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Table 1.    Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by agency type: School year 2008–09
 
Operational and student membership status1 All agencies   Agency type
Regular school districts Supervisory unions2 Regional education service agency3
Charter agencies State agency Federal and other agencies
     All agencies  18,099   13,893 211 1,274 2,233 290 198
                 
Operational status                 
  Operating4  17,735   13,809 211 1,178 2,096 264 177
    Continuing  17,523   13,784 208 1,169 1,938 259 165
    Added5  20   0 1 1 9 0 9
    Reopened6  1   0 0 0 1 0 0
    Changed boundary  11   9 0 0 2 0 0
    New7  180   16 2 8 146 5 3
                 
Non-operating  364   84 0 96 137 26 21
    Inactive8  45   9 0 1 33 0 2
    Closed  247   46 0 94 62 26 19
    Future9  72   29 0 1 42 0 0
                 
Student membership status                 
of operating agencies                 
  With membership  16,122   13,563 36 281 2,059 140 43
  Without membership10  1,613   246 175 897 37 124 134
1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
2 Supervisory unions provide administrative services to school districts through a common superintendent.
3 Regional education service agencies provide services to a variety of local education agencies.
4 Operating agencies include all those providing services during the reported school year.
5 Added agencies are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than 1 year.
6 Reopened agencies were closed on previous year's file but has reopened.
7 New agencies opened for the first time within the school year reported.
8 Inactive agencies are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within 3 years.
9 Future agencies are expected to open within 2 years.
10 Includes local education agencies for which membership is zero, missing, or not applicable.
NOTE: Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Table does not include Department of Defense domestic dependentsschools or Bureau of Indian Education schools. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as aregular school district.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2008–09, Version 1a.