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The tables below present the demographic data of students enrolled in public schools in the United States in various years.

HIGHLIGHTS

As of fall 2013, over half of all public school students were white.

Hispanic students made up the second-largest group at 24.8 percent of students.

Demographics, 2013

The table below presents the demographic data as of fall 2013 for public schools in the United States, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of all public school students in fall 2013, more than half were white, with Hispanic students making up the second-largest group at 24.8 percent. Washington, D.C., had the lowest percentage of white students, 8.8 percent, while Vermont had the highest, 91.6 percent.

Public school enrollments by ethnicity, fall 2013
State	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	Other
Alabama	57.0%	33.6%	5.5%	1.4%	2.5%
Alaska	49.2%	3.4%	6.6%	6.2%	34.6%
Arizona	40.7%	5.2%	44.1%	2.8%	7.3%
Arkansas	63.1%	21.0%	11.2%	1.5%	3.2%
California	25.0%	6.2%	53.3%	11.1%	4.4%
Colorado	55.0%	4.7%	32.8%	3.1%	4.4%
Connecticut	58.5%	12.9%	21.2%	4.7%	2.8%
Delaware	47.7%	31.2%	14.5%	3.5%	3.0%
District of Columbia	8.8%	73.6%	14.4%	1.4%	1.8%
Florida	40.9%	22.9%	30.0%	2.6%	3.6%
Georgia	42.7%	37.0%	13.3%	3.5%	3.4%
Hawaii	13.6%	2.1%	10.0%	32.0%	42.3%
Idaho	76.8%	1.1%	17.2%	1.3%	3.6%
Illinois	49.9%	17.6%	24.6%	4.5%	3.5%
Indiana	70.9%	12.3%	10.2%	1.9%	4.8%
Iowa	79.0%	5.3%	9.7%	2.2%	3.8%
Kansas	65.9%	7.2%	18.4%	2.7%	5.9%
Kentucky	79.3%	10.8%	5.3%	1.5%	3.2%
Louisiana	46.8%	44.5%	4.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Maine	90.9%	3.2%	1.8%	1.5%	2.5%
Maryland	40.9%	34.9%	13.6%	6.1%	4.5%
Massachusetts	64.9%	8.7%	17.0%	6.1%	3.2%
Michigan	68.3%	18.3%	6.8%	2.9%	3.6%
Minnesota	70.7%	9.7%	8.2%	6.4%	5.1%
Mississippi	45.4%	49.3%	2.9%	1.0%	1.3%
Missouri	73.2%	16.5%	5.4%	1.9%	3.0%
Montana	80.0%	0.9%	4.1%	0.8%	14.1%
Nebraska	68.9%	6.7%	17.3%	2.3%	4.8%
Nevada	36.0%	9.9%	40.6%	5.6%	8.0%
New Hampshire	88.0%	1.9%	4.4%	3.0%	2.7%
New Jersey	48.9%	16.1%	24.2%	9.3%	1.5%
New Mexico	24.6%	1.9%	60.7%	1.2%	11.6%
New York	46.5%	18.2%	24.5%	8.8%	2.1%
North Carolina	51.4%	26.0%	14.5%	2.8%	5.3%
North Dakota	81.4%	3.1%	3.7%	1.4%	10.4%
Ohio	72.6%	16.3%	4.5%	1.9%	4.7%
Oklahoma	51.7%	9.2%	15.0%	1.8%	22.4%
Oregon	63.8%	2.5%	22.4%	3.9%	7.4%
Pennsylvania	69.1%	15.1%	9.5%	3.4%	2.9%
Rhode Island	61.5%	8.1%	23.4%	2.9%	4.1%
South Carolina	52.5%	35.1%	7.5%	1.4%	3.5%
South Dakota	76.9%	2.7%	4.5%	1.7%	14.2%
Tennessee	65.6%	22.9%	7.8%	1.8%	1.9%
Texas	29.5%	12.7%	51.8%	3.7%	2.4%
Utah	76.3%	1.3%	16.0%	1.7%	4.6%
Vermont	91.6%	1.9%	1.6%	1.9%	3.0%
Virginia	52.2%	23.3%	13.1%	6.3%	5.1%
Washington	58.2%	4.5%	21.1%	7.2%	9.1%
West Virginia	91.1%	4.7%	1.4%	0.7%	2.1%
Wisconsin	72.4%	9.7%	10.5%	3.6%	3.7%
Wyoming	79.4%	1.2%	13.1%	0.9%	5.4%
United States	50.3%	15.6%	24.8%	4.8%	4.4%
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, "Percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: Fall 2003 and fall 2013," accessed June 9, 2016

Demographics, 2012-2013 school year

According to the Common Core of Data (CCD) put out by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics for the 2012-2013 school year, nearly 50 million students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. The following charts show the breakdown by ethnicity of student enrollment by percentages and by total numbers (below) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as totals for the entire country.

Student enrollment by ethnicity

The table below details student enrollments by ethnicity. Though Alaska had the highest percentage of American Indian/Alaskan Native students, Oklahoma had the highest number of American Indian students. Though New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanic students, California had the highest number. California also had the highest number of white students, and Texas had the highest number of black students.

State enrollments by ethnicity, 2012-2013 school year
State	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian	Black	Hispanic	White	Hawaiian Nat./Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Total Enrollment
Alabama	6,136	9,920	252,397	37,685	429,179	471	8,849	744,637
Alaska	30,914	8,104	4,671	8,402	65,863	3,095	10,440	131,489
Arizona	53,388	30,455	57,348	471,424	452,811	2,977	20,981	1,089,384
Arkansas	3,316	7,185	102,231	51,352	310,458	2,661	8,954	486,157
California	40,641	691,712	394,562	3,281,066	1,589,297	33,975	193,838	6,225,091
Colorado	6,716	27,266	40,496	278,619	480,366	1,860	28,238	863,561
Connecticut	1,694	25,199	71,386	112,461	328,144	465	11,605	550,954
Delaware	594	4,509	40,457	17,911	62,676	112	2,767	129,026
District of Columbia	84	1,072	56,804	10,590	6,370	71	1,149	76,140
Florida	9,457	69,073	617,966	788,088	1,121,254	3,211	83,113	2,692,162
Georgia	3,576	59,067	628,849	217,122	740,789	1,869	52,060	1,703,332
Hawaii	893	61,002	4,074	15,256	25,704	60,613	17,218	184,760
Idaho	3,683	3,730	2,878	47,113	221,283	938	5,209	284,834
Illinois	6,017	89,903	365,764	500,426	1,046,882	2,041	61,847	2,072,880
Indiana	2,834	18,713	127,608	100,018	746,143	595	45,458	1,041,369
Iowa	2,122	10,704	25,824	46,731	398,951	848	14,645	499,825
Kansas	5,197	12,525	35,338	86,998	325,990	761	22,234	489,043
Kentucky	905	9,670	73,391	32,811	550,446	594	17,350	685,167
Louisiana	5,365	10,463	319,734	30,899	334,175	526	9,741	710,903
Maine	1,521	2,875	5,637	3,185	169,722	181	2,618	185,739
Maryland	2,721	51,176	301,726	110,529	359,110	1,222	33,154	859,638
Massachusetts	2,292	56,517	81,806	156,976	630,150	1,020	26,012	954,773
Michigan	11,744	44,306	286,537	100,397	1,071,840	1,469	39,077	1,555,370
Minnesota	14,814	53,201	79,328	64,712	608,843	701	23,805	845,404
Mississippi	994	4,818	244,189	13,389	225,715	161	4,384	493,650
Missouri	4,078	17,278	152,275	47,269	676,377	1,686	18,937	917,900
Montana	16,228	1,193	1,399	5,644	115,094	336	3,014	142,908
Nebraska	4,327	6,630	20,217	51,068	211,167	354	9,742	303,505
Nevada	4,979	25,250	43,364	178,167	163,930	5,746	24,271	445,707
New Hampshire	582	5,541	3,579	7,810	167,342	132	3,988	188,974
New Jersey	1,769	125,130	223,070	321,443	683,857	3,163	13,771	1,372,203
New Mexico	33,867	4,047	6,626	202,620	86,359	341	4,360	338,220
New York	15,243	230,687	495,291	649,568	1,280,689	5,699	33,526	2,710,703
North Carolina	21,219	39,929	397,779	215,472	787,559	1,382	55,125	1,518,465
North Dakota	9,086	1,280	2,895	3,363	83,037	237	1,213	101,111
Ohio	2,321	31,951	279,663	72,789	1,267,331	908	74,953	1,729,916
Oklahoma	105,995	12,439	63,381	95,014	354,323	1,778	40,553	673,483
Oregon	9,917	22,827	14,630	129,076	378,737	3,866	28,511	587,564
Pennsylvania	2,752	59,431	267,224	159,737	1,232,905	1,193	40,435	1,763,677
Rhode Island	914	4,131	11,692	31,887	89,511	243	4,103	142,481
South Carolina	2,268	10,170	260,336	51,859	389,179	864	21,322	735,998
South Dakota	14,977	2,211	3,584	5,571	101,242	138	2,748	130,471
Tennessee	1,890	17,024	228,812	72,204	658,568	992	14,006	993,496
Texas	21,802	183,813	646,706	2,606,839	1,522,091	6,646	89,762	5,077,659
Utah	7,337	10,581	7,983	96,048	471,509	9,245	10,576	613,279
Vermont	257	1,603	1,759	1,373	82,401	65	2,166	89,624
Virginia	4,044	77,992	296,985	157,746	669,428	1,830	57,394	1,265,419
Washington	15,210	75,407	48,381	214,077	622,485	9,685	66,449	1,051,694
West Virginia	336	1,974	13,741	3,621	258,780	108	4,484	283,044
Wisconsin	11,040	31,034	85,158	88,132	637,518	683	18,871	872,436
Wyoming	3,042	766	1,029	11,753	73,277	178	1,488	91,533
United States	533,098	2,363,484	7,798,560	12,064,310	25,366,857	179,935	1,390,514	49,696,758
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Public Elementary/Secondary Education Survey," 2012-13 v.1a.

Student enrollment by percentage

The table below details student enrollment percentages by ethnicity. Alaska had the highest percentage of American Indian or Native Alaskan students, and Hawaii had the highest percentage of Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian students. New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanic students, and the District of Columbia had the highest percentage of black students. The state with the highest percentage of white students was Vermont.

State enrollments by ethnicity by percentage, 2012-2013 school year
State	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian	Black	Hispanic	White	Hawaiian Nat./Pacific Islander	Two or More Races
Alabama	0.82%	1.33%	33.90%	5.06%	57.64%	0.06%	1.19%
Alaska	23.51%	6.16%	3.55%	6.39%	50.09%	2.35%	7.94%
Arizona	4.90%	2.80%	5.26%	43.27%	41.57%	0.27%	1.93%
Arkansas	0.68%	1.48%	21.03%	10.56%	63.86%	0.55%	1.84%
California	0.65%	11.11%	6.34%	52.71%	25.53%	0.55%	3.11%
Colorado	0.78%	3.16%	4.69%	32.26%	55.63%	0.22%	3.27%
Connecticut	0.31%	4.57%	12.96%	20.41%	59.56%	0.08%	2.11%
Delaware	0.46%	3.49%	31.36%	13.88%	48.58%	0.09%	2.14%
District of Columbia	0.11%	1.41%	74.60%	13.91%	8.37%	0.09%	1.51%
Florida	0.35%	2.57%	22.95%	29.27%	41.65%	0.12%	3.09%
Georgia	0.21%	3.47%	36.92%	12.75%	43.49%	0.11%	3.06%
Hawaii	0.48%	33.02%	2.21%	8.26%	13.91%	32.81%	9.32%
Idaho	1.29%	1.31%	1.01%	16.54%	77.69%	0.33%	1.83%
Illinois	0.29%	4.34%	17.65%	24.14%	50.50%	0.10%	2.98%
Indiana	0.27%	1.80%	12.25%	9.60%	71.65%	0.06%	4.37%
Iowa	0.42%	2.14%	5.17%	9.35%	79.82%	0.17%	2.93%
Kansas	1.06%	2.56%	7.23%	17.79%	66.66%	0.16%	4.55%
Kentucky	0.13%	1.41%	10.71%	4.79%	80.34%	0.09%	2.53%
Louisiana	0.75%	1.47%	44.98%	4.35%	47.01%	0.07%	1.37%
Maine	0.82%	1.55%	3.03%	1.71%	91.38%	0.10%	1.41%
Maryland	0.32%	5.95%	35.10%	12.86%	41.77%	0.14%	3.86%
Massachusetts	0.24%	5.92%	8.57%	16.44%	66.00%	0.11%	2.72%
Michigan	0.76%	2.85%	18.42%	6.45%	68.91%	0.09%	2.51%
Minnesota	1.75%	6.29%	9.38%	7.65%	72.02%	0.08%	2.82%
Mississippi	0.20%	0.98%	49.47%	2.71%	45.72%	0.03%	0.89%
Missouri	0.44%	1.88%	16.59%	5.15%	73.69%	0.18%	2.06%
Montana	11.36%	0.83%	0.98%	3.95%	80.54%	0.24%	2.11%
Nebraska	1.43%	2.18%	6.66%	16.83%	69.58%	0.12%	3.21%
Nevada	1.12%	5.67%	9.73%	39.97%	36.78%	1.29%	5.45%
New Hampshire	0.31%	2.93%	1.89%	4.13%	88.55%	0.07%	2.11%
New Jersey	0.13%	9.12%	16.26%	23.43%	49.84%	0.23%	1.00%
New Mexico	10.01%	1.20%	1.96%	59.91%	25.53%	0.10%	1.29%
New York	0.56%	8.51%	18.27%	23.96%	47.25%	0.21%	1.24%
North Carolina	1.40%	2.63%	26.20%	14.19%	51.87%	0.09%	3.63%
North Dakota	8.99%	1.27%	2.86%	3.33%	82.12%	0.23%	1.20%
Ohio	0.13%	1.85%	16.17%	4.21%	73.26%	0.05%	4.33%
Oklahoma	15.74%	1.85%	9.41%	14.11%	52.61%	0.26%	6.02%
Oregon	1.69%	3.89%	2.49%	21.97%	64.46%	0.66%	4.85%
Pennsylvania	0.16%	3.37%	15.15%	9.06%	69.91%	0.07%	2.29%
Rhode Island	0.64%	2.90%	8.21%	22.38%	62.82%	0.17%	2.88%
South Carolina	0.31%	1.38%	35.37%	7.05%	52.88%	0.12%	2.90%
South Dakota	11.48%	1.69%	2.75%	4.27%	77.60%	0.11%	2.11%
Tennessee	0.19%	1.71%	23.03%	7.27%	66.29%	0.10%	1.41%
Texas	0.43%	3.62%	12.74%	51.34%	29.98%	0.13%	1.77%
Utah	1.20%	1.73%	1.30%	15.66%	76.88%	1.51%	1.72%
Vermont	0.29%	1.79%	1.96%	1.53%	91.94%	0.07%	2.42%
Virginia	0.32%	6.16%	23.47%	12.47%	52.90%	0.14%	4.54%
Washington	1.45%	7.17%	4.60%	20.36%	59.19%	0.92%	6.32%
West Virginia	0.12%	0.70%	4.85%	1.28%	91.43%	0.04%	1.58%
Wisconsin	1.27%	3.56%	9.76%	10.10%	73.07%	0.08%	2.16%
Wyoming	3.32%	0.84%	1.12%	12.84%	80.06%	0.19%	1.63%
United States	1.07%	4.76%	15.69%	24.28%	51.04%	0.36%	2.80%
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Public Elementary/Secondary Education Survey," 2012-13 v.1a.

Demographics, 2011-2012 school year

Student enrollment by ethnicity

The table below details student enrollments by ethnicity. Though Alaska had the highest percentage of American Indian students, Oklahoma had the highest number of American Indian students. Though New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanic students, California had the highest number. California also had the highest number of white students, and Texas had the highest number of black students.

State enrollments by ethnicity, 2011-2012 school year
State	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian	Black	Hispanic	White	Hawaiian Nat./Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Total Enrollment
Alabama	6,179	9,943	254,503	34,722	432,707	328	6,239	744,621
Alaska	30,770	8,065	4,730	8,147	66,704	2,904	9,847	131,167
Arizona	54,596	30,079	58,029	462,624	455,010	2,880	17,101	1,080,319
Arkansas	3,244	6,941	102,438	49,504	310,896	2,346	7,745	483,114
California	42,486	693,313	404,412	3,239,296	1,617,931	35,232	181,534	6,214,204
Colorado	7,143	26,522	40,932	272,490	479,288	1,817	26,073	854,265
Connecticut	1,923	24,546	72,122	108,165	337,489	373	9,819	554,437
Delaware	622	4,421	40,793	16,846	63,876	81	2,307	128,946
District of Columbia	64	1,035	56,480	9,711	5,690	88	843	73,911
Florida	9,888	67,758	612,465	762,854	1,131,901	3,008	80,282	2,668,156
Georgia	3,732	57,165	623,601	205,317	743,258	1,803	50,140	1,685,016
Hawaii	970	62,521	4,387	11,758	26,081	61,959	15,030	182,706
Idaho	3,767	3,695	2,845	45,486	218,400	963	4,717	279,873
Illinois	6,260	87,546	375,919	493,698	1,058,714	2,009	58,951	2,083,097
Indiana	3,032	17,868	126,980	93,230	754,181	569	44,905	1,040,765
Iowa	2,236	10,245	25,303	44,191	400,101	759	13,035	495,870
Kansas	5,454	12,323	35,583	83,488	327,538	769	20,953	486,108
Kentucky	960	9,344	73,380	29,457	553,406	531	14,909	681,987
Louisiana	5,479	10,300	316,947	28,276	333,736	427	8,225	703,390
Maine	1,584	2,932	5,585	3,080	173,447	185	2,156	188,969
Maryland	2,989	50,052	302,031	103,594	362,855	1,184	31,381	854,086
Massachusetts	2,305	54,358	79,015	153,324	639,111	1,050	24,206	953,369
Michigan	12,183	42,827	296,124	97,494	1,088,587	1,347	34,975	1,573,537
Minnesota	15,076	52,186	77,274	62,083	613,019	650	19,450	839,738
Mississippi	958	4,666	243,438	12,609	225,743	162	3,043	490,619
Missouri	4,182	17,267	153,711	44,581	680,249	1,470	15,124	916,584
Montana	16,530	1,212	1,436	5,248	115,184	369	2,370	142,349
Nebraska	4,381	6,276	20,262	49,405	211,406	355	9,211	301,296
Nevada	5,031	24,786	42,336	174,121	164,626	5,502	23,232	439,634
New Hampshire	612	5,443	3,696	7,429	171,011	115	3,594	191,900
New Jersey	1,735	121,434	220,238	305,026	693,416	3,153	11,429	1,356,431
New Mexico	34,287	4,110	6,816	200,483	87,381	276	3,872	337,225
New York	14,675	226,656	500,175	630,920	1,304,500	5,214	22,578	2,704,718
North Carolina	22,098	38,019	397,489	203,503	790,132	1,293	55,330	1,507,864
North Dakota	8,866	1,134	2,549	2,783	81,237	220	857	97,646
Ohio	2,442	30,923	281,996	66,120	1,282,799	787	74,963	1,740,030
Oklahoma	110,617	12,340	65,168	87,496	357,497	1,833	31,169	666,120
Oregon	10,247	22,274	14,404	119,790	371,294	3,690	26,509	568,208
Pennsylvania	2,832	57,681	271,598	153,519	1,251,083	997	33,685	1,771,395
Rhode Island	913	4,123	11,597	30,816	91,400	216	3,789	142,854
South Carolina	2,142	9,834	259,170	48,644	386,941	840	19,615	727,186
South Dakota	14,950	1,966	3,390	4,993	100,417	124	2,176	128,016
Tennessee	1,876	16,595	233,357	66,268	670,565	1,037	9,995	999,693
Texas	22,390	177,203	640,723	2,541,966	1,527,763	6,258	84,167	5,000,470
Utah	7,436	10,612	7,967	91,722	463,938	9,024	8,133	598,832
Vermont	315	1,515	1,722	1,251	82,688	63	1,875	89,429
Virginia	4,132	75,840	298,931	149,272	673,363	1,762	54,583	1,257,883
Washington	15,850	74,574	47,715	205,031	629,898	9,308	63,077	1,045,453
West Virginia	327	2,000	14,266	3,368	259,435	100	3,374	282,870
Wisconsin	11,277	30,742	85,495	84,561	642,176	665	16,189	871,105
Wyoming	2,885	710	979	11,326	72,519	123	1,557	90,099
United States	547,439	2,337,719	7,834,895	12,175,756	25,583,558	207,725	1,271,173	49,958,265
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Public Elementary/Secondary Education Survey," 2011-12 v.1a.

Student enrollment by percentage

The table below details student enrollment percentages by ethnicity. Alaska had the highest percentage of American Indian or native Alaskan students, and Hawaii had the highest percentage of Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian students. New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanic students, and the District of Columbia had the highest percentage of black students. The state with the highest percentage of white students was Vermont.

State enrollments by ethnicity by percentage, 2011-2012 school year
State	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian	Black	Hispanic	White	Hawaiian Nat./Pacific Islander	Two or More Races
United States	1.1%	4.68%	15.68%	24.37%	51.21%	0.42%	2.54%
Alabama	0.83%	1.34%	34.18%	4.66%	58.11%	0.04%	0.84%
Alaska	23.46%	6.15%	3.61%	6.21%	50.85%	2.21%	7.51%
Arizona	5.05%	2.78%	5.37%	42.82%	42.12%	0.27%	1.58%
Arkansas	0.67%	1.44%	21.2%	10.25%	64.35%	0.49%	1.6%
California	0.68%	11.16%	6.51%	52.13%	26.04%	0.57%	2.92%
Colorado	0.84%	3.1%	4.79%	31.9%	56.11%	0.21%	3.05%
Connecticut	0.35%	4.43%	13.01%	19.51%	60.87%	0.07%	1.77%
Delaware	0.48%	3.43%	31.64%	13.06%	49.54%	0.06%	1.79%
District of Columbia	0.09%	1.4%	76.42%	13.14%	7.7%	0.12%	1.14%
Florida	0.37%	2.54%	22.95%	28.59%	42.42%	0.11%	3.01%
Georgia	0.22%	3.39%	37.01%	12.18%	44.11%	0.11%	2.98%
Hawaii	0.53%	34.22%	2.4%	6.44%	14.27%	33.91%	8.23%
Idaho	1.35%	1.32%	1.02%	16.25%	78.04%	0.34%	1.69%
Illinois	0.3%	4.2%	18.05%	23.7%	50.82%	0.1%	2.83%
Indiana	0.29%	1.72%	12.2%	8.96%	72.46%	0.05%	4.31%
Iowa	0.45%	2.07%	5.1%	8.91%	80.69%	0.15%	2.63%
Kansas	1.12%	2.54%	7.32%	17.17%	67.38%	0.16%	4.31%
Kentucky	0.14%	1.37%	10.76%	4.32%	81.15%	0.08%	2.19%
Louisiana	0.78%	1.46%	45.06%	4.02%	47.45%	0.06%	1.17%
Maine	0.84%	1.55%	2.96%	1.63%	91.79%	0.1%	1.14%
Maryland	0.35%	5.86%	35.36%	12.13%	42.48%	0.14%	3.67%
Massachusetts	0.24%	5.7%	8.29%	16.08%	67.04%	0.11%	2.54%
Michigan	0.77%	2.72%	18.82%	6.2%	69.18%	0.09%	2.22%
Minnesota	1.8%	6.21%	9.2%	7.39%	73%	0.08%	2.32%
Mississippi	0.2%	0.95%	49.62%	2.57%	46.01%	0.03%	0.62%
Missouri	0.46%	1.88%	16.77%	4.86%	74.22%	0.16%	1.65%
Montana	11.61%	0.85%	1.01%	3.69%	80.92%	0.26%	1.66%
Nebraska	1.45%	2.08%	6.72%	16.4%	70.17%	0.12%	3.06%
Nevada	1.14%	5.64%	9.63%	39.61%	37.45%	1.25%	5.28%
New Hampshire	0.32%	2.84%	1.93%	3.87%	89.11%	0.06%	1.87%
New Jersey	0.13%	8.95%	16.24%	22.49%	51.12%	0.23%	0.84%
New Mexico	10.17%	1.22%	2.02%	59.45%	25.91%	0.08%	1.15%
New York	0.54%	8.38%	18.49%	23.33%	48.23%	0.19%	0.83%
North Carolina	1.47%	2.52%	26.36%	13.5%	52.4%	0.09%	3.67%
North Dakota	9.08%	1.16%	2.61%	2.85%	83.2%	0.23%	0.88%
Ohio	0.14%	1.78%	16.21%	3.8%	73.72%	0.05%	4.31%
Oklahoma	16.61%	1.85%	9.78%	13.14%	53.67%	0.28%	4.68%
Oregon	1.8%	3.92%	2.53%	21.08%	65.34%	0.65%	4.67%
Pennsylvania	0.16%	3.26%	15.33%	8.67%	70.63%	0.06%	1.9%
Rhode Island	0.64%	2.89%	8.12%	21.57%	63.98%	0.15%	2.65%
South Carolina	0.29%	1.35%	35.64%	6.69%	53.21%	0.12%	2.7%
South Dakota	11.68%	1.54%	2.65%	3.9%	78.44%	0.1%	1.7%
Tennessee	0.19%	1.66%	23.34%	6.63%	67.08%	0.1%	1%
Texas	0.45%	3.54%	12.81%	50.83%	30.55%	0.13%	1.68%
Utah	1.24%	1.77%	1.33%	15.32%	77.47%	1.51%	1.36%
Vermont	0.35%	1.69%	1.93%	1.4%	92.46%	0.07%	2.1%
Virginia	0.33%	6.03%	23.76%	11.87%	53.53%	0.14%	4.34%
Washington	1.52%	7.13%	4.56%	19.61%	60.25%	0.89%	6.03%
West Virginia	0.12%	0.71%	5.04%	1.19%	91.72%	0.04%	1.19%
Wisconsin	1.29%	3.53%	9.81%	9.71%	73.72%	0.08%	1.86%
Wyoming	3.2%	0.79%	1.09%	12.57%	80.49%	0.14%	1.73%
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Public Elementary/Secondary Education Survey," 2011-12 v.1a.

See also

• Magnet schools
• School choice
• Charter schools
• Number of schools by school type in the United States