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 2008

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008–09

NCES 2010-345
July 2010

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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 2008–09

		School type

			Special education	Vocational education	Alternative education
Operational and student membership status¹	All schools	Regular	Special education	Vocational education	Alternative education
Operating schools²	98,706	88,801	2,289	1,409	6,207
Continuing	96,451	87,147	2,051	1,380	5,873
Added³	290	41	169	8	72
Reopened	26	21	1	0	4
Changed agency⁴	133	106	6	2	19
New⁵	1,806	1,486	62	19	239

Non-operating	2,599	1,727	114	25	733
Inactive⁶	549	158	11	8	372
Closed	1,515	1,059	99	15	342
Future⁷	535	510	4	2	19

Student membership status of operating schools
With membership	94,820	88,000	1,550	343	4,927
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)⁸,⁹	1,202	29	80	874	219
Without membership (not shared time)⁹	2,684	772	659	192	1,061
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 1 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 3 years.
⁷ Future schools are expected to open within 2 years.
⁸ Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported for some other school.
⁹ Includes schools for which membership is 0, missing, or not applicable.
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," 2008–09, Version 1a.

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