Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States, by type:
School year 2021–22


	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	100,972	91,652	1,955	1,578	5,787	19,497	13,362	217	1,146	4,290	226	256

Operating schools/agencies⁴	99,271	90,514	1,870	1,556	5,331	19,269	13,322	216	1,141	4,159	191	240
Continuing	97,860	89,267	1,846	1,539	5,208	19,143	13,307	214	1,131	4,066	187	238
Added⁵	188	136	9	5	38	6	1	0	2	2	1	0
Reopened	27	24	0	0	3	4	2	0	0	1	1	0
Changed agency / boundary⁶	31	28	0	1	2	12	3	0	0	9	0	0
New⁷	1,165	1,059	15	11	80	104	9	2	8	81	2	2

Nonoperating schools/agencies	1,701	1,138	85	22	456	228	40	1	5	131	35	16
Inactive⁸	482	173	10	12	287	46	15	0	0	18	1	12
Closed	849	642	72	7	128	121	21	1	4	57	34	4
Future⁹	370	323	3	3	41	61	4	0	1	56	0	0

Student membership and status of operating schools/agencies
With membership¹⁰	95,852	89,719	1,411	552	4,170	17,793	13,205	0	286	4,146	121	35
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)¹¹	1,636	90	250	910	386	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Without membership (not shared time)¹²	1,783	705	209	94	775	1,476	117	216	855	13	70	205
† 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 schools 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.
⁶Schools 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.
⁹Future schools/agencies are expected to open within 2 years.
¹⁰Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. Student membership excludes adult education students.
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," 2021–22, Provisional Version 1a and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2021–22, Provisional Version 1a.

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