An allk12 analysis of federal school data for 2024-25 counts 1,583 public schools flagged as virtual or online, enrolling 811,411 students between them. The 15 biggest hold about a fifth of that total. Not one of the 1,583 has a test proficiency score in the same data.
Arthur Chen
An allk12 analysis of federal enrollment data finds the 14 largest US school districts that shrank most from 2017-18 to 2024-25. Baldwin Park Unified led at -44.2%, and 13 of the 14 sit in coastal California.
Arthur Chen
Los Angeles Unified is the biggest single school district in the country at 402,549 students, but the picture shifts fast from there. Here is the largest district in all 50 states from NCES SY 2024-25 data, plus why New York's number needs a caveat.
Kate Carter
The Puerto Rico Department of Education runs 856 schools, more than any other public system in the country, and it enrolls fewer students than Los Angeles Unified while doing it. Counting buildings gives you a different top 20 than counting students, and here's what the gap between the two tells you about how a district is put together.
Kate Carter
Cypress Bay High School in Weston enrolls 4,579 students, more than any other public high school in Florida. An allk12 analysis of federal enrollment data for 2024-25 ranks the 20 largest, and eight of the state's 67 county districts account for all of them. Orange County alone has six in the top 15.
Kate Carter
While national public school enrollment is falling, a short list of districts is doing the opposite. Prosper ISD north of Dallas grew from 12,133 students to 31,651 in seven years. Almost every district on the list is either a Texas exurb or a statewide charter network.
Kate Carter
California and Texas each enroll about 5.5 million public school students, and together they account for roughly a fifth of the national total. Here is the full brick-and-mortar count for all 50 states plus DC, ranked.
Kate Carter
School closures have jumped 35% in four years, and the reason is not mainly budgets. It is bodies. Our own enrollment data shows the districts now closing schools, from Houston to Broward, have each lost 9% to 17% of their students since 2017-18.
Kate Carter
US public-school enrollment fell about 2.9 percent between 2017-18 and 2024-25, a loss of roughly 1.45 million students. But the national number hides a sharp regional split, with the Northeast and coastal West shrinking while the Sun Belt and Mountain West grow.
Arthur Chen
Los Angeles Unified enrolls 402,549 students, the largest school district in the 50 states. Here are the 25 biggest US districts by enrollment, why New York City is missing, and why Florida counties dominate the list.
Kate Carter
One school per state, the biggest comprehensive public high school by enrollment, from Brooklyn Tech's 5,848 students down to Vermont's 1,251. The pattern tracks population growth almost perfectly: Sunbelt and large-suburban states produce 4,000-plus flagships, while rural states top out near 2,000.
Kate Carter
The biggest "elementary" schools in the country aren't sprawling K-5 neighborhood buildings. They're K-8 academies and charter schools, plus a few districts that deliberately pack thousands of kids into single grade-band buildings. Here are the 13 largest, by NCES enrollment.
Kate Carter
A clean enrollment ranking of the 20 biggest comprehensive public high schools in the country, drawn from NCES SY 2024-25 figures. Texas and Chicago show up over and over, and one suburban Houston district owns two of the top 14.
Kate Carter
