We are doing some big renovations to the dashboard this year! Much of the supply chain and sector data you’ll find is from past years. We will be adding new data soon for K-12 schools, hospitals, and colleges. In the meantime, below you’ll find some recently updated big picture numbers. Stay tuned!

How many institutions are in New England?

 

K-12 (public)1
K-12 (private)2 Early Childcare3 Colleges4 Hospitals5 Jails6 Prisons7 Total

Connecticut

1,022 315 3,219 28 41 N/A 14 4,639

Maine

599 152 1,591 24 40 13  7 2,426

Massachusetts

1,852 657 7,577 84 120 17 17 10,324

New Hampshire

494 209 654 20 32 10 4 1,423

Rhode Island

320 112 767  11 14 N/A 7 1,231

Vermont

312 112 1,111 15 23 N/A 6 1,579

New England
TOTALS

4,599 1,557 14,919 182 270 40 55 21,622
  • 1 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), ""Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey,"" 1990-91, 2000-01, 2010-11, and 2018-19.

    2 PSS Private School Universe Survey data for the 2019-2020 school year.

    3 2022 data provided by early childhood offices in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut. Child Care Aware Data Center & State Fact Sheets were used to glean site and capacity data for Rhode Island and New Hampshire (December 2020).

    4 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "College Navigator."

    5 H.Leighton, Personal Communication, 2021-2022.

    6 American Hospital Directory, "Hospital Statistics by State.”

    7 Data collected by Farm to Institution New England (FINE) staff through the ME, MA, and VT Departments of Corrections, and through publicly available site-level data for NH, CT, and RI.


How many people spend time in New England institutions every day?

Notes:

At the time of data collection, there were no publicly available data for prison and jail employment or early childhood enrollment.

This graph combines public and private K-12 schools. It also combines incarcerated populations for prisons and jails. For a breakdown, select the “view data” button below.

  • K-12

    U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1990-91 through 2018-19; Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Data Center, Enrollment Data, 2016, 2017, and 2018, retrieved August 11, 2020, from https://www.dodea.edu/datacenter/enrollment.cfm; and State Public Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Projection Model, 1980 through 2029. (This table was prepared August 2020.)

    Post-secondary

    U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2019–20.

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 County Business Patterns

    U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Fall enrollment data are from the Spring 2010, Enrollment component (Fall 2009). https://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/index.asp

    "[5] U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 County Business Patterns

    For more information about County Business Patterns, https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Colleges,%20Universities,%20and%20Professional%20School%20Employees&g=0400000US09,23,25,33,44,50"

    Hospitals

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 County Business Patterns

    For more information about County Business Patterns, https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Hospitals&g=0400000US09,23,25,33,44,50 "

    Calculated by muliplying number of staffed beds (2022 estimate) by U.S. national occupancy rate of .655 (2015 estimate).

    Hospital staffed beds: American Hospital Directory - ""Numbers of staffed beds are taken from a hospital's most recent Medicare cost report (W/S S-3, Part I, col.1)."" https://www.ahd.com/state_statistics.html

    Hospital Occupancy Rate: American Hospital Association (AHA). Annual Survey of Hospitals. Hospital Statistics, 1976, 1981, 1991–92, 2002, 2012, 2014, and 2015 editions. Chicago, IL. (Reprinted from AHA Hospital Statistics by permission, Copyright 1976, 1981, 1991–92, 2002, 2012, 2014, and 2015 by Health Forum, LLC, an American Hospital Association Company.) See Appendix I, American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2017/089.pdf"

    Early Childhood

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 County Business Patterns

    Incarcerated population

    Population and facility information for ME, MA, and VT were provided by state DOCs, information for NH, CT, and RI was publicly available, mostly by site.

    Notes:

    Population and facility numbers do not include juvenile centers (see exception below), detention centers, mental health facilities (see exception below), or transition units.

    MA state prison data included DOC-run mental health facility as well as state prisons

    Maine state prison data includes one state-run youth facility

    CT, VT and RI do not have county jails, instead they have a unified corrections system whereby the state administers facilities that hold people in both pretrial and sentenced status.


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