I’m surprised Boston Public Schools is not more than 5 percent of the MA’s students.
JediCody2 on
Not surprising when you consider that Clark County comprises 2 out of 3 of our Representative districts.
Luxypoo on
Kind of insane that Houston is on the least list, with 3%, yet had 190k students.
Enigmativity on
Isn’t Nevada mostly desert? Not surprising that there’s a dense population of students there.
afleetingmoment on
How is this defined? NYC public schools should put NYS on the “most” side, but here you appear to using a subset of the district.
nyctransitgeek on
New York City’s Community School Districts are all part of the New York City Department of Education. I don’t think this is the level of granularity applied to many of the other districts.
![[OC] Nevada's largest school district enrolls 64% of the state's students. How do the other states compare?](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/3awqkoybbrlg1.png "[OC] Nevada’s largest school district enrolls 64% of the state’s students. How do the other states compare?")
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Well, there’s math. And apparently, this graph’s got none, brah.
Because all but one of the lowest are the same, it’s a good idea to show a decimal place at least so we can actually compare.
* **Data Source:** I used the `educationdata` R package to query NCES Common Core of Data for the most recent available data(2023)
* **Tools:** **R (tidyverse)** for data processing and [Tableau Public for the visualization.](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/jonathan.wilson7172/viz/StatewideSchoolCentralization/Percentage) The raw data and script is available on [Github.](https://github.com/xjwilsonx/Education-Data-and-Analyses)
* **FAQ:** Note that this uses the federal definition of school district or Local Education Agencies (LEA) which splits New York into 32 separate geographic districts.
I’m surprised Boston Public Schools is not more than 5 percent of the MA’s students.
Not surprising when you consider that Clark County comprises 2 out of 3 of our Representative districts.
Kind of insane that Houston is on the least list, with 3%, yet had 190k students.
Isn’t Nevada mostly desert? Not surprising that there’s a dense population of students there.
How is this defined? NYC public schools should put NYS on the “most” side, but here you appear to using a subset of the district.
New York City’s Community School Districts are all part of the New York City Department of Education. I don’t think this is the level of granularity applied to many of the other districts.