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The bulletin board for American public schools

A community for every public school.

allk12 is a full profile and discussion hub for every US public K-12 school. Each page shows official NCES stats (enrollment, grade mix, demographics, student-teacher ratio, free-and-reduced-lunch share, address, phone, district, charter status) alongside a community feed where parents, teachers, students, alumni, and staff talk about what is actually happening on campus.

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7/25/2026·Mary Johnson
A Humanoid Robot Is Coming to a New York High School, and Teachers Are Calling It Creepy

Salamanca High School will be the first US school to deploy a humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant. Teachers want a pause, the state has raised privacy concerns, and Seneca residents say a school where roughly a third of students are Native American should not be the test site.

7/25/2026·Mary Johnson
Which States Have the Most Charter Schools?

Charter schools cluster where state law invites them and vanish where it doesn't. Our count of every active public school in the NCES data shows California with the most charters, Washington, D.C. running more than half its schools as charters, and six states with none at all.

7/24/2026·Mary Johnson
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Chattooga County is one of only a handful of Georgia districts on a four-day school week. The free Mondays are real, but so is the trade-off: the district runs 38 weeks instead of 36 and started school unusually early to fit the required instructional days in.

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The public schools with the highest share of Black students in the United States

Ranked by the share of students who are Black or African American, from federal NCES enrollment data.

School% Black
#1Central High SchoolHayneville, AL100%#2New Vision Learning AcademyMonroe, LA100%#3Southside Elementary SchoolLake Providence, LA100%#5New Song AcademyBaltimore, MD100%#6Weston Preparatory AcademyDETROIT, MI100%

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Suwanee, GA · High
North Gwinnett High School
1 member3 posts3,033 students
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1 member3 posts2,485 students
Cerritos, CA · High
Whitney (Gretchen) High
1 member3 posts1,024 students
Sacramento, CA · Combined
Highlands Community Charter
0 members3 posts11,713 students
Atlanta, GA · Combined
Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)
0 members3 posts9,952 students
Fairbanks, AK · Combined
Interior Distance Education of Alaska (IDEA)
0 members3 posts7,876 students
Athens, AL · Combined
Alabama Connections Academy
0 members3 posts7,822 students
MALAD CITY, ID · Combined
IDAHO HOME LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER
0 members3 posts7,764 students
Temecula, CA · Combined
River Springs Charter
0 members3 posts7,703 students

Directory by state

56 states / territories
Alabama1,548 schoolsAlaska507 schoolsAmerican Samoa29 schoolsArizona2,636 schoolsArkansas1,136 schoolsCalifornia10,463 schoolsColorado1,965 schoolsConnecticut1,028 schoolsDelaware239 schoolsDistrict of Columbia247 schoolsFlorida4,383 schoolsGeorgia2,357 schoolsGuam45 schoolsHawaii298 schoolsIdaho820 schoolsIllinois4,471 schoolsIndiana1,986 schoolsIowa1,360 schoolsKansas1,369 schoolsKentucky1,574 schoolsLouisiana1,366 schoolsMaine610 schoolsMaryland1,423 schoolsMassachusetts1,862 schoolsMichigan3,556 schoolsMinnesota2,909 schoolsMississippi1,069 schoolsMissouri2,504 schoolsMontana861 schoolsNebraska1,119 schoolsNevada781 schoolsNew Hampshire522 schoolsNew Jersey2,591 schoolsNew Mexico937 schoolsNew York4,881 schoolsNorth Carolina2,794 schoolsNorth Dakota551 schoolsNorthern Mariana Islands35 schoolsOhio3,696 schoolsOklahoma1,807 schoolsOregon1,307 schoolsPennsylvania2,975 schoolsPuerto Rico868 schoolsRhode Island321 schoolsSouth Carolina1,311 schoolsSouth Dakota760 schoolsTennessee1,953 schoolsTexas9,930 schoolsUS Virgin Islands22 schoolsUtah1,135 schoolsVermont309 schoolsVirginia2,175 schoolsWashington2,597 schoolsWest Virginia704 schoolsWisconsin2,254 schoolsWyoming369 schools
About allk12One community per US public K-12 school. School profile data sourced from the NCES. Communities are free to join.