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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06
NCES 2007-354
July 2007

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Table 1.  Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by school type and charter status: School year 2005–06
 
Operational and student membership status1 All schools School type   Charter schools of
any type
Regular Special education Vocational Alternative
Operational status 
Operating schools2  97,382 87,585 2,128 1,221 6,448 3,780
Continuing  93,532 84,680 1,887 1,147 5,818 3,289
Added3  97 43 44 2 8 1
Reopened  116 84 11 1 20 44
Changed agency4  1,346 1,133 91 24 98 13
New5  2,291 1,645 95 47 504 433
 
Non-operating  3,003 2,198 118 33 654 276
Inactive6  499 251 18 1 229 38
Closed  1,553 1,171 88 28 266 0
Future7  951 776 12 4 159 238
 
Student membership status
of operating schools 
With membership  93,845 86,792 1,673 385 4,995 3,690
Without membership,
providing instruction (shared time)8 		 958 24 113 681 140 1
Without membership
(not shared time) 		 2,579 769 342 155 1,313   89
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
2 Operating schools include all those providing services during the reported school year.
3 Added schools are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than one year.
4 Schools that changed agency are affiliated with a different local education agency than that reported in the previous year.
5 New schools opened for the first time within the school year reported.
6 Inactive schools are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within three years.
7 Future schools are expected to open within two years.
8 Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported for some other school.
NOTE: Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Charter status is independent of school type; charter schools are included in the school type totals.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005–06, Version 1a.

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