Table 2.	Enrollment in educational institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected years, fall 1980 through fall 2007
[In thousands]

Level of instruction and type of control	Fall 1980	Fall 1985	Fall 1990	Fall 1995	Fall 1997	Fall 1998		Fall 1999	Fall 2000		Fall 2001	Fall 2002		Fall 2003	Fall 20041	Fall 20051	Projected fall 2006	Projected fall 2007
1	2	3	4	5	6	7		8	9		10	11		12	13	14	15	16
All levels	58,305	57,226	60,683	65,020	66,574	67,033		67,667	68,685		69,920	71,015		71,551	72,200	72,712	73,197	73,720
Public	50,335	48,901	52,061	55,933	57,323	57,676		58,167	58,956		59,905	60,935		61,399	61,775	62,135	62,622	63,067
Private	7,971	8,325	8,622	9,087	9,251	9,357		9,500	9,729		10,014	10,080		10,152	10,425	10,577	10,575	10,653
Elementary and secondary schools2	46,208	44,979	46,864	50,759	52,071	52,526		52,875	53,373		53,992	54,403		54,639	54,928	55,224	55,524	55,762
Public	40,877	39,422	41,217	44,840	46,127	46,539		46,857	47,204		47,672	48,183		48,540	48,795	49,113	49,370	49,610
Private	5,331	5,557	5,648	5,918	5,944	5,988	3	6,018	6,169	3	6,320	6,220	3	6,099	6,133	6,111	6,155	6,152
Prekindergarten to grade 8	31,639	31,229	34,392	37,096	37,832	38,121		38,277	38,594		38,961	39,031		38,990	38,951	38,941	39,166	39,376
Public	27,647	27,034	29,878	32,341	33,073	33,346		33,488	33,688		33,938	34,116		34,202	34,178	34,205	34,387	34,592
Private	3,992	4,195	4,514	4,756	4,759	4,776	3	4,789	4,906	3	5,023	4,915	3	4,788	4,773	4,736	4,779	4,784
Grades 9 to 12	14,570	13,750	12,472	13,662	14,239	14,405		14,598	14,779		15,031	15,373		15,649	15,977	16,285	16,358	16,386
Public	13,231	12,388	11,338	12,500	13,054	13,193		13,369	13,515		13,734	14,067		14,338	14,617	14,909	14,983	15,018
Private	1,339	1,362	1,134	1,163	1,185	1,212	3	1,229	1,264	3	1,296	1,306	3	1,311	1,360	1,376	1,375	1,368
Postsecondary degree-granting institutions	12,097	12,247	13,819	14,262	14,502	14,507		14,791	15,312		15,928	16,612		16,911	17,272	17,487	17,672	17,959
Public	9,457	9,479	10,845	11,092	11,196	11,138		11,309	11,753		12,233	12,752		12,859	12,980	13,022	13,252	13,457
Undergraduate	8,442	8,477	9,710	9,904	10,007	9,950		10,110	10,539		10,986	11,433		11,523	11,651	11,698	11,923	12,109
First-professional	114	112	112	115	118	121		123	124		128	132		134	136	138	140	143
Graduate	901	890	1,023	1,074	1,070	1,067		1,077	1,089		1,119	1,187		1,201	1,194	1,186	1,189	1,204
Private	2,640	2,768	2,974	3,169	3,306	3,369		3,482	3,560		3,695	3,860		4,053	4,292	4,466	4,420	4,501
Undergraduate	2,033	2,120	2,250	2,328	2,443	2,487		2,571	2,616		2,730	2,824		2,957	3,130	3,266	3,213	3,276
First-professional	163	162	162	183	180	182		180	183		181	187		195	199	199	201	205
Graduate	443	486	563	659	683	701		730	761		784	849		901	963	1,001	1,006	1,020

1 Private elementary and secondary education data are projected. 2 Includes enrollments in local public school systems and in most private schools (religiously affiliated and nonsectarian). Excludes homeschooled children who were not also enrolled in public and private schools. Based on the National Household Education Survey, the homeschooled children numbered approximately 1.1 million in 2003. Private elementary enrollment includes preprimary students in schools offering kindergarten or higher grades. 3 Estimated. NOTE: Degree-granting enrollment projections are based on the middle alternative projections published by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data through 1995 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees. (See Guide to Sources for details.) Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Private school enrollment data for fall 1999 are based on improved methodology for apportioning the grade-unclassified students. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1980; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 1985–86 through 2005–06; Youth Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (Youth-NHES:1999); Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1995–96 through 2003–04; Projections of Education Statistics to 2016; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" surveys, 1980 and 1985; and 1990 through 2005 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90-99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2006. (This table was prepared August 2007.)