School Choice Research and Data for Reporters

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Participation

56%

How many private schools take the state's school choice money

5,805 of 10,279 private schools in the 21 states and DC with an official list are on it, from 84% in Iowa to 14% in Vermont.

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First published October 7, 2026, rebuilt with every list reload

Affiliation

80%

Which private schools take part, by religious affiliation

80% of Catholic schools and 42% of nonsectarian schools are on their state's list. 78% of listed schools are religious, against 60% of schools not on a list.

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Access

39%

Counties where no private school takes part

629 of 1,613 counties in the 21 states and DC that publish a list have no school on it that we could place, with every county named.

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Tuition

2,477

What private school costs, from published prices

2,477 tuition figures, each read on the school's own website and linked to it. Median $11,250 for kindergarten to grade 5, $16,000 for high school.

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Award vs tuition

62%

Private tuition, public spending and the award, state by state

In the middle state with a set award, the award's lower end pays 62% of the median published tuition. 45 states compared with public spending per pupil.

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Florida and Ohio

81%

Florida and Ohio scholarships, county by county

81% of Florida's private schools in the federal survey take the state scholarship; in Ohio, 56%. Every county counted.

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Charter and private

Charter schools and private school choice, state by state

29 states and DC have both public charter schools and a private school choice program. 8,104 charter schools (2025-26 federal directory) next to 21,366 private schools, with each state's program.

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Homeschool

Which states pay homeschoolers, and how

Official sources show 22 state programs that pay toward a homeschooled student's costs: 16 accounts or scholarships and 6 state income tax breaks, with each state's testing rule.

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Reference pages reporters use

Application deadlines by stateEvery program's 2026-27 window, from the program's own site. Subscribe in any calendar app: deadlines.ics
The federal tax credit scholarshipWhich states opted in to the 2027 federal credit, from the IRS list, with the veto overrides and the states that declined.
What each state paysAward amounts, who qualifies and how to apply, for every state, each figure linked to its official source.
The official-list badge for schools8,407 schools on official lists can show families they take the award. The badge turns neutral by itself if a school leaves the list.

For reporters

Sources. Participation comes only from each state's own published list, with the list's date. School facts and affiliation come from the U.S. Department of Education's Private School Universe Survey 2023-24. Tuition is the price a school publishes on its own site, linked to that page. Public charter schools come from the federal Common Core of Data, and homeschool rules and funding are quoted from state legislature and agency pages. How each list is read: our data page.
Counts are floors. A listed school we cannot match to the survey counts as not on the list, and each study says what it leaves out.
No paid placement. No school pays to be listed, to rank, or for a badge.
A cut for your state or county? Write to hello@choicefunded.com. Every CSV already has one row per state or county.
Cite as: ChoiceFunded, "study title," year, and the page address. All studies are CC BY 4.0.

This page was rebuilt October 9, 2026. States with an official list: Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

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