Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary local education agencies in the United States, by agency type: School year 2009

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10

NCES 2011-346rev
September 2012

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Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary local education agencies in the United States, by agency type: School year 2009–10
		Agency type
Operational and student membership status¹	All agencies	Regular school districts	Supervisory unions²	Regional education service agencies³	Charter agencies	State agencies	Federal and other agencies
All agencies	18,188	13,867	219	1,312	2,356	268	166

Operational status
Operating⁴	17,807	13,629	219	1,302	2,236	263	158
Continuing	17,421	13,581	211	1,161	2,056	258	154
Added⁵	75	1	0	65	7	1	1
Reopened⁶	69	1	0	68	0	0	0
Changed boundary	20	9	0	0	10	0	1
New⁷	222	37	8	8	163	4	2

Non-operating	381	238	0	10	120	5	8
Inactive⁸	50	8	0	1	41	0	0
Closed	298	228	0	9	48	5	8
Future⁹	33	2	0	0	31	0	0

Student membership status of operating agencies
With membership	16,158	13,503	34	265	2,194	140	22
Without membership¹⁰	1,649	126	185	1,037	42	123	136
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 dependents schools or Bureau of Indian Education schools. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a regular school district.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), “Local Education Agency Universe Survey,” 2009–10, Version Provisional 2a.

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