• According to the United States Department of Education:

Private schools were the original schools in the United States and currently account for about 24 percent of all elementary and secondary schools, 10 percent of all students, and 12 percent of all full-time teachers...  Choice is a defining characteristic of private schools as families may freely choose private education...

Did you know . . .

• The number of students independently schooled (private and home) in the United States is about equal to the number of public schooled students in the following 25 states (and Washington, D.C.) COMBINED:

Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C. 

• The number of students independently schooled (private and home) in the United States is:
   
• Nearly twice the number of public schooled students in Texas,
• Almost three times that of New York, and
• Almost 2 million more than in California.
  
  
• The number of HOME SCHOOLED children in the United States is equivalent to all public schooled children in the following 13 states (and Washington, D.C.) COMBINED:
   
  Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Information from the United States Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.