Table 216.20.

Number and enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools, by school level, type, and charter and magnet status: Selected years, 1990-91 through 2014-15

School level, type, and charter and magnet status	Number of schools										Fall enrollment
	1990-91	2000-01	2004-05	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	1990-91	2000-01	2004-05	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Total, all schools	84,538	93,273	96,513	98,706	98,817	98,817	98,328	98,454	98,271	98,176	41,141,366	47,060,714	48,583,506	49,053,786	49,081,519	49,177,617	49,256,120	49,519,559	49,777,410	50,009,771
School type
Regular	80,395	85,422	87,279	88,801	89,018	88,929	88,663	89,031	89,183	89,386	40,599,943	46,194,730	47,668,986	48,168,727	48,186,142	48,259,245	48,273,539	48,583,049	48,863,752	49,178,890
Special education	1,932	2,008	1,972	2,289	2,089	2,206	2,087	2,034	2,010	1,954	209,145	174,577	203,426	164,874	192,989	190,910	195,161	198,626	214,611	186,269
Vocational	1,060	1,025	1,192	1,409	1,417	1,485	1,434	1,403	1,380	1,387	198,117	199,669	180,662	156,390	129,840	164,013	159,905	160,207	148,447	147,550
Alternative1	1,151	4,818	6,070	6,207	6,293	6,197	6,144	5,986	5,698	5,449	134,161	491,738	530,432	563,795	572,548	563,449	627,515	577,677	550,600	497,062
School level and type
Elementary2	59,015	64,601	65,984	67,148	67,140	67,086	66,689	66,708	67,034	67,073	26,503,677	30,673,453	31,161,899	31,446,040	31,547,988	31,581,751	31,724,573	31,918,613	32,226,881	32,225,908
Regular	58,440	63,674	64,964	65,999	65,947	65,874	65,461	65,572	65,948	66,036	26,400,740	30,582,610	31,049,705	31,325,566	31,413,221	31,441,027	31,545,886	31,772,432	32,083,759	32,116,995
Special education	419	496	460	538	520	587	544	541	543	578	58,204	42,127	46,433	49,661	56,959	58,987	58,844	59,826	62,596	54,161
Vocational	31	8	4	1	24	16	17	15	7	6	17,686	2,409	1,154	16	1,892	3,495	4,558	3,734	1,791	1,749
Alternative1	125	423	556	610	649	609	667	580	536	453	27,047	46,307	64,607	70,797	75,916	78,242	115,285	82,621	78,735	53,003
Secondary3	21,135	21,994	23,445	24,348	24,651	24,544	24,357	24,294	24,067	24,181	13,569,787	15,038,171	15,877,599	16,055,123	15,930,401	15,692,610	15,708,815	15,670,275	15,640,128	15,731,561
Regular	19,459	18,456	19,028	19,349	19,604	19,449	19,441	19,479	19,411	19,441	13,313,097	14,567,969	15,411,760	15,568,281	15,454,043	15,197,786	15,194,153	15,161,226	15,167,671	15,270,834
Special education	165	219	267	325	354	359	339	333	331	339	11,913	12,607	16,678	24,266	30,443	27,990	27,905	28,235	28,312	24,729
Vocational	1,010	997	1,147	1,326	1,343	1,387	1,349	1,324	1,311	1,318	174,105	193,981	172,697	154,522	126,827	154,088	154,187	154,610	144,066	144,042
Alternative1	501	2,322	3,003	3,348	3,350	3,349	3,228	3,158	3,014	3,083	70,672	263,614	276,464	308,054	319,088	312,746	332,570	326,204	300,079	291,956
Combined elementary/       secondary4	2,325	5,096	5,572	5,623	5,730	6,137	6,311	6,329	6,189	6,347	925,887	1,266,778	1,502,102	1,520,246	1,542,734	1,897,712	1,818,020	1,926,786	1,898,252	2,049,039
Regular	1,784	2,780	3,026	2,793	3,028	3,363	3,435	3,558	3,446	3,713	855,814	1,007,368	1,203,145	1,253,785	1,288,109	1,620,031	1,533,002	1,649,010	1,611,918	1,790,208
Special education	376	715	865	938	847	964	970	935	940	935	43,992	86,253	112,053	80,245	76,691	99,120	104,344	107,295	111,958	106,500
Vocational	19	20	41	82	50	82	68	64	62	63	6,326	3,279	6,811	1,852	1,121	6,430	1,160	1,863	2,590	1,759
Alternative1	146	1,581	1,640	1,810	1,805	1,728	1,838	1,772	1,741	1,636	19,755	169,878	180,093	184,364	176,813	172,131	179,514	168,618	171,786	150,572
Other (not classified by       grade span)	2,063	1,582	1,512	1,587	1,296	1,050	971	1,123	981	575	142,015	82,312	41,906	32,377	60,396	5,544	4,712	3,885	12,149	3,263
Regular	712	512	261	660	439	243	326	422	378	196	30,292	36,783	4,376	21,095	30,769	401	498	381	404	853
Special education	972	578	380	488	368	296	234	225	196	102	95,036	33,590	28,262	10,702	28,896	4,813	4,068	3,270	11,745	879
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	379	492	871	439	489	511	411	476	407	277	16,687	11,939	9,268	580	731	330	146	234	0	1,531
Charter status and level
All charter schools5	—	1,993	3,399	4,694	4,952	5,274	5,696	6,079	6,465	6,747	—	448,343	887,327	1,433,116	1,610,285	1,787,091	2,057,599	2,269,435	2,522,022	2,721,786
Elementary2	—	1,011	1,763	2,513	2,679	2,866	3,127	3,388	3,634	3,851	—	249,101	471,875	746,950	824,297	905,575	1,045,492	1,156,075	1,288,568	1,405,015
Secondary3	—	467	925	1,255	1,329	1,368	1,418	1,465	1,522	1,563	—	79,588	186,416	291,016	327,289	341,534	386,482	399,921	443,423	467,231
Combined elementary/        secondary4	—	448	673	865	929	1,027	1,112	1,204	1,268	1,330	—	117,377	226,630	395,122	458,075	539,653	625,429	713,073	789,883	848,875
Other (not classified        by grade span)	—	67	38	61	15	13	39	22	41	3	—	2,277	2,406	28	624	329	196	366	148	665
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools5	—	1,469	2,166	3,021	2,213	2,722	2,949	3,151	3,254	3,285	—	1,213,976	1,650,790	2,307,712	1,515,562	2,055,133	2,248,177	2,478,531	2,556,644	2,609,104
Elementary2	—	1,111	1,609	2,193	1,530	1,849	2,012	2,150	2,164	2,216	—	704,763	947,631	1,267,944	799,546	1,035,288	1,158,405	1,287,771	1,300,317	1,312,571
Secondary3	—	328	479	728	582	746	802	862	939	911	—	484,684	664,262	976,483	668,832	944,434	1,015,267	1,118,574	1,178,272	1,207,248
Combined elementary/        secondary4	—	29	63	92	79	103	116	121	133	142	—	24,529	38,897	63,285	46,467	75,411	74,505	72,148	78,055	89,277
Other (not classified        by grade span)	—	1	15	8	22	24	19	18	18	16	—	0	0	0	717	0	0	38	0	8

—Not available.

1 Includes schools that provide nontraditional education, address needs of students that typically cannot be met in regular schools, serve as adjuncts to regular schools, or fall outside the categories of regular, special education, or vocational education.

2 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.

3 Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.

4 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.

5 Magnet and charter schools are also included under regular, special education, vocational, or alternative schools as appropriate.

NOTE: Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1990-91 through 2014-15. (This table was prepared October 2016.)