Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States, by type:
School year 2023–24


	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 districts¹	Supervisory unions²	Service agencies³	Independent charter agencies⁴	State agencies	Federal and other agencies
All	101,108	91,771	1,927	1,613	5,797	19,420	13,335	113	1,143	4,376	199	254

Operating schools/agencies⁵	99,297	90,461	1,865	1,575	5,396	19,186	13,303	113	1,122	4,212	186	250
Continuing	98,438	89,791	1,828	1,550	5,269	19,061	13,295	112	1,115	4,113	182	244
Added⁶	30	18	1	3	8	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
Reopened	34	19	3	0	12	4	2	0	0	2	0	0
Changed boundary / agency⁷	30	26	3	0	1	10	1	0	0	9	0	0
New⁸	765	607	30	22	106	109	5	1	7	86	4	6

Nonoperating schools/agencies	1,811	1,310	62	38	401	234	32	0	21	164	13	4
Inactive⁹	449	171	8	14	256	48	13	0	1	30	1	3
Closed	1,025	843	46	20	116	137	19	0	18	89	10	1
Future¹⁰	337	296	8	4	29	49	0	0	2	45	2	0

Student membership and status of operating schools/agencies
With membership¹¹	95,735	89,671	1,381	536	4,147	17,826	13,192	0	292	4,201	105	36
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)¹²	1,720	65	281	956	418	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Without membership (not shared time)¹³	1,842	725	203	83	831	1,360	111	113	830	11	81	214
† Not applicable.
¹Includes agencies classified as both Regular public school districts that are not a component of a supervisory union and Regular public school districts that are a component of a supervisory union.
²Supervisory unions provide administrative services to school districts through a common superintendent.
³Includes agencies that do not operate schools but instead provide specialized educational services or related services (such as services in Individualized Educaton Programs (IEPs)) to other education agencies that those agencies cannot provide themselves. Also includes specialized public school districts that operate one or more schools for a specific education need or purpose.
⁴Independent charter agencies contain only charter schools. Other charter schools may be reported through a different local education agency (LEA) type that contains both charter and non-charter schools.
⁵Operating schools/agencies include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year.
⁶Added schools/agencies are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than 1 year.
⁷Schools that changed agency are affiliated with a different local education agency than that reported in the previous year.
⁸New schools/agencies opened for the first time within the school year reported.
⁹Inactive schools/agencies are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within 3 years.
¹⁰Future schools/agencies are expected to open within 2 years.
¹¹Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. Student membership excludes adult education students.
¹²Shared 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.
¹³Includes 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. Refer to the EDFacts Directory (FS029) file specifications for additional information on the relationship between the CCD directory variables UNION and LEA_TYPE (https://www.ed.gov/edfacts-file-specifications).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey," 2023–24, Final Version 1a and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2023–24, Final Version 1a.

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