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Table 3. Number of operating public elementary and secondary schools, by school type, charter, magnet, Title I, Title I
schoolwide status, and state or jurisdiction: School year 2020–21

                       
      School type          
State or jurisdiction Total number of
operating schools1
  Regular Special
education
Career and
technical
Alternative
education
  Charter  Magnet  Title I2 Title I
schoolwide2
Reporting states3 98,609   89,906 1,921 1,547 5,235   7,644 2,946 58,974 49,170
                       
Alabama 1,542   1,333 80 68 61   5 35 949 930
Alaska 503   477 4 3 19   31 32 376 358
Arizona 2,357   1,891 34 273 159   555 1,414 1,295
Arkansas 1,080   1,044 3 30 3   86 33 971 913
California 10,328   9,063 157 66 1,042   1,296
                       
Colorado 1,927   1,801 5 7 114   262 27 745 638
Connecticut 1,001   980 2 17 2   21 102 614 347
Delaware 225   195 19 6 5   23 3 148 148
District of Columbia 235   228 2 0 5   119 182 181
Florida 4,219   3,640 159 36 384   687 611 3,095 2,915
                       
Georgia 2,311   2,270 12 0 29   98 14 1,636 1,593
Hawaii 294   292 1 0 1   37 181 181
Idaho 774   674 12 14 74   73 22 539 539
Illinois 4,384   3,877 219 37 251   138
Indiana 1,902   1,844 21 30 7   113 24 1,574 1,266
                       
Iowa 1,309   1,292 2 0 15   2 1,164 660
Kansas 1,310   1,305 4 0 1   9 37 1,119 814
Kentucky 1,532   1,208 9 127 188   0 59 1,106 1,085
Louisiana 1,353   1,312 25 10 6   142 39 1,191 1,169
Maine 595   567 1 27 0   13 2 496 379
                       
Maryland 1,421   1,312 37 26 46   47 151 722 669
Massachusetts 1,845   1,772 12 36 25   78 0 1,144 788
Michigan 3,526   2,941 186 46 353   369 348 2,560 2,167
Minnesota 2,541   1,750 313 7 471   253 81 1,744 755
Mississippi 1,042   880 2 92 68   7 14 833 833
                       
Missouri 2,444   2,273 48 62 61   76 30 1,851 1,542
Montana 826   822 2 0 2   754 459
Nebraska 1,086   1,011 26 0 49   459 367
Nevada 736   675 13 0 48   90 50 512 512
New Hampshire 496   496 0 0 0   37 1 425 105
                       
New Jersey 2,565   2,371 59 69 66   87 1,749 693
New Mexico 886   831 9 0 46   97 769 753
New York 4,807   4,595 134 51 27   325 230 3,628 3,084
North Carolina 2,683   2,572 25 8 78   200 222 2,154 2,002
North Dakota 488   488 0 0 0   262 179
                       
Ohio 3,531   3,442 14 75 0   315 2,701 2,043
Oklahoma 1,789   1,779 5 0 5   66 1,253 1,208
Oregon 1,263   1,226 1 0 36   133 558 518
Pennsylvania 2,947   2,852 4 85 6   177 53 2,390 1,798
Rhode Island 314   300 1 10 3   37 232 158
                       
South Carolina 1,266   1,197 8 46 15   81 123 634 632
South Dakota 706   659 17 3 27   584 314
Tennessee 1,880   1,833 15 11 21   115 121 1,485 1,446
Texas 9,002   8,201 11 0 790   955 272 7,418 7,102
Utah 1,088   993 60 6 29   136
                       
Vermont 305   290 0 15 0   2 246 194
Virginia 2,125   1,870 40 89 126   7 143 765 695
Washington 2,506   2,069 86 20 331   12 59 1,583 1,324
West Virginia 710   639 2 34 35   0 336 336
Wisconsin 2,240   2,127 12 5 96   229 6 1,516 940
Wyoming 364   347 8 0 9   5 207 143
                       
Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions
                       
DoDEA    
Bureau of Indian
Education
174   174 0 0 0   0 174 174
American Samoa 29   28 0 1 0   0
Guam 44   43 0 0 1   3 0 41 41
Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana
Islands
35   35 0 0 0  
Puerto Rico 849   804 14 31 0   4 116 832 832
U.S. Virgin Islands 23   22 0 1 0   1 23 23
— Not available.
† Not applicable. Some states/jurisdictions do not have charter school authorization and some states/jurisdictions do not designate magnet schools.
1Operating schools/agencies include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year.
2Schools eligible for Title I schoolwide programs are also included in the count of all Title I eligible schools. A Title I eligible school is one in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least 35 percent of children from low-income families served by the LEA as a whole. A schoolwide Title I eligible school has a percentage of low-income students that is at least 40 percent.
3A reporting state's total is shown if data for any item in the table were not available for some, but not more than 15 percent, of all schools in the United States.
NOTE: Every school is assigned a school type based on its instructional emphasis; numbers and types of schools may differ from those published by states. A school may also be included under the Charter, Magnet, and/or Title I statuses, which are independent of one another and of school type.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey", 2020–21, Provisional Version 1a.