How Widespread is Year Round School?
To find out more about the spread of year round school, let’s look at the most recent statistics for the nation and then focus on California, which has the most year round school programs and students. • Nationwide In the 2006-2007 school year, only New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi, and Wyoming had no schools-whether public, private, or charter-on year round school calendars. Of the states that had some schools with a year round school calendar, 19 states had ten or less. Nationally among public schools, there were far more elementary schools using year round school schedules than any other level, with 2,127. There were about an equal number of middle/junior high schools and high schools with an approximately equal number of students, and 82 schools with different configurations of grades. California led the nation with 1,322 year round public schools, with second-place falling to Hawaii with 296. Third came Arizona with 175. Nevada with 107 and Texas with 101 were fourt
