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Digest of Education Statistics: 2004
Digest of Education Statistics: 2004

NCES 2006-005
October 2005


Table 92. Public elementary and secondary schools, by type of school: Selected years, 1970-71 to 2002-03

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            |Total, |                                         Schools with reported grade spans                                   |
            |   all |_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________|
            |public |      |           Elementary schools         |                  Secondary schools                |  Combined |    Other
Year        |schools|      |______________________________________|___________________________________________________|elementary/|schools\1\
            |       |Total |        |   Middle |  One- |    Other |        |Junior | 3-year or | 5-year or |   Other  | secondary |
            |       |      |Total\2\|schools\3\|teacher|elementary|Total\5\|high\6\|4-year high|6-year high|secondary |schools\8\ |
            |       |      |        |          |schools|schools\4\|        |       |   schools |   schools |schools\7\|           |
____________|_______|______|________|__________|_______|__________|________|_______|___________|___________|__________|___________|__________
1           |     2 |    3 |      4 |        5 |     6 |        7 |      8 |     9 |        10 |        11 |       12 |        13 |       14
____________|_______|______|________|__________|_______|__________|________|_______|___________|___________|__________|___________|__________
1970-71 ....|    ---|89,372|  64,020|     2,080|  1,815|    60,125|  23,572|  7,750|     11,265|      3,887|       670|      1,780|       ---
1975-76 ....| 88,597|87,034|  61,704|     3,916|  1,166|    56,622|  23,792|  7,521|     11,572|      4,113|       586|      1,538|     1,563
1976-77 ....|    ---|86,501|  61,123|     4,180|  1,111|    55,832|  23,857|  7,434|     11,658|      4,130|       635|      1,521|       ---
1978-79 ....|    ---|84,816|  60,312|     5,879|  1,056|    53,377|  22,834|  6,282|     11,410|      4,429|       713|      1,670|       ---
1980-81 ....| 85,982|83,688|  59,326|     6,003|    921|    52,402|  22,619|  5,890|     10,758|      4,193|     1,778|      1,743|     2,294
            |       |      |        |          |       |          |        |       |           |           |          |           |
1982-83 ....| 84,740|82,039|  58,051|     6,875|    798|    50,378|  22,383|  5,948|     11,678|      4,067|       690|      1,605|     2,701
1983-84 ....| 84,178|81,418|  57,471|     6,885|    838|    49,748|  22,336|  5,936|     11,670|      4,046|       684|      1,611|     2,760
1984-85 ....| 84,007|81,147|  57,231|     6,893|    825|    49,513|  22,320|  5,916|     11,671|      4,021|       712|      1,596|     2,860
1986-87 ....| 83,455|82,190|  58,801|     7,452|    763|    50,586|  21,406|  5,142|     11,453|      4,197|       614|      1,983|\9\  1,265
1987-88 ....| 83,248|81,416|  57,575|     7,641|    729|    49,205|  21,662|  4,900|     11,279|      4,048|     1,435|      2,179|\9\  1,832
            |       |      |        |          |       |          |        |       |           |           |          |           |
1988-89 ....| 83,165|81,579|  57,941|     7,957|    583|    49,401|  21,403|  4,687|     11,350|      3,994|     1,372|      2,235|\9\  1,586
1989-90 ....| 83,425|81,880|  58,419|     8,272|    630|    49,517|  21,181|  4,512|     11,492|      3,812|     1,365|      2,280|\9\  1,545
1990-91 ....| 84,538|82,475|  59,015|     8,545|    617|    49,853|  21,135|  4,561|     11,537|      3,723|     1,314|      2,325|     2,063
1991-92 ....| 84,578|82,506|  59,258|     8,829|    569|    49,860|  20,767|  4,298|     11,528|      3,699|     1,242|      2,481|     2,072
1992-93 ....| 84,497|82,896|  59,676|     9,152|    430|    50,094|  20,671|  4,115|     11,651|      3,613|     1,292|      2,549|     1,601
            |       |      |        |          |       |          |        |       |           |           |          |           |
1993-94 ....| 85,393|83,431|  60,052|     9,573|    442|    50,037|  20,705|  3,970|     11,858|      3,595|     1,282|      2,674|     1,962
1994-95 ....| 86,221|84,476|  60,808|     9,954|    458|    50,396|  20,904|  3,859|     12,058|      3,628|     1,359|      2,764|     1,745
1995-96 ....| 87,125|84,958|  61,165|    10,205|    474|    50,486|  20,997|  3,743|     12,168|      3,621|     1,465|      2,796|     2,167
1996-97 ....| 88,223|86,092|  61,805|    10,499|    487|    50,819|  21,307|  3,707|     12,424|      3,614|     1,562|      2,980|     2,131
1997-98 ....| 89,508|87,541|  62,739|    10,944|    476|    51,319|  21,682|  3,599|     12,734|      3,611|     1,738|      3,120|     1,967
            |       |      |        |          |       |          |        |       |           |           |          |           |
1998-99 ....| 90,874|89,259|  63,462|    11,202|    463|    51,797|  22,076|  3,607|     13,457|      3,707|     1,305|      3,721|     1,615
1999-2000 ..| 92,012|90,538|  64,131|    11,521|    423|    52,187|  22,365|  3,566|     13,914|      3,686|     1,199|      4,042|     1,474
2000-01 ....| 93,273|91,691|  64,601|    11,696|    411|    52,494|  21,994|  3,318|     13,793|      3,974|       909|      5,096|     1,582
2001-02 ....| 94,112|92,696|  65,228|    11,983|    408|    52,837|  22,180|  3,285|     14,070|      3,917|       908|      5,288|     1,416
2002-03 ....| 95,615|93,869|  65,718|    12,174|    366|    53,178|  22,599|  3,263|     14,330|      4,017|       989|      5,552|     1,746
____________|_______|______|________|__________|_______|__________|________|_______|___________|___________|__________|___________|__________

---Not available.
\1\Includes special education, alternative, and other schools not classified by grade span.
\2\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.
\3\Includes schools with grade spans beginning with 4, 5, or 6 and ending with grade 6, 7, or 8.
\4\Includes other graded elementary schools, not separately shown.
\5\Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.
\6\Includes schools with grades 7 and 8 or grades 7 through 9.
\7\Includes other graded secondary schools, not separately shown.
\8\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or lower and ending with grade 9 or above.
\9\Because of revision in data collection procedures, figures not comparable to data for other years.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, 1975-76; Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1970-71, and 1976-77 through 1980-81; and The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1982-83 through 2002-03. (This table was prepared September 2004.)