What is the largest school district in the US?

Los Angeles Unified in California is the largest school district with 427,795 students enrolled.

How many students are in the top 50 school districts?

The 50 largest US school districts serve approximately 6,721,468 students combined, representing a significant portion of all public school enrollment.

National ranking · NCES CCD 2024-25

50 Largest School Districts

America's largest public school districts, ranked by total student enrollment from NCES Common Core of Data.

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools Editorial. · Updated June 2026

The ranking in one line

Los Angeles Unified is the largest school district in America with 427,795 students, 1.3 times the enrollment of #2 Miami-Dade.

334,090
students at #2 (Miami-Dade): 785
schools in the #1 district: 17
states in the top 50

CA

427,795
FL

334,090
IL

321,666
NV

314,346
FL

254,732
FL

224,538
FL

207,561
TX

189,934
FL

188,843
GA

181,814

What this shows Los Angeles Unified enrolls 427,795 students, against 181,814 at #10. The full top-50 ranking continues below.

The full ranking

All 50 districts, ranked by total enrollment. The shaded bar behind each value shows its magnitude. According to NCES Common Core of Data as of June 2026.

#	District	State	Schools	Per-Pupil $	Enrollment
1	Los Angeles Unified	CA	785	$21,940	427,795
2	Miami-Dade	FL	542	$12,258	334,090
3	City of Chicago Sd 299	IL	644	$21,050	321,666
4	Clark County School District	NV	378	$11,565	314,346
5	Broward	FL	329	$11,419	254,732
6	Hillsborough	FL	309	$9,835	224,538
7	Orange	FL	276	$11,578	207,561
8	Houston Isd	TX	274	$12,031	189,934
9	Palm Beach	FL	234	$12,727	188,843
10	Gwinnett County	GA	140	$13,113	181,814
11	Fairfax County Public Schools	VA	223	$17,977	179,858
12	Hawaii Department of Education	HI	295	$17,420	170,209
13	Montgomery County Public Schools	MD	210	$18,101	160,554
14	Wake County Schools	NC	197	$11,859	159,778
15	Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools	NC	180	$11,853	144,197
16	Dallas Isd	TX	240	$12,650	141,169
17	Prince George's County Public Schools	MD	199	$19,234	131,133
18	Duval	FL	209	$10,696	128,657
19	Philadelphia City Sd	PA	219	$17,892	118,335
20	Cypress-Fairbanks Isd	TX	91	$10,232	118,010
21	Baltimore County Public Schools	MD	178	$16,538	111,082
22	Memphis-Shelby County Schools	TN	222	$13,650	109,797
23	Polk	FL	164	$11,454	109,558
24	Cobb County	GA	110	$13,203	106,703
25	Northside Isd	TX	124	$10,615	102,719
26	Lee	FL	122	$10,788	99,354
27	Jefferson County	KY	168	$17,376	95,230
28	San Diego Unified	CA	175	$18,665	93,893
29	Pinellas	FL	154	$11,582	93,702
30	Katy Isd	TX	74	$11,068	92,667
31	Dekalb County	GA	131	$15,594	92,368
32	Prince William County Public Schools	VA	98	$13,913	91,101
33	Fulton County	GA	108	$13,999	89,935
34	School District No. 1 in the County of Denver and State of C	CO	203	$15,336	87,883
35	Alpine District	UT	92	$8,458	87,136
36	Anne Arundel County Public Schools	MD	126	$16,620	84,452
37	Pasco	FL	103	$9,640	84,049
38	Loudoun County Public Schools	VA	99	$18,953	81,678
39	Davidson County	TN	161	$15,421	80,651
40	Albuquerque Public Schools	NM	176	$12,964	79,805
41	Fort Bend Isd	TX	85	$10,893	79,660
42	Greenville 01	SC	92	$11,859	77,978
43	Baltimore City Public Schools	MD	154	$18,272	75,995
44	Jefferson County School District No. R-1	CO	162	$13,124	75,327
45	Idea Public Schools	TX	123	$11,912	74,217
46	Brevard	FL	111	$10,368	74,125
47	Osceola	FL	84	$9,818	73,558
48	Davis District	UT	96	$9,252	73,459
49	Austin Isd	TX	124	$12,492	73,384
50	Fort Worth Isd	TX	140	$12,874	72,783

Every figure on PlainSchools is rendered directly from the source NCES, CRDC and F-33 federal records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 2026.