Table 1. Number of virtual schools by state and school type, magnet status, charter status, and shared-time status: School year 2019–20

	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	691	8,673	590	7,727	0	57	2	70	99	819	218	624	11	379	10	115
Alabama	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alaska	1	202	1	185	0	1	0	2	0	14	0	7	0	8	0	0
Arizona	70	0	60	0	0	0	1	0	9	0	23	0	0	0	1	0
Arkansas	7	497	7	492	0	2	0	0	0	3	7	50	0	8	0	3
California	47	1,264	42	942	0	8	0	1	5	313	39	201	0	99	0	0
Colorado	24	24	19	18	0	0	0	1	5	5	9	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	222	0	222	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	1	0	0	0
Georgia	7	0	7	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	14	4	9	3	0	0	0	0	5	1	12	2	0	0	0	0
Illinois	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Indiana	10	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Iowa	5	416	5	405	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kansas	18	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	12	444	0	336	0	1	0	8	12	99	0	0	0	19	0	11
Louisiana	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	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	68	166	20	113	0	0	0	0	48	53	11	9	5	17	0	0
Minnesota	25	10	25	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	0	0	0
Mississippi	0	13	0	13	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	2	0
Montana	0	206	0	205	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	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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	3	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	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	333	5	307	0	0	0	1	0	25	2	19	1	16	0	1
North Dakota	0	154	0	154	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	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0
Oregon	11	427	11	398	0	1	0	0	0	28	10	45	0	0	0	0
Pennsylvania	15	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	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	1,260	5	1,193	0	8	0	44	0	15	5	75	0	127	0	44
South Dakota	6	159	6	147	0	4	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	16	167	16	161	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	2	0	18	5	43
Texas	9	0	6	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	89	0	84	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Virginia	0	371	0	323	0	17	0	1	0	30	0	4	0	48	0	7
Washington	11	410	7	289	0	3	0	2	4	116	0	0	1	9	0	0
West Virginia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	34	2,019	30	1,915	0	11	1	3	3	90	33	181	0	7	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	41	0	40	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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_129_1920_w_1a_082120, 2019–20, Version Provisional 1a, and file ccd_sch_029_1920_w_1a_082120, 2019–20, Version Provisional 1a.

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