This statistic shows the average amount of books in public school classroom libraries in the United States in 2016, as estimated by teachers. In 2016, about 23 percent of U.S. public school teachers estimated that their classroom libraries had somewhere between 50 to 149 books on average.
Teachers' estimations of average amount of books in public school classroom libraries in the United States in 2016
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