Welcome To Local School Directory

Thank you for visiting our public & private schools directory, where we have over 130,000 schools listed including pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. We statistically break down school information at the state, city, zip, district and individual school levels. The information provided includes number of students, teachers, gender, race, grade levels, test scores and financial data. At the individual school level we provide even more in-depth information that is updated continuously from various sources including school administrators and state and federal departments of education.

Parents can read and submit their own reviews of schools, view upcoming school calendar of events, and much more... School administrators can update school events, post school news and information, as well as upload school photos.

To get started please follow the link that corresponds to the state the school is located in.

Nationwide Statistics

United States Education News

Appointees to Council on State Accountability SystemsSecretary Spellings announced the appointment of 16 members to the National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC), which Spellings announced as part of the proposed regulations to strengthen No Child Left Behind.
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Teaching Resources: U.S. History, Polar Sciences, Countries of the World and MoreThe Constitution, U.S. government, international relations, nations of the world, pivotal moments in U.S. history, early childhood education, calculator-controlled robots, and polar sciences are topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.
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Career and Technical Education GrantsED has awarded a total of $750,000 in grants to six states to help strengthen and enhance career and technical education (CTE) programs. Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nebraska, Florida, and Hawaii have received grants to support partnerships that will create new CTE programs, or adopt existing ones, that will align secondary and postsecondary education courses needed to prepare students for further education and employment.
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Grant to Utah to Help Create More Charter SchoolsED's Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Doug Mesecar visited Guadalupe Schools in Salt Lake City today to present an $8,533,334 Charter Schools Program grant to the Utah State Department of Education. Utah's Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert and Vice Chairman of the Utah State Board of Education Mark Cluff joined Mesecar for the announcement.
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General Information

    Public Schools

  • Number of Schools: 100,627
  • Number of Students: 48,985,888
  • Number of Teachers: 3,059,362
  • Student:Teacher Ratio: 15.49:1

    Private Schools

  • Number of Schools: 29,754
  • Number of Students: 5,375,897
  • Number of Teachers: 373,098
  • Student:Teacher Ratio:14.02:1

School Types

    Public Schools

  • Regular Schools: 90,025
  • Special Schools: 2,246
  • Vocational Schools: 1,254
  • Alternative Schools: 7,102
  • Magnet Schools: 2,750
  • Title 1 Schools: 54,208
  • Charter Schools: 4,056

    Private Schools

  • Regular Schools: 19,888
  • Montessori Schools: 2,196
  • Special Program Schools: 1,022
  • Special Education Schools: 1,530
  • Vocational Schools: 7
  • Alternative Schools: 756
  • Early Childhood Programs: 3,832

Administration Overview

    Administrators

  • LEA Administrators: 65,325
  • LEA Support Staff: 167,949
  • School Administrators: 169,269
  • School Support Staff: 257,903
  • Student Services: 213,025

    Instructional Staff

  • Pre-K Teachers: 47,649
  • Kindergarten Teachers: 208,651
  • Elementary Teachers: 1,508,899
  • Secondary Teachers: 1,146,894
  • Instructional Aides: 697,862

    Non-Instructional Staff

  • Elementary Counselors: 43,660
  • Secondary Counselors: 59,608
  • Librarians: 54,068
  • Library Support Staff: 44,400