Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-09 - First Look

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This report presents findings on the numbers and types of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States and the territories in the 2008-09 school year, using data from the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system.

Findings include:

• About 49 million students attended 98,706 operating public elementary/secondary schools in the 2008–09 school year.
• Almost 1.4 million students, approximately 3% of public school students, were enrolled in 4,694 charter schools in 2008-09.
• Across all active regular public schools with students, the student/teacher ratio in 2008-09 was 15.8. It ranged from 11.0 in Vermont to 27.0 in Utah.