Table 1. Number of virtual schools by state and school type, magnet status, charter status, and shared-time status: School year 2018–19

	Number of virtual schools
			School type
	Total		Regular		Special education		Vocational education		Alternative education		Charter		Magnet		Shared-time
State or jurisdiction	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual	Fully virtual	Not fully virtual
United States¹	675	7,872	581	6,941	0	56	2	72	92	803	216	618	14	315	12	114
Alabama	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alaska	1	185	1	168	0	1	0	2	0	14	0	6	0	8	0	0
Arizona	67	0	66	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	22	0	0	0	1	0
Arkansas	7	509	7	503	0	2	0	0	0	4	7	57	0	10	0	4
California	45	1,239	41	925	0	8	0	1	4	305	38	199	0	98	0	0
Colorado	33	30	26	24	0	0	0	1	7	5	10	5	0	0	0	1
Connecticut	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Delaware	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
District of Columbia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Florida	219	0	219	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	1	0	0	0
Georgia	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hawaii	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Idaho	11	6	8	5	0	0	0	0	3	1	9	3	0	0	0	0
Illinois	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Indiana	9	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
Iowa	4	444	4	432	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kansas	16	0	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	8	448	0	335	0	1	0	8	8	104	0	0	0	19	1	17
Louisiana	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Maine	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Maryland	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Massachusetts	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Michigan	70	156	14	108	0	0	0	0	56	48	9	10	8	14	0	0
Minnesota	24	9	24	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	0	0	0
Mississippi	0	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Missouri	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montana	0	192	0	191	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nevada	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
New Hampshire	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
New Jersey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Mexico	4	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	0	0
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Carolina	5	332	5	307	0	0	0	1	0	24	2	18	2	10	0	1
North Dakota	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ohio	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	0	11	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0
Oregon	10	432	10	402	0	1	0	0	0	29	9	47	0	0	0	0
Pennsylvania	17	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	1	0	0	0
Rhode Island	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	5	649	5	586	0	7	0	44	0	12	5	66	0	68	0	44
South Dakota	7	153	7	141	0	4	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	12	160	12	154	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	18	8	34
Texas	8	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
Utah	1	17	1	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0
Vermont	0	78	0	72	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Virginia	0	370	0	322	0	17	0	1	0	30	0	4	0	48	0	7
Washington	9	401	6	286	0	3	0	2	3	110	0	0	0	11	0	0
West Virginia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	33	2,030	29	1,926	0	11	1	4	3	89	32	182	0	8	0	0
Wyoming	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

Department of Defense (DoDEA)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bureau of Indian Education	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	0	17	0	15	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
U.S. Virgin Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
— Not available.
¹U.S. totals include the 50 states and District of Columbia.
NOTE: Fully virtual schools are exclusively virtual. All instruction offered by the school is virtual. This does not exclude students and teachers meeting in person for field trips, school-sponsored social events, or assessment purposes. All students receive all instruction virtually. Partially virtual schools include schools that are primarily virtual and supplemental virtual. Schools that are primarily victual provide virtual instruction to students, but some traditional classroom instruction is also provided. Most students receive all instruction virtually. Schools that are supplemental virtual are schools where instruction is directed by teachers in a traditional classroom setting and virtual instruction supplements face-to-face instruction by teachers. Students vary in the extent to which their instruction is virtual. Every school is assigned only one school type based on its instructional emphasis. Independent of school type, every school is assigned a separate charter status, magnet status, and shared-time status.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), file ccd_SCH_029_1819_w_1a_091019, 2018-19, Version Provisional 1a, and file ccd_SCH_129_1819_w_1a_091019, 2018-19, Version Provisional 1a.

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