| 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. |
(20 KB)
