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Public Elementary and Secondary Schools by Type and (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0229)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of

U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of

Education Statistics, annual.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of http://www.nces.ed.gov/

U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of

Education Statistics, annual.

For more information

http://www.nces.ed.gov/

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Exclude data for schools not reporting enrollment.
  2. Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade
    higher than 8.
  3. Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.
  4. Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.
  5. Includes special education,
    alternative, and other schools not classified by grade span.

Headnotes

[Enrollment in thousands (48,582 represents 48,582,000).
Data reported by schools, rather than school districts.
Based on the Common Core of Data Survey; see source for details]

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table: [28, 12]

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NUMBER OF SCHOOLS ENROLLMENT 1 (1,000)
Enrollment size of
School Total Elementary 2 Secondary 3 Combined 4 Other 5 Total ADD Elementary 2 Secondary 3 Combined 4 Other 5
COL
Total, 2004-05 96513 65984 23445 5572 1512 48581.686 0 31161.287 15876.391 1502.102 41.906
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION 1
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Under 100 students 11.0306018543 6.2032850771 17.8112936529 41.6848797934 51.1945392491 0.963085142825 0.647043236693 1.07788980506 5.88149140338 16.1790674366
100 to 199 students 9.69398145667 8.59021783806 11.1051261334 16.9680111266 24.9146757679 2.78472426832 2.75238952743 2.27023257364 8.29377765292 24.2781463275
200 to 299 students 11.5643925184 12.8541200469 8.20091570159 9.79535068548 8.53242320819 5.60594994583 6.87487971854 2.85699690818 8.06702873706 15.2746623395
300 to 399 students 13.5344873787 15.9626128389 7.82386210611 7.35148023048 9.55631399317 9.08998917823 11.7849497038 3.81177938991 8.57318610853 23.330787954
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Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of
Education Statistics, annual.

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0229

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2008

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