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You know how large organizations tend to be poorly run and non-responsive to their constituents? Well, large cities have large school districts, whereas suburbs

• cafard 7y ago
  According to https://www.niche.com/k12/search/largest-school-districts/m/washington-dc-metro-area/ https://www.niche.com/k12/search/largest-school-districts/m/..., Fairfax County (Virginia) has 187 thousand students, Montgomery County has 159 thousand, and the District of Columbia has 48 thousand. My impression is that the size of suburban districts varies greatly by state. Of those I am acquainted with, in Colorado, Maryland, and Virginia every county or county-equivalent city has one school district. In Pennsylvania there can be several school districts in a county, some small enough to have one high school. I think that New Jersey is very fragmented also.
  • toasterlovin 7y ago
    On the west coast it seems like school districts often only cover a single city. Here are the lists for Washington, Oregon, and California. There are tons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Wa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Oregon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Or... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Ca...
    • cafard 7y ago
      Interesting. Of course, there are some really sprawling counties out west, e.g. San Bernardino County.