How many students share a school counselor, by state

The American School Counselor Association recommends no more than 250 students per school counselor. Across the 51 state systems reporting counselor staffing to the CRDC, how far above it does the typical school sit?

Each school's CRDC 2021-22 enrollment over its full-time-equivalent counselors; the state figure is the mean over its open schools with a ratio from 50 to 2,000 (outside that range is usually a fractional-FTE artifact). States need 30 such schools. Schools with no counselor have no ratio and are not in the mean.

Limits. Counselor ratios measure staffing density, not counselor quality or student need. Schools sharing a counselor across campuses report part-time FTE. State averages weight each school equally and hide wide differences within states. The 250:1 figure is a professional recommendation, not a federal rule.