List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment

Last updated April 10, 2024

This is a list of school districts in the United States ranked by 2019 enrollment.

2019	2014 vs 2016 ^[1]	2016 vs 2018 ^[2]	2018 vs 2019	School district	State/Territory	Students (autumn 2014)^[1]	Students (autumn 2016)^[2]	Students (autumn 2018) ^[3]	Students (autumn 2019)^[4]
1				New York City	New York	995,192	984,462	960,484	956,634
2				Los Angeles Unified	California	646,683	633,621	495,255	483,234
3				City of Chicago (SD 299)	Illinois	392,558	378,199	359,476	347,484
4				Miami-Dade County	Florida	356,964	357,249	350,434	347,307
5				Clark County	Nevada	324,093	326,953	330,225	328,991
6				Broward County	Florida	266,265	271,852	270,978	269,172
7		1		Hillsborough County	Florida	207,469	214,386	220,252	223,305
8		1		Houston ISD	Texas	215,225	216,106	209,772	210,061
9				Orange County	Florida	191,648	200,674	208,203	208,875
10				Palm Beach	Florida	186,605	192,721	192,533	194,675
11				Fairfax County	Virginia	185,541	187,467	187,797	188,887
12				Hawaii Department of Education	Hawaii	182,384	181,550	181,278	181,088
13				Gwinnett County	Georgia	173,246	178,214	179,758	180,589
14	1	1		Montgomery County	Maryland	154,434	159,010	162,680	165,267
15	1	1		Wake County	North Carolina	155,820	160,467	161,784	163,404
16	2			Dallas ISD	Texas	160,253	157,886	155,119	153,861
17				Charlotte-Mecklenburg	North Carolina	145,636	147,428	147,638	149,845
18	2	1		Prince George's County	Maryland	127,576	130,814	132,657	135,952
19		1		Philadelphia City	Pennsylvania	134,241	133,929	132,520	130,617
20				Duval County	Florida	128,685	129,479	130,229	130,279
21	1	1		Cypress-Fairbanks ISD	Texas	113,023	114,868	116,512	117,446
22	1	2		Baltimore County	Maryland	109,830	112,139	113,814	115,038
23	3	2		Shelby County	Tennessee	115,810	111,403	112,125	113,198
24	1	1		Cobb County	Georgia	111,751	113,151	111,854	112,097
25	1	1		Northside ISD	Texas	103,606	106,145	106,501	107,817
26	2	1	1	Polk County	Florida	99,723	102,295	101,408	102,952
27	2	5	1	San Diego Unified	California	129,779	128,040	103,194	102,270
28	1		2	Jefferson County	Kentucky	100,602	99,813	97,936	100,348
29	1	1	1	Pinellas County	Florida	103,774	102,905	100,948	99,772
30	1		1	DeKalb County	Georgia	101,103	101,284	99,166	98,800
31			1	Lee County	Florida	89,364	92,686	94,410	95,613
32			1	Fulton County	Georgia	95,460	96,122	94,491	93,897
33		1	1	Prince William County	Virginia	86,641	89,345	90,843	92,237
34			1	Denver	Colorado	88,839	91,138	92,039	92,143
35		1		Albuquerque	New Mexico	93,001	90,651	89,788	88,312
36	2	2		Davidson County	Tennessee	84,069	85,163	84,667	85,588
37	1	2	2	Anne Arundel County	Maryland	79,518	81,379	83,300	84,984
38			1	Jefferson County, No R1	Colorado	86,581	86,371	84,646	84,078
39	4	3	1	Loudoun County	Virginia	73,418	78,348	81,906	83,606
40	3	1	1	Alpine	Utah	75,161	78,957	81,715	83,540
41	5	4	2	Katy ISD	Texas	70,330	75,428	79,913	83,423
42		2	4	Fort Worth ISD	Texas	85,975	87,428	84,510	82,891
43		3	1	Austin ISD	Texas	84,564	83,067	80,032	80,911
44	2	4		Baltimore City	Maryland	84,976	82,354	79,297	79,187
45	2	2	1	Fort Bend ISD	Texas	72,152	74,146	76,122	77,756
46		1	1	Greenville County	South Carolina	75,508	76,918	76,158	77,302
47	3	5	1	Pasco County	Florida	69,295	72,493	75,048	76,661
48	1	3	1	Davis	Utah	70,857	72,987	74,289	74,773
49	3	1	2	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	77,316	76,206	75,431	74,683
50		1		Brevard County	Florida	72,285	73,444	73,734	73,962
51	3			Guilford County	North Carolina	73,416	73,059	72,950	72,682
52	4	7		Long Beach Unified	California	79,709	76,428	72,935	71,712
53	4	3		Fresno Unified	California	73,543	73,356	71,152	71,265
54	5	8	1	Osceola County	Florida	59,320	63,031	68,554	69,925
55	3	2	1	Virginia Beach City	Virginia	70,121	69,085	68,624	68,706
56	2	1		Seminole County	Florida	66,134	67,808	68,269	68,096
57	1	2		Douglas County, No RE1	Colorado	66,702	67,470	67,591	67,305
58		2		Washoe County	Nevada	65,682	66,671	67,113	67,301
59	1	5		Aldine ISD	Texas	69,716	69,768	66,854	67,259
60	1	5		Granite	Utah	69,994	69,580	66,767	66,276
61	4	4	4	Conroe ISD	Texas	56,363	59,764	62,837	64,799
62	1	3	1	North East ISD	Texas	67,971	67,531	65,186	64,539
63	1	2	1	Elk Grove Unified	California	62,888	63,061	63,100	63,660
64		2	2	Volusia County	Florida	61,777	63,028	63,223	63,009
65	20	6	3	Frisco ISD	Texas	49,644	55,923	60,182	62,705
66	1	2	3	Mesa Unified	Arizona	63,849	63,444	63,124	62,703
67	1	2	1	Chesterfield County	Virginia	59,725	60,060	61,552	62,614
68		1	1	Knox County	Tennessee	59,733	60,372	60,854	61,545
69	4	4		Arlington ISD	Texas	63,882	62,181	59,900	59,532
70	7	5		Howard County	Maryland	53,685	55,626	57,907	58,868
71	3	12	1	Jordan	Utah	52,274	53,416	56,176	57,771
72		3	2	Cherry Creek, No 5	Colorado	54,535	54,852	55,839	56,228
73	6	5	2	Seattle	Washington	52,834	54,215	55,271	55,986
74		2	1	Garland ISD	Texas	57,436	57,133	55,987	55,701
75	5	1	4	El Paso ISD	Texas	60,852	59,424	57,315	55,253
76	1	1	1	Winston-Salem/Forsyth County	North Carolina	54,762	55,228	54,707	54,566
77	4	3	1	Clayton County	Georgia	53,367	54,345	54,840	54,424
78	4	12	1	Klein ISD	Texas	49,402	51,810	53,328	54,096
79	1	6	1	Mobile County	Alabama	57,910	56,628	53,967	53,941
80	1	8	1	Omaha	Nebraska	51,928	52,344	53,194	53,483
81	1	7	1	Pasadena ISD	Texas	55,577	56,282	53,291	52,878
82	2	17	2	San Francisco Unified	California	58,414	60,133	52,498	52,811
83	5	1	1	Plano ISD	Texas	54,689	54,173	53,057	52,629
84	5	3	1	Corona-Norco Unified	California	53,739	53,157	53,002	52,557
85		5		Atlanta	Georgia	51,145	51,927	52,377	52,416
86		1		Lewisville ISD	Texas	53,356	53,257	52,218	52,189
87	1	5		Henrico County	Virginia	50,971	51,425	51,523	51,786
88	9	5	8	District of Columbia	District of Columbia	46,155	48,462	49,065	50,971
89	3	12	1	Round Rock ISD	Texas	47,251	48,321	50,387	50,953
90	4	4	1	Cumberland County	North Carolina	51,604	51,194	50,879	50,750
91	8	21		Detroit City	Michigan	47,277	45,455	49,931	50,644
92	8	16	2	Forsyth County	Georgia	42,435	46,238	49,346	50,544
93	4	6	5	Boston	Massachusetts	54,312	53,640	51,433	50,480
94	8	7	1	Charleston, 01	South Carolina	46,790	48,551	49,769	50,299
95	3	3		Manatee County	Florida	47,883	48,884	49,301	50,088
96	3	2	5	Jefferson Parish	Louisiana	47,817	48,668	48,254	49,862
97	2	2	5	Wichita	Kansas	50,947	50,600	49,885	49,323
98	2	3		Columbus City	Ohio	50,407	50,331	48,925	48,759
99	3	10	2	San Bernardino City Unified	California	53,365	53,152	49,005	48,755
100	1	4		Portland, SD1J	Oregon	47,806	48,173	48,710	48,601
101	8	11	2	San Antonio ISD	Texas	53,750	52,514	48,745	48,532
102	4	6		Collier County	Florida	45,228	46,416	47,436	47,834
103	1	6	2	Socorro ISD	Texas	44,561	45,927	46,814	47,575
104	new	10	2	Rutherford County	Tennessee		44,149	46,303	47,458
105	4	20	2	Capistrano Unified	California	54,036	53,613	47,205	46,501
106	4	4	1	Anchorage	Alaska	48,089	48,238	46,115	46,143
107	new	4	6	Horry County	South Carolina			44,931	45,759
108	6	6		Chandler Unified	Arizona	42,252	44,352	45,968	45,749
109	6	26	5	Santa Ana Unified	California	56,815	54,505	46,961	45,576
110		2	1	Hamilton County	Tennessee	43,797	44,446	45,052	45,342
111	3	4	1	Killeen ISD	Texas	42,638	43,782	44,974	45,336
112	3	1	2	Alief ISD	Texas	47,202	46,376	45,436	45,300
113	NR	new	3	Humble ISD	Texas			43,553	45,078
114	1	4	5	Tucson Unified	Arizona	48,455	47,366	45,560	45,036
115	NR	new		Lake	Florida			43,941	44,793
116	NR	NR	new	Frederick County Public Schools (Maryland)	Maryland				43,828
117	NR	new	1	Clovis Unified	California			43,264	43,654
118	NR	NR	new	St. Johns County School District	Florida				43,628
119	NR	new		Sarasota	Florida			43,111	43,485
120	NR	NR	new	Fayette County Public Schools (Kentucky)	Kentucky				43,342

Previously listed schools

2014 Rank ^[1]	2016 Rank ^[2]	2018 Rank	School District	State/Territory	Students (autumn 2014)	Students (autumn 2016)	students (autumn 2018)
98	106	114	Brownsville ISD	Texas	48,355	46,880	44,402
115	119	117	United ISD	Texas	43,421	43,660	43,364
116	120	120	Marion County	Florida	42,517	43,032	42,913
100	96		Oakland Unified	California	48,077	49,760
96	97		San Juan Unified	California	49,114	49,255
107	107		Sacramento City Unified	California	46,868	46,815
110	115		Garden Grove Unified	California	46,177	44,223
117			Ysleta ISD	Texas	42,488
119			Riverside Unified	California	42,339

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1 2 3 "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2014: Selected years, 2013-14 through 2016". Digest of Education Statistics 2016. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. January 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
1 2 3 "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2016: Selected years, 2015-16 and fiscal year 2018". Digest of Education Statistics 2018. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics . Retrieved 25 November 2019.
↑ "Table 215.30 Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2018: 2017-18 and fiscal year 2020". Digest of Education Statistics 2020. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. January 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
↑ "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2019: 2018-19 and fiscal year 2021". Digest of Education Statistics 2020. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2023.

External links

100 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of Education (2004-05 school year)
List of largest school districts from ProximityOne.com
A list of the 500 largest school districts in 2000–2001 from the National Center for Education Statistics (Department of Education)
100 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of Education (2010-11 school year)
120 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of Education (2017-18 school year)

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[digest2016-1] 1 2 3 "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2014: Selected years, 2013-14 through 2016". Digest of Education Statistics 2016. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. January 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2019.

[digest2018-2] 1 2 3 "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2016: Selected years, 2015-16 and fiscal year 2018". Digest of Education Statistics 2018. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics . Retrieved 25 November 2019.

[digest2020-3] "Table 215.30 Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2018: 2017-18 and fiscal year 2020". Digest of Education Statistics 2020. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. January 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

[4] "Table 215.30. Enrollment, poverty, and federal funds for the 120 largest school districts, by enrollment size in 2019: 2018-19 and fiscal year 2021". Digest of Education Statistics 2020. U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2023.

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List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment

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