Table 2.	Enrollment in educational institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected years, fall 1980 through fall 2006
[In thousands]

Level of instruction and type of control	Fall 1980	Fall 1985	Fall 1990		Fall 1995	Fall 1996		Fall 1997	Fall 1998		Fall 1999	Fall 2000		Fall 2001	Fall 2002		Fall 2003	Fall 20041	Projected fall 2005		Projected fall 2006
1	2	3	4		5	6		7	8		9	10		11	12		13	14	15		16
All levels	58,305	57,226	60,683		65,020	65,911		66,574	67,033		67,667	68,685		69,920	71,015		71,540	72,218	72,260		72,723
Public	50,335	48,901	52,061		55,933	56,732		57,323	57,676		58,167	58,956		59,905	60,935		61,397	61,775	61,732		62,308
Private	7,971	8,325	8,622		9,087	9,180		9,251	9,357		9,500	9,729		10,014	10,080		10,143	10,443	10,528		10,415
Elementary and secondary schools2	46,208	44,979	46,864		50,759	51,544		52,071	52,526		52,876	53,373		53,992	54,403		54,639	54,946	54,772		55,075
Public	40,877	39,422	41,217		44,840	45,611		46,127	46,539		46,857	47,204		47,672	48,183		48,540	48,795	48,710		48,948
Private	5,331	5,557	5,648		5,918	5,933	3	5,944	5,988	3	6,018	6,169	3	6,320	6,220	3	6,099	6,151	6,062		6,127
Prekindergarten to grade 8	31,639	31,229	34,392		37,096	37,519		37,832	38,121		38,253	38,594		38,961	39,031		38,990	38,991	38,525		38,658
Public	27,647	27,034	29,878		32,341	32,764		33,073	33,346		33,488	33,688		33,938	34,116		34,202	34,178	33,823		33,906
Private	3,992	4,195	4,514	3	4,756	4,755	3	4,759	4,776	3	4,765	4,906	3	5,023	4,915	3	4,788	4,812	4,702		4,752
Grades 9 to 12	14,570	13,750	12,472		13,662	14,025		14,239	14,405		14,623	14,779		15,031	15,373		15,649	15,955	16,247		16,417
Public	13,231	12,388	11,338		12,500	12,847		13,054	13,193		13,369	13,515		13,734	14,067		14,338	14,617	14,887		15,042
Private	1,339	1,362	1,134	3	1,163	1,178	3	1,185	1,212	3	1,254	1,264	3	1,296	1,306	3	1,311	1,338	1,360		1,375
Postsecondary degree-granting institutions	12,097	12,247	13,819		14,262	14,368		14,502	14,507		14,791	15,312		15,928	16,612		16,900	17,272	17,487	4	17,648
Public	9,457	9,479	10,845		11,092	11,120		11,196	11,138		11,309	11,753		12,233	12,752		12,857	12,980	13,022	4	13,360
Undergraduate	8,442	8,477	9,710		9,904	9,935		10,007	9,950		10,110	10,539		10,986	11,433		11,521	11,651	11,698	4	11,967
First-professional	114	112	112		115	117		118	121		123	124		128	132		134	136	138	4	145
Graduate	901	890	1,023		1,074	1,069		1,070	1,067		1,077	1,089		1,119	1,187		1,201	1,194	1,186	4	1,248
Private	2,640	2,768	2,974		3,169	3,247		3,306	3,369		3,482	3,560		3,695	3,860		4,043	4,292	4,466	4	4,288
Undergraduate	2,033	2,120	2,250		2,328	2,392		2,443	2,487		2,571	2,616		2,730	2,824		2,952	3,130	3,266	4	3,139
First-professional	163	162	162		183	182		180	182		180	183		181	187		195	199	199	4	209
Graduate	443	486	563		659	674		683	701		730	761		784	849		896	963	1,001	4	940

1 Private elementary and secondary education data are projected. 2 Includes enrollments in local public school systems and in most private schools (religiously affiliated and nonsectarian). Excludes homeschooled children who were not also enrolled in public and private schools. Based on the National Household Education Survey, the homeschooled children numbered approximately 1.1 million in 2003. Private elementary enrollment includes preprimary students in schools offering kindergarten or higher grades. 3 Estimated. 4 Actual data. NOTE: Degree-granting enrollment projections are based on the middle alternative projections published by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data through 1995 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees. (See Guide to Sources for details.) Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1980; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 1985–86 through 2004–05; Youth Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (Youth-NHES:1999); Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1995–96 through 2003–04; Projections of Education Statistics to 2015; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" surveys, 1980 and 1985; and 1990 through 2005 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90–99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2006. (This table was prepared September 2006.)