Several large Texas border districts now enroll a student body that is more than 99 percent Hispanic. allk12's read of NCES enrollment data shows the top of the list is not spread across the country. It sits in two places: the Texas-Mexico border and inland Southern California.
Kate Carter
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
In a set of large districts where most families live near the poverty line, students score far above what their demographics would predict. allk12's BeatsExpectations metric ranks the biggest overperformers, and the list is dominated by Texas border districts, Southern California, and immigrant-heavy corners of New York City.
Arthur Chen
County officials found LAUSD's financial plan can't cover its future cash obligations, triggering a 45-day deadline to fix it. Layoffs, furloughs and school consolidation are all on the table. The district has lost a third of its students since 2017.
Mary Johnson
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
In Fremont Unified, more than two-thirds of the 33,073 students are Asian American. It leads a list of large districts concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Seattle eastside, a handful of booming immigrant suburbs, and Queens.
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
By diversity index, Hawaii's statewide system is the most diverse large school district in the country, followed by a cluster of Washington, D.C. suburbs. Here is the national ranking of districts enrolling at least 50,000 students.
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
If you are house-hunting around Chicago and trying to read the schools before you sign anything, here is the honest version. Illinois's strongest districts cluster in the affluent suburbs northwest and west of the city, and the gap between them and the big urban districts is real. Here is the ranking, by test scores, with the district-type traps spelled out.
Mary Johnson
If you are house-hunting in San Diego County and trying to read the schools before you read the listings, here is the district picture in plain numbers. The north-coast corridor and Poway lead, the giant San Diego Unified is a coin-flip that depends entirely on the school, and the south and east skew higher-poverty.
Mary Johnson
In California your home address assigns you a school district, so in Orange County the district you buy into really does matter. Here is how OC's districts rank on state test scores, plus the smaller ones quietly outperforming the famous names.
Mary Johnson
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
