Table 101.

Number and enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools, by school type, level, and charter and magnet status: Selected years, 1990-91 through 2009-10

School type, level, and charter and magnet status	Number of schools								Enrollment
	1990-91	1995-96	2000-01	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	1990-91	1995-96	2000-01	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Total, all schools	84,538	87,125	93,273	97,382	98,793	98,916	98,706	98,817	41,141,366	44,681,987	47,060,714	48,912,085	49,065,594	48,910,025	49,053,786	49,136,240
School type
Regular	80,395	80,971	85,422	87,585	88,273	88,274	88,801	89,018	40,599,943	43,885,130	46,194,730	47,957,375	48,098,781	47,962,492	48,168,727	48,238,807
Special education	1,932	1,992	2,008	2,128	2,325	2,267	2,289	2,089	209,145	209,653	174,577	222,497	221,728	207,030	164,874	193,212
Vocational	1,060	919	1,025	1,221	1,289	1,409	1,409	1,417	198,117	169,455	199,669	217,621	204,101	163,003	156,390	129,840
Alternative1	1,151	3,243	4,818	6,448	6,906	6,966	6,207	6,293	134,161	417,749	491,738	514,592	540,984	577,500	563,795	574,381
School level and type
Elementary2	59,015	61,165	64,601	66,026	66,458	67,112	67,148	67,140	26,503,677	29,119,541	30,673,453	31,104,018	31,273,476	31,225,474	31,446,040	31,550,539
Regular	58,440	60,318	63,674	64,996	65,232	65,721	65,999	65,947	26,400,740	28,998,350	30,582,610	31,003,942	31,151,419	31,093,502	31,325,566	31,415,620
Special education	419	484	496	508	545	583	538	520	58,204	58,958	42,127	49,652	63,253	63,371	49,661	56,959
Vocational	31	9	8	8	10	7	1	24	17,686	3,782	2,409	1,713	2,719	1,634	16	1,892
Alternative1	125	354	423	514	671	801	610	649	27,047	58,451	46,307	48,711	56,085	66,967	70,797	76,068
Secondary3	21,135	20,997	21,994	23,998	23,920	24,643	24,348	24,651	13,569,787	14,342,507	15,038,171	16,219,309	16,068,448	16,184,724	16,055,123	15,980,980
Regular	19,459	18,090	18,456	19,252	19,152	19,371	19,349	19,604	13,313,097	13,940,501	14,567,969	15,685,032	15,549,702	15,680,507	15,568,281	15,503,211
Special education	165	234	219	368	365	375	325	354	11,913	17,810	12,607	42,696	39,232	30,680	24,266	30,443
Vocational	1,010	890	997	1,185	1,213	1,356	1,326	1,343	174,105	160,965	193,981	209,762	198,071	159,270	154,522	126,827
Alternative1	501	1,783	2,322	3,193	3,190	3,541	3,348	3,350	70,672	223,231	263,614	281,819	281,443	314,267	308,054	320,499
Combined elementary/secondary4	2,325	2,796	5,096	5,707	5,984	5,899	5,623	5,730	925,887	1,121,512	1,266,778	1,526,186	1,672,583	1,472,248	1,520,246	1,544,325
Regular	1,784	1,851	2,780	3,121	3,058	2,786	2,793	3,028	855,814	938,496	1,007,368	1,263,952	1,393,546	1,187,281	1,253,785	1,289,207
Special education	376	411	715	735	850	904	938	847	43,992	65,074	86,253	91,966	87,018	88,000	80,245	76,914
Vocational	19	20	20	28	66	46	82	50	6,326	4,708	3,279	6,146	3,311	2,099	1,852	1,121
Alternative1	146	514	1,581	1,823	2,010	2,163	1,810	1,805	19,755	113,234	169,878	164,122	188,708	194,868	184,364	177,083
Other (not classified by      grade span)	2,063	2,167	1,582	1,651	2,431	1,262	1,587	1,296	142,015	98,427	82,312	62,572	51,087	27,579	32,377	60,396
Regular	712	712	512	216	831	396	660	439	30,292	7,783	36,783	4,449	4,114	1,202	21,095	30,769
Special education	972	863	578	517	565	405	488	368	95,036	67,811	33,590	38,183	32,225	24,979	10,702	28,896
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	379	592	492	918	1,035	461	439	489	16,687	22,833	11,939	19,940	14,748	1,398	580	731
Charter status and level
All charter schools5	—	—	1,993	3,780	4,132	4,388	4,694	4,952	—	—	448,343	1,012,906	1,157,359	1,276,731	1,433,116	1,611,332
Elementary2	—	—	1,011	1,969	2,150	2,340	2,513	2,679	—	—	249,101	532,217	611,095	674,990	746,950	824,297
Secondary3	—	—	467	1,057	1,110	1,218	1,255	1,329	—	—	79,588	219,627	235,912	264,402	291,016	328,336
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	—	448	704	762	803	865	929	—	—	117,377	259,837	309,480	337,195	395,122	458,075
Other (not classified by       grade span)	—	—	67	50	110	27	61	15	—	—	2,277	1,225	872	144	28	624
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools5	—	—	1,469	2,736	2,266	2,793	3,021	2,213	—	—	1,213,976	2,103,013	1,592,614	2,132,395	2,307,712	1,516,392
Elementary2	—	—	1,111	1,994	1,666	2,015	2,193	1,530	—	—	704,763	1,186,160	904,536	1,157,470	1,267,944	799,841
Secondary3	—	—	328	643	510	688	728	582	—	—	484,684	869,010	618,349	926,314	976,483	668,832
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	—	29	80	81	83	92	79	—	—	24,529	47,509	69,476	48,593	63,285	47,002
Other (not classified by       grade span)	—	—	1	19	9	7	8	22	—	—	0	334	253	18	0	717

—Not available.

1 Includes schools that provide nontraditional education, address needs of students that typically cannot be met in regular schools, serve as adjuncts to regular schools, or fall outside the categories of regular, special education, or vocational education.

2 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.

3 Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.

4 Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above.

5 Magnet and charter schools are also included under regular, special education, vocational, or alternative schools as appropriate.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1990-91 through 2009-10. (This table was prepared May 2011.)