Table 104.

Public elementary schools, by grade span, average school size, and state or jurisdiction: 2009-10

State or jurisdiction	Total, all elemen- tary schools	Total, all regular elementary schools1	Schools, by grade span						Average number of students per school2
			Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grades 3 or 4	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 5	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 6	Prekinder- garten, kin- dergarten, or 1st grade to grade 8	Grade 4, 5, or 6 to grade 6, 7, or 8	Other grade spans	All elementary schools	Regular elementary schools1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
United States	67,140	65,947	4,906	25,264	11,207	6,205	13,163	6,395	473	478
Alabama	964	952	86	300	168	68	225	117	485	487
Alaska	193	192	2	39	95	21	21	15	334	334
Arizona	1,361	1,337	55	267	339	437	196	67	511	514
Arkansas	715	713	125	141	184	5	154	106	423	424
California	6,917	6,663	153	2,481	2,152	859	1,056	216	557	572
Colorado	1,273	1,268	29	597	222	105	240	80	426	426
Connecticut	838	820	92	286	94	91	154	121	433	439
Delaware	152	149	14	76	7	7	37	11	550	555
District of Columbia	168	160	10	56	17	38	25	22	290	294
Florida	2,662	2,594	20	1,636	150	157	563	136	668	683
Georgia	1,784	1,780	42	1,063	32	20	462	165	658	656
Hawaii	209	208	0	84	87	10	27	1	540	543
Idaho	442	438	35	149	136	23	78	21	383	385
Illinois	3,198	3,158	307	794	343	690	584	480	432	436
Indiana	1,415	1,411	147	541	327	35	269	96	466	467
Iowa	1,005	1,002	122	344	167	15	228	129	310	310
Kansas	962	959	94	302	230	79	186	71	310	311
Kentucky	990	973	29	486	121	82	202	70	478	482
Louisiana	981	920	84	330	126	107	216	118	464	472
Maine	486	485	64	94	57	86	92	93	250	250
Maryland	1,119	1,106	15	645	105	77	221	56	507	511
Massachusetts	1,355	1,340	194	480	127	102	288	164	453	454
Michigan	2,475	2,385	213	942	271	208	511	330	411	414
Minnesota	1,276	1,122	108	341	340	71	229	187	408	446
Mississippi	620	617	60	130	113	39	144	134	499	500
Missouri	1,581	1,569	147	477	307	139	307	204	373	374
Montana	479	476	20	53	215	112	53	26	177	177
Nebraska	742	732	42	179	293	44	96	88	259	260
Nevada	465	459	7	256	86	16	88	12	627	634
New Hampshire	378	378	56	113	36	48	80	45	340	340
New Jersey	1,899	1,894	278	551	159	292	365	254	472	473
New Mexico	600	589	20	237	141	14	126	62	363	368
New York	3,308	3,306	272	1,295	391	203	743	404	523	523
North Carolina	1,873	1,873	73	1,085	66	117	447	85	542	542
North Dakota	298	297	10	57	129	60	27	15	190	191
Ohio	2,600	2,570	340	699	405	233	551	372	418	422
Oklahoma	1,240	1,236	65	402	91	301	247	134	370	371
Oregon	917	911	42	387	156	120	177	35	386	387
Pennsylvania	2,293	2,292	288	731	454	192	427	201	461	461
Rhode Island	237	235	28	79	48	4	41	37	382	384
South Carolina	900	897	39	454	58	29	229	91	550	551
South Dakota	437	433	16	131	80	99	92	19	189	190
Tennessee	1,290	1,284	103	434	179	238	265	71	503	504
Texas	5,871	5,713	593	2,609	547	122	1,332	668	554	566
Utah	628	589	12	86	412	27	37	54	552	574
Vermont	238	238	12	30	105	64	17	10	219	219
Virginia	1,514	1,511	54	852	151	9	315	133	545	546
Washington	1,433	1,361	43	539	401	83	226	141	428	441
West Virginia	566	566	79	263	35	38	116	35	344	344
Wisconsin	1,554	1,548	140	607	167	155	309	176	361	362
Wyoming	239	238	27	54	85	14	42	17	220	221
Bureau of Indian    Education	107	107	6	5	24	67	4	1	201	201
DoD, domestic	57	57	15	15	4	2	10	11	—	—
DoD, overseas	85	85	5	28	22	7	18	5	—	—
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	22	22	0	0	0	22	0	0	—	—
Guam	35	35	0	25	0	0	8	2	—	—
Northern Marianas	23	23	0	2	10	0	2	9	281	281
Puerto Rico	907	906	53	7	797	2	26	22	251	251
U.S. Virgin Islands	22	22	1	0	19	0	2	0	378	378

—Not available.

1 Excludes special education and alternative schools.

2 Average for schools reporting enrollment data. Enrollment data were available for 66,706 out of 67,140 public elementary schools in 2009-10.

NOTE: Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8. Excludes schools not reported by grade level, such as some special education schools for the disabled. DoD = Department of Defense.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2009-10. (This table was prepared May 2011.)