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The State of Charter Schools 2000 - Fourth-Year Report, January 2000
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Enrollment by State
As in past years, charter schools enrolled a relatively small percentage of public school students nationwide. Only three states had 2 percent or more of their public school enrollment in charter schools, with the District of Columbia enrolling the greatest percentage of students in charter schools. However, the number of students enrolled in charter schools continued to grow, with California charter schools continuing to enroll the greatest number of students. As the number of charter schools increases and student enrollment in charter schools expands, their potential impact on public education also increases.
- In 1998-99, the Study estimated that charter school enrollment totaled 252,009 in the 27 states with open charter schools. This enrollment was 0.8 percent of all students in public schools in the 27 charter states.
- With 73,905 students in charter schools, California had the most charter school students of any state. More than half of all charter school students (52 percent) are enrolled in charter schools in three states: Arizona, California, and Michigan.
- The District of Columbia, with an estimated 3,364 students enrolled in charter schools, had more than 4 percent of its public school students enrolled in charter schools, the highest percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools in all 27 charter states. Arizona had 4 percent of their public school students enrolled in charter schools, while Colorado had 2 percent.
- The percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools increased in all 27 charter states in the 1998-99 school year as compared to the 1997-98 school year.
Estimated Enrollment in Charter Schools and All Public Scools in the 27 Charter States
NOTE: Charter school enrollment includes data for 1,010 charter schools and is based on responses from all 975 open charter schools that responded to the survey, supplemented with data from state departments of education.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data Survey, 1997-98.
Charter School Enrollment as a Percentage of Public School Enrollment, by State1
Percentage of students in all public schools
1We do not have 1998-99 data for Idaho, Mississippi, and Ohio because their charter schools were not open at the time of our 1998-99 survey. In 1997-98, the number of students enrolled in South Carolina charter schools was too small to register on the scale.
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