What is the largest district in the index?

Los Angeles Unified in California ranks first, with 419,929 students enrolled in 2023-24, 785 schools and a student-teacher ratio of 19.3, per the table on this page.

School District Statistics Index

Q: How many school districts are listed in this index?

This index lists full statistics pages for the 55 largest public school districts in the United States, ranked by enrollment in the 2023-24 NCES Common Core of Data, in national rank order.

By the Public School Stats Editorial Team · Last updated: October 2026

Full statistics pages for the 55 largest public school districts in the United States, ranked by enrollment in the 2023–24 NCES Common Core of Data.

This index lists every district with a full page on Public School Stats, in national rank order. Each district page reports the same core measures from the same federal files so districts can be compared like for like: fall membership (enrollment) from the CCD LEA Membership file, operational schools from the LEA Directory file, full-time-equivalent classroom teachers and the student–teacher ratio computed from them, free and reduced-price lunch eligibility aggregated from reporting schools, regular diplomas from the CCD Completers file, and per-pupil current spending from the fiscal year 2024 F-33 finance file where the district reported usable figures. Click any district name for its full page.

#	District	State	Enrollment 2023–24	Schools	Student–teacher ratio
1	Los Angeles Unified	CA	419,929	785	19.3
2	Miami-Dade	FL	335,500	536	20.0
3	Chicago Public Schools Dist 299	IL	322,809	643	13.9
4	Clark County	NV	309,394	383	21.0
5	Broward	FL	251,408	325	20.3
6	Puerto Rico Department Of Education	PR	240,910	858	9.8
7	Hillsborough	FL	224,152	305	18.3
8	Orange	FL	206,815	275	18.1
9	Palm Beach	FL	189,777	235	16.6
10	Houston Isd	TX	184,109	274	15.6
11	Gwinnett County	GA	182,214	140	14.2
12	Fairfax County Public Schools	VA	180,714	223	13.7
13	Hawaii Department of Education	HI	169,308	295	14.0
14	Wake County Schools	NC	161,481	197	15.0
15	Montgomery County Public Schools	MD	160,223	211	13.7
16	Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools	NC	144,116	184	16.0
17	Dallas Isd	TX	139,246	240	13.6
18	Prince George's County Public Schools	MD	131,310	199	14.7
19	Duval	FL	127,971	208	22.4
20	Cypress-Fairbanks Isd	TX	118,470	93	14.7
21	Philadelphia City SD	PA	117,907	220	13.6
22	Polk	FL	111,041	167	18.8
23	Baltimore County Public Schools	MD	110,275	179	14.7
24	Memphis-Shelby County Schools	TN	110,057	222	16.3
25	Cobb County	GA	106,358	110	14.2
26	Northside Isd	TX	101,095	126	14.6
27	Lee	FL	100,064	120	22.7
28	San Diego Unified	CA	95,492	175	22.3
29	Jefferson County	KY	94,793	171	15.2
30	Katy Isd	TX	94,785	78	14.0
31	DeKalb County	GA	91,398	131	14.4
32	Pinellas	FL	91,021	153	16.1
33	Prince William County Public Schools	VA	90,550	99	15.0
34	School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C	CO	88,258	197	14.8
35	Fulton County	GA	88,043	106	14.4
36	Alpine District	UT	87,051	91	24.1
37	Pasco	FL	85,855	106	17.3
38	Anne Arundel County Public Schools	MD	84,346	126	13.9
39	Loudoun County Public Schools	VA	81,636	100	12.3
40	Davidson County	TN	80,468	162	16.4
41	Fort Bend Isd	TX	80,206	83	16.3
42	Greenville 01	SC	78,371	93	14.9
43	Idea Public Schools	TX	76,819	123	19.4
44	Albuquerque	NM	76,756	174	13.3
45	Baltimore City Public Schools	MD	75,811	151	14.7
46	Osceola	FL	74,289	86	19.1
47	Jefferson County School District No. R-1	CO	74,251	148	16.7
48	Brevard	FL	73,810	109	16.6
49	Austin Isd	TX	72,830	123	14.3
50	Davis District	UT	72,499	96	21.5
51	Conroe Isd	TX	72,352	66	15.3
52	Fort Worth Isd	TX	71,060	138	14.8
53	Fresno Unified	CA	68,568	101	19.7
54	Guilford County Schools	NC	67,832	124	14.6
55	Milwaukee School District	WI	66,864	156	17.3

Two reading notes. First, New York City does not appear as a single line because the federal files administer it as 32 geographic districts; its largest geographic districts enroll roughly 40,000–60,000 students each, and the city’s campuses are grouped on the New York city page. Second, single-district states such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico appear as districts because that is how their education agencies are organized in the CCD — the agency is both the state system and the district. For statewide totals instead of district figures, use the state index; for the national ranking with extended commentary, see largest school districts.

Data: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts, retrieved October 2026, from nces.ed.gov. Enrollment, staffing and lunch figures are for the 2023–24 school year; finance figures are fiscal year 2024 (school year 2023–24) unless a page labels them otherwise.

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