Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary SchoolDistricts in the United States: 1998-1999. Statistical Analysis Report

摘要

This publication provides basic descriptive information about the 100 largestschool districts (ranked by student membership) in the United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Defense (overseas) schools and outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). For the sake of simplicity, when discussing characteristics, the term nation (or United States) is used to refer to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Defense (overseas) schools and outlying areas. This is different from most NCES reports, which only include the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States totals. Almost one in every four public school students in this nation is served by one of these 100 districts. They are distinguished from smaller districts by characteristics in addition to sheer size, such as average and median school size, pupil-teacher ratios, number of high school graduates, number of pupils receiving special education services, and minority enrollment as a proportion of total enrollment. Information about the characteristics cited above is found in the fourteen basic tables.