904 6,192El Paso ISO TX 64,880 331,220 36,119 169,680 125,421 295,785 184,492 4,559Mobile County Public Schools AL 64,645 274,190 37,451 182,829 53,910 245,589 156,093 3,799

Brevard County School District FL 64,595 347,200 21,232 182,448 143,520 299,696 179,799 4,640Denver County #1 CO 62,773 391,829 32,724 109,666 249,439 351,373 210,400 5,598Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 82,624 316,787 28,997 147,878 139,912 267,660 151,831 4,274Boston School District MA 61,489 598,771 40,715 165,841 392,215 505,728 312,037 8,225East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 61,460 301,526 31,980 154,232 115,314 292,498 175,624 4,759

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Totalstudents1

Fall 1994


per pupil

Revenues, by source Current expenditures

Total Federal State Local Total Instructional2

San Francisco Unified CA 61,340 391,880 32,622 118,748 240,510 311,503 204,393 5,078

San Antonio ISD TX 60,419 359,710 45,367 211,361 102,982 330,576 205,264 5,471

Atlanta City School District GA 59,580 499,845 37,661 139,998 322,186 416,105 232,222 6,986

Davis School District UT 58,122 213,123 17,240 132,101 63,782 183,113 116,130 3,150

Jefferson Parish School Board LA 56,790 350,237 29,887 135,038 185,312 275,276 172,066 4,847

Northside ISD TX 58,117 304,869 18,000 142,900 143,969 245,652 156,303 4,377

Guilford County Public Schools NC 55,688 318,460 17,262 186,658 114,540 297,907 182,088 5,350

Volusia County School District FL 55,530 324,580 17,954 155,752 150,874 269,017 153,585 4,845

Portland School District IJ OR 54,849 366,819 29,766 154,505 182,548 344,151 211,988 6,275

Greenville County School District SC 54,084 273,846 16,883 122,370 134,593 232,604 137,748 4,302

Seminole County School District FL 53,386 286,340 11,020 148,641 126,679 227,657 135,457 4,266

Fulton County School District GA 53,143 372,068 13,316 108,443 250,309 315,635 182,220 5,939

Cincinnati City School District OH 52,852 380,756 45,784 122,397 192,575 337,158 207,355 8,379

Knox County School District TN 52,285 243,518 10,158 97,433 135,927 208,618 138,982 3,990

Oakland Unified CA 51,706 299,426 32,262 181,601 85,563 279,180 165,632 5,399

Arlington ISD TX 50,293 222,545 5,641 60,071 156,833 188,725 120,879 3,753

Cumberland County Public Schools NC 49,995 233,227 27,162 154,481 51,584 219,673 136,977 4,394

Caddo Parish School Board LA 49,609 234,385 26,715 123,739 83,931 217,204 132,081 4,378

Lee County School District FL 49,413 321,370 19,260 96,896 205,214 263,842 137,470 5,340

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49,364 272,768 7,499 91,382 173,887 234,004 139,008 4,740

Sacramento City Unified CA 49,282 252,085 29,287 154,406 68,392 230,635 147,049 4,680

Santa Ana Unified CA 48,870 238,133 21,499 126,217 90,417 204,940 132,778 4,194

Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 48,050 257,367 8,531 112,869 160,438 216,974 136,741 4,516

Anchorage School District AK 47,655 335,193 27,511 220,592 87,090 295,087 148,394 6,192

Buffalo City School District NY 47,595 435,857 37,257 311,549 87,051 399,729 284,282 8,399

Ysleta ISO TX 47,572 248,648 23,880 158,703 66,063 226,021 138,940 4,751

San Juan Unified CA 47,080 240,937 18,163 145,992 76,782 216,558 135,958 4,600

Seattle School District WA 46,585 312,293 28,125 198,562 87,606 308,880 172,534 8,633

Newark City Public Schools NJ 48,541 544,710 31,188 419,106 94,418 508,477 274,748 10,925

Indianapolis Public Schools IN 48,038 379,524 28,061 216,689 134,774 284,567 183,534 6,181

Wichita Public Schools KS 48,002 264,192 18,585 145,269 102,338 247,325 141,768 5,376

Washoe County School District NV 45,752 230,344 9,859 138,939 176,223 207,036 128,760 4,525

Prince William County Public Schools VA 45,675 281,102 9,567 109,559 184,092 251,258 147,672 5,501

Minneapolis Special School District MN 45,187 409,984 28,774 166,954 214,256 355,526 223,783 7,868

Escambia County School District FL 44,765 253,872 23,786 163,740 68,346 219,741 121,197 4,909

Charleston County School District SC 44,669 234,126 23,705 99,094 111,327 196,759 117,719 4,405

San Bernardino City Unified CA 44,250 226,021 22,724 158,219 45,078 206,591 117,989 4,669

Shelby County School District TN 43,843 172,784 6,516 83,192 83,076 151,409 100,799 3,453

Aldine ISD TX 43,818 229,324 11,186 122,303 95,835 216,905 138,930 4,950

Omaha Public Schools NE 43,577 276,352 20,477 91,626 164,249 226,764 136,985 5,204

North East ISO TX 43,484 241,155 11,303 78,378 153,474 205,729 128,361 4,731

Fort Bend ISO TX 43,115 224,887 8,413 98,361 120,093 178,582 108,338 4,142

Garland ISO TX 42,433 204,567 8,265 92,450 103,852 168,972 104,477 3,982

Garden Grove Unified CA 42,423 198,815 16,830 101,033 80,952 187,338 120,258 4,416

Alpine District UT 42,014 173,823 7,951 100,157 65,715 137,379 92,495 3,270

1 Count of students receiving educational services from the school district may differ somewhat from the counts of students in Appendices E and G,

which reflect the count of students from the schools aggregated up to the school district.2 Instructional expenditures are current expenditures for activities directly associated with the interaction between teachers and students. These includeteacher salaries and benefits, supplies (such as textbooks), and purchased instructional services.3 Student membership in this table was nOt collected through the CCD survey and in the case of Milwaukee, the student membership used to adjust the

current expenditures per pupil differs slightly from total students reported.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "1995 Annual Survey of Local Government Finances: School Systems." Data for Puerto Ricowere obtained from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "National Public EducationFinancial Survey", 1995-96.

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Methodology

Methodology

The primary source of the nonfiscal data for this report is the 1995-96 Common Core of Data(CCD). Information was reported to NCES by state education agencies in the spring of 1996 andin the spring of 1997 (for the fiscal data). There are three nonfiscal CCD surveys collectingbasic descriptive data on public education in the nation: the school ("Public School Universe"survey), local education agency ("Education Agency Universe" survey), and state forms ("StateNonfiscal Survey"). Fiscal data are gathered at the state level by NCES in the National PublicEducation Finance Survey and at the local level in the 1995 Annual Survey of Local GovernmentFinances (F-33 series of the Census of Local Govermnents) conducted by the GovernmentsDivision of the Bureau of the Census. A CCD coordinator in each state education agencyprovides all responses. Since the information is supplied by state education agencies, any itemof data missing for one school district is generally missing for other districts in the same state.

Response RatesNotwithstanding the item nonresponse situations cited below, most of these data representschool-district level figures. District level data were provided by all 50 states, the District ofColumbia, the Department of Defense Schools, and five outlying areas: American Samoa,Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Item NonresponseThere were some items for which data were not available at the desired levels. The followingnonresponse situations in the CCD school and agency universe surveys relate to informationpresented in this report: No teacher countsMinneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,Massachusetts, and Virginia (school universe); no Individualized Education Program counts (orzero entered in every record)Kentucky, Minnesota, and Puerto Rico; no schools reporting freelunch eligible DataAlabama, Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico,Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Washington; no fiscal dataHawaii and PuertoRico (agency universe).

Data for the national totals were taken from the public school and agency surveys except in thecase of teacher totals for Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Virginia. The state totals for these threestates were obtained from the 1995-96 State Nonfiscal survey. For all school districts other thanthe Minneapolis, St. Paul, Boston School Districts and school districts in Virginia, the teachercount was taken from the school universe. Because of non-reporting at the school level, theMinneapolis, St. Paul, Boston School Districts and Virginia school districts' teacher counts wereobtained from the agency universe. For all school districts other than the Cleveland SchoolDistrict, graduate counts were obtained from the agency universe. The number of graduates forthe Cleveland School District was obtained by directly contacting the Ohio Department ofEducation. Fiscal data for Puerto Rico weie taken from the 1995-96 National Public EducationFinance Survey.

DefinitionsCurrent expendituresFunds spent for operating local public schools, including such items assalaries for school personnel, student transportation, school books and materials, and energycosts, but excluding capital outlay and interest on school debt.

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Methodology

Federal revenuesInclude direct grants-in-aid to school for agencies, funds distributed througha state or intermediate agency, and revenues in lieu of taxes to compensate a school district fornontaxable federal institutions within a district's boundary.

GraduatesStudents who completed the course of public elementary and secondary educationoffered by the school district and received a high school diploma, high school equivalency, orother completing requirements as defined by state law or policy during the period September1994 through August 1995.

Instructional expendituresCurrent expenditures for activities directly associated with theinteraction between teachers and students. These include teacher salaries and benefits, supplies(such as textbooks), and purchased instructional services.

Local revenuesInclude revenues from such sources as local property and nonproperty taxes,investments, and revenues from student activities, textbook sales, transportation and tuition fees,and food service revenues.

Per pupil expenditureCurrent expenditure for public elementary and secondary education in astate divided by the student membership. The numbers reported here, based on membership, canbe expected to be smaller than per pupil expenditures based on average daily attendance, becausethe membership counts are generally larger than average daily attendance. As with pupil-teacherratio, the average reported here does not reflect variations across school districts, grade levels, orprograms.

Public schoolAn institution which provides educational services and has the followingcharacteristics:

Has one or more grade groups (prekindergarten through grade 12) or isungraded;Has one or more teachers to give instruction;Is located in one or more buildings or sites;Has an assigned administrator;Receives public funds as primary support;Is operated by an education agency.

Pupil-teacher ratioThe ratio of pupils to teachers in a school district, based on the total numberof pupils and the total full-time-equivalent (FTE) number of teachers reported in the schoolsassociated with the school district.

Pupils in membershipCount of all students whose names have been entered on the roll, minusthose whose names have been withdrawn, on or before the closest school day to October 1.Membership counts at the district level may include students for whom the district is providingeducational services through some other agency or institution.

Regular schoolA public elementary/secondary school that does not focus primarily onvocational, special, or alternative education.

Regular school districtAgencies responsible for providing free public education for school-agechildren residing within their jurisdiction. This category excludes local supervisory unions thatprovide management services for a group of associated school districts; regional education

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Methodology

service agencies that typically provide school districts with research, testing, of data processingservices; state and federally operated school districts; and other agencies that do not fall intothese groupings.

RevenuesAdditions to assets which do not incur an obligation that must be met at some futuredate, do not represent exchanges of fixed assets, and are available for expenditure by the localeducation agencies in the state. Revenues include funds from local, intermediate, state, andfederal sources.

Schools having membershipSchools at which students are counted for administrativepurposes, even though the students may attend one or more other schools for all or part of theirschool day.

State revenuesInclude both direct funds from state governments and revenues in lieu oftaxation. Revenues in lieu of taxes are paid to compensate a schooi district for nontaxable stateinstitutions or facilities within the district's boundary.

TeachersSum of full-time-equivalent (FTE) count of teachers by school for all schools in aschool district.

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Related Data Sources

Related Data Sources

Data from the 1995-96 and earlier CCD surveys are available in the publications and machine-readable products listed below:

Publications

Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by State: School Year 1995-96.(NCES 97-541, July 1997).

Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: Schoolyear 1995-96 (NCES 98-205, May 1998)

Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts: School year 199596 (98-206, April 1998)

Directory of Public Elementary and Secondary Education Agencies, 1994-95. (NCES97-539, September 1997).

Data Files

Data files of the school, agency, and state universes (with the exception of the F-33) may befound on the CCD home page of the NCES web site at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/index.html.

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Appendices

Appendices

Appendix A presents the mailing addresses and phone numbers of the 500 largest schooldistricts by rank. Appendix B is an alphabetical listing of the 500 largest school districts.

Appendices C through L present school year 1994-95 data that corresponds to Tables 1-10.

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Aependix A. The 500 largest public school districts in the United States and outlying areas: School year 1995-96Rank Students Agency name Mailing address City ST ZIP Schools Telephone

1 1,049,039 New York City Public Schools 110 Livingston St Brooklyn NY 11201 1,108 718-935-28002 647,612 Los Angeles Unified 450 N. Grand Ave. Los Angeles CA 90012 642 213-625-62513 621,121 Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education Avenida Teniente Gonzalez Hato Rey PR 00919 1,561 809-754-11304 412,921 City of Chicago School District 29 1819 W Pershing Rd Chicago I L 60609 555 312-535-80005 333,817 Dade County School District 1450 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 403 Miami FL 33132 322 305-995-14296 210,503 Philadelphia City SD Parkway at 21st Street Philadelphia PA 19103 258 215-299-70007 208,359 Broward County School District 600 SE Third Avenue Fort Lauderdale FL 33301 192 305-765-62718 206,704 Houston ISD 3830 Richmond Avenue Houston TX 77027 272 713-892-60009 187,104 Hawaii Department of Education PO Box 2360 Honolulu H I 96804 246 808-832-588010 173,750 Detroit City School District 5057 Woodward Detroit MI 48202 268 313-494-1075

11 166,788 Clark County School District 2832 East Flamingo Las Vegas NV 89121 198 702-799-531012 148,839 Dallas ISD 3700 Ross Avenue Dallas TX 75204 203 214-824-162013 143,192 Hillsborough County School District PO Box 3408 Tampa FL 33601 172 813-272-405014 140,820 Fairfax Cnty Public Schools 10700 Page Ave Fairfax VA 22030 210 703-246-263115 132,215 Palm Beach County School District 3340 Forest Hill Boulevard West Palm Beach FL 33406 133 407-434-820016 130,360 San Diego City Unified 4100 Normal St. San Diego CA 92103 164 619-293-868617 123,910 Duval County School District 1701 Prudential Drive Jacksonville FL 32207 155 904-390-211518 123,165 Orange County School District PO Box 271 Orlando FL 32802 157 407-849-320919 122,415 Prince Georges County Public Schools 14201 School Lane Upper Marlboro MD 20772 179 301-952-600020 120,291 Montgomery County Public Schools 850 Hungerford Drive Rockville MD 20850 181 301-279-3000

21 109,980 Baltimore City Public School System 200 East North Akienue Baltimore MD 21202 180 410-396-880322 109,286 Memphis City School District 2597 Avery Avenue Memphis TN 38112 163 901-325-530023 104,335 Pinellas County School District 301 Fourth Street SW Largo FL 34640 147 813-588-601124 101,564 Baltimore County Public Schools 6901 North Charles Street Towson MD 21204 158 410-887-407425 98,378 Milwaukee School District PO Box 2181 Milwaukee WI 53201 155 414-475-800126 93,070 Jefferson County PO Box 34020 Louisville KY 40232 150 502-473-325127 89,544 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools PO Box 30035 Charlotte NC 28230 126 704-379-700028 89,019 Albuquerque Public Schools PO Box 25704 Albuquerque NM 87125 122 505-842-821129 87,291 De Kalb County School District 3770 North Decatur Road Decatur GA 30032 106 404-297-230030 85,596 Orleans Parish School Board 4100 Touro Street New Orleans LA 70122 121 504-286-2700

31 85,495 Jefferson County R-1 P 0 Box 4001 Golden CO 80401 142 303-982-650032 84,555 Gwinnett County School District 52 Gwinnett Drive Lawrenceville GA 30245 71 404-963-865133 82,870 Cobb County School District PO Box 1088 Marietta GA 30060 86 404-422-917134 81,438 Wake County Schools PO Box 28041 Raleigh NC 27611 98 919-850-160035 80,520 Long Beach Unified 701 Locust Ave. Long Beach CA 90813 82 310-436-993136 79,802 District of Columbia Public Schools 415 12th Street, NW Washington DC 20004 186 202-724-422237 77,880 Fresno Unified Ed. Cntr., Tulare & M Sts Fresno CA 93721 89 209-441-300038 77,106 Granite School District 340 E 3545 S Salt Lake City UT 84115 97 801-263-610039 76,508 Virginia Beach City Public Schools PO Box 6038 Virginia Beach VA 23456 82 804-427-432640 74,772 Austin ISD 1111 West 6th St. Austin TX 78703 103 512-499-1700

41 74,380 Cleveland City SD 1380 E 6th St Cleveland OH 44114 131 216-574-800042 74,021 Fort Worth MD 100 North University Dr. Fort Worth TX 76107 129 817-871-200043 72,807 Polk County School District PO Box 391 Bartow FL 33830 119 813-534-052144 71,702 Jordan School District 9361 S 300 E Sandy UT 84070 72 801-567-810045 71,383 Anne Arundel County Public Schools 2644 Riva Road Annapolis MD 21401 111 410-224-500046 70,913 Nashville-Davidson County SD 2601 Bransford Avenue Nashville TN 37204 122 615-259-841947 70,035 Mesa Unified School District 549 N Stapley Dr Mesa AZ 85203 71 602-898-770048 65,621 Brevard County School District 2700 Saint Johns Street Melbourne FL 32940 83 407-631-191149 65,602 Mobile County School District PO Box 1327 Mobile AL 36633 88 334-690-822750 64,322 Denver County 1 900 Grant Street Denver CO 80203 112 303-764-3200

51 64,260 El Paso ISD P. 0. Box 20100 El Paso TX 79998 80 915-779-378152 63,293 Boston School District 26 Court Boston MA 02108 123 617-635-905053 63,082 Columbus City SD 270 E State St Columbus OH 43215 144 614-365-500054 62,317 Tucson Unified District 1010 E Tenth St Tucson AZ 85717 110 520-617-723355 61,889 San Francisco Unified 135 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco CA 94102 111 415-241-600056 60,794 San Antonio MD 141 Lavaca St. San Antonio TX 78210 111 210-299-550057 60,761 East Baton Rouge Parish School Board PO Box 2950 Baton Rouge LA 70821 105 504-922-540058 60,209 Atlanta City School District 210 Pryor Street SW Atlanta GA 30335 102 404-827-800059 58,782 Davis School District 45 E State St Farmington UT 84025 75 801-451-125160 57,409 Northside ISD 5900 Evers Road San Antonio TX 78238 74 210-647-2100

61 57,211 Guilford County Schools PO Box 880 Greensboro NC 27402 93 910-370-810062 56,788 Volusia County School District PO Box 2118 Deland FL 32721 71 904-734-719063 56,338 Fulton County School District 786 Cleveland Avenue SW Atlanta GA 30315 55 404-768-360064 56,021 Jefferson Parish School Board 501 Manhattan Boulevard Harvey LA 70058 83 504-367-312065 55,130 Portland School District 1J PO Box 3107 Portland OR 97208 101 503-249-200066 54,619 Greenville County School District PO Box 2848/301 Camperdown Way Greenville SC 29602 92 803-241-345767 54,603 Seminole County School District 1211 Mellonville Avenue South Sanford FL 32771 55 407-322-125268 52,627 Knox County School District PO Box 2188 Knoxville TN 37902 86 615-594-180069 52,452 Oakland Unified 1025 Second Ave. Oakland CA 94606 89 510-836-810070 52,172 Cincinnati City SD 2651 Bumet Ave, PO Box 5381 Cincinnati OH 45201 82 513-475-7000

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Appendix A. The 500 largest public school districts in the United States and outlying areas: School year 1995-96(Continued)Rank Students Agency name Mailing address Crty ST ZIP Schools Telephone71 51,960 Arlington ISD 1203 West Pioneer Parkway Arlington TX 76013 61 817-460-461172 51,148 Cumberland County Schools PO Box 2357 Fayetteville NC 28302 72 910-678-230073 50,945 Lee County School District 2055 Central Avenue Fort Myers FL 33901 71 813-337-830174 50,817 Cypress-Fairbanks ISO Box 692003 Houston TX 77269 49 713-897-400075 50,268 Santa Ana Unified 1601 E. Chestnut Ave. Santa Ana CA 92701 44 714-558-550176 50,104 Sacramento City Unified P.O. Box 2271 Sacramento CA 95812 75 916-264-430577 49,578 Caddo Parish School Board PO Box 32000 Shreveport LA 71130 74 318-636-021078 49,057 Chesterfield County Public Schools PO Box 10 Chesterfield VA 23832 56 804-748-141179 48,540 Buffalo City SD 712 City Hall Buffalo NY 14202 75 716-851-357580 47,581 San Juan Unified P.O. Box 477 Carmichael CA 95609 87 916-971-7700

81 47,572 Washoe County School District 425 East Ninth Reno NV 89520 81 702-348-020082 47,318 Anchorage School District PO Box 196614 Anchorage AK 99519 84 907-333-956183 47,144 Ysleta ISD 9600 Sims Drive El Paso TX 79925 67 915-595-550084 47,072 Prince William County Public Schools PO Box 389 Manassas VA 22110 68 703-791-871285 46,757 Seattle 815 4th Ave N Seattle WA 98109 114 206-281-610086 46,612 Minneapolis 807 N.E. Broadway Minneapolis MN 55413 144 612-627-205087 45,805 Newark City 2 Cedar Street Newark NJ 07102 80 201-733-733388 45,686 Shelby County School District 160 South Hollywood Memphis TN 38112 44 901-325-790089 45,626 Wichita 201 N Water St Wichita KS 67202 106 316-833-400390 45,215 Escambia County School District PO Box 1470 Pensacola FL 32597 72 904-469-613091 45,139 Aldine ISD 14910 Aldine Westfield Rd. Houston TX 77032 48 713-449-101192 45,091 San Bernardino City Unified 777 North F St. San Bernardino CA 92410 58 909-381-110093 44,896 Indianapolis Public Schools 120 E Walnut St Indianapolis IN 46204 95 317-226-441194 44,447 North East ISD 8961 Tesoro Dr. San Antonio TX 78217 53 210-804-700095 44,247 Omaha Public Schools 3215 Cuming St Omaha NE 68131 82 402-557-222296 43,553 Garland ISO 720 Stadium Drive Garland TX 75040 60 214-494-820197 43,480 Charleston County School District 75 Calhoun Street Charleston SC 29403 71 803-724-771698 43,413 Garden Grove Unified 10331 Stanford Ave. Garden Grove CA 92640 63 714-633-600099 42,763 Alpine School District 575 N 100 E American Fork UT 84003 48 801-756-8400100 42,520 St. Paul 360 Colborne St. St. Paul hel 55102 142 612-293-5100101 41,824 Birmingham City School District PO Box 10007 Birmingham AL 35202 91 205-583-4700102 41,791 Pasco County School District 7227 Land 0 Lakes Boulevard Land 0 Lakes FL 34639 45 813-996-3600103 41,720 St. Louis City 911 Locust St St. Louis MO 63101 109 314-231-3720104 41,624 Corpus Christi ISD P. O. Box 110 Corpus Christi TX 78403 62 512-886-9002105 41,125 Tulsa P 0 Box 470208 Tulsa OK 74147 80 918-745-6800106 41,054 Jefferson County School District 2100 18th Street S Birmingham AL 35209 58 205-930-3800107 40,895 Forsyth County Schools PO Box 2513 Winston Salem NC 27102 58 910-727-2816108 40,562 Clayton County School District 120 Smith Street Jonesboro GA 30236 44 404-473-2700109 40,270 Brownsville ISD 1900 Price Road Brownsville TX 78521 42 210-548-8000110 40,223 Fort Bend ISD P. O. Box 1004 Sugar Land TX 77487 38 713-980-1300

111 40,053 Pasadena ISD P. O. Box 1799 Pasadena TX 77501 52 713-920-6800112 39,829 Oklahoma City 900 N Klein St Okla City OK 73106 86 405-297-6522113 39,761 Pittsburgh SD 341 South Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 86 412-622-3500114 39,193 Toledo City SD 420 E Manhattan Toledo OH 43608 64 419-729-8200115 39,152 Anoka-Hennepin 11299 Hanson Blvd. N.W. Coon Rapids MN 55433 50 612-422-5500116 38,429 Plano ISD 2700 W. 15th. Plano TX 75075 46 214-519-8100117 37,547 Howard County Public Schools System 10910 Route 108 Ellicott City VD 21042 56 410-313-6600118 37,112 Henrico County Public Schools PO Box 23120 Richmond VA 23223 57 804-226-3600119 36,962 Rochester City SD 131 W Broad St Rochester NY 14614 57 716-262-8378120 36,820 Harford County Public Schools 45 East Gordon Street Bel Air MD 21014 51 410-838-7300121 36,771 Norfolk City Public Schools PO Box 1357 Norfolk VA 23501 58 804-441-2107122 36,587 Alief ISD P. 0. Box 68 Alief TX 77411 32 713-498-8110123 36,515 Kansas City 33 1211 McGee Kansas City MO 64106 83 816-418-7000124 36,359 Richmond County School District 2083 Heckle Street Augusta GA 30910 56 706-737-7200125 35,936 Elk Grove Unified 9510 Elk Grove-Florin Rd. Elk Grove CA 95624 40 916-686-7700126 35,860 Chatham County School District 208 Bull Street Savannah GA 30401 44 912-651-7000127 35,761 Cherry Creek 5 4700 South Yosemite Street Englewood CO 80111 45 303-773-1184128 35,526 Marion County School District PO Box 670 Ocala FL 32678 47 904-620-7702129 35,258 Mt. Diablo Unified 1936 Carlotta Dr. Concord CA 94519 54 510-682-8000130 35,065 Montgomery County School District PO Box 1991 Montgomery AL 36102 55 334-269-3028

131 35,055 Riverside Unified P.O. Box 2800 Riverside CA 92516 42 909-788-7134132 34,980 Chesapeake City Public Schools PO Box 15204 Chesapeake VA 23328 41 804-547-0153133 34,929 Capistrano Unified 32972 Calle Perfecto San Juan Capistran CA 92675 35 714-489-7000134 34,637 Stockton City Unified 701 N. Madison St. Stockton CA 95202 41 209-953-4050135 34,163 Calcasieu Parish School Board PO Box 800 Lake Charles LA 70602 59 318-491-1645136 33,984 Richardson ISD 400 South Greenville Ave. Richardson TX 75081 52 214-301-3333137 33,117 Muscogee County School District PO Box 2427 Columbus GA 31994 50 706-649-0500138 32,960 Colorado Springs 11 1115 North El Paso Street Colorado Springs CO 80903 59 719-520-2000139 32,880 Fayette County 701 E Main St Lexington KY 40502 57 606-281-0100140 32,801 Montebello Unified 123 S. Montebello Blvd. Montebello CA 90640 29 213-726-1225

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Appendix A. The 500 largest public school districts in the United States and outlying areas: School year 1995-96(Continued)Rank Students Agency name Mailing address

141 32,766 Frederick County Board of Education142 32,719 Jackson Public School District143 32,574 Newport News City Public Schools144 32,414 Des Moines Independent Comm Schools145 32,341 Spokane146 32,160 San Jose Unified147 32,099 Paradise Valley Unified District148 32,095 Akron City SD149 32,026 Kanawha County School District150 32,014 Guam Deptartment of Education

151 32,011 Lafayette Parish School Board152 31,984 Saint Tammany Parish School Board153 31,894 West Contra Costa Unified154 31,844 Shawnee Mission Public Schools155 31,805 Manatee County School District156 31,748 Fort Wayne Community Schools157 31,666 Jersey City158 31,596 Tacoma159 31,503 Moreno Valley Unified160 31,364 Salem/Keizer School District 24J

161 31,335 Leon County School District162 31,168 School District 46163 31,035 Sarasota County School District164 30,979 Fontana Unified165 30,693 Lincoln Public Schools166 30,625 Pomona Unified167 30,317 Lubbock ISD168 30,116 Saddleback Valley Unified169 30,043 Foway Unified170 29,958 Amarillo ISO

171 29,747 Glendale Unified172 29,587 Fremont Unified173 29,567 Sweetwater Union High174 29,543 Spring Branch ISD175 29,522 Clovis Unified176 29,454 Okaloosa County School District177 29,334 Gaston County Schools178 29,324 Klein 1SD179 29,242 Mesquite ISD180 29,166 Alachua County School District

181 29,025 Beaverton School Disrict 48J182 28,573 Conroe ISD183 28,528 Ector County ISD184 28,514 Chino Unified185 28,472 Durham Pub lid Schools186 28,320 Lewisville ISD187 28,133 Compton Unified188 28,014 Corona-Norco Unified189 27,942 Dayton City SD190 27,892 Killeen ISD

191 27,825 Adams-Arapahoe 28J192 27,731 Weber School District193 27,708 Richmond City Public Schools194 27,637 Rockford School District 205195 27,432 Orange Unified196 27,139 Richland School District 01197 27,087 Grand Rapids City School District198 27,052 Peoria Unified District199 27,044 Saint Lucie County School District200 26,714 Boise City Ind School District 1

201 26,563 Clear Creek ISD202 26,459 Irving ISD203 26,390 Flint City School District204 26,376 Collier County School District205 26,232 Bakersfield City Elementary206 26,062 Berkeley County School District207 25,816 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan208 25,712 Salt Lake City School District209 25,670 Osceola County School District210 25,500 Lodi Unified

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115 East Church Street662 S President Street12465 Warwick Blvd1800 Grand AvenueN 200 Bernard Street855 Lenzen Ave.15002 N 32nd St70 N Broadway200 Elizabeth StreetPO Box DE

PO Drawer 2158PO Box 9401108 Bissell Ave.7235 AntiochPO Box 90691200 S Clinton St346 Claremont Avenue601 S 8th13911 Perris Blvd.PO Box 12024

2757 West Pensacola Street355 E Chicago St2418 Hatton Street9680 Citrus Ave.Box 82889P.O. Box 29001628 19th. Street25631 Diseno Dr.13626 Twin Peaks Road7200 1-40 West

223 N. Jackson St.P.O. Box 50081130 Fifth Ave.955 Campbell Road1450 Hemdon Ave.120 Lowery Place SEPO Box 13977200 Spring-Cypress Road405 East Davis St.620 East University Avenue

16550 SW Mario Rd702 North Thompson St.P. O. Box 39125130 Riverside Dr.PO Box 30002P. O. Box 217604 S. Tamarind Ave.2820 Clark Ave.348 W First StP. O. Box 967

1085 Peoria Street5320 S Adams Ave301 N 9th St201 S Madison StP.O. Box 110221616 Richland StreetP.O. Box 117P 0 Box 392909 Delaware Avenue1207 West Fort Street

P. 0. Box 799Box 152637923 East Kearsley Street3710 Estey Avenue1300 Baker St.PO Box 608, Main Street14445 Diamond Path West440 E 100 S817 Bill Beck Boulevard1305 E. Vine St.

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City ST ZIP Schools Telephone

Frederick MD 21701 49 301-694-1000Jackson WS 39225 58 601-960-8725Newport News VA 23606 41 804-591-4545Des Moines IA 50309 65 515-242-7911Spokane WA 99201 65 509-455-5242San Jose CA 95126 49 408-998-6000Phoenix AZ 85032 33 602-867-5100Akron OH 44308 60 330-434-1661Charleston VN 25311 88 304-348-7770Agana GU 96910 35 671-472-8901

Lafayette LA 70502 41 318-36-6800Covington LA 70434 48 504-892-2276Richmond CA 94801 57 510-234-3825Overland Park KS 66204 58 913-831-1900Bradenton FL 34206 61 813-741-7235Fort Wayne IN 46802 53 219-425-7272Jersey City NJ 07305 37 201-915-6202

WA 98401 71 206-596-1000TacomaMoreno Valley CA 92553 34 909-485-5600Salem OR 97309 52 503-399-3000

Tallahassee FL 32304 47 904-487-7250Elgin IL 60120 50 847-888-5000Sarasota FL 34237 38 813-953-5000Fontana CA 92335 30 909-357-5000Lincoln NE 68501 53 402-436-1000Pomona CA 91769 36 909-397-4700Lubbock TX 79401 60 806-766-1000Mission Viejo CA 92691 35 714-586-1234Poway CA 92064 28 619-748-0010Amarillo TX 79106 50 806-354-4200

Glendale CA 91206 29 818-241-3111Fremont CA 94537 40 510-657-2350Chula Vista CA 91911 19 619-691-5500Houston TX 77024 36 713-464-1511Clovis CA 93611 30 209-297-4000Fort Walton Beach FL 32548 36 904-833-3109Gastonia NC 28053 53 704-866-6100Klein TX 77379 27 713-376-4180Mesquite TX 75149 38 214-288-6411Gainesville FL 32601 42 904-336-3527

Beaverton OR 97075 42 503-591-8000Conroe TX 77301 36 409-756-7751Odessa TX 79760 44 915-332-9151Chino CA 91710 30 909-628-1201Durham NC 27702 45 919-560-2000Lewisville TX 75067 38 214-539-1551Compton CA 90220 35 310-639-4321Norco CA 91760 34 909-736-5000Dayton OH 45402 50 937-461-3000Killeen TX 76540 40 817-520-1309

Aurora CO 80011 44 303-344-8060Ogden UT 84405 39 801-476-7800Richmond VA 23219 61 804-780-7700Rockford IL 61104 50 815-966-3101 .Orange CA 92668 37 714-997-6100Columbia SC 29201 51 803-733-6041

Grand Rapids MI 49501 94 616-771-2000Peoria AZ 85380 25 602-486-6000Fort Pierce FL 34947 35 407-468-5000Boise ID 83702 46 208-338-3400

League City TX 77574 30 713-332-2828Irving TX 75015 30 214-259-4575Flint MI 48502 48 810-760-1000Naples FL 33942 39 813-643-2700Bakersfield CA 93305 37 805-631-4600Moncks Corner SC 29461 37 803-761-8600Rosemount MN 55068 36 612-423-7700Salt Lake City UT 84111 40 801-578-8599Kissimmee FL 32744 31 407-870-4008Lodi CA 95240 35 209-331-7000

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211 25,470 Horry County School District 1600 Ninth Avenue Conway SC 29526 36 803-248-2206212 25,408 Carroll County Public Schools 55 North Court Street Westminster MD 21157 33 410-848-8280213 25,231 Katy ISD P. 0. Box 159 Katy TX 77492 23 713-391-2184214 25,230 Boulder Valley Re 2 P 0 Box 9011 Boulder CO 80301 50 303-447-1010215 25,228 Bay County School District PO Drawer 820 Panama City FL 32402 35 904-872-4100216 25,087 Round Rock ISO 1311 Round Rock Ave. Round Rock TX 78681 31 512-255-4431217 25,066 Bibb County School District Box 6157 Macon GA 31213 40 912-741-8502218 25,046 Madison Metropolitan School District 545 W Dayton St Madison WI 53703 51 608-266-6235219 24,949 Utica Community Schools 11303 Greendale Sterling Heights MI 48312 39 810-795-2300220 24,901 Little Rock School District 810 W. Markham Street Little Rock AR 72201 48 501-324-2000

221 24,875 Clay County School District 900 Walnut Street Green Cove Springs FL 32043 27 904-284-6510222 24,827 Lake County School District 201 West Burleigh Boulevard Tavares FL 32778 41 904-343-3531223 24,792 Rapides Parish School Board PO Box 1230 Alexandria LA 71309 54 318-487-0888224 24,740 Springfield R-Xii 940 N Jefferson Springfield 1.03 65802 57 417-864-3800225 24,714 Kern Union High 2000 24th St. Bakersfield CA 93301 22 805-631-3100226 24,603 Northglenn-Thomton 12 11285 Highline Drive Northglenn CO 80233 40 303-451-1561227 24,587 Washington Elementary District 8610 N 19th Ave Phoenix AZ 85021 32 602-864-2600228 24,492 Kent 12033 SE 256th St Kent WA 98031 38 206-852-9550229 24,467 Scottsdale Unified District 3811 N 44th St Phoenix AZ 85018 26 602-952-6100230 24,412 Anaheim Union High P.O. Box 3520 Anaheim CA 92803 20 714-999-3511

231 24,367 Aiken County School District Drawer 1137, 843 Edgefield Ave Aiken SC 29802 37 803-641-2700232 24,332 Lake Washington PO Box 2909 Kirkland WA 98083 45 206-828-3257233 24,232 Visalia Unified 315 E. Acequia St. Visalia CA 93291 31 209-730-7551234 24,207 Buncombe County Schools 175 Bingham Rd Asheville NC 28806 35 704-255-5921235 24,163 Huntsville City School District PO Box 1256 Huntsville AL 35807 43 205-532-4640'236 24,094 Vista Unified 1234 Arcadia Ave. Vista CA 92084 25 619-726-2170237 24,069 Providence School District 797 Westminster St Providence RI 02903 42 401-456-9211238 23,866 Hamilton County School District 201 Broad Street Chattanooga TN 37402 43 423-209-8400239 23,830 Rialto Unified 182 E. Walnut Ave. Rialto CA 92376 24 909-820-7700240 23,791 Hartford School District 249 High Street Hartford CT 06103 35 203-722-8500

241 23,713 Evansville-Vanderburgh School Cor 1 SE 9th St Evansville IN 47708 40 812-435-8477242 23,682 Ontario-Montclair Elementary 950 West D St. Ontario CA 91762 31 909-983-9501243 23,632 Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified 1301 E. Orangethorpe Ave. Placentia CA 92670 28 714-996-2550244 23,611 Hampton City Public Schools 1819 Nickerson Blvd Hampton VA 23663 35 804-850-5225245 23,584 Springfield School District 195 State, Box 1410 Springfield MA 01102 43 413-787-7087246 23,573 Syracuse City SD 725 Harrison St Syracuse NY 13210 36 315-435-4161247 23,482 Public Schools of Robeson County PO Box 2909 Lumberton NC 28359 41 910-738-4841248 23,434 Laredo ISO 1702 Houston Street Laredo TX 78040 28 210-727-4401249 23,419 Worcester School District 20 Irving Worcester MA 01609 49 508-799-3116250 23,408 Paterson City 33-35 Church Street Paterson NJ 07505 35 201-881-6213

251 23,159 Midland ISD 615 W. Missouri Ave. Midland TX 79701 35 915-689-1000252 22,741 Yonkers City SD 145 Palmer Rd Yonkers NY 10701 35 914-376-8100253 22,619 Torrance Unified 2335 Plaza Del Amo Torrance CA 90501 30 310-533-4200254 22,489 Gary Community School Corp 6206 10th PI Gary IN 46402 43 219-881-5401255 22,303 Racine School District 2220 Northwestern Ave Racine WI 53404 37 414-631-7064256 22,221 Virgin Islands School District 44-46 Kongens Gado Saint Thomas VI 00802 34. 809-774-0100257 22,194 Terrebonne Parish School Board PO Box 5097 Houma LA 70361 42 504-876-7400258 22,159 Humble ISD P. 0. Box 2000 Humble TX 77347 28 713-540-5000259 22,136 Pasadena Unified 351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena CA 91101 31 818-795-6981260 22,112 Las Cruces Public Schools 505 S. Maine, Suite 249 Las Cruces NM 88001 35 505-527-5807

261 22,082 East Side Union High 830 N. Capitol Ave. San Jose CA 95133 14 408-272-6400262 22,032 Douglas County Re 1 620 Wilcox Street Castle Rock CO 80104 35 303-688-3195263 21,975 Irvine Unified 5050 Barranca Parkway Irvine CA 92714 31 714-651-0444264 21,965 Rutherford County School District 502 Memorial Boulevard Murfreesboro TN 37129 27 615-893-5812265 21,943 Hacienda La Puente Unified P.O. Box 60002 City of Industry CA 91716 35 818-333-2201266 21,841 Parkway C-2 455 N Woods Mill Rd Chesterfield MO 63017 28 314-415-8100267 21,830 McAllen ISD 2000 North 23rd. Street McAllen TX 78501 31 210-618-6000268 21,819 Abc Unified 16700 Norwalk Blvd. Cerritos CA 90703 30 310-926-5566269 21,692 Sumner County School District PO Box 1199, 225 E Main Street Gallatin TN 37066 34 615-451-5200270 21,670 Kansas City Library Building 625 Minnesota Kansas City KS 66101 48 913-551-3200

271 21,519 Bridgeport School District 45 Lyon Terrace, Rm 303 Bridgeport CT 06604 40 203-576-7301272 21,492 Montgomery County Schools PO Box 867 Clarksville TN 37041 25 615-648-5600273 21,479 Osseo 11200 93rd Ave. N. Maple Grove MN 55369 31 612-391-7000274 21,431 Grossmont Union High P.O. Box 1043 La Mesa CA 91944 13 619-465-3131275 21,283 Poudre R-1 2407 La Porte Avenue Fort Collins CO 80521 44 970-482-7420276 21,180 New Hanover County Schools 1802 S 15th St Wilmington NC 28401 30 910-763-5431277 21,136 South Bend Community School Corp 635 S Main St South Bend IN 46601 36 219-282-4000278 21,083 Phoenix Union High School District 4502 N Central Ave Phoenix AZ 85012 14 602-271-3100279 20,999 Fairfield-Suisun Unified 1125 Missouri St. Fairfield CA 94533 26 707-421-4000280 20,966 Board of Educ, Charles County PO Box D La Plata MD 20646 31 301-932-6610

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281 20,893 Cherokee County School District PO Box 769 Canton GA 30114 27 404-479-1871

282 20,885 Norwalk-La Mirada Unified 12820 Pioneer Blvd. Norwalk CA 90650 26 310-868-0431

283 20,868 Edmonds 20420 68th Ave W Lynnwood WA 98036 39 360-670-7000

284 20,699 Baldwin County School District 175 Courthouse Square Bay Minette AL 36507 35 334-937-0308

285 20,579 Federal Way 31405 18th Ave S Federal Way WA 98003 36 206-941-0100

286 20,534 Pulaski County Spec. School District P.O. Box 8601 Little Rock AR 72216 37 501-490-2000

287 20,511 Hayward Unified P.O. Box 5000 Hayward CA 94540 32 510-784-2600

288 20,491 Chattanooga City School District 1161 West 40th Street Chattanooga TN 37409 37 423-825-7200

289 20,489 Ons low County Schools PO Box 99 Jacksonville NC 28541 28 910-455-2211

290 20,420 Deer Valley Unified District 20402 N 15th Ave Phoenix AZ 85027 20 602-581-7700

291 20,343 Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD P. O. Box 115186 Carrollton TX 75011 29 214-323-5700

292 20,299 Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD P. O. Box Y Pharr TX 78577 29 210-702-5600

293 20,246 Spring ISD 16717 Ella Blvd. Houston TX 77090 22 713-586-1100

294 20,129 Birdville ISO 6125 East Belknap St. Fort Worth TX 76117 34 817-831-5700

295 20,115 Socorro ISD P. O. Box 27400 El Paso TX 79926 19 915-860-3400

296 20,103 Lansing Public School District 519 West Kalamazoo Street Lansing MI 48933 45 517-325-6006

297 19,938 Beaumont ISD 3395 Harrison Ave. Beaumont TX 77706 34 409-899-9972

298 19,910 Vancouver 605 N. Devine Road Vancouver WA 98668 36 360-696-7161

299 19,868 Christina School District 83 East Main Street Newark DE 19711 30 302-454-2000

300 19,841 Cathden City 201 North Front Street Camden NJ 08102 33 609-966-2040

301 19,827 Loudoun County Public Schools 102 North St NW Leesburg VA 22075 36 703-771-6410

302 19,824 Board of Ed, Washington County PO Box 730, 820 Commonwealth Hagerstown MD 21741 44 301-791-4000

303 19,765 United ISD 201 Lindenwood Drive Laredo TX 78041 27 210-722-3938

304 19,762 Santa Rosa County School District 603 Canal Street Milton FL 32570 29 904-623-3663

305 19,662 Desert Sands Unified 82-879 Hwy. 111 Indio CA 92201 21 619-775-3500

306 19,649 Abilene ISD P. 0. Box 981 Abilene TX 79604 42 915-677-1444

307 19,618 Green Bay Area School District PO Box 23387 Green Bay WI 54305 35 414-448-2101

308 19,610 Rockwood R-Vi 111 E North St Eureka MO 63025 26 314-938-5225

309 19,468 Oceanside City Unified 2111 Mission Ave. Oceanside CA 92054 22 619-757-2560

310 19,347 Chula Vista Elementary 84 East J St. Chula Vista CA 91910 33 619-425-9600

311 19,331 Houston County School District 1211 Washington Street Perry GA 31069 27 912-987-1929

312 19,298 Pitt County Schools 1717 W 5th St Greenville NC 27834 30 919-830-4200

313 19,243 Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD 1849 Central Drive Bedford TX 76022 28 817-283-4461

314 19,226 Northshore 18315 Bothell Way NE Bothell WA 98011 32 206-485-0417

315 19,122 Lawton P 0 Box 1009 Lawton OK 73501 42 405-357-6900

316 19,083 Vallejo City Unified 211 Valle Vista Vallejo CA 94590 25 707-644-8921

317 19,035 Putnam City 5401 NW 40th St Okla City OK 73122 27 405-495-5200

318 18,908 Wayne County Public Schools PO Box 1797 Goldsboro NC 27533 27 919-731-5900

319 18,818 Colton Joint Unified 1212 Valencia Dr. Cotton CA 92324 24 909-876-4227

320 18,808 Rowan-Salisbury Schools PO Box 2349 Salisbury NC 28145 28 704-636-7500

321 18,780 Cajon Valley Union Elementary P.O. Box 1007 El Cajon CA 92022 26 619-588-3000

322 18,777 New Haven School District 54 Meadow Street New Haven CT 06519 46 203-787-8888

323 18,741 Bossier Parish School Board PO Box 2000 Benton LA 71006 30 318-965-2281

324 18,736 Nebo School District 350 S Maln Spanish Fork UT 84660 26 801-798-4000

325 18,710 Edinburg CISD P. 0. Box 990 Edinburg TX 78540 23 210-316-7200

326 18,683 Kenosha School District PO Box 340 Kenosha WI 53141 33 414-653-6323

327 18,643 Mesa County Valley 51 2115 Grand Avenue Grand Junction CO 81501 37 970-245-2422

328 18,641 Meridian Jt School District 2 911 North Meridian Road Meridian I D 83642 24 208-888-6701

329 18,627 Simi Valley Unified 875 E. Cochran Simi Valley CA 93065 27 805-520-6500

330 18,558 Rowland Unified P.O. Box 8490 Rowland Heights CA 91748 21 818-965-2541

331 18,552 Newport-Mesa Unified P.O. Box 1368 Newport Beach CA 92659 27 714-760-3200

332 18,522 Downey Unified P.O. Box 7017 Downey CA 90241 21 310-904-3500

333 18,498 South-Western City SD 2975 Kingston Ave Grove City OH 43123 27 614-875-2318

334 18,371 Eugene School District 04J 200 N Monroe St Eugene OR 97402 45 541-687-3123

335 18,361 San Ramon Valley Unified 699 Old Orchard Dr. Danville CA 94526 24 510-837-1511

336 18,356 Anaheim Elementary 1001 S. East St. Anaheim CA 92805 21 714-535-6001

337 18,303 Union County Public Schools 500 N Main St Suite 700 Monroe NC 28112 30 704-283-3733

338 18,303 Sioux Falls 49-5 P 0 Box 5051 Sioux Falls SD 57117 37 605-367-7920

339 18,288 Millard Public Schools 5606 S 147th St Omaha NE 68137 30 402-895-8200

340 18,252 Livingston Parish School Board PO Box 128 Livingston LA 70754 34 504-686-7044

341 18,209 Tangipahoa Parish School Board PO Box 457 Amite LA 70422 35 504-748-7153

342 18,209 Highline 15675 Ambaum Bldv SW Seattle WA 98166 38 206-433-2217

343 18,182 Madison County School District PO Box 226 Huntsville AL 35804 21 205-532-3522

344 18,156 Hazelwood 15955 New Halls Ferry Rd Florissant 1,10 63031 25 314-839-9400

345 18,152 Modesto City Elementary 426 Locust St. Modesto CA 95351 27 209-576-4011

346 18,132 Shelby County School District P 0 Box 429 Columbiana AL 35051 28 205-669-5600

347 18,083 Moore 1500 S E 4th St Moore OK 73160 27 405-793-3032

348 18,027 Dougherty School District Box 1470 Albany GA 31703 26 912-431-1286

349 18,004 Palmdale Elementary 39139 10th St. East. Palmdale CA 93550 18 805-947-7191

350 17,993 Conejo Valley Unified 1400 E Janss Rd Thousand Oaks CA 91362 27 805-497-9511

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351 17,958 Ouachita Parish School Board PO Box 1642 Monroe LA 71201 31 318-388-2711352 17,934 Grand Prairie ISD Box 531170 Grand Prairie TX 75053 27 214-264-6141353 17,921 Naperville C U Dist 203 203 W Hillside Naperville IL 60540 21 708-420-6300354 17,891 Portsmouth City Public Schools PO Box 998 Portsmouth VA 23705 28 804-393-8742355 17,876 Goose Creek ISD P. O. Box 30 Baytown TX 77522 24 713-420-4800356 17,867 Nash-Rocky Mount School Admin. Unit 930 Eastern Ave Nashville NC 27856 27 919-459-5220357 17,817 Pueblo City 60 315 West 11Th Street Pueblo CO 81003 35 719-549-7100358 17,786 Cedar Rapids Comm School District 346 2nd Avenue SW Cedar Rapids IA 52404 33 319-398-2000359 17,757 Davidson County Schools PO Box 2057 Lexington NC 27293 26 704-249-8182360 17,750 Livonia Public Schools 15125 Farmington Road Livonia MI 48154 34 313-523-8800

361 17,736 Pajaro Valley Joint Unified P.O. Box 50010 Watsonville CA 95077 23 408-728-6230362 17,709 Olathe PO Box 2000 Olathe KS 66063 32 913-780-7000363 17,640 Saint Landry Parish School Board PO Box 310 Opelousas LA 70571 37 318-948-3657364 17,628 Redlands Unified P.O. Box 3008 Redlands CA 92373 17 909-307-5300365 17,596 Evergreen (Clark) 13501 NE 28th Street Vancouver WA 98668 27 360-256-6000366 17,589 Palm Springs Unified 333 S. Farrell Dr. Palm Springs CA 92262 21 619-327-1581367 17,566 Davenport Comm School District 1001 Harrison Street Davenport IA 52803 36 319-323-9951368 17,523 Columbia County School District PO Box 10 Appling GA 30802 20 706-541-0650369 17,493 Kyrene Elementary District 8700 S Kyrene Rd Tempe AZ 85284 18 602-496-4600370 17,489 San Angelo !SD 1621 University Ave. San Angelo TX 76904 29 915-947-3700

371 17,439 Galena Park ISD P. 0. Box 565 Galena Park TX 77547 19 713-672-7491372 17,418 Washington School District 189 W Tabernacle St George UT 84770 26 801-673-3553373 17,305 Jurupa Unified 3924 Riverview Dr. Riverside CA 92509 22 909-222-7768374 17,304 Puyallup 109 E Pioneer Puyallup WA 98372 34 206-841-1301375 17,251 Francis Howell R-lii 4545 Central School Rd St Charles MO 63304 14 314-441-0088376 17,178 Arlington Cnty Public Schools 1426 N Quincy St Arlington VA 22207 30 703-358-6010377 17,136 Everett PO Box 2098 Everett WA 98203 29 360-342-7413378 17,056 Elizabeth City Mitchell Building Elizabeth NJ 07207 25 908-558-3025379 17,051 Escondido Union Elementary 1330 E. Grand Ave. Escondido CA 92027 19 619-432-2432380 16,971 Vigo County School Corp 961 Lafayette Ave PO Box 4331 Terre Haute IN 47808 30 812-462-4216

381 16,863 Hall County School District 711 Green Street Suite 100 Gainesville GA 30501 25 404-534-1080382 16,854 Toms River Regional 1144 Hooper Avenue Toms River NJ 08753 16 908-505-5506383 16,809 Johnston County Schools PO Box 1336 Smithfield NC 27577 27 919-934-6031384 16,790 St Vrain Valley Re 1J 395 South Pratt Parkway Longmont CO 80501 33 303-776-6200385 16,725 Fayette County School District 210 Stonewall Avenue Fayetteville GA 30214 21 404-461-8171386 16,569 North Kansas City 74 2000 NE 46th St Kansas City MO 64116 28 816-453-5050387 16,560 Ventura Unified 120 E. Santa Clara St. Ventura CA 93001 27 805-641-5000388 16,534 Tyler ISD P. 0. Box 2035 Tyler TX 75710 28 903-531-3500389 16,520 Stafford Cnty Public Schools 1729 Jefferson Davis Hwy Stafford VA 22554 19 540-659-3141390 16,517 Peoria School District 150 3202 N Wisconsin Ave Peoria IL 61603 44 309-672-6767

391 16,412 Lafourche Parish School Board PO Box 879 Thibodaux LA 70302 28 504-446-5631392 16,356 Alvord Unified 10365 Keller Ave Riverside CA 92505 17 909-351-9367393 16,328 Cartwright Elementary District 3401 N 67th Ave Phoenix AZ 85033 18 602-846-2800394 16,311 Baldwin Park Unified 3699 N. Holly Ave. Baldwin Park CA 91706 20 818-926-3311395 16,285 Inglewood Unified 401 S. Inglewood Ave. Inglewood CA 90301 18 310-419-2500396 16,162 Chaffey Union High 211 W. Fifth St. Ontario CA 91762 7 909-988-8511397 16,101 Schaumburg C C School District 54 524 E Schaumburg Rd Schaumburg IL 60194 28 847-885-6700398 16,088 Manchester School District 196 Bridge Street Manchester NH 03104 21 603-624-6300399 15,973 Waco ISD P. 0. Box 27 Waco TX 76703 31 817-752-8341400 15,968 Fairbanks North Star Boro SID 520 Fifth Avenue Fairbanks AK 99701 30 907-452-2000

401 15,907 Desoto Co School District 425 E Commerce Street Hernando MS 38632 19 601-429-5271402 15,863 Littleton 6 5776 South Crocker Street Littleton CO 80120 23 303-347-3300403 15,843 Mwc/Del City 7217 SE 15th Midwest City OK 73110 26 405-737-4461404 15,834 Alum Rock Union Elementary 2930 Gay Ave. San Jose CA 95127 25 408-258-4923405 15,805 Wichita Falls !SD P. 0. Box 2570 Wichita Falls TX 76307 28 817-720-3273406 15,803 Cabarrus County Schools PO Box 388 Concord NC 28026 20 704-786-6191407 15,801 Harlingen Cons ISD 1409 East Harrison St. Hrlingen TX 78550 22 210-427-3400408 15,763 Iberia Parish School Board 200 School Board Drive New Iberia LA 70560 33 318-365-2341409 15,754 Henry County School District 396 Tomlinson Street McDonough GA 30253 20 404-957-6601410 15,713 Williamson County School District 1320 West Main Suite 202 Franklin TN 37064 24 615-790-5850

411 15,637 Edmond 1001 W Danforth Edmond OK 73003 21 405-340-2800412 15,593 Charlotte County School District 1445 Piatti Drive Charlotte FL 33948 21 813-255-0808413 15,550 Springfield School District 18 1900 W Monroe St Springfield IL 62704 36 217-525-3002414 15,549 Dearborn City School District 18700 Audette Dearborn MI 48124 30 313-730-3242415 15,536 Douglas County School District PO Box 1077 Douglasville GA 30133 21 404-942-5411416 15,491 Antioch Unified P.O. Box 768 Antioch CA 94509 16 510-706-4100417 15,459 Madera Unified 1902 Howard Road Madera CA 93637 18 209-675-4500418 15,451 Amphitheater Unified District 701 W Wetmore Tucson AZ 85705 18 520-292-4200419 15,396 Saint Johns County School District 40 Orange Street Saint Augustine FL 32084 24 904-824-7201420 15,393 Hemando County School District 919 Nodh Broad Street Brooksville FL 34601 18 904-796-6761

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421 15,391 Bellevue 12111 NE 1st St Bellevue WA 98009 32 206-455-6015

422 15,390 Chandler Unified District 1525 W Frye Rd Chandler AZ 85224 17 602-786-7000

423 15,378 Napa Valley Unified 2425 Jefferson St. Napa CA 94558 29 707-253-3511

424 15,362 Plymouth Canton Comm Schools 454 South Harvey Plymouth MI 48170 22 313-416-2700

425 15,333 Lynwood Unified 11321 Bullis Rd. Lynwood CA 90262 12 310-886-1600

426 15,299 Pickens County School District 1348 Griffin Mill Road Easley SC 29640 25 803-855-8150

427 15,298 Lowell School District 89 Appleton Lowell MA 01852 29 508-937-7647

428 15,279 Spotsylvania County Public Schools 6717 Smith Station Rd Spotsylvania VA 22553 23 540-898-6032

429 15,255 Ann Arbor Public Schools 2555 South State Road Ann Arbor MI 48104 33 313-994-2230

430 15,247 Rochester 615 S.W. 7th St. Rochester IM 55902 29 507-285-8551

431 15,188 Dorchester School District 02 102 Greenwave Blvd. Summerville SC 29483 16 803-873-2901

432 15,187 Randolph County Schools 2222-C S Fayetteville St Asheboro NC 27203 22 910-318-6100

433 15,168 Tuscaloosa County School District PO Drawer 2568 Tuscaloosa AL 35403 27 205-758-0411

434 15,146 Columbia 93 1818 W Worley St Columbia I. 65203 29 314-886-2100

435 15,112 Red Clay Consolidated School District 1400 Washington Street Wilmington DE 19801 26 302-651-2600

436 15,094 Manteca Unified P.O. Box 32 Manteca CA 95336 18 209-825-3200

437 15,082 Paramount Unified 15110 California Ave. Paramount CA 90723 14 310-602-6000

438 15,049 Judson ISD P. O. Box 249 Converse TX 78109 17 210-659-9605

439 15,042 Allentown City SD 31 South Penn St PO Box 328 Allentown PA 18105 23 610-821-2600

440 15,035 Brockton School District 43 Crescent Brockton MA 02401 24 508-580-7511

441 14,910 Hemet Unified 2350 W. Latham Ave. Hemet CA 92545 17 909-765-5100

442 14,885 Wood County School District 1210 13th Street Parkersburg WV 26101 29 304-420-9663

443 14,866 Richland School District 02 6831 Brookfield Road Columbia SC 29206 16 803-787-1910

444 14,847 Harlandale ISD 102 Genevieve St. San Antonio TX 78214 26 210-921-4300

445 14,837 Hesperia Unified 9144 Third St. Hesperia CA 92345 16 619-244-9323

446 14,831 Wayne-Westland Community S/D 36745 Marquette Westland MI 48185 26 313-595-2000

447 14,793 Craven County Schools 3600 Trent Rd New Bern NC 28562 21 919-514-6300

448 14,668 Victoria ISD P. O. Box 1759 Victoria TX 77902 23 512-576-3131

449 14,644 Florence School District 01 319 S. Dargan Street Florence SC 29506 20 803669-4141

450 14,640 Board of Ed of Cecil County Booth Street Center Elkton MD 21921 27 410-996-5400

451 14,638 Antelope Valley Union High 44811 North Sierra Hwy. Lancaster CA 93534 7 805-948-7655

452 14,636 Rapid City 51-4 300 6th St Rapid City SD 57701 27 605-394-4031

453 14,595 New Bedford School District 455 County New Bedford MA 02740 28 508-997-4511

454 14,587 Edgewood ISD 5358 W. Commerce St. San Antonio TX 78237 26 210-433-2361

455 14,576 Doe-Terr of American Samoa PO Box DOE Pago Pago AS 96799 31 684-633-5237

456 14,513 Sioux City Comm School District 1221 Pierce Street Sioux City IA 51105 31 712-279-6642

457 14,486 La Mesa-Spring Valley 4750 Date Ave. La Mesa CA 91941 22 619-463-5700

458 14,476 Sunnyside Unified District 2238 E Ginter Rd Tucson AZ 85706 18 520-741-2500

459 14,472 Cupertino Union Elementary 10301 Vista Dr. Cupertino CA 95014 23 408-252-3000

460 14,445 Broken Arrow 601 S Main St Broken Arrow OK 74012 23 918-259-4300

461 14,394 Ascension Parish School Board PO Box 189 Donaldsonville LA 70346 18 504-473-7981

462 14,369 Martin County School District PO Box 1049 Stuart FL 34995 24 407-287-0101

463 14,348 Sachem CSD 245 Union Ave Holbrook NY 11741 15 516-467-8202

464 14,343 Rockingham County Cons Schools 511 Harrington Hwy Eden NC 27288 25 910-627-2600

465 14,326 Bethel 516 176th St E Spanaway WA 98387 27 206-535-0950

466 14,315 Waterbury School District 236 Grand Street Waterbury CT 06702 26 203-574-8004

467 14,294 Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools PO Box 1318 Gallup NM 87301 31 505-722-7711

468 14,239 Reading SD 800 Washington Street Reading PA 19601 18 610-371-5611

469 14,180 Beaufort County School District PO Box 309, 1300 King Street Beaufort SC 29901 21 803-525-4200

470 14,171 lredell-Statesville Schools PO Box 911 Statesville NC 28687 28 704-872-8931

471 14,156 Rankin County School District 1220 Apple Park Place Brandon MS 39043 22 601-825-5590

472 14,136 Vacaville Unified 751 School St. Vacaville CA 95688 19 707-453-6100

473 14,133 Lake Elsinore Unified 545 Chaney St. Lake Elsinore CA 92530 16 909-674-7731

474 14,107 Catawba County Schools PO Box 1000 Newton NC 28658 23 704-464-8333

475 14,090 Greece CSD P.O. Box 300 North Greece NY 14515 21 716-621-1000

476 14,085 Topeka Public Schools 624 W 24th Topeka KS 66611 35 913-233-0313

477 14,082 Appleton Area School District PO Box 2019 Appleton WI 54913 24 414-832-6126

478 14,065 Cabe II County School District PO Box 446 Huntington WV 25709 33 304-528-5000

479 14,063 Warren Consolidated Schools 31300 Anita Street Warren MI 48093 27 810-825-2410

480 14,049 Academy 20 7610 North Union Boulevard Colorado Springs CO 80920 21 719-598-2566

481 14,018 Santa Clara Unified P.O. Box 397 Santa Clara CA 95052 22 408-983-2000

482 14,017 Duluth 215 No. 1st Ave. E. Duluth MN 55802 39 218-723-4150

483 14,014 Hanover County Public Schools 200 Berkley St Ashland VA 23005 17 804-752-6000

484 13,998 Saginaw City School District 550 Millard Street Saginaw MI 48607 33 517-759-2200

485 13,978 South Washington County 7362 E. Point Douglas Rd. S Cottage Grove UN 55016 20 612-458-6300

486 13,950 Saint Marys County Public Schools PO Box 641 Leonardtown 111) 20650 24 301-475-4250

487 13,934 Citrus County School District 1007 West Main Street Inverness FL 34450 18 904-726-1931

488 13,932 Stamford School District 888 Washington Blvd, Box 9310 Stamford CT 06901 21 203-977-4105

489 13,920 Laramie Coounty School District 01 2810 House Avenue Cheyenne WY 82001 32 307-771-2100

490 13,887 Harnett County Schools PO Box 1029 Lillington NC 27546 22 910-893-8151

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491 13,887 North Clackamas School District 012 4444 SE Lake Rd Milwaukie OR 97222 25 503-653-3600492 13,882 Chico Unified 1163 E. Seventh St. Chico CA 95928 22 916-891-3000493 13,857 Comm Unit School District 300 300 Cleveland Ave Carpentersville IL 60110 19 847-426-1300494 13,835 Burbank Unified 330 N. Buena Vista St. Burbank CA 91505 17 818-558-4600495 13,830 Walnut Valley Unified 880 S. Lemon Ave. Walnut CA 91789 15 909-595-1261496 13,829 Yakima 104 N 4th Ave Yakima WA 98902 25 509-575-3230497 13,820 Pocatello School District 25 3115 Pole Line Road Pocatello ID 83204 29 208-232-3563498 13,796 Wicomico County Board of Ed PO Box 1538, 101 Long Avenue Salisbury MD 21801 21 410-742-5128499 13,774 Lamar Consolidated ISD 3911 Avenue I Rosenberg TX 77471 25 713-341-3100500 13,753 Roanoke County Public Schools 5937 Cove Rd NW Roanoke VA 24019 27 540-562-3700SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey, 1995-96, and "Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey, 1995-96.

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Appendix B. Alphabetical list and rank (by size) of the 500 largest public school districts in the United Statesand outlying areas: School year 1995-96School district State Rank School district State Rank

ABC Unified CA 268 Charleston County School District SC 97Abilene ISO TX 306 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 27Academy 20 CO 480 Charlotte County School District FL 412Adams-Arapahoe 28J CO 191 Chatham County School District GA 126

Aiken County School District SC 231 Chattanooga City School District TN 288Akron City SD OH 148 Cherokee County School District GA 281

Alachua County Schdol District FL 180 Cherry Creek 5 CO 127Albuquerque Public Schools NM 28 Chesapeake City Public Schools VA 132Aldine ISD TX 91 Chesterfield Cnty Public Schools VA 78Alief ISO TX 122 Chico Unified CA 492Allentown City SD PA 439 Chino Unified CA 184Alpine School District UT 99 Christina School District DE 299Alum Rock Union Elementary CA 404 Chula Vista Elementary CA 310Alvord Unified CA 392 Cincinnati City SD OH 70Amarillo ISO TX 170 Citrus County School District FL 487Amphitheater Unified District AZ 418 City of Chicago School District 29 IL 4Anaheim Elementary CA 336 Clark County School District NV 11

Anaheim Union High CA 230 Clay County School District FL 221Anchorage School District AK 82 Clayton County School District GA 108Ann Arbor Public Schools MI 429 Clear Creek ISD TX 201Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 45 Cleveland City SD OH 41

Anoka-Hennepin MN 115 Clovis Unified CA 175Antelope Valley Union High CA 451 Cobb County School District GA 33Antioch Unified CA 416 Collier County School District FL 204Appleton Area School District WI 477 Colorado Springs 11 CO 138Arlington County Public Schools VA 376 Colton Joint Unified CA 319Arlington ISD TX 71 Columbia 93 MO 434Ascension Parish School Board LA 461 Columbia County School District GA 368Atlanta City School District GA 58 Columbus City SD OH 53Austin ISD TX 40 Comm Unit Sch District 300 IL 493Bakersfield City Elementary CA 205 Compton Unified CA 187Baldwin County School District AL 284 Conejo Valley Unified CA 350Baldwin Park Unified CA 394 Conroe ISD TX 182Baltimore City Public School System MD 21 Corona-Norco Unified CA 188Baltimore County Public Schools MD 24 Corpus Christi ISO TX 104Bay County School District FL 215 Craven County Schools NC 447Beaufort County School District SC 469 Cumberland County Schools NC 72Beaumont ISD TX 297 Cupertino Union Elementary CA 459Beaverton School District 48J OR 181 Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 74Bellevue WA 421 Dade County School District FL 5Berkeley County School District SC 206 Dallas ISO TX 12

Bethel WA 465 Davenport Comm School District IA 367Bibb County School District GA 217 Davidson County Schools NC 359Birdville ISD TX 294 Davis School District UT 59Birmingham City School District AL 101 Dayton City SD OH 189Board of Ed of Cecil County MD 450 De Kalb County School District GA 29Board of Ed, Washington County MD 302 Dearborn City School District MI 414Board of Ed, Charles County MD 280 Deer Valley Unified District AZ 290Boise City Ind School District 1 ID 200 Denver County 1 CO 50Bossier Parish School Board LA 323 Des Moines Independent Comm Schools IA 144Boston School District MA 52 Desert Sands Unified CA 305Boulder Valley Re 2 CO 214 Desoto Co School District MS 401

Brevard County School District FL 48 Detroit City School District MI 10

Bridgeport School District CT 271 District of Columbia Public Schools DC 36Brockton School District MA 440 Doe-Terr of American Samoa AS 455Broken Arrow OK 460 Dorchester School District 02 SC 431

Broward County School District FL 7 Dougherty School District GA 348Brownsville ISD TX 109 Douglas County Re 1 CO 262Buffalo City SD NY 79 Douglas County School District GA 415Buncombe County Schools NC 234 Downey Unified CA 332Burbank Unified CA 494 Duluth MN 482Cabarrus County Schools NC 406 Durham Public Schools NC 185Cabe II County School District WV 478 Duval County School District FL 17

Caddo Parish School Board LA 77 East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 57Cajon Valley Union Elementary CA 321 East Side Union High CA 261

Calcasieu Parish School Board LA 135 Ector County ISD TX 183Camden City NJ 300 Edgewood ISD TX 454Capistrano Unified CA 133 Edinburg Cisd TX 325Carroll County Public Schools MD 212 Edmond OK 411

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD TX 291 Edmonds WA 283Cartwright Elementary District AZ 393 El Paso ISD TX 51

Catawba County Schools NC 474 Elizabeth City NJ 378Cedar Rapids Comm School District IA 358 Elk Grove Unified CA 125

Chaffey Union High CA 396 Escambia County School District FL 90Chandler Unified District AZ 422 Escondido Union Elementary CA 379

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Eugene School District 04J 334 Jefferson County R-1 31Evansville-Vanderburgh School Cor 241 Jefferson County School District 106Everett 377 Jefferson Parish School Board 64Evergreen (Clark) 365 Jersey City 157Fairbanks North Star Boro S/D 400 Johnston County Schools 383Fairfax Cnty Public Schools 14 Jordan School District 44Fairfield-Suisun Unified 279 Judson ISD 438Fayette Co 139 Jurupa Unified 373Fayette County School District 385 Kanawha County School District 149Federal Way 285 Kansas City 270Flint City School District 203 Kansas City 33 123Florence School District 01 419 Katy ISD 213Fontana Unified 164 Kenosha School District 326Forsyth County Schools 107 Kent 228Fort Bend ISD 110 Kern Union High 225Fort Wayne Community Schools 156 Killeen ISD 190Fort Worth ISD 42 Klein ISD 178Francis Howell R-lii 375 Knox County School District 68Frederick County Board of Ed 141 Kyrene Elementary District 369Fremont Unified 172 La Mesa-Spring Valley 457Fresno Unified 37 Lafayette Parish School Board 151Fulton County School District 63 Lafourche Parish School Board 391Galena Park !SD 371 Lake.County School District 222Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools 467 Lake Elsinore Unified 473Garden Grove Unified 98 Lake Washington 232Garland ISD 96 Lamar Consolidated ISD 499Gary Community School Corp 254 Lansing Public School District 296Gaston County Schools 177 Laramie Co School District 01 489Glendale Unified 171 Laredo ISD 248Goose Creek ISD 355 Las Cruces Public Schools 260Grand Prairie ISD 352 Lawton 315Grand Rapids City School District 197 Lee County School District 73Granite School District 38 Leon County School District 161Greece Csd 475 Lewisville ISD 186Green Bay Area School District 307 Lincoln Public Schools 165Greenville County School District 66 Little Rock School District 220Grossmont Union High 274 Littleton 6 402Guam Dept of Education 150 Livingston Parish School Board 340Guilford County Schools 61 Livonia Public Schools 360Gwinnett County School District 32 Lodi Unified 210Hacienda La Puente Unified 265 Long Beach Unified 35Hall County School District 381 Los Angeles Unified 2Hamilton County School Distrct 238 Loudoun County Public Schools 301Hampton City Public Schools 244 Lowell School District 427Hanover Cnty Public Schools 483 Lubbock ISD 167Harford County Public Schools 120 Lynwood Unified 425Harlandale !SD 444 Madera Unified 417Harlingen Cons ISD 407 Madison County School District 343Harnett County Schools 490 Madison Metropolitan School District 218Hartford School District 240 Manatee County School District 155Hawaii Department of Education 9 Manchester School District 398Hayward Unified 287 Manteca Unified 436Hazelwood 344 Marion County School District 128Hemet Unified 441 Martin County School District 462Henrico County Public Schools 118 McAllen ISD 267Henry County School District 409 Memphis City School District 22Hemando County School District 420 Meridian Jt School District 2 328Hesperia Unified 445 Mesa County Valley 51 327Highline 342 Mesa Unified School District 47Hillsborough County School District 13 Mesquite ISD 179Horry County School District 211 Midland !SD 251Houston County School District 311 Millard Public Schools 339Houston ISD 8 Milwaukee School District 25Howard County Public Schools System 117 Minneapolis 86Humble ISD 258 Mobile County School District 49Huntsville City School District 235 Modesto City Elementary 345Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD 313 Montebello Unified 140Iberia Parish School Board 408 Montgomery County Public Schools 20Indianapolis Public Schools 93 Montgomery County School District 130Inglewood Unified 395 Montgomery County Schools 272lredell-Statesville Schools 470 Moore 347Irvine Unified 263 Moreno Valley Unified 159Irving ISD 202 M. Diablo Unified 129Jackson Public School District 142 Muscogee County School District 137Jefferson County 26 Mwc/Del City 403

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Appendix B. Alphabetical list and rank (by size) of the 500 largest public school districts in the United Statesand outlying areas: School year 1995-96 (Continued)School district State Rank School district State Rank

Napa Valley Unified CA 423 Pulaski County Spec. School District AR 286

Naperville C U District 203 IL 353 Putnam City OK 317

Nash-Rocky Mount School Adm Unit NC 356 Puyallup WA 374

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 46 Racine School District WI 255

Nebo School District UT 324 Randolph County Schools NC 432

New Bedford School District IAA 453 Rankin County School District MS 471

New Hanover County Schools NC 276 Rapid City 51-4 SD 452

New Haven School District CT 322 Rapides Parish School Board LA 223

New York City Public Schools NY 1 Reading SD PA 468

Newark City NJ 87 Red Clay Consolidated School District DE 435

Newport-Mesa Unified CA 331 Redlands Unified CA 364

Newport News City Public Schools VA 143 Rialto Unified CA 239

Norfolk City Public Schools VA 121 Richardson ISD TX 136

North Clackamas School District 012 OR 491 Richland School District 01 SC 196

North East ISO TX 94 Richland School District 02 SC 443

North Kansas City. 74 1.03 386 Richmond City Public Schools VA 193

Northglenn-Thornton 12 CO 226 GA 124Richmond County School District

Northshore WA 314 Riverside Unified CA 131

Northside ISD TX 60 Roanoke County Public Schools VA 500

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified CA 282 Rochester 101 430

Oakland Unified CA 69 Rochester City SD NY 119

Oceanside City Unified CA 309 Rockford School District 205 IL 194

Okaloosa County School District FL 176 Rockingham County Cons Schools NC 464

Oklahoma City OK 112 Rockwood R-Vi MO 308

Olathe KS 362 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan WM 207

Omaha Public Schools NE 95 Round Rock !SD TX 216

Ons low County Schools NC 289 Rowan-Salisbury Schools NC 320

Ontario-Montclair Elementary CA 242 Rowland Unified CA 330

Orange County School District FL 18 Rutherford County School District TN 264

Orange Unified CA 195 Sachem County School District NY 463

Orleans Parish School Board LA 30 Sacramento City Unified CA 76

Osceola County School District FL 209 Saddleback Valley Unified CA 168

Osseo MN 273 Saginaw City School District MI 484

Ouachita Parish School Board LA 351 Saint Johns County School District FL 419

Pajaro Valley Joint Unified CA 361 Saint Landry Parish School Board LA 363

Palm Beach County School District FL 15 Saint Lucie County School District FL 199

Palm Springs Unified CA 366 Saint Marys County Public Schools MD 486

Palmdale Elementary CA 349 Saint Tammany Parish School Board LA 152

Paradise Valley Unified District AZ 147 Salem/Keizer School District 24J OR 160

Paramount Unified CA 437 Salt Lake City School District UT 208

Parkway C-2 MO 266 San Angelo ISD TX 370

Pasadena ISD TX 111 San Antonio MD TX 56

Pasadena Unified CA 259 San Bernardino City Unified CA 92

Pasco County School District FL 102 San Diego City Unified CA 16

Paterson City NJ 250 San Francisco Unified CA 55

Peoria School District 150 I L 390 San Jose Unified CA 146

Peoria Unified District AZ 198 San Juan Unified CA 80

Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD TX 292 San Ramon Valley Unified CA 335

Philadelphia City SD PA 6 Santa Ma Unified CA 75

Phoenix Union High School District AZ 278 Santa Clara Unified CA 481

Pickens County School District SC 426 Santa Rosa County School District FL 304

Pinellas County School District FL 23 Sarasota County School District FL 163

Pitt County Schools NC 312 Schaumburg C C School District 54 I L 397

Pittsburgh SD PA 113 School District 46 I L 162

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified CA 243 Scottsdale Unified District AZ 229

Plano ISO TX 116 Seattle WA 85

Plymouth Canton Comm Schools MI 424 Seminole County School District FL 67

Pocatello School District 25 ID 497 Shawnee Mission Public Schools KS 154

Polk County School District FL 43 Shelby County School District AL 346

Pomona Unified CA 166 Shelby County School District TN 88

Portland School District 1J OR 65 Simi Valley Unified CA 329

Portsmouth City Public Schools VA 354 Sioux City Comm School District IA 456

Poudre R-1 CO 275 Sioux Falls 49-5 SD 338

Poway Unified CA 169 Socorro ISO TX 295

Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 19 South-Western City SD OH 333

Prince William County Public Schools VA 84 South Bend Community School Corp IN 277

Providence School District RI 237 South Washington County MN 485

Public Schools of Robeson Co NC 247 Spokane WA 145

Pueblo City 60 CO 357 Spotsylvania County Public Schools VA 428

Puerto Rico Dept of Education PR 3 Spring Branch ISD TX 174

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Spring ISD TX 293 Vancouver WA 298Springfield R-Xii 143 224 Ventura Unified CA 387Springfield School District MA 245 Victoria ISD TX 448Springfield School District 18 IL 413 Vigo County School Corp IN 380St Vraln Valley Re 1J CO 384 Virgin Islands School District VI 256St. Louis City Mo 103 Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 39St. Paul LIN 100 Visalia Unified CA 233Stafford County Public Schools VA 389 Vista Unified CA 236Stamford School District CT 488 Volusia County School District FL 62Stockton City Unified CA 134 Waco ISD TX 399Sumner County School District TN 269 Wake County Schools NC 34Sunnyside Unified District AZ 458 Walnut Valley Unified CA 495Sweetwater Union High CA 173 Warren Consolidated Schools MI 479Syracuse City SD NY 246 Washington Elementary District AZ 227Tacoma WA 158 Washington School District UT 372Tangipahoa Parish School Board LA 341 Washoe County School District NV 81Terrebonne Parish Schriol Board LA 257 Waterbury School District CT 466Toledo City SD OH 114 Wayne-Westland Community S/D MI 446Toms River Regional NJ 382 Wayne County Public Schools NC 318Topeka Public Schools KS 476 Weber School District UT 192Torrance Unified CA 253 West Contra Costa Unified CA 153Tucson Unified District AZ 54 Wichita KS 89Tulsa OK 105 Wichita Falls ISD TX 405Tuscaloosa County School District .AL 433 Wicomico County Board ot Ed MD 498Tyler ISD TX 388 Williamson County School District TN 410Union County Public Schools NC 337 Wood County School District WV 442United ISO TX 363 Worcester School District MA 249Utica Community Schools MI 219 Yakima WA 496Vacaville Unified CA 472 Yonkers City SD NY 252Vallejo City Unified CA 316 Ysleta ISO TX 83


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Appendix C. Selected statistics for the 100 largest school districts In the United States: School year 1994-95

Name of reporting district City State County

Number of full- Number ofNumber of time equivalent 1993-94

students* (FTE) teachers graduatesNumber of

schools

New York City Public Schools New York NY Kings 1,022,534 57,214 34,385 1,097

Los Angeles Unified SD Los Angeles CA Los Angeles 632,973 25,278 25,349 643

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education Hato Rey PR San Juan 621,121 39,933 30,106 1,566

City of Chicago School District 29 Chicago IL Cook 407,241 22,418 15,007 604

Dade County School District Miami FL Dade 321,815 15,515 14,369 319

Philadelphia City School District Philadelphia PA Philadelphia 208,710 10,669 8,486 258

Houston ISD Houston TX Harris 202,149 11,627 6,719 263

Broward County School District Fort Lauderdale FL Broward 199,255 9,697 7,149 186

Hawaii Department of Education Honolulu HI Honolulu 183,869 '10,241 9,369 242

Detroit Public Schools Detroit MI Wayne 170,855 7,703 5,779 258

Clark County School District Las Vegas NV Clark 158,348 7,938 5,710 198

Dallas ISD Dallas TX Dallas 145,019 8,928 4,673 200

Hillsborough County School District Tampa FL Hillsborough 138,575 8,016 5,654 172

Fairfax County Public Schools Fairfax VA Fairfax 137,646 - 8,884 203

San Diego City Unified San Diego CA San Diego 128,555 5,518 5,849 160

Palm Beach County School District West Palm Beach FL Palm Beach 127,519 6,635 5,366 129

Duval County School District Jacksonville FL Duval 121,362 5,950 4,345 155

Orange County School District Orlando FL Orange 118,666 6,396 4,600 157

Prince Georges County Public Schools Upper Marlboro MD Prince George's 118,478 6,566 6,545 176

Montgomery County Public Schools Rockville MD Montgomery 117,082 6,898 6,371 179

Baltimore City Public School System Baltimore MD Baltimore City 113,428 6,149 3,123 180

Memphis City School District Memphis TN Shelby 108,643 5,657 3,896 164

Pinellas County School District Largo FL Pinellas 102,170 5,796 4,728 147

Baltimore County Public Schools Towson MD Baltimore 99,231 5,759 5,131 157

Milwaukee School District Milwaukee WI Milwaukee 98,009 5,690 3,066 150

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools Louisville KY Jefferson 93,407 5,438 . 5,079 148

Albuquerque Public Schools Albuquerque NM Bemalillo 89,001 5,491 4,332 126

Orleans Parish School Board New Orleans LA Orleans 86,028 4,603 2,998 121

Mecklenburg County Public Schools Charlotte NC Mecklenburg 86,023 5,135 3,851 123

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 Golden CO Jefferson 84,018 3,935 4,125 142

De Kalb County School District Decatur GA De Kalb 83,722 5,226 3,943 106

Cobb County School District Marietta GA Cobb 80,479 4,800 3,982 86

District of Columbia Public Schools Washington DC District of Columbia 80,450 6,110 3,207 175

Gwinnett County School District Lawrenceville GA Gwinnett 80,220 4,693 3,803 70

Granite School District Salt Lake City UT Salt Lake 78,590 3,286 4,061 99

Long Beach Unified Long Beach CA Los Angeles 78,127 3,126 3,361 80

Fresno Unified Fresno CA Fresno 77,023 3,334 3,143 90

Wake County Public Schools Raleigh NC Wake 76,922 4,668 3,660 95

Virginia Beach City Public Schools Virginia Beach VA Virginia Beach City 75,926 - 3,492 81

Cleveland City School District Cleveland OH Cuyahoga 73,803 4,355 36 129

Austin ISD Austin TX Travis 73,191 4,765 2,704 103

Fort Worth !SD Fort Worth TX Tarrant 72,342 4,106 2,252 127

Nashville-Davidson County School District Nashville TN Davidson 71,574 4,110 2,549 121

Polk County School District Bartow FL Polk 71,297 3,906 2,839 117

Jordan School District Sandy UT Salt Lake 70,761 2,825 3,803 70

Anne Arundel County Public Schools Annapolis MD Anne Arundel 70,588 3,951 3,693 111

Mesa Unified School District Mesa AZ Maricopa 69,160 3,241 3,436 71

Columbus City School District Columbus OH Franklin 85,809 4,280 1,215 144

El Paso ISD El Paso TX El Paso 64,880 3,990 3,021 81

Mobile County Public Schools Mobile AL Mobile 64,645 3,548 2,740 88

Brevard County School District Melbourne FL Brevard 64,595 3,482 2,692 87

Denier County 1 Denver CO Denver 62,773 3,510 2,416 112

Tucson Unified District #1 Tucson AZ Pima 62,624 2,996 2,472 110

Boston School District Boston MA Suffolk 61,489 3,932 3,023 117

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board Baton Rouge LA East Baton Rouge 61,460 3,827 2,893 103

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Name of reporting_district City State CountyNumber ofstudents"

Number of full-time equivalent(FTE) teachers

Number of1993-94

graduatesNumber of

schools

San Francisco Unified San Francisco CA San Francisco 61,340 2,967 3,613 109San Antonio ISD San Antonio TX Bazar 60,419 3,752 2,029 110Atlanta City School District Atlanta GA Fulton 59,560 3,643 2,109 109Davis School District Farmington UT Davis 58,122 2,330 3,471 70Jefferson Parish School Board Harvey LA Jefferson 56,790 3,249 2,226 83

Northside ISO San Antonio TX Bazar 56,117 3,533 2,817 74Guilford County Public Schools Greensboro NC Guilford 55,688 3,549 2,961 93Volusia County School District Deland FL Volusia 55,530 3,007 2,335 72Portland School District IJ Portland OR Multnomah 54,849 3,041 2,251 101Greenville County School District Greenville SC Greenville 54,064 3,151 2,635 91

Seminole County School District Sanford FL Seminole 53,366 2,597 2,661 55Fulton County School District Atlanta GA Fulton 53,143 3,333 2,329 55Cincinnati City School District Cincinnati OH Hamilton 52,852 3,091 1,848 83Knox County School District Knoxville TN Knox 52,285 2,946 2,525 88Oakland Unified Oakland CA Alameda 51,706 2,268 1,793 90

Arlington !SD Arlington TX Tarrant 50,293 2,916 2,291 60Cumberland County Public Schools Fayetteville NC Cumberland 49,995 2,880 2,581 70Caddo Parish School Board Shreveport LA Caddo 49,609 2,870 2,203 75Lee County School District Fort Myers FL Lee 49,413 2,459 2,090 71Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Houston TX Harris 49,364 3,017: 2,297 48

Sacramento City Unified Sacramento CA Sacramento 49,282 1,966 2,000 75Santa Ana Unified Santa Ma CA Orange 48,870 1,835 1,932 46Chesterfield County Public Schools Chisterfield .VA Chesterfield 48,050 - 2,598 55Anchorage School District Anchorage AK Anchorage 47,655 2,432 2,173 83Buffalo City School District Buffalo NY Erie 47,595 3,337 2,067 74

Ysleta ISD El Paso TX El Paso 47,572 2,953 2,728 62San Juan Unified Carmichael CA Sacramento 47,080 1,981 2,738 87Seattle School District Seattle WA King 46,565 2,430 _ 116Newark City Public Schools Newark NJ Essex 46,541 3,505 1,502 79Indianapolis Public Schools Indianapolis IN Marion 46,038 2,923 1,309 97

Wichita Public Schools Wichita KS Sedgwick 46,002 2,785 2,172 104Washoe County School District Reno NV Washoe 45,752 2,574 1,685 79Prince William County Public Schools Manassas VA Prince William 45,675 - 2,421 66Minneapolis Special School District Minneapolis MN Hennepin 45,187 2,745 1,572 141Escambia County School District Pensacola FL Escarnbia 44,765 2,562 2,177 70

Charleston County School District Charleston SC Charleston 44,669 2,743 1,612 70San Bernardino City Unified San Bernardino CA San Bernardino 44,250 1,837 1,476 57Shelby County School District Memphis TN Shelby 43,843 2,011 2,107 41Aldine ISD Houston TX Harris 43,818 2,895 1,508 45Omaha Public Setif:Kris Omaha NE Douglas 43,577 2,675 1,963 83

North East ISD San Antonio TX Bexar 43,484 2,708 2,388 52Fort Bend ISO Sugar Land TX Fort Bend 43,115 2,329 1,802 41Garland ISD Garland TX Dallas 42,433 2,364 1,804 59Garden Grove Unified Garden Grove CA Orange 42,423 1,634 2,393 63Alpine District American Park UT Utah 42,014 1,590 2,520 47


Count of students receiving educational services from the school districtmay differ somewhat from the counts of students in appendices E and G,which reflect the count of students from the schools aggregated up to the school district.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondaryEducation Agency Universe Survey", 1994-95.

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Type of schooli

Total numberof schools Regular

Specialeducation

Vocationaleducation


New York City Public Schools NY 1,097 960 81 18 58

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 643 562 19 0 62

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 1,586 1520 21 19 6

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 604 572 32 0 0

Dade County School District FL 319 278 3 6 32

Philadelphia City School District PA 258 247 5 6 0

Houston ISD TX 263 243 3 5 12

Broward County School District FL 186 169 8 5 4

Hawaii Department of Education HI 242 237 4 0 1

Detroit Public Schools MI 258 237 13 4 4

Clark County School District NV 198 175 6 3 14

Dallas ISD TX 200 189 2 1 8

Hillsborough County School District FL 172 151 11 3 7

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 203 175 21 1 6

San Diego City Unified CA 160 151 2 0 7

Palm Beach County School District FL 129 114 4 4 7

Duval County School District FL 155 141 6 3 5

Orange County School District FL 157 126 9 3 19

Prince Georges County Public Schools MD 176 185 9 2 0

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 179 172 6 0 ri

Baltimore City Public School System MD . 180 181 11 3 5

Memphis City School District TN 164 152 6 5 1

Pinellas County School District FL 147 118 8 3 18

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 157 141 6 3 7

Milwaukee School District WI 150 143 2 1 4

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 148 137 3 1 7

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 126 111 ,, 4 0 11


Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 123 115 2 0 6

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 142 135 2 1 4

De Kalb County School District GA 106 101 4 0 1

Cobb County School District GA 86 85 0 0 1

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 175 158 11 2 6

Gwinnett County School District GA 70 67 2 0 1

Granite School District UT 99 87 3 0 9


Fresno Unified CA 90 81 3 0 6

Wake County Public Schools NC 95 91 1 0 3

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 81 75 2 1 3

Cleveland City School District OH 129 123 2 4 0

Austin ISD TX 103 92 7 0 4

Fort Worth ISD TX 127 100 12 0 15

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 121 118 4 0 1

Polk County School District FL 117 94 3 3 17

Jordan School District UT 70 66 3 0 1

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 106 4 0 1

Mesa Unified School District AZ 71 65 2 0 4

Columbus City School District OH 144 137 3 4 0

El Paso ISD TX 81 74 2 1 4

Mobile County Public Schools AL 88 87 1 0 0

Brevard County School District FL 87 75 10 0 2

Denver County 1 CO 112 108 0 1 3

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 110 102 1 0 7

Boston School District MA 117 115 1 1 0

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 103 95 3 2 3

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of schools

Type of school/

RegularSpecial



San Francisco Unified CA 109 105 0 o 4San Antonio ISD TX 110 94 7 o 9Atlanta City School District GA 109 107 0 0 2Davis School District UT 70 66 2 o 2Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 79 4 o o

Northside ISD TX 74 55 16 o 3Guilford County Public Schools NC 93 89 2 1 1Volusia County School District FL 72 80 1 1 10Portland School District IJ OR 101 89 4 0 8Greenville County School District SC 91 84 3 4 0

Seminole County School District FL 55 48 2 o 5Fulton County School District GA 55 53 0 0 2Cincinnati City School District OH 83 80 3 0 0Knox County School District TN 88 83 2 2 1Oakland Unified CA 90 80 4 0 6

Arlington ISD TX 60 54 3 0 3Cumberland County Public Schools NC 70 68 1 0 1Caddo Parish School Board LA 75 64 3 0 8Lee County School District FL 71 57 5 3 8Cypress-Fairbanks ISD . TX 48 45 2 0 1

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 73 0 0 2Santa Ana Unified CA 48 41 1 0 4Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 55 54 o 1 0Anchorage School District AK 83 70 2 3 8Buffalo City School District NY 74 86 2 5 1

Ysleta ISD TX 62 50 1 1 10San Juan Unified CA 87 72 4 0 11Seattle School District WA 116 91 19 0 8Newark City Public Schools NJ 79 74 5 0 0Indianapolis Public Schools IN 97 86 6 0 5

Wichita Public Schools KS 104 94 0 0 10Washoe County School District NV 79 73 1 1 4Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 58 4 0 4Minneapolis Special School District MN 141 67 4 0 70Escambia County School District FL 70 61 4 1 4

Charleston County School District SC 70 70 0 0 0San Bernardino City Unified CA 57 51 3 0 3Shelby County School District TN 41 41 0 0 0Aldine ISD Tx 45 44 1 0 0Omaha Public Schools NE 83 81 2 0 0

North East ISD TX 52 46 3 0 3Fort Bend ISD TX 41 41 0 0 0Garland ISD TX 59 55 1 0 3Garden Grove Unified CA 63 59 2 0 2Alpine District UT 47 43 3 0

/Type of school is a mutually exclusive category. There are cases in which special education, vocational education, and alternative programsreside in other types of schools.2 Educational programs in nontraditional settings, such as storefronts and "boot camps."

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics,Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1994-95, and "Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey", 1994-95.

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Appendix E. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by type of school, and number of students with Individualized Education Programs: School year 1994-95


Total Type of school Students withindividualized educ-

ational programsnumber ofstudents Regular

Specialeducation

Vocationaleducation


New York City Public Schools NY 1,020,991 953,535 16,855 28,174 22,427 118,003

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 632,973 613,192 4,367 15,414 61,493

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 621,266 611,772 1,090 7,535 869 41,215

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 407,241 402,136 5,105 16,605

Dade County School District FL 326,848 314,881 345 511 11,111 30,119

Philadelphia City School District PA 208,710 202,387 1,164 5,159 -- 21,974

Houston ISD TX 202,149 197,722 615 1,703 2,109 20,269

Broward County School District FL 199,287 195,487 2,204 392 1,204 21,535

Hawaii Department of Education HI 183,795 183,592 73 -- 130 12,590

Detroit Public Schools MI 169,270 164,258 2,284 1,416 1,312 17,747

Clark County School District NV 156,396 152,369 717 1,697 1,613 15,540

Dallas ISD TX 145,019 142,630 373 100 1,916 12,382

Hillsborough County School District FL 147,795 137,770 2,100 3,714 4,211 17,536

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 137,646 135,409 912 1,325 19,248

San Diego City Unified CA 128,555 125,389 167 2,999 13,200

Palm Beach County School District FL 129,822 124,384 2,619 1,354 1,465 16,816

Duval County School District FL 121,362 118,195 991 1,236 940 18,589

Orange County School District FL 120,491 117,408 780 115 2,188 14,498

Prince George's County Public Schools MD 118,478 116,305 1,883 290 11,593

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 117,082 116,111 803 168 12,151

Baltimore City Public School System MD 113,428 105,797 1,597 4,268 1,766 17,290

Memphis City School District TN 110,265 109,649 438 178 13,428

Pinellas County School District FL 114,053 99,558 1,411 3,498 9,586 16,582

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 99,231 94,291 1,087 2,476 1,377 11,824

Milwaukee School District VVI 98,009 91,436 840 1,751 3,982 12,862

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 93,407 92,856 257 35 259

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 88,623 88,859 308 1,456 13,943

Orleans Parish School Board LA 85,979 81,420 122 1,530 2,907 6,695

Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 86,023 85,074 240 709 13,623

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 84,018 83,146 177 288 429 7,197

De Kalb County School District GA 83,722 82,199 566 957 7,344

Cobb County School District GA 80,479 80,175 304 7,836

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 80,450 77,662 1,385 451 952 6,759

Gwinnett County School District GA 80,220 79,599 140 481 6,978

Granite School District UT 78,590 76,507 279 1,804 8,608

Long Beach Unified CA 78,127 77,226 901 6,104

Fresno Unified CA 77,023 74,688 171 2,164 8,147

Wake County Public Schools NC 76,947 76,674 273 20,435

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 75,926 75,263 147 516 9,110

Cleveland City School District OH 72,962 71,104 101 1,757

Austin ISD TX 73,191 72,419 540 232 8,220

Fort Worth ISD TX 72,342 70,486 482 1,374 7,646

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 70,471 70,161 291 19 8,688

Polk County School District FL 72,555 68,597 272 1,139 2,547 8,213

Jordan School District UT 70,761 69,925 280 556 6,060

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 70,588 70,089 409 90 9,215

Mesa Unified School District AZ 67,206 66,848 108 250 5,227

Columbus City School District OH 65,802 65,046 457 299 0 0

El Paso ISD TX 64,880 64,029 94 356 401 5,311

Mobile County Public Schools AL 64,394 64,316 78 7,332

Brevard County School District FL 69,045 67,602 1,350 93 9,374

Denver County 1 CO 62,755 62,028 -- 35 692 7,002

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 61,920 61,160 21 739 5,796

Boston School District MA 61,489 61,361 128 12,975

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 61,417 58,722 377 184 2,134 6,545

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Total Type of school Students withindividualized educ-

ational programs

number ofstudents' Regular .

Specialeducation

Vocationaleducation


San Francisco Unified CA 61,340 60,114 - - 1,226 6,632San Antonio ISD TX 60,419 59,058 983 - 378 6,741Atlanta City School District GA 59,560 59,426 - - 134 4,297Davis School District UT 58,122 57,653 87 - 382 6,210Jefferson Parish School Board LA 56,754 55,973 781 - - 6,913

Northside ISD TX 56,117 55,345 578 - 196 8,238Guilford County Public Schools NC 55,688 55,085 211 - 392 13,072Volusia County School District FL 56,124 52,954 95 594 2,481 7,655Portland School District IJ OR 53,248 52,185 104 - 959 5,263Greenville County School District SC 54,087 53,913 174 - - 6,509

Seminole County School District FL 53,388 52,794 115 - 457 5,821Fulton County School District GA 53,143 52,224 - - 919 5,109Cincinnati City School District OH 52,852 52,449 403 - - -Knox County School District TN 52,316 51,988 243 - 85 8,792Oakland Unified CA 51,706 50,611 157 - 938 5,083

Arlington ISD TX 50,293 48,582 1,453 - 278 4,366Cumberland County Public Schools NC 49,995 49,819 124 - 52 8,712Caddo Parish School Board LA 49,603 43,156 204 - 6,243 5,504Lee County School District FL 50,365 47,930 534 119 1,782 6,642Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 49,364 49,218 54 - 92 5,279

Sacramento City Unified CA 49,282 48,699 - - 583 5,257Santa Ana Unified CA 48,870 48,311 18 - 541 3,973Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 48,050 48,050 - - - 6,546Anchorage School District AK 47,655 45,965 370 432 888 6,780Buffalo City School District NY 47,595 42,820 150 4,179 446 6,284

Ysleta ISD TX 47,572 46,166 85 53 1,268 4,206San Juan Unified CA 47,080 45,864 238 - 978 5,387Seattle School District WA 46,565 43,972 934 - 1,659 3,934Newark City Public Schools NJ 46,541 45,794 747 - - 2,919Indianapolis Public Schools IN 46,038 45,598- 190 - 250 9,068

Wichita Public Schools KS 46,727 45,637 - 1,090 5,078Washoe County School District NV 45,352 45,109 99 144 4,910Prince William County Public Schools VA 45,675 45,369 117 189 5,870Minneapolis Special School District MN 45,177 41,062 131 3,984 5,967Escambia County School District FL 44,765 43,887 506 3 369 6,110

Charleston County School District SC 44,674 44,674 - - - 4,773San Bernardino City Unified CA 44,250 43,037 238 - 975 4,706Shelby County School District TN 43,829 43,829 - - - 4,879Aldine ISD TX 43,818 43,760 58 - - 4,802Omaha Public Schools NE 43,577 43,389 188 _ - 6,242

North East ISD TX 43,484 43,070 147 - 267 7,287Fort Bend ISD TX 43,115 43,115 - - - 3,305Garland ISD TX 42,433 42,140 17 - 276 4,578Garden Grove Unified CA 42,423 41,869 187 - 367 3,583Alpine District UT 42,014 41,307 213 - 494 4,117


Student distribution by type of school is based on the student counts in the schools aggregated up to the school district. This countmay differsomewhat from the count of students receiving educational services reported from the school district in appendix C.2 Educational programs in nontraditional settings, such as storefronts and "boot camps."


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Appendix F. Distribution of regular public elementary and secondary schools with assigned membership in the100 largest school districts in the United States, by membership size: School year 1994-95


Regular

schoolswith mem-

bership MeanStandarddeviation

Distribution of schools, by membership size10th 25th

Minimum percentile percentile75th 90th

Median percentile percentile Maximum

New York City Public Schools NY 956 997.4 712.7 54 400 585 834 1,158 1,604 5,117

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 562 1,091.1 789.4 52 371 532 861 1,382 2,132 4,723

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 1,520 402.5 272.4 11 102 188 365 553 785 1,880

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 529 760.2 454.6 172 344 484 644 889 1,333 4,040

Dade County School District FL 278 1,132.7 715.2 4 498 707 960 1,319 2053, 4,948

Philadelphia City School District PA 247 819.4 507.9 181 391 507 710 907 1,275 3,053

Houston ISD TX 243 813.7 494.4 25 396 502 718 931 1,376 3,499

Broward County School District FL 169 1,156.7 530.2 397 644 803 1,012 1,341 1,988 2,879

Hawaii Department of Education HI 237 774.7 462.3 5 348 465 652 975 1,368 2,401

Detroit Public Schools MI 237 693.1 465.1 71 285 441 576 799 1,115 3,025

Clark County School District NV 175 870.7 591.6 10 443 552 689 960 1,536 3,105

Dallas ISD TX 189 754.7 416.6 112 320 524 709 898 1,201 3,625

Hillsborough County School District FL 151 912.4 430.0 20 494 670 816 1,035 1,489 2,339

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 175 773.8 552.5 215 356 451 604 858 1,376 3,858

San Diego City Unified CA 151 830.4 438.8 271 373 487 725 1,033 1,470 2,450

Palm Beach County School District FL 114 1,091.1 517.9 107 579 727 974 1,312 1,774 2,930

Duval County School District FL 141 838.3 487.3 40 382 480 671 1,096 1,533 2,439

Orange County School District FL 125 939.3 615.2 29 475 604 764 1,034 1,556 3,468

Prince George's County Public Schools MD 165 704.9 423.1 271 401 490 582 745 1,066 2,818

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 172 675.1 371.3 77 356 444 571 746 1,144 2,311

Baltimore City Public School System MD 161 657.1 361.3 77 340 425 562 742 1,117 2,276

Memphis City School District TN 151 726.2 319.0 261 378 510 686 886 1,141 2,130

Pinellas County School District FL 117 850.9 450.7 99 363 557 731 1,044 1,615 2,157

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 141 668.7 282.2 295 403 462 578 802 1,027 1,832

Milwaukee School District WI 143 639.4 319.1 212 353 416 575 703 1,021 1,892

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 137 677.8 363.9 154 361 440 536 847 1,223 1,854

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 111 782.5 501.3 263 412 501 602 902 1,419 2,608

Orleans Parish School Board LA 109 747.0 335.0 250 383 474 667 931 1,247 1,852

Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 115 739.8 365.2 212 386 503 660 874 1,219 2,069

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 133 625.2 385.4 43 268 413 545 699 998 2,498

De Kalb County School District GA 101 813.9 427.5 285 432 556 707 1,010 1,242 3,213

Cobb County School District GA 85 943.2 439.9 254 487 686 831 1,079 1,558 2,376

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 156 497.8 224.0 33 280 373 453 566 741 1,508

Gwinnett County School District GA 67 1,188.0 402.5 562 794 931 1,070 1,422 1,835 2,501

Granite School District UT 87 879.4 442.2 359 469 557 756 1,054 1,508 2,202

Long Beach Unified CA 71:1 990.1 763.0 15 449 605 844 1,070 1,336 4,088

Fresno Unified CA 81 922.1 533.8 269 463 631 844 991 1,222 3,317

Wake County Public Schools NC 91 842.6 381.2 260 483 566 737 1,025 1,402 1,943

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 75 1,003.5 523.9 288 545 651 781 1,425 1,878 2,477

Cleveland City School District OH 123 578.1 279.3 197 298 391 512 687 958 1,566

Austin ISD TX 92 787.2 402.4 76 395 529 700 944 1,325 2,394

Fort Worth ISD TX 100 704.9 325.1 31 402 498 644 812 1,168 2,204

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 115 610.1 377.8 80 288 378 507 696 1,118 2,727

Polk County School District FL 94 729.8 361.5 210 405 488 655 807 1,158 2,292

Jordan School District UT 66 1,059.5 552.9 490 581 669 926 1,209 1,544 3,037

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 106 661.2 408.2 165 271 411 556 821 1,091 2,189

Mesa Unified School District AZ 65 1,028.4 524.0 23 662 798 879 1,073 1,579 2,882

Columbus City School District OH 136 478.3 216.9 55 267 349 432 566 747 1,296

El Pak ISD TX 74 865.3 452.3 306 429 600 753 983 1,347 2,583

Mobile County Public Schools AL 87 739.3 370.3 72 312 493 713 937 1,163 1,940

Brevard County School District FL 75 901.4 474.6 12 527 . 803 789 1,091 1,465 3,388

Denver County 1 CO 108 574.3 334.9 33 263 368 496 676 993 1,792

TuCson Unified District #1 AZ 102 599.6 382.4 29 278 405 496 676 1,035 2,241

Boston School District MA 115 533.6 357.6 14 209 298 417 675 984 2,402

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 95 618.1 296.0 186 309 399 531 800 1,104 1,424

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Regular

schoolswith mem-

bership MeanStandarddeviation

Distribution of schools, by membership size10th 25th

Minimum percentile 'percentile Median75th 90th

percentile percentile Maximum

San Francisco Unified CA 105 572.5 453.1 43 249 330 430 635 1,110 2,743San Antonio ISD TX 94 828.3 393.0 14 281 426 556 731 1,076 2,034Atlanta City School District GA 107 555.4 333,0 73 258 332 459 699 1,011 1,905Davis School District UT 66 873.5 415.8 393 482 556 773 1,081 1,456 2,063Jefferson Parish School Board LA 79 708.5 430.9 147 318 433 610 857 1,138 2,767

Northside ISO TX 55 1,006.3 650.8 91 488 666 853 1,077 1,520 3,105Guilford County Public Schools . NC 89 618.9 293.7 266 335 394 526 747 1,040 1,509Volusia County School District FL 60 882.6 500.9 30 292 500 830 1,134 1,632 2,289Portland School District IJ OR 89 586.4 322.1 172 261 387 520 696 1,175 1,593Greenville County School District SC 84 641.8 326.8 100 274 394 586 842 1,138 1,670

Seminole County School District FL 48 1,099.9 592.9 1 741 829 939 1,210 2,332 2,720Fulton County School District GA 53 985.4 380.6 493 588 728 902 1,109 1,445 2,451Cincinnati City School District OH 79 663.9 405.6 207 343 434 570 698 1,074 2,243Knox County School District TN 81 641.8 396.3 140 210 347 551 904 1,181 1,971Oakland Unified CA 80 632.6 373.1 104 276 363 506 810 1,128 1,889

Arlington ISO TX 54 899.3 396.4 66 554 628 829 1,001 1,346 2,318Cumberland County Public Schools NC 68 732.6 328.3 107 340 508 699 944 1,157 1,690Caddo Parish School Board LA 64 674.3 408.0 20 265 401 574 817 1,213 2,198Lee County School District FL 57 840.9 360.9 48 422 610 857 1,017 1,340 1,900Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 45 1,093.7 552.4 514 640 802 905 1,134 2,057 2,774

Sacramento City Unified CA 73 667.1 465.5 160 370 434 548 670 957 2,938Santa Ana Unified CA 41 1,178.3 588.8 449 687 856 1,017 1,298 2,094 2,893Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 54 889.8 366.2 401 570 676 738 1,089 1,489 2,102Anchorage School District AK 69 666.2 434.5 180 300 429 545 685 1,343 2,241Buffalo City School District NY 66 648.8 244.8 53 352 460 615 836 957 1,290

Ysleta ISD TX 50 923.3 439.0 433 529 658 813 1,014 1,602 2,648San Juan Unified CA 72 637.0 378.7 52 376 429 508 645 1,054 1,898Seattle School District WA 89 494.1 330.5 52 223 292 391 540 957 1,647Newark City Public Schools NJ 74 618.8 356.9 102 257 397 568 750 1,080 2,046Indianapolis Public Schools IN 88 530.2 350.2 139 250 335 433 574 1,088 2,083

Wichita Public Schools KS 94 485.5 377.3 66 196 253 380 539 961 1,947Washoe County School District NV 73 617.9 338.9 55 366 444 522 687 942 2,080Prince William County Public Schools VA 58 782.2 515.0 265 427 505 613 871 1,400 2,953Minneapolis Special School District MN 67 612.9 320.5 108 292 394 578 735 1,022 1,841Escambia County School District FL 60 731.5 481.6 135 202 403 634 854 1,654 2,080

Charleston County School District SC 70 638.2 302.3 128 343 430 543 792 1,044 1,612San Bemardino City Unified CA 51 843.9 473.3 303 495 612 744 904 1,140 2,453Shelby County School District TN 41 1,069.0 466.7 270 397 894 1,117 1,281 1,522 2,285Aldine !SD TX 44 994.6 533.5 213 436 844 916 994 1,093 2,843Omaha Public Schools NE 80 542.4 369.2 26 245 317 438 619 931 2,092

North East ISD TX 46 936.3 597.3 15 497 549 797 1,013 1,905 2,720Fort Bend ISD TX 41 1,051.6 605.7 423 544 716 822 1,167 1,967 3,126Garland ISD TX 55 766.2 464.8 314 367 468 707 856 1,058 2,218Garden Grove Unified CA 59 709.6 351.2 315 396 499 605 763 1,287 1,884Alpine District UT 43 960.6 479.6 70 563 663 626 1,117 1,446 2,478

How to read this table: Using Dade County as an example, the table shows that 25 percent of the schools have a pupil membership of 707or less, and another 25 percent have a membership of 1,319 or more. Dividing all students in regular schools by the number of such schoolsyields a mean, or average, size of 1,132.7 students. If all the regular schools in Dade County were listed by size, the school district at themid-point on the list (the median) would have 960 pupils in membership.


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Appendix G. Number of students in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest schooldistricts in the United States, by grade ranges: School year 1994-95


of students*Grade range

PK to 6 7 to 9 10 to 12 Ungraded

New York City Public Schools NY 1,020,991 535,227 229,507 180,330 75,927

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 632,973 365,380 136,134 112,221 19,238

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 621,266 342,009 149,907 115,414 13,936

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 407,241 235,616 89,499 85,442 16,684

Dade County School District FL 326,848 189,201 73,829 63,818 -Philadelphia City School District PA 208,710 113,525 49,172 35,831 10,182

Houston ISD TX 202,149 127,423 47,598 27,128 -Broward County School District FL 199,287 120,744 45,143 33,400 -Hawaii Department of Education HI 183,795 106,205 43,021 34,486 83

Detroit Public Schools MI 169,270 96,980 37,566 23,833 10,891

Clark County School District NV 158,398 91,865 35,259 28,777 495

Dallas ISO TX 145,019 91,073 34,302 19,644 -Hillsborough County School District FL 147,795 87,163 35,328 25,304 _...

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 137,646 71,516 30,452 28,758 6,920

San Diego City Unified CA 128,555 77,195 28,116 21,931 1,313

Palm Beach County School District FL 129,822 76,408 30,927 22,487 -Duval County School District FL 121,362 75,072 27,385 18,905 -Orange County School District FL 120,491 70,674 27,516 22,301 -Prince George's County Public Schools MD 118,478 65,322 27,042 22,550 3,564

Montgomery County public Schools MD 117,082 66,398 24,505 21,538 4,641

Baltimore City Public School System MD 113,428 71,115 27,593 14,720 -Memphis City School District TN 110,265 62,435 26,084 18,794 2,952

Pinellas County School District FL 114,053 60,021 28,460 25,572 -Baltimore County Public Schools MD 99,231 58,657 22,309 17,886 379

MilwauKee School District WI 98,009 61,581 21,949 14,479 -Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 93,407 49,172 22,498 19,276 2,461

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 88,623 46,701 21,494 17,343 3,085

Orleans Parish School Board LA 85,979 50,567 19,757 15,655 -Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 86,023 49,518 19,254 15,301 1,952

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 84,018 47,443 20,171 16,404 -De Kalb County School District GA 83,722 47,669 20,601 15,452

Cobb County School District GA 80,479 45,921 18,997 15,561 -District of Columbia Public Schools DC 80,450 49,418 15,198 12,027 3,807

Gwinnett County School District GA 80,220 47,295 18,847 14,078 -Granite School District UT 78,590 40,829 19,153 17,370 1,238

Long Beach Unified CA 78,127 45,942 16,685 13,763 1,737

Fresno Unified CA 77,023 46,925 17,960 12,106 32

Wake County Public Schools NC 76,947 44,359 17,220 12,908 2,460

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 75,926 42,834 18,173 13,798 1,121

Cleveland City School District OH 72,962 44,501 17,859 10,602 -Austin ISD TX 73,191 45,651 16,985 10,555

Fort Worth ISO TX 72,342 45,548 16,623 10,171 -Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 70,471 40,706 18,909 11,104 1,752

Polk County School District FL 72,555 43,421 17,584 11,570 -Jordan School District UT 70,761 36,737 17,018 15,252 1,754

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 70,588 39,917 16,921 13,027 723

Mesa Unified School District AZ 67,206 39,286 14,985 12,918 17

Columbus City School District OH 65,802 39,986 15,285 10,034 497

El Paso ISO TX 64,880 38,076 15,833 10,971 -Mobile County Public Schools AL 64,394 36,834 16,348 11,212

Brevard County School District FL 69,045 41,482 15,419 12,144 -Denver County 1 CO 62,755 39,405 13,430 9,917 3

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 61,920 36,568 14,489 10,863 -Boston School District MA 61,489 36,425 13,122 11,942 -East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 61,417 33,823 14,189 11,218 2,207

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of students*Grade range

PK to 7 to 9 10 to 12 Ungraded

San Francisco Unified CA 61,340 33,380 14,133 13,754 73San Antonio ISD TX 60,419 37,836 13,992 8,591 -Atlanta City School District GA 59,560 36,046 14,584 8,930 -Davis School District UT 58,122 30,099 14,060 12,778 1,185Jefferson Parish School Board LA 56,754 32,715 13,789 9,927 323

Northside ISD TX 56,117 32,008 13,693 10,416 -Guilford County Public Schools NC 55,688 31,401 13,039 10,478 770Volusia County School District FL 56,124 33,260 13,578 9,286 -Portland School District IJ OR 53,248 30,679 11,906 9,662 1,001Greenville County School District SC 54,087 30,258 13,453 10,376

Seminole County School District FL 53,366 30,336 13,251 9,779Fulton County School District GA 53,143 30,741 12,009 10,393 -Cincinnati City School District OH 52,852 31,604 12,520 7,475 1,253Knox County School District TN 52,316 29,142 11,998 9,980 1,196Oakland Unified CA 51,708 32,274 11,581 7,786 85

Arlington SSD TX 50,293 29,781 11,437 9,075,Cumberland County Public Schools nic 49,995 28,666 10,865 9,425 1,239

Caddo Parish School Board LA 49,603 28,006 12,844 8,753 -Lee County School District FL 60,365 29,582 11,881 8,902Cypress-Fairbanks !SD TX 49,364 29,137 11,595 8,632

Sacramento City Unified CA 49,282 29,293 10,982 7,414 1,593Santa Ana Unified CA 48,870 30,684 10,697 7,238 273Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 48,050 27,120 11,322 9,351 257Anchorage School District AK 47,655 28,030 10,630 8,995 -Buffalo City School District NY 47,595 27,601 9,730 7,238 3,026

Ysleta ISD TX 47,572 28,176 11,300 10,096 -San Juan Unified CA 47,080 25,125 11,124 10,817 14Seattle School District WA 46,565 27,179 9,716 9,670 -Newark City Public Schools NJ 46,541 27,169 9,814 8,639 2,919Indianapolis Public Schools IN 46,038 27,961 11,320 6,527 230

Wichita Public Schools KS 46,727 27,273 10,727 8,504 223Washoe County School District NV 45,352 26,775 8,437 157Prince William County Public Schools VA 45,675 25,444

.9,98310,678 8,358 1,195

Minneapolis Special School District MN 45,177 28,136 9,799 7,242 -Escambia County School District FL 44,765 25,774 10,083 8,908

Charleston County School District SC 44,674 27,268 10,703 6,703 -San Bernardino City Unified CA 44,250 27,168 11,133 5,711 238Shelby County School District TN 43,829 24,400 10,508 8,351 570Aldine ISD , TX 43,818 28,371 11,028 6,419 -Omaha Public Schools NE 43,577 25,392 10,299 7,886

North East ISD TX 43,484 24,276 10,746 8,462 -Fort Bend ISD TX 43,115 23,860 11,171 8,084 -Garland ISD TX 42,433 25,380 10,006 7,047 -Garden Grove Unified CA 42,423 24,738 9,387 8,111 187Alpine District UT 42,014 21,295 10,187 9,811 921

- Data not applicable or available.

Students distribution by type of school is based on membership in the schools of the school district. This count may differ somewhat from the countof students receiving educational services from the school district reported in table 1.


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Appendix H. Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by specified instructional level: School year 1994-95

Name of reporting district StateSchools having Instructional level

membership Primary Middle High Other

New York City Public Schools NY 1,092 648 195 121 128

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 643 438 73 107 25

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 1,554 952 220 167 215

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 453 20 67 13

Dade County School District FL 319 194 47 62 16

Philadelphia City School District PA 256 171 42 34 9

Houston ISD TX 263 179 35 35 14

Broward County School District FL 186 116 27 26 17

Hawaii Department of Education HI 242 168 27 32 15

Detroit Public Schools MI 258 171 36 33 18

Clark County School District NV 197 128 29 27 13

Dallas ISD TX 200 133 30 34 3

Hillsborough County School District FL 172 113 24 15 20

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 197 131 22 27 17

San Diego City Unified CA 160 111 22 20 7

Palm Beach County School District FL 128 77 21 23 7

Duval County School District FL 155 101 22 15 17

Orange County School District FL 156 92 23 .25 16

Prince George's County Public Schools MD 176 127 26 22 1

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 179 125 29 23 2

Baltimore City Public School System MD 180 125 28 21 6

Memphis City School District TN 156 100 20 28 8

Pinellas County School District FL 146 83 24 25 14

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 157 103 29 23 2

Milwaukee School District WI 150 112 21 15 2

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 148 88 24 30 6

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 125 78 23 18 6


Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 123 75 29 15 4

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 139 94 21 18 6

De Kalb County School District GA 106 79 5 20 2

Cobb County School District GA 88 55 18 13 0

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 174 111 26 21 16

Gwinnett County School District GA 70 43 13 14 0

Granite School District UT 99 63 15 15 6


Fresno Unified CA 90 63 12 11 4

Wake County Public Schools NC 94 60 20 13 1

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 78 52 14 12 0

Cleveland City School District OH 128 90 17 16 5

Austin !SD TX 103 87 15 14 7

Fort Worth ISD TX 127 70 25 15 17

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 120 82 20 14 4

Polk County School District FL 117 65 19 19 14

Jordan School District UT 70 46 14 7 3

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 79 17 12 3

Mesa Unified School District AZ 70 46 12 6 6

Columbus City School District OH 143 91 27 22 3

El Paso ISD TX 81 53 13 10 5

Mobile County Public Schools AL 88 56 15 14 3

Brevard County School District FL 87 50 13 9 15

Denver County 1 CO 111 79 19 13 0

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 110 73 19 13 5

Boston School District MA 116 79 19 15 3

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 103 66 17 16 4

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San Francisco Unified CA 109 74 16 17 2San Antonio ISD TX 110 70 19 12 9Atlanta City School District GA 109 78 16 15 0Davis School District UT 70 46 13 9 2Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 55 15 9 4

Northside ISD TX 74 40 11 9 14Guilford County Public Schools NC 92 61 16 14 1

Volusia County School District FL 72 43 7 6 16Portland School District IJ OR 101 66 17 15 3Greenville County School District SC 67 54 16 14 3

Seminole County School District FL 55 32 10 6 7Fulton County School District GA 55 33 11 11 0Cincinnati City School District OH 82 60 6 5 11

Knox County School District TN 84 56 13 12 3Oakland Unified CA 90 59 17 10 4

Arlington !SD TX 60 41 11 7 1

Cumberland County Public Schools NC 70 46 13 9 2Caddo Parish School Board LA 75 51 11 11 2Lee County School District FL 71 36 13 9 13Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 48 31 9 7 1

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 60 8 7 0Santa Ana Unified CA 46 30 7 7 2Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 64 34 11 9 0Anchorage School District AK 81 56 7 15 3Buffalo City School District NY 74 53 3 13 5

Ysleta ISD TX 62 33 10 16 3San Juan Unified CA 67 52 10 14 11Seattle School District WA 113 72 11 23 7Newark City Public Schools NJ 79 56 7 11 5Indianapolis Public Schools IN 96 62 19 9 6

Wichita Public Schbols KS 104 69 16 16 3Washoe County School District NV 77 54 10 10 3

Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 40 11 7 8Minneapolis Special School District MN 113 65 13 21 14Escambia County School District FL 69 41 11 10 7

Charleston County School District SC 70 44 15 10 1

San Bernardino City Unified CA 57 40 8 6 3

Shelby County School District TN 41 26 8 7 0Aldine ISD TX 45 24 14 6 1

Omaha Public Schools NE 82 58 12 10 2

North East ISD ix 52 32 10 8 2Fort Bend ISD TX 41 28 5 5 3

Garland ISD TX 59 39 13 6 1

Garden Grove Unified CA 63 43 9 9 2Alpine District UT 47 30 8 6 3

NOTE: Primary = low grade, PK to 3; high grade, up to 8.Middle = low grade, 4 to 7; high grade, 4 to 9.High = low grade, 7 to 12; high grade 12.Other = any other combination, including PK, K, or 1 to 12.


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Appendix I. Median pupil-teacher ratios in public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largestschool districts in the United States, by specified instructional level: School year 1994-95




New York City Public Schools NY 18.3 18.7 18.9 21.4 8.8

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 25.7 25.9 25.1 25.1 8.8

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 14.8 14.4 15.1 19.9 14.5

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 18.4 18.4 17.2 18.2 9.1

Dade County School District FL 18.8 18.2 24.8 20.9 7.2

Philadelphia City School District PA 20.2 20.7 18.0 20.8 20.0

Houston ISD TX 17.3 17.3 17.6 18.3 9.6

Broward County School District FL 20.7 20.6 22.2 21.2 7.4

Hawaii Department of Education HI 18.4 18.5 19.2 18.4 15.9

Detroit Public Schools MI 22.3 24.1 19.4 20.3 13.5

Clark County School District NV 19.2 18.6 22.1 22.9 12.9

Dallas ISD TX 16.6 17.1 15.4 15.9 200.0Hillsborough County School District FL 17.2 17.4 18.3 16.4 12.8

Fairfax County Public Schools VA - - - - -San Diego City Unified CA 24.6 24.3 26.6 25.0 21.5

Palm Beach County School District FL 17.9 17.8 18.8 17.1 12.5

Duval County School District FL 20.2 19.9 21.8 20.0 12.8

Orange County School District FL 19.1 18.8 21.4 19.3 8.5

Prince George's County Public Schools MD 18.1 19.3 16.2 17.7 4.6

Montgomery County Public Schools MD . 17.8 18.8 15.6 16.8 . 5.7

Baltimore City Public School System MD 18.5 19.0 18.2 16.9 9.7

Memphis City School District TN 18.7 18.2 19.4 19.7 7.7

Pinellas County School District FL 18.8 18.8 19.1 20.0 7.0

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 18.1 19.2 15.2 15.8 9.7

Milwaukee School District WI 18.3 19.0 16.2 17.5 311.5

Jefferson County (KY) PLiblic Schools KY 17.2 17.1 18.4 18.5 5.2

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 15.8 15.5 15.7 19.2 6.0

Orleans Parish School Board LA 18.7 18.1 18.8 19.8 16.5

Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 17.8 19.6 15.7 18.5 9.1

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 21.8 21.8 21.3 21.8 20.6

De Kalb County School District GA 16.3 18.3 15.9 16.9 8.9

Cobb County School District GA 16.4 16.1 18.3 18.7 0.0

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 20.1 21.4 14.5 13.8 7.0

Gwinnett County School District GA 17.1 17.0 16.2 18.9 0.0

Granite School District UT 23.7 23.8 23.8 21.6 14.9

Long Beach Unified CA 24.9 24.2 24.9 28.5 18.2

Fresno Unified CA 23.9 24.4 21.5 22.3 29.4

Wake County Public Schools NC 15.9 16.4 14.6 15.6 2.7

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA - - - - -Cleveland City School District OH 17.1 16.8 17.3 18.0 18.2

Austin ISD TX 15.1 14.9 15.3 17.9 5.0

Fort Worth ISD TX 17.8 18.2 17.7 17.3 13.0

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 16.8 17.1 15.7 17.0 6.2

Polk County School District FL 18.0 17.8 20.8 18.0 7.3

Jordan School District UT 25.3 25.6 25.6 25.1 6.3

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 18.5 19.4 17.7 17.8 5.6

Mesa Unified School District AZ 21.4 21.8 20.5 22.2 6.5

Columbus City School District OH 17.4 19.8 14.5 15.4 16.2

El Paso ISD TX 16.0 15.8 17.2 17.4 6.3

Mobile County Public Schools AL 18.0 17.3 20.9 19.7 7.8

Brevard County School District FL 17.7 17.9 18.0 17.6 12.5

Denver County 1 CO 18.3 19.2 16.7 18.1 0.0

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 21.7 23.4 18.1 20.8 7.3

Boston School District MA -East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 15.9 15.4 16.9 17.7 11.3

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Primary Middle High OtherSan Francisco Unified CA 22.9 24.2 22.0 21.8 17.1San Antonio ISD TX 15.8 15.7 17.0 16.5 9.8Atlanta City School District GA 16.1 15.6 17.1 17.6 0.0Davis School District UT 25.0 25.4 24.8 24.9 14.5Jefferson Parish School Board LA 17.1 17.0 17.6 17.8 4.8

Northside ISD TX 15.2 15.1 16.0 18.8 8.0Guilford County Public Schools NC 14.6 15.0 13.1 14.8 2.9Volusia County School District FL 16.9 16.1 18.2 17.7 15.7Portland School District LI OR 19.5 20.7 17.6 17.5 9.3Greenville CountY School District SC 17.8 18.6 16.6 18.3 5.1

Seminole County School District FL 19.9 19.8 20.6 20.3 9.3Fulton County School District GA 18.1 17.2 14.7 16.4 0.0Cincinnati City School District OH 18.7 19.4 14.6 20.1 17.2Knox County School District TN 18.1 18.1 19.0 16.7 6.1Oakland Unified CA 23.4 24.5 22.0 21.0 7.1

Adington ISO TX 17.5 17.7 17.1 17.4 2.7Cumberland County Public Schools NC 19.7 21.7 17.8 18.0 12.5Caddo Parish School Board LA 16.8 16.6 18.1 17.3 10.0Lee County School District FL 19.2 19.3 19.3 20.4 12.5Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 16.5 16.9 15.9 16.3 6.1

Sacramento City Unified CA 25.6 25.8 24.4 25.7 0.0Santa Ana Unified CA 27.6 27.8 29.1 25.9 6.7Chesterfield County Public Schools VA - - - - -Anchorage School District AK 22.6 22.5 25.4 21.3 5.9Buffalo City School District NY 15.1 16.4 13.3 12.6 12.6

Ysleta ISD TX 16.2 16.2 14.7 27.9 15.0San Juan Unified CA 25.7 27.2 25.3 23.8 10.8Seattle School District WA 19.3 18.8 20.1 20.9 9.7Newark City Public Schools NJ 14.8 15.9 12.8 12.2 4.6Indianapolis Public Schools IN 16.0 15.9 16.1 18.1 11.0

Wichita Public Schools KS 16.9 17.6 16.3 16.5 19.0Washoe County School District NV 19.4 19.3 21.3 21.6 9.0Prince William County Public Schools VA - - - - -Minneapolis Special School District MN 15.5 15.0 15.5 18.4 10.5Escambia County School District FL 17.7 17.7 20.5 17.6 6.5

Charleston County School District SC 16.2 15.7 17.8 16.0 8.9San Bernardino City Unified CA 24.7 25.1 23.5 24.1 30.9Shelby County School District TN 21.1 21.2 23.0 19.0 0.0Aldine ISD Tx 15.4 16.8 14.1 16.3 1.3Omaha Public Schools NE 16.8 18.1 14.0 15.5 8.4

North East ISD TX 15.7 15.5 16.3 17.0 12.0Fort Bend ISO TX 18.6 18.7 18.6 17.8 19.4Garland ISD TX 17.9 17.5 18.8 18.0 2.8Garden Grove Unified CA 25.7 26.4 25.6 25.5 8.4Alpine District UT 24.9 23.7 29.0 24.0 8.3


NOTE: Primary = low grade, PK to 3; high grade, up to 8.Middle = low grade, 4 to 7; high grade, 4 to 9.High = low grade, 7 to 12; high grade 12.

Other = any other oombination, including PK, K, or 1 to 12.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey", 1994-95.

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Appendix J. Number of public elementary and secondary schools In the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by specified minority membership categories, and minority students as a percentage of schooldistrict membership: School year 1994-95


Schoolshaving

membership


students0 - 20

percent21 - 40percent

41 - 60percent

61 - 80percent

81 - 100percent

New York City Public Schools NY 1,092 21 ee 120 123 762 83.0

Los Angeles Unified SD CA 643 4 25 59 113 442 88.4

Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 1,554 1 0 0 0 1553 100.0

City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 0 19 36 79 419 88.7

Dade County School District FL 319 0 9 27 59 224 84.6

Philadelphia City School District PA 258 9 21 37 35 154 78.8

Houston 1SD TX 263 0 4 15 32 212 88.2

Broward County School District FL 186 22 54 45 31 34 49.2

Hawaii Department of Education HI 242 0 7 27 ea 124 76.8

Detroit Public Schools MI 258 0 4 5 18 231 93.7

Clark County School District NV 197 43 82 43 17 12 37.1

Dallas ISD TX 200 2 6 12 27 153 87.3

Hillsborough County School District FL 172 18 68 57 22 7 41.3

Fairfax County Public Schools VA 197 44 80 50 19 4 33.1

San Diego City Unified CA 160 1 ' 14 51 41 53 69.2

Palm Beach County School District FL 128 26 31 32 13 26 43.8

Duval County School District FL 155 16 66 26 . 16 31 44.0

Orange County School District FL 156 15 53 38 31 19 46.2

Prince George's County Public Schools MD 176 0 12 16 33 115 79.9

Montgomery County Public Schools MD 179 23 62 sa 36 4 43.1

Baltimore City Public School System MD 180 15 3 13 16 133 84.9

Memphis City School District TN 156 1 9 16 16 114 83.2

Pinellas County School District FL 146 54 79 12 1 0 23.1

Baltimore County Public Schools MD 157 84 37 13 8 15 27.8

Milwaukee School District WI 150 0 2 33 49 66 74.7

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 148 9 93 42 4 0 32.7

Albuquerque Public Schools NM 125 9 35 24 21 36 54.8

Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 1 3 2 6 109 94.0

Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 123 8 24 63 20 8 45.8

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 139 118 19 2 0 0 12.8

De Kalb County School District GA 106 1 4 22 20 59 80.1

Cobb County School District GA 86 52 18 9 6 1 20.6

District of Columbia Public Schools DC 174 3 4 2 7 158 96.0

Gwinnett County School District GA 70 52 11 5 2 0 17.4

Granite School District UT 99 85 12 1 1 0 11.5

Long Beach Unified CA 80 1 1 12 27 39 78.8

Fresno Unified CA 90 1 10 15 27 37 74.8

Wake County Public Schools NC 94 12 57 22 2 1 31.1

Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 78 19 45 10 4 0 29.9

Cleveland City School District OH 128 0 4 14 41 69 78.7

Austin ISD TX 103 9 15 14 29 38 60.2

Fort Worth ISD TX 127 7 13 24 22 61 71.7

Nashville-Davidson County School District TN 120 6 47 40 20 7 45.4

Polk County School District FL 117 16 70 25 8 0 30.8

Jordan School District UT 70 68 1 1 0 0 5.6

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 69 22 15 2 3 20.6

Mesa Unified School District AZ 70 40 14 13 1 2 22.3

Columbus City School District OH 143 7 25 58 46 7 54.6

El Paso !SD TX 81 0 1 9 26 45 80.5

Mobile County Public Schools AL 88 18 14 24 6 26 50.3

Brevard County School District FL 87 51 25 8 2 1 20.1

Denver County 1 CO 111 0 2 28 40 41 71.3

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 110 11 30 23 27 19 52.4

Boston School District MA 116 0 0 12 38 68 81.5

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 103 4 16 22 23 38 62.0

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Appendix J Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the 100 largest school districts in theUnited States, by specified minority membership categories, and minority students aé a percentage of schooldistrict membership: School year 1994-95 (Continued)


Schoolshaving

membership


students

0 - 20percent

21 - 40percent

41 - 60percent

61 - 80percent

81 - 100percent

San Francisco Unified CA 109 0 0 1 26 82 86.8San Antonio ISD TX 110 0 1 1 5 103 94.3Atlanta City School District GA 109 1 3 1 7 97 93.3Davis School District UT 70 70 0 0 0 0 5.1Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 5 20 30 21 7 51.2

Northside ISD TX 74 0 14 27 17 16 58.2Guilford County Public Schools NC 92 17 24 28 16 7 41.4Volusia County School District FL 72 31 23 9 8 1 24.1Portland School District's' OR 101 42 37 13 7 2 31.6Greenville County School District SC 87 25 39 17 4 2 28.5

Seminole County School District FL 55 21 23 8 3 0 26.4Fulton County School District GA 55 18 5 10 1 21 48.8Cincinnati City School District OH 82 2 7 14 27 32 67.4Knox County School District TN 84 64 12 0 1 7 15.0Oakland Unified CA 90 1 1 5 5 78 93.3

Arlington ISD TX 60 16 18 16 10 0 36.3Cumberland County Public Schools NC 70 2 19 23 21 5 51.1Caddo Parish School Board LA 75 4 13 15 11 32 60.9Lee County School District FL 71 25 32 11 3 0 26.8Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 48 14 22 11 1 0 31.1

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 0 5 14 29 27 70.0Santa Ana Unified

. CA 46 0 0 0 3 43 95.6Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 54 31 13 9 1 0 21.9Anchorage School District AK 81 23 33 20 5 0 29.9Buffalo City School District NY 74 0 2 24 . 35 13 64.4

Ysleta ISD TX 62 0 0 0 21 41 87.5San Juan Unified CA 87 54 27 6 0 0 20.7Seattle School District WA 113 4 15 48 30 16 58.8Newark City Public Schools NJ 79 2 0 4 1 72 90.9Indianapolis Public Schools IN 96 3 9 38 45 3 57.7

Wichita Public Schools KS 104 6 65 25 7 1 36.9Washoe County School District NV 77 43 23 5 4 2 22.7Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 20 29 16 1 0 29.1Minneapolis Special School District MN 113 4 6 37 43 23 61.1Escambia County School District FL 69 19 16 21 6 7 38.2

Charleston County School District SC 70 3 15 16 11 25 59.4San Bernardino City Unified CA 57 0 0 9 33 15 72.1Shelby County School District TN 41 23 11 7 0 0 21.0Aldine ISD TX 45 0 1 3 13 28 77.4Omaha Public Schools NE 82 13 37 18 11 3 37.7

North East ISD TX 52 5 19 12 15 1 42.9Fort Bend ISD TX 41 2 11 15 3 10 55.3Garland ISD TX 59 0 32 27 0 0 37.6Garden Grove Unified CA 63 0 5 9 23 28 73.0Alpine District UT 47 47 0 0 0 0 4.7


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Appendix K. Selected student characteristics as a percentage of school district membership, and percentageof schools for which characteristic is reported, in the 100 largest school districts In the United States:School year 1994-95


Schoolshaving

State membership



Percent-age of

schoolsreporting

race/ethnicity

AmericanIndian/

AlaskanNative

Asian/Pacific

Islander Hispanic

Black/non-

Hispanic

White/non-

Hispanic

Percentageof

membership


reporting

New York City Public Schools NY 1,092 - 0.0 0.3 9.1 36.6 36.9 17.0 100.0Los Angeles Unified SD CA 643 70.0 96.4 0.3 7.1 66.6 14.4 11.6 100.0Puerto Rico Deptartment of Education PR 1,554 81.2 99.2 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 99.9City of Chicago School District 29 IL 553 - 0.0 0.2 3.2 30.4 54.9 11.3 100.0Dade County School District FL 319 49.7 91.5 0.1 1.3 49.3 33.9 15.4 100.0

Philadelphia City School District PA 256 - 0.0 0.2 4.6 10.9 63.2 21.2 100.0Houston ISD TX 263 54.8 99.6 0.1 2.7 49.8 35.6 11.8 100.0Broward County School District FL 186 28.6 98.4 0.3 2.4 12.3 34.3 50.8 100.0Hawaii Department of Education HI 242 13.2 100.0 0.4 68.8 4.9 2.7 23.2 100.0

Detroit Public Schools MI 258 62.9 97.3 0.3 0.9 2.7 89.8 6.3 100.0

Clark County School District NV 197 22.3 82.2 0.8 5.0 17.4 13.8 62.9 100.0Dallas ISD TX 200 64.7 100.0 0.4 1.7 41.5 43.7 12.7 100.0Hillsborough County School District FL 172 39.9 94.2 0.3 1.9 15.7 23.5 58.7 100.0Fairfax County Public Schools VA 197 12.9 90.4 0.3 13.1 8.7 11.0 66.9 100.0San Diego City Unified CA 160 53.4 98.1 0.7 19.4 32.3 16.8 30.8 100.0

Palm Beach County School District FL 128 32.4 98.4 0.3 1.8 12.8 28.9 56.2 100.0Duval County School District FL 155 21.0 100.0 0.1 2.6 2.4 38.9 56.0 100.0

Orange County School District FL 156 30.8 94.9 0.3 3.2 15.1 27.6 53.8 100.0Prince George's County Public Schools MD 176 30.3 98.9 0.4 4.0 5.1 70.4 20.1 100.0Montgomery County Public Schools MD 179 16.6 98.9 0.4 12.3 11.5 18.9 56.9 100.0

Baltimore City Public School System MD 180 63.7 99.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 83.6 15.1 100.0Memphis City School District TN 156 - 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.3 81.7 16.8 100.0Pinellas County School District FL 146 28.3 92.5 0.1 2.5 2.3 18.1 76.9 100.0Baltimore County Public Schools MD 157 18.7 100.0 0.2 3.2 1.0 23.3 72.2 100.0Milwaukee School District WI 150 47.1 100.0 1.1 3.3 11.4 59.0 25.3 100.0

Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools KY 148 - 0.0 0.1 1.0 0.5 31.1 67.3 100.0Albuquerque Public Schools NM 125 - 0.0 4.7 1.9 44.6 3.6 45.2 100.0Orleans Parish School Board LA 121 76.0 96.7 0.0 , 2.8 1.4 89.8 6.0 100.0Mecklenburg County Public Schools NC 123 27.3 100.0 0.4 3.4 1.6 40.4 54.2 100.0

Jefferson County (CO) R-1 CO 139 9.7 96.4 0.7 2.7 8.5 1.0 87.2 100.0

De Kalb County School District GA 106 41.0 98.1 0.1 4.1 3.4 72.5 19.9 100.0Cobb County School District GA 86 13.0 100.0 0.2 2.7 2.1 15.6 79.4 100.0District of Columbia Public Schools DC 174 63.0 92.5 0.0 1.3 6.6 88.0 4.0 100.0Gwinnett County School District GA 70 9.3 97.1 0.2 5.5 3.3 8.4 82.6 100.0

Granite School District UT 99 19.4 93.9 0.9 4.2 5.7 0.8 88.5 100.0

Long Beach Unified CA 80 63.5 97.5 0.4 21.0 36.2 21.2 21.2 100.0

Fresno Unified CA 90 64.7 93.3 0.8 22.8 40.5 10.7 25.2 100.0

Wake County Public Schools NC 94 16.6 100.0 0.2 2.6 1.6 26.7 68.9 100.0Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 78 16.7 93.6 0.1 5.4 2.4 21.9 70.1 100.0

Cleveland City School District OH 128 79.6 96.9 0.2 1.1 7.2 70.2 21.3 100.0

Austin ISD TX 103 42.7 100.0 0.3 2.3 39.1 18.5 39.8 100.0

Fort Worth ISD TX 127 52.8 86.6 0.2 2.5 34.8 34.2 28.3 100.0

Nashville-Davidson County School Dist TN 120 - 0.0 0.1 3.0 1.0 41.3 54.6 100.0

Polk County School District FL 117 42.2 98.3 0.2 0.8 6.9 23.0 69.2 100.0

Jordan School District UT 70 11.4 98.6 0.4 1.6 3.4 0.3 94.4 100.0

Anne Arundel County Public Schools MD 111 10.8 100.0 0.2 2.1 1.3 17.0 79.4 100.0

Mesa Unified School District AZ 70 - 0.0 3.2. 1.7 14.8 2.6 77.7 100.0

Columbus City School District OH 143 50.1 97.2 0.1 2.5 0.7 51.4 45.4 100.0

El Paso ISD TX 81 56.5 97.5 0.1 1.0 74.8 4.7 19.5 100.0

Mobile County Public Schools AL 88 - 0.0 0.3 1.3 0.2 48.4 49.7 100.0

Brevard County School District FL 87 22.5 94.3 0.3 1.9 3.3 14.7 79.9 100.0

Denver County 1 CO 111 52.0 99.1 1.3 3.9 45.0 21.1 28.7 100.0

Tucson Unified District #1 AZ 110 - 0.0 3.8 2.3 40.2 6.4 47.6 100.0

Boston School District MA 116 - 0.0 0.4 9.2 23.9 47.9 18.5 100.0

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board LA 103 49.8 98.1 0.1 2.1 0.4 59.6 38.0 100.0

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AmericanIndian/

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Asian/Pacific

Islander Hispanic

Black/non-

Hispanic

White/non-

Hispanic

Percentageof

membership


reporting

San Francisco Unified CA 109 53.1 99.1 0.7 47.8 20.4 17.8 13.4 100.0San Antonio ISD TX 110 80.0 99.1 0.1 0.3 82.7 11.2 5.7 100.0Atlanta City School District GA 109 71.6 97.2 0.1 0.9 1.6 90.7 6.7 100.0Davis School District UT 70 12.1 97.1 0.3 1.6 2.4 0.8 94.9 100.0Jefferson Parish School Board LA 83 59.3 97.6 0.4 4.2 6.4 40.2 48.8 100.0

Northside !SD TX 74 29.5 94.6 0.2 2.0 49.4 6.7 41.8 100.0Guilford County Public Schools NC 92 25.4 100.0 0.6 2.5 1.0 37.4 58.6 100.0Volusia County School District FL 72 34.0 94.4 0.2 0.9 6.4 16.6 75.9 100.0Portland School District IJ OR 101 34.5 89.1 2.2 8.6 4.6 16.2 68.4 100.0Greenville County School District SC 87 25.6 95.4 0.1 1.0 0.9 26.6 71.5 98.9

Seminole County School District FL 55 20.1 90.9 0.2 2.7 9.4 14.2 73.6 100.0Fulton County School District GA 55 25.9 100.0 0.1 3.2 2.6 42.9 51.2 100.0Cincinnati City School District OH 82 55.8 91.5 0.1 0.9 0.3 66.3 32.6 100.0Knox County School District TN 84 - 0.0 0.1 1.3 0.6 12.9 85.0 100.0Oakland Unified CA 90 61.2 94.4 0.6 20.4 19.4 53.0 6.7 100.0

Arlington ISD TX 60 23.8 100.0 0.6 6.3 14.2 15.2 63.7 100.0Cumberland County Public Schools NC 70 33.9 100.0 1.7 1.7 4.5 43.3 48.9 100.0Caddo Parish School Board LA 75 47.7 97.3 0.0 0.5 0.4 60.0 39.1 100.0Lee County School District FL 71 34.7 85.9 0.2 1.0 9.9 15.8 73.2 100.0Cypress-Fairbanks ISD TX 48 13.3 100.0 0.2 7.1 15.3 8.5 68.9 100.0

Sacramento City Unified CA 75 58.8 100.0 1.3 26.4 21.6 20.7 30.0 100.0Santa Ana Unified CA 46 70.8 93.5 0.0 6.2 88.0 1.4 4.4 100.0Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 54 8.7 83.3 0.1 2.7 1.1 18.0 78.1 100.0Anchorage School District AK 81 14.4 80.2 10.5 6.6 4.0 8.9 70.1 100.0Buffalo City School District NY 74 63.8 98.6 1.3 1.3 10.0 51.8 35.6 100.0

Ysleta ISD TA 62 55.9 98.4 0.4 0.6 83.8 2.8 12.5 100.0San Juan Unified CA 87 26.5 94.3 1.8 5.7 7.8 5.5 79.3 100.0Seattle School District WA 113 - 0.0 3.1 24.9 7.6 23.2 41.2 100.0Newark City Public Schools NJ 79 77.3 100.0 0.0 0.9 27.1 62.9 9.1 100.0Indianapolis Public Schools IN 96 62.2 87.5 0.1 0.7 1.2 55.8 42.3 100.0

Wichita Public Schools KS 104 37.6 96.2 1.7 4.7 9.5 21.1 63.1 100.0Washoe County School District NV 77 20.3 93.5 2.9 4.2 13.0 2.6 77.3 100.0Prince William County Public Schools VA 66 12.8 84.8 0.4 3.7 5.6 19.4 70.9 100.0Minneapolis Special School District MN 113 45.1 94.7 6.8 11.9 3.7 38.6 38.9 100.0Escambia County School District FL 69 46.7 97.1 0.5 3.0 1.0 33.7 61.8 100.0

Charleston County School District SC 70 47.2 100.0 0.1 0.9 0.9 57.5 40.6 98.6San Bemardino City Unified CA 57 63.2 94.7 1.4 5.1 47.3 18.3 27.9 100.0Shelby County School District TN 41 - 0.0 0.2 1.7 0.9 18.1 79.0 100.0Aldine ISD TX 45 50.5 100.0 0.1 4.1 38.1 35.0 22.6 100.0Omaha Public Schools NE 82 37.5 96.3 1.4 1.3 5.6 29.4 62.3 100.0

North East ISO TX 52 24.8 100.0 0.2 .2.2 32.2 8.3 57.1 100.0Fort Bend ISD TX 41 18.2 100.0 0.1 12.5 14.8 28.0 44.7 100.0Garland ISO TX 59 24.8 100.0 0.7 5.1 18.1 13.7 62.4 100.0Garden Grove Unified CA 63 57.4 96.8 0.4 31.2 40.1 1.4 27.0 100.0Alpine District UT 47 15.6 95.7 0.6 1.3 2.5 0.3 95.3 100.0


SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/SecondarySchool Universe Survey', 1994-95, and "Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Surver, 1994-95.

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Appendix L. Revenues by source, current expenditures, and current expenditures per pupil for the 100largest districts in the United States: Fiscal year 1994

Name of reporting district Stat e

Totalstudents

Fall 1993


per pupilRevenues, by source Current expenditures

Total Federal State Local Total Instructional*

New York City Public Schools NY 1,005,521 $7,972,476 $909,697 $3,026,968 $4,035,811 $7,545,292 $5,267,063 $7,504Los Angeles Unified CA 639,129 3,777,164 475,847 2,428,837 872,480 3,166,510 1,979,639 4,954Puerto Rico Deptartment of Educati PR 631,460 1,510,847 473,394 1,036,657 796 1,420,580 972,817 2,250City of Chicago School District 29 IL 409,499 2,546,064 318,382 815,400 1,412,282 2,298,318 1,367,781 5,613Dade County School District FL 308,465 2,010,957 165,583 1,148,158 697,216 1,711,914 995,411 5,550

Philadelphia City SD PA 207,667 1,407,413 163,776 715,157 528,480 1,133,083 667,970 5,456Houston ISD TX 200,445 1,121,988 111,541 382,291 628,156 913,544 519,047 4,558Broward County School District FL 189,862 1,196,522 73,252 617,046 506,224 967,779 536,199 5,097Hawaii Department of Education HI 180,529 1,133,949 77,993 1,025,813 30,143 998,144 615,270 5,529Detroit City School District MI 173,295 1,214,533 139,622 778,021 296,890 1,143,871 635,172 6,601

Clark County School District NV 145,327 488,426 34,054 230,882 223,490 660,590 388,136 4,546Dallas ISD TX 142,652 774,900 72,886 205,959 496,055 704,889 413,290 4,941Fairfax County Public Schools VA 135,413 879,461 28,737 108,342 742,382 857,039 512,064 6,329Hillsborough County School District FL 135,104 802,571 77,539 455,171 269,861 697,501 391,537 5,163San Diego City Unified CA 127,258 711,190 59,809 297,470 353,911 654,705 381,526 5,145

Palm Beach County School District FL 122,145 842,551 47,933 242,004 552,614 649,860 407,459 5,320Duval County School District FL 119,785 615,055 51,462 355,647 207,946 529,277 299,452 4,419Prince Georges County Public Scho MD 115,918 745,094 39,824 315,700 389,570 730,798 420,081 6,304Orange County School District FL 113,638 671,458 43,890 296,455 331,113 547,836 287,996 4,821Montgomery County Public Schools MD 113,429 942,395 28,022 172,800 743,573 851,258 531,406 7,505

Baltimore City Public School System MD 113,354 682,723 75,897 392,173 214,653 620,177 390,699 5,471Memphis City School District TN 105,978 483,740 62,513 202,984 218,243 459,193 279,466 4,333Pinellas County School District FL 100,135 580,123 36,905 254,575 288,643 482,004 281,724 4,814Baltimore County Public Schools MD 96,402 628,437 25,374 201,882 401,181 587,062 321,961 6,090Milwaukee School District WI 95,259 711,478 68,330 393,840 249,308 664,738 418,186 6,978

Jefferson (KY) County KY 93,529 544,001 61,551 271,943 210,507 491,608 305,808 5,256Albuquerque Public Schools NM 92,697 438,049 32,203 336,165 69,681 358,572 220,106 3,868Orleans Parish School Board LA 85,983 385,883 65,498 191,817 128,568 364,746 229,224 4,242Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools NC 82,842 428,961 29,255 249,635 150,071 410,120 248,592 4,951Jefferson (CO) County R-1 CO 82,760 440,930 11,709 206,516 222,705 383,419 225,064 4,633

De Kalb County School District GA 81,468 528,942 21,722 194,029 313,191 452,855 295,497 5,559District of Columbia Public Schools DC 80,678 735,661 79,432 0 656,229 741,205 351,028 9,187Granite School District UT 79,746 285,149 19,166 160,221 105,762 255,857 166,951 3,208Cobb County School District GA 77,563 376,423 6,363 184,754 185,306 350,487 224,938 4,519Long Beach Unified CA 76,783 411,024 48,448 269,591 92,985 346,643 220,597 4,515

Gwinnett County School District GA 76,482 385,120 8,245 184,980 191,895 331,086 212,645 4,329Fresno Unified CA 76,349 400,967 46,528 262,058 92,381 342,501 215,724 4,486Virginia Beach City Public Schools VA 74,880 343,897 26,910 141,112 175,875 329,879 215,672 4,405Cleveland City SD OH 73,633 496,060 58,394 264,993 172,673 462,435 264,942 6,280Wake County Schools NC 73,263 387,615 18,888 212,525 156,202 331,682 206,158 4,527

Nashville-Davidson County SD TN 72,483 332,214 28,846 122,091 183,277 327,637 201,974 4,520Fort Worth ISD TX 72,114 397,294 30,757 195,441 171,096 337,893 189,597 4,686Austin ISD TX 71,664 424,792 26,457 125,431 272,904 362,731 205,067 5,062Jordan School District UT 70,256 261,290 11,260 147,199 102,831 225,099 153,253 3,204Polk County School District FL 69,718 362,607 32,147 222,263 108,197 320,649 179,727 4,599

Anne Arundel County Public School MD 69,020 430,606 16,818 157,891 255,897 408,382 240,348 5,917Mesa Unified School District AZ 67,639 296,606 15,697 154,141 126,768 249,137 158,869 3,683Mobile County School District AL 66,580 242,187 35,041 155,416 51,730 221,128 138,937 3,321El Paso ISD TX 64,141 333,158 35,738 197,662 99,760 297,345 179,882 4,636Columbus City SD OH 63,877 422,780 35,369 150,478 236,933 418,353 230,963 6,549

Boston School District MA 63,738 537,817 54,276 159,520 324,021 496,021 296,902 7,782East Baton Rouge Parish School Bo LA 63,179 284,358 31,602 153,481 99,275 275,400 164,609 4,359Denver County 1 CO 62,673 396,687 33,918 105,457 257,312 352,966 195,000 5,632Brevard County School District FL 62,556 329,645 19,451 175,034 135,160 285,417 170,102 4,563San Francisco Unified CA 61,631 331,392 32,087 107,343 191,962 301,899 193,801 4,898

Tucson Unified District AZ 60,529 281,811 26,505 132,988 122,318 244,373 139,539 4,037San Antonio ISD TX 59,544 384,441 43,957 249,700 90,784 314,093 189,654 5,275Atlanta City School District GA 59,244 493,486 40,067 145,476 307,943 410,211 234,432 6,924Davis School District UT 57,933 199,512 13,873 126,044 59,595 176,011 109,907 3,038Jefferson Parish School Board LA 57,270 300,883 26,809 132,443 141,631 264,728 163,411 4,622

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Totalstudents

Fall 1993


per pupil

Revenues, by source Current expendituresTotal Federal State Local Total Instructional*

Northside ISD TX 54,992 303,575 15,982 166,513 121,080 248,755 149,848 4,523Guilford County Schools NC 54,451 298,767 17,160 168,258 113,351 284,389 172,395 5,223Portland School District 1J OR 54,073 341,872 27,840 118,959 195,273 356,238 205,442 6,588Volusia County School District FL 53,972 296,797 18,313 145,706 132,778 248,183 139,569 4,598Greenville County School District SC 53,280 248,481 16,381 109,630 122,470 222,113 134,208 4,169

Seminole County School District FL 52,688 268,497 11,419 142,008 115,070 219,272 129,559 4,162Cincinnati City SD OH 52,381 350,704 29,200 125,721 195,783 337,233 203,525 6,438Oakland Unified CA 51,748 308,135 32,720 196,888 78,527 278,765 162,656 5,387Knox County School District TN 51,742 233,635 17,313 92,376 123,946 213,449 135,484 4,125Caddo Parish School Board LA 51,255 220,234 23,145 118,757 78,332 207,981 125,507 4,058

Fulton County School District GA 50,190 333,274 12,099 103,278 217,897 277,130 155,007 5,522Sacramento City Unified CA 49,997 247,546 27,417 155,558 64,571 225,055 150,710 4,501Ysleta ISD TX 49,388 267,397 24,083 184,925 58,389 235,606 132,684 4,771Cumberland County Schools NC 49,247 214,529 30,460 139,921 44,148 204,467 127,545 4,152Arlington ISD TX 48,667 211,879 8,753 57,662 145,464 192,724 113,857 3,960

Santa Ana Unified CA 48,407 236,327 20,604 130,953 84,770 199,258 129,524 4,116Cypress-Fairbanks ISO TX 48,252 254,346 6,726 91,550 156,070 247,316 138,963 5,126Buffalo City SD NY 48,128 404,766 45,162 258,188 101,416 350,504 222,298 7,283Chesterfield County Public Schools VA 47,919 219,808 7,562 86,785 125,461 207,383 131,323 4,328San Juan Unified CA 47,650 230,820 15,503 143,985 71,352 210,352 136,620 4,415

Lee County School District FL 47,390 293,158 18,261 88,876 186,021 245,531 128,408 5,181Anchorage School District AK 47,340 308,432 26,373 204,982 77,077 294,399 152,851 6,219Wichita Public Schools KS 47,132 259,538 15,538 135,546 108,454 247,620 140,083 5,254Newark City Public Schools NJ 46,835 558,484 50,265 419,990 88,229 500,357 282,276 10,683Indianapolis Public Schools IN 46,656 352,861 26,620 180,621 145,620 295,045 162,955 . 6,324

Seattle School District WA 45,159 296,709 24,124 193,124 79,461 291,005 157,323 6,444Charleston County School District SC 44,883 209,064 22,918 88,745 97,401 189,491 113,898 4,222Prince William County Public School VA 44,881 253,765 9,314 85,532 158,919 246,382 146,120 5,490Escambia County School District FL 44,641 244,755 25,674 157,914 61,167 219,764 123,241 4,923Minneapolis Special School District MN 44,533 368,786 27,109 159,628 182,049 321,559 200,195 7,221

San Bernardino City Unified CA 43,933 224,717 21,392 168,344 34,981 201,161 116,000 4,579Washoe County School District NV 43,715 130,759 9,465 52,665 68,629 193,201 119,931 4,420Omaha Public Schools NE 43,609 250,389 19,999 83,241 147,149 230,091 139,077 5,276Aldine ISO TX 43,539 239,092 17,239 133,004 88,849 191,265 117,042 4,393North East ISD nc 43,122 243,294 10,987 95,082 137,225 181,032 111,557 4,198

Shelby County School District TN 41,994 147,416 6,227 74,160 67,029 138,475 91,816 3,297Garden Grove Unified CA 41,664 191,895 17,776 101,325 72,794 185,610 117,821 4,455Alpine School District UT 41,601 141,542 8,061 93,257 40,224 127,866 85,649 3,074Garland ISD TX 41,134 196,858 8,784 95,880 92,194 166,500 93,972 4,048St. Paul MN 39,239 281,781 23,308 153,897 104,576 242,108 153,573 6,170

Instructional expenditures are current expenditures for activities directly associated with the interaction between teachers and students. These includeteacher salaries and benefits, supplies (such as textbooks), and purchased instructional services.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "1995 Annual Survey of Local Government Finances: School Systems."Data for Puerto Rico were obtained from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data,"National Public Education Financial Survey", 1994-95.

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