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Table 6.--Fifty urban areas enrolling the largest number of elementary and secondary school students: 1990-1998

Area Enrollment Enrollment percent change, 1990 to 1998 Percent Minority Minority percent difference, 1990 to 1998
  1990 1998   1990 1998  
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
1,348,511 1,617,764 20.0 74.4 80.1 5.7
Chicago, IL
1,114,333 1,308,841 17.5 46.8 50.3 3.5
New York, NY
1,087,489 1,266,571 16.5 67.7 77.5 9.8
Boston, MA-NH
951,388 979,536 3.0 13.6 19.3 5.7
Houston, TX
615,378 786,194 27.8 54.6 62.0 7.4
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
618,998 750,117 21.2 --- 49.4 ---
Philadelphia, PA-NJ
645,003 743,737 15.3 36.4 39.1 2.7
Detroit, MI
689,725 738,772 7.1 31.3 34.5 3.3
Atlanta, GA
490,072 675,690 37.9 --- 44.2 ---
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
477,340 660,171 38.3 44.3 59.4 15.1
Dallas, TX
456,852 607,923 33.1 41.7 50.8 9.2
Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
367,514 531,782 44.7 32.0 41.4 9.3
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
398,409 515,037 29.3 12.0 19.9 7.8
Orange County, CA
360,165 471,404 30.9 44.6 56.8 12.2
San Diego, CA
380,369 470,494 23.7 45.8 56.1 10.3
Nassau-Suffolk, NY
389,689 441,774 13.4 19.3 26.5 7.3
St. Louis, MO-IL
371,212 414,948 11.8 --- 31.3 ---
Baltimore, MD
341,594 401,412 17.5 37.9 41.9 4.0
Oakland, CA
306,907 368,320 20.0 47.3 56.8 9.5
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
292,771 363,817 24.3 18.5 26.1 7.6
Miami, FL
279,420 352,536 26.2 80.1 87.4 7.2
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH
324,350 343,454 5.9 28.7 31.6 2.8
Pittsburgh, PA
324,069 340,262 5.0 12.8 14.6 1.8
Denver, CO
267,771 337,526 26.1 27.6 34.5 6.9
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
255,345 329,520 29.0 25.1 32.8 7.7
Newark, NJ
273,704 308,976 12.9 42.4 45.0 2.7
Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA
221,251 303,645 37.2 12.8 18.4 5.6
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
234,186 302,202 29.0 30.8 39.3 8.5
Kansas City, MO-KS
259,033 298,831 15.4 --- 25.4 ---
San Antonio, TX
255,724 293,637 14.8 66.1 68.1 2.0
Sacramento, CA
225,212 290,768 29.1 32.4 40.7 8.3
Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT
273,107 280,192 2.6 8.0 14.4 6.4
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA
240,671 275,668 14.5 --- 46.9 ---
Bridgeport, CT
215,221 259,574 20.6 --- 21.0 ---
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
238,136 256,755 7.8 18.8 33.2 14.4
Orlando, FL
180,608 254,966 41.2 30.5 42.9 12.4
San Jose, CA
224,031 253,367 13.1 53.3 63.9 10.6
Indianapolis, IN
230,046 252,868 9.9 18.8 21.7 2.8
Columbus, OH
215,958 242,281 12.2 18.2 22.2 4.0
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI
217,513 241,990 11.3 32.6 38.8 6.2
Las Vegas, NV-AZ
129,781 231,837 78.6 26.6 42.4 15.9
Fort Lauderdale, FL
148,803 231,187 55.4 41.1 55.3 14.2
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
183,029 230,552 26.0 29.7 35.0 5.3
New Orleans, LA
204,198 203,775 -0.2 59.6 63.7 4.0
Memphis, TN-AR-MS
177,221 203,286 14.7 59.4 62.2 2.8
Austin-San Marcos, TX
140,127 202,311 44.4 43.3 47.0 3.7
Fresno, CA
155,090 201,556 30.0 58.7 68.4 9.7
Hartford, CT
171,229 196,079 14.5 25.0 30.9 5.9
Rochester, NY
168,796 194,833 15.4 19.0 22.8 3.8
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI
157,699 190,665 20.9 17.1 41.2 24.1

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data Survey.
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[Figure 7: Enrollment in grades 9 to 12 in public and private schools, by region: Fall 1990, 2000, and 2010 ]
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