{
 "year": "2023-24",
 "reported": {
  "students": 19851,
  "instances": 28310,
  "students_excluding_known_error": 19471,
  "states_with_any": 19,
  "by_state": [
   {
    "state": "TX",
    "students": 5359,
    "instances": 8528
   },
   {
    "state": "AL",
    "students": 4352,
    "instances": 5333
   },
   {
    "state": "MS",
    "students": 2653,
    "instances": 3173
   },
   {
    "state": "AR",
    "students": 2596,
    "instances": 3671
   },
   {
    "state": "GA",
    "students": 1127,
    "instances": 1681
   },
   {
    "state": "MO",
    "students": 1002,
    "instances": 1231
   },
   {
    "state": "OK",
    "students": 991,
    "instances": 1185
   },
   {
    "state": "TN",
    "students": 616,
    "instances": 752
   },
   {
    "state": "FL",
    "students": 467,
    "instances": 719
   },
   {
    "state": "NJ",
    "students": 380,
    "instances": 1655
   },
   {
    "state": "AZ",
    "students": 202,
    "instances": 260
   },
   {
    "state": "LA",
    "students": 65,
    "instances": 81
   }
  ],
  "districts": 832
 },
 "floor": {
  "headline": "at least",
  "value": 28310,
  "basis": "recorded instances, 2023-24",
  "reasons": [
   {
    "text": "The Department of Education calls its own count “likely underreported.”",
    "claim": "crdc-undercount-caveat"
   },
   {
    "text": "It counts students once a year, not the number of times each child was hit.",
    "claim": "crdc-undercount-caveat"
   },
   {
    "text": "Virtual schools are skipped, and districts file the number themselves with nobody checking it.",
    "claim": "crdc-undercount-caveat"
   },
   {
    "text": "No federal or academic estimate of the true national figure has ever been published.",
    "claim": null
   }
  ]
 },
 "record": {
  "districts_sourced": 3495,
  "districts_recorded": 3559,
  "states_prohibiting": 34,
  "states_permitting": 15,
  "unchecked_districts": 564,
  "children_in_unchecked": 915
 },
 "generated": "2026-10-16",
 "source": "US Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2023-24, computed by this project; see data/crdc/2023-24/SOURCE.md"
}