Here’s the list of districts with the highest number of students attending public charter schools, from our annual market share report. The top 10 districts remained the same between the 2012 and 2011 reports, but there was a little bit of movement among the districts. New York City experienced the biggest change, moving from #4 to #2 between 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.
Los Angeles Again Tops the List in Number of Public Charter School Students: Nearly 100,000 students attended public charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District during the 2011-2012 school year, the highest number for any school district in the country. The number of students enrolled in public charter schools in Los Angeles, alone, would place the Los Angeles charter schools in the top 30 of the 100 largest school districts in the United States. Public charter schools in Los Angeles enrolled 19,191 more students in 2011-2012 than in 2010-2011, a growth rate of 24 percent. Charter school growth is likely to continue in Los Angeles with the board voting against a moratorium on charter schools.
Ten School Districts with Largest Number of Students Enroll Significant Percentage of Charter School Sector. The 10 districts with the largest number of students in public charter schools represent 22.9 percent of the total public charter school population nationwide—a total of 458,215 students out of roughly 2 million. Between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, the top ten districts increased public charter school enrollment by over 62,000 students, a growth rate of 16 percent.
