Fact and Figures About States Where More Than One-Third of All Students Are Enrolled in Rural Districts


Last Updated: December 17, 2014
 

This article appeared in the December 2014 Rural Policy Matters.

Question: In which sixteen states are more than one-third of all students enrolled in rural school districts?

Answer: At least one-third of all students attend school in a rural district in the following states (in ascending order): New Hampshire, Montana, Georgia, Iowa, North Dakota, West Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, South Dakota, Alabama, and North Carolina. In addition more than half of all students attend school in a rural district in Mississippi (56.5% of all students); Maine (57.2%), and Vermont (57.5%).

Source: Why Rural Matters 2013–2014.


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