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The commonwealth’s K-12 education system serves more than 1.7 million students. Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts range in size from approximately 200 students to more than 140,000 students. In addition to traditional public schools, more than 160 brick-and-mortar charter schools and 14 cyber charter schools are responsible for educating ...
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Schools. The Commonwealth serves more than 1.7 million...
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Overview. The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE)...
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Schools. The Commonwealth serves more than 1.7 million students in 500 school districts, 29 Intermediate Units, 174 charter schools, and multiple private schools. We are also home to more than 300 postsecondary and higher education institutions.
Three school districts do not operate high schools: Midland Borough School District, Duquesne City School District and Saint Clair Area School District due to low enrollment coupled with financial constraints. As of the 2005-2006 school year, there were 1,871,060 students enrolled in public schools in Pennsylvania, of whom 74.6% were Caucasian, 15.9% were African-American, 6.8% were Hispanic ...
Overview. The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) oversees 500 public school districts, more than 170 public charter schools, public cyber charter schools, Career and Technology Centers/Vocational Technical schools, public Intermediate Units, the education of youth in State Juvenile Correctional Institutions, Head Starts and publicly funded preschools, and community colleges.
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There are approximately 500 public school districts in Pennsylvania as of 2023. School districts and community colleges are counted as separate governments by the U.S. Census Bureau . School districts are categorized by state law based on the number of people living within the district boundaries.
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Total wage data for school employees is based on school district financial data which is collected by the commonwealth from individual school districts on form PDE-2057. Total wages in the private sector is a figure jointly collected by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is published in the Quarterly Census of Employment Wages (QCEW).
