How many public schools are there in the US?
There were 99,073 operational public schools in the fifty states and the District of Columbia in 2024–25, 8,048 of them charter schools, in NCES's Common Core of Data. Another 1,164 were in the territories and the Bureau of Indian Education.
Data retrieved
The figures behind this
| State | Schools | Charter schools |
|---|---|---|
| California | 10,303 | 1,276 |
| Texas | 9,192 | 1,056 |
| New York | 4,810 | 350 |
| Illinois | 4,398 | 131 |
| Florida | 4,186 | 734 |
| Ohio | 3,543 | 339 |
| Michigan | 3,468 | 368 |
| Pennsylvania | 2,932 | 175 |
| Minnesota | 2,741 | 309 |
| North Carolina | 2,705 | 213 |
| New Jersey | 2,557 | 86 |
| Washington | 2,543 | 17 |
| Missouri | 2,451 | 81 |
| Arizona | 2,432 | 569 |
| Georgia | 2,329 | 96 |
| Wisconsin | 2,190 | 225 |
| Virginia | 2,126 | 7 |
| Indiana | 1,919 | 134 |
| Tennessee | 1,913 | 114 |
| Colorado | 1,900 | 260 |
| Massachusetts | 1,823 | 73 |
| Oklahoma | 1,781 | 73 |
| Kentucky | 1,550 | 0 |
| Alabama | 1,532 | 23 |
| Maryland | 1,408 | 50 |
| Kansas | 1,341 | 7 |
| Iowa | 1,318 | 7 |
| Louisiana | 1,308 | 146 |
| Oregon | 1,291 | 128 |
| South Carolina | 1,277 | 104 |
| Arkansas | 1,106 | 110 |
| Nebraska | 1,097 | 0 |
| Utah | 1,097 | 142 |
| Mississippi | 1,019 | 10 |
| Connecticut | 1,007 | 21 |
| New Mexico | 879 | 99 |
| Montana | 842 | 0 |
| Idaho | 796 | 84 |
| Nevada | 735 | 104 |
| South Dakota | 706 | 0 |
| West Virginia | 676 | 6 |
| Maine | 589 | 11 |
| North Dakota | 514 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 501 | 42 |
| Alaska | 488 | 31 |
| Wyoming | 360 | 8 |
| Rhode Island | 313 | 42 |
| Vermont | 304 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 296 | 38 |
| District of Columbia | 245 | 125 |
| Delaware | 236 | 24 |
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Sources
- NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026