U.S. school directory
by state.
124,521 schools across 56 states and territories. Browse public, charter, and private schools by state below, then by school district. Free profiles report enrollment, staffing, programs, and headline outcomes with vintages; trajectories and depth stay in member products.
This is the K12 Atlas directory: government-reported facts with sources showing. Facts, not scores.
What the numbers say across the United States.
Computed from this list's v2026.07 K12 Atlas records: level mix, school size, staffing ratios, and sector mix. Facts, not scores.
schools in this directory, split by the level each record reports.
Reported level · v2026.07
students at the median U.S. school; the middle half of schools enroll between 140 and 568 students.
Reported enrollment · v2026.07
students per teacher at the median U.S. school reporting staffing.
Reported staffing · v2026.07
Public, public charter, and private records stay separate. Private schools without a comparable CCD level appear under each state's other-level directory.
Record mix · v2026.07
Concentration: the five most-represented states account for 33.5% of this list (41,680 of 124,521 records); the five most-represented cities account for 3.2%.
Elementary, middle, and high schools.
Each level groups the records that report that classification in the v2026.07 release. Open a level in its most-represented state for tables and district lists.
schools · 42.4% of the U.S. directory
schools · 13.1% of the U.S. directory
schools · 19.1% of the U.S. directory
schools · 25.4% of the U.S. directory
Every state, one directory.
Pick a state to see its school districts, elementary / middle / high school counts, and city listings.
1,817 schools · 158 districts Alaska
531 schools · 54 districts American Samoa
29 schools · 1 districts Arizona
2,933 schools · 736 districts Arkansas
1,234 schools · 290 districts California
12,859 schools · 2,070 districts Colorado
2,199 schools · 186 districts Connecticut
1,271 schools · 201 districts Delaware
315 schools · 43 districts District of Columbia
307 schools · 64 districts Florida
6,249 schools · 79 districts Georgia
2,960 schools · 239 districts Guam
45 schools · 5 districts Hawaii
403 schools · 1 districts Idaho
942 schools · 196 districts Illinois
5,407 schools · 962 districts Indiana
2,523 schools · 437 districts Iowa
1,521 schools · 333 districts Kansas
1,513 schools · 291 districts Kentucky
1,829 schools · 175 districts Louisiana
1,614 schools · 195 districts Maine
700 schools · 216 districts Maryland
1,937 schools · 25 districts Massachusetts
2,351 schools · 400 districts Michigan
4,070 schools · 885 districts Minnesota
3,268 schools · 562 districts Mississippi
1,207 schools · 160 districts Missouri
2,976 schools · 566 districts Montana
961 schools · 404 districts Nebraska
1,289 schools · 275 districts Nevada
848 schools · 22 districts New Hampshire
667 schools · 203 districts New Jersey
3,359 schools · 681 districts New Mexico
1,056 schools · 195 districts New York
6,082 schools · 1,113 districts North Carolina
3,308 schools · 355 districts North Dakota
583 schools · 182 districts Northern Mariana Islands
35 schools · 1 districts Ohio
4,589 schools · 1,019 districts Oklahoma
1,924 schools · 546 districts Oregon
1,563 schools · 208 districts Pennsylvania
4,493 schools · 756 districts Puerto Rico
865 schools · 1 districts Rhode Island
402 schools · 64 districts South Carolina
1,572 schools · 92 districts South Dakota
809 schools · 172 districts Tennessee
2,342 schools · 149 districts Texas
11,083 schools · 1,222 districts U.S. Virgin Islands
21 schools · 2 districts Utah
1,242 schools · 160 districts Vermont
399 schools · 110 districts Virginia
2,818 schools · 209 districts Washington
3,073 schools · 339 districts West Virginia
794 schools · 63 districts Wisconsin
2,940 schools · 457 districts Wyoming
394 schools · 63 districts
Counts are from v2026.07 K12 Atlas school profiles (2024).
About this directory.
How many schools are in the United States?
K12 Atlas profiles 124,521 U.S. public, charter, and private schools across 56 states and territories in release v2026.07.
How do I find schools in a specific state or district?
Pick a state on this page, then choose a school district. Free pages report key facts with vintages, with links to related directory pages.
Does the free directory publish enrollment or state ratings?
Enrollment, staffing, programs, and headline outcomes — yes, with vintages. Ratings never exist here. Trajectories, subgroup cuts, bulk rows, and API entry are member products.
Can I download the full directory or get an API?
The directory pages are free. Full school rows and API entry are paid — see API access.
Need the full dataset, not just the directory?
Every field on these pages is one of 122 documented per-school fields, each tied to a source and vintage. Licensed access returns the complete rows.