Table 2.

Enrollment in educational institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected years, fall 1980 through fall 2009

	[In thousands]
Level and control of institution	Fall 1980	Fall 1985	Fall 1990		Fall 1995	Fall 1999	Fall 2000		Fall 2001	Fall 2002		Fall 2003	Fall 2004		Fall 2005	Fall 2006		Fall 2007	Projected fall 2008		Projected fall 2009
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	67,667	68,685		69,920	71,015		71,551	72,154		72,674	73,066		73,451	74,603		75,194
Public	50,335	48,901	52,061		55,933	58,167	58,956		59,905	60,935		61,399	61,776		62,135	62,496		62,783	63,595		64,311
Private	7,971	8,325	8,622		9,087	9,500	9,729		10,014	10,080		10,152	10,379		10,539	10,570		10,668	11,008		10,884
Elementary and secondary       schools1	46,208	44,979	46,864		50,759	52,875	53,373		53,992	54,403		54,639	54,882		55,187	55,307		55,203	55,500		55,632
Public	40,877	39,422	41,217		44,840	46,857	47,204		47,672	48,183		48,540	48,795		49,113	49,316		49,293	49,623		49,788
Private	5,331	5,557	5,648	2	5,918	6,018	6,169	2	6,320	6,220	2	6,099	6,087	2	6,073	5,991	2	5,910	5,878		5,845
Prekindergarten to grade 8	31,639	31,229	34,388		37,094	38,275	38,592		38,959	39,029		38,989	38,933		38,928	38,866		38,751	39,179		39,457
Public	27,647	27,034	29,876		32,338	33,486	33,686		33,936	34,114		34,201	34,178		34,204	34,235		34,205	34,667		34,973
Private	3,992	4,195	4,512	2	4,756	4,789	4,906	2	5,023	4,915	2	4,788	4,756	2	4,724	4,631	2	4,546	4,512		4,484
Grades 9 to 12	14,570	13,750	12,476		13,665	14,600	14,781		15,032	15,374		15,651	15,949		16,258	16,441		16,451	16,322		16,175
Public	13,231	12,388	11,341		12,502	13,371	13,517		13,736	14,069		14,339	14,618		14,909	15,081		15,087	14,955		14,815
Private	1,339	1,362	1,136	2	1,163	1,229	1,264	2	1,296	1,306	2	1,311	1,331	2	1,349	1,360	2	1,364	1,366		1,361
Postsecondary       degree-granting       institutions	12,097	12,247	13,819		14,262	14,791	15,312		15,928	16,612		16,911	17,272		17,487	17,759		18,248	19,103	3	19,562
Public	9,457	9,479	10,845		11,092	11,309	11,753		12,233	12,752		12,859	12,980		13,022	13,180		13,491	13,972	3	14,523
Undergraduate	8,442	8,477	9,710		9,904	10,110	10,539		10,986	11,433		11,523	11,651		11,698	11,847		12,138	12,591	3	13,089
First-professional and      graduate	1,015	1,002	1,135		1,189	1,199	1,213		1,247	1,319		1,336	1,330		1,324	1,333		1,353	1,381	3	1,434
Private	2,640	2,768	2,974		3,169	3,482	3,560		3,695	3,860		4,053	4,292		4,466	4,579		4,757	5,131	3	5,039
Undergraduate	2,033	2,120	2,250		2,328	2,571	2,616		2,730	2,824		2,957	3,130		3,266	3,337		3,466	3,775	3	3,670
First-professional and      graduate	606	648	724		841	911	943		965	1,035		1,096	1,162		1,199	1,242		1,291	1,356	3	1,369

1 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 1.5 million in 2007. Private elementary enrollment includes preprimary students in schools offering kindergarten or higher grades.

2 Estimated.

3 Data are actual.

NOTE: Degree-granting enrollment projections are based on the high 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 Appendix A: Guide to Sources for details.) Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

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 2007-08; Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:2007); Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1995-96 through 2007-08; Projections of Education Statistics to 2018; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" surveys, 1980 and 1985; and 1990 through 2008 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90-99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2009. (This table was prepared September 2009.)