Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States, by type:
School year 2019–20


	School type						Agency type
Status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies	All schools	Regular	Special education	Career and technical	Alternative education	All agencies	Regular school districts	Supervisory unions¹	Service agencies²	Independent charter agencies³	State agencies	Federal and other agencies
All	100,568	91,259	2,080	1,528	5,701	19,613	13,462	216	1,193	4,292	236	214

Operating schools/agencies⁴	98,507	89,842	1,933	1,495	5,237	19,247	13,353	214	1,188	4,057	230	205
Continuing	97,294	88,873	1,836	1,466	5,119	19,032	13,321	214	1,155	3,926	229	187
Added⁵	55	25	11	2	17	26	0	0	23	3	0	0
Reopened	17	14	0	1	2	18	0	0	1	1	0	16
Changed agency / boundary⁶	137	122	9	5	1	4	3	0	0	1	0	0
New⁷	1,004	808	77	21	98	167	29	0	9	126	1	2

Nonoperating schools/agencies	2,061	1,417	147	33	464	366	109	2	5	235	6	9
Inactive⁸	459	183	9	10	257	39	16	0	0	19	0	4
Closed	1,230	889	131	22	188	256	88	2	5	150	6	5
Future⁹	372	345	7	1	19	71	5	0	0	66	0	0

Student membership¹⁰ and status of operating schools/agencies
With membership	95,384	89,090	1,618	317	4,359	17,670	13,237	0	247	4,026	126	34
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)¹¹^,¹²	1,403	82	30	934	357	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Without membership (not shared time)¹²	1,720	670	285	244	521	1,577	116	214	941	31	104	171
† Not applicable.
¹Supervisory unions provide administrative services to school districts through a common superintendent.
²This category includes service agencies (agencies that do not operate schools but instead provide specialized educational services or related services (such as services in IEPs)) to other education agencies that the agencies cannot readily provide for themselves and specialized public school districts which operate one or more school for a specific education need or purpose.
³Independent charter agencies contain only charter schools. Other charter schools may be reported through a different LEA type that contains both charter and non-charter schools.
⁴Operating schools/agencies include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year.
⁵Added schools/agencies are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than 1 year.
⁶ Schools that changed agency are affiliated with a different local education agency than that reported in the previous year.
⁷New schools/agencies opened for the first time within the school year reported.
⁸Inactive schools/agencies are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within 3 years.
⁹ Future schools/agencies are expected to open within 2 years.
¹⁰Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
¹¹Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported by another school. Schools not reporting a shared time status are counted as "not shared time" schools.
¹²Includes 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. For analytical purposes, the member LEAs within the New York City supervisory union are reported as a single LEA.
SOURCE:U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey", 2019–20, Provisional Version 1a and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey", 2019–20, Provisional Version 1a.

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