Rankings · Schools

Highest students by state

Public school enrollment.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

NCES Common Core of Data 2024, summed from the schools inside the county.

  1. 1California5748089
  2. 2Texas5481976
  3. 3Florida2820281
  4. 4New York2503408
  5. 5Illinois1842881
  6. 6Georgia1721467
  7. 7Ohio1620024
  8. 8Pennsylvania1601367
  9. 9North Carolina1537187
  10. 10New Jersey1355569
  11. 11Michigan1346709
  12. 12Virginia1250621
  13. 13Washington1078105
  14. 14Arizona1069512
  15. 15Indiana1027148
  16. 16Tennessee989556
  17. 17Massachusetts911127
  18. 18Maryland890671
  19. 19Missouri876463
  20. 20Minnesota858931
  21. 21Colorado845697
  22. 22Wisconsin794261
  23. 23South Carolina780233
  24. 24Alabama731025
  25. 25Utah663374
  26. 26Oklahoma661527
  27. 27Louisiana659616
  28. 28Kentucky651751
  29. 29Oregon529498
  30. 30Iowa492299
  31. 31Connecticut490969
  32. 32Arkansas481251
  33. 33Nevada466235
  34. 34Kansas461581
  35. 35Mississippi431206
  36. 36Nebraska330318
  37. 37Idaho315191
  38. 38New Mexico300921
  39. 39West Virginia239311
  40. 40Hawaii167071
  41. 41Maine165148
  42. 42New Hampshire162644
  43. 43Montana146931
  44. 44Delaware142156
  45. 45South Dakota139984
  46. 46Rhode Island133879
  47. 47Alaska126855
  48. 48North Dakota119037
  49. 49District of Columbia93627
  50. 50Wyoming89915
  51. 51Vermont77547
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Source: NCES via Urban Institute. · How this is built