Table 216.95.

Number and enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools that have closed, by school level, type, and charter status: Selected years, 1995-96 through 2011-12

School level, type, and charter status	1995-96	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Number of schools that closed
Total, all schools	954	1,180	1,193	1,412	1,368	2,168	1,913	1,553	1,877	2,120	1,515	1,822	1,929	1,840
School type
Regular	686	970	908	1,018	985	1,248	1,190	1,171	1,348	1,450	1,059	1,321	1,486	1,340
Special education	110	86	84	118	91	114	271	88	160	195	99	235	72	87
Vocational	17	18	17	90	27	33	18	28	14	30	15	11	7	11
Alternative1	141	106	184	186	265	773	434	266	355	445	342	255	364	402
School level and type
Elementary2	497	559	601	697	721	947	901	770	846	844	769	936	1,073	1,020
Regular	449	529	563	648	660	870	847	725	771	804	713	893	1,010	959
Special education	28	16	20	21	26	23	25	13	53	20	22	13	18	18
Vocational	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Alternative1	20	14	16	28	35	54	29	31	21	20	33	30	45	43
Secondary3	199	300	302	313	245	347	302	342	308	394	368	346	436	451
Regular	114	235	173	141	127	144	177	192	171	233	186	212	237	238
Special education	12	8	19	12	9	10	4	11	24	19	21	12	15	15
Vocational	17	18	14	89	27	33	18	27	13	29	13	11	7	10
Alternative1	56	39	96	71	82	160	103	112	100	113	148	111	177	188
Combined elementary/secondary4	42	143	146	168	124	158	321	184	193	172	164	91	157	207
Regular	10	96	83	76	57	54	68	82	65	65	50	42	74	82
Special education	13	17	22	29	22	30	28	38	45	48	34	16	24	34
Vocational	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Alternative1	19	30	40	62	45	74	225	64	83	58	79	33	59	90
Other (not classified by      grade span)	216	178	144	234	278	716	389	257	530	710	214	449	263	162
Regular	113	110	89	153	141	180	98	172	341	348	110	174	165	61
Special education	57	45	23	56	34	51	214	26	38	108	22	194	15	20
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	46	23	32	25	103	485	77	59	151	254	82	81	83	81
All charter schools5	—	24	72	111	85	74	171	206	267	133	161	189	216	202
	Prior year enrollment of schools that have closed
Total, enrollment	173,766	187,493	209,228	171,669	195,033	262,183	297,487	229,259	242,388	268,212	243,166	306,806	321,246	300,764
School type
Regular	151,574	175,083	198,699	161,663	185,536	242,383	282,432	216,360	227,260	253,409	227,714	292,915	304,001	281,961
Special education	4,475	2,873	1,665	2,840	1,789	4,144	2,799	3,068	4,745	4,060	1,916	2,173	1,709	3,765
Vocational	1,613	1,021	632	75	223	719	2,975	73	429	183	1,665	767	22	26
Alternative1	16,104	8,516	8,232	7,091	7,485	14,937	9,281	9,758	9,954	10,560	11,871	10,951	15,514	15,012
School level and type
Elementary2	112,328	128,426	134,934	125,753	146,709	194,752	213,607	161,649	172,403	179,554	171,722	221,681	242,193	225,205
Regular	108,440	126,944	134,060	124,170	144,013	192,117	211,822	158,744	169,895	176,862	169,815	219,469	239,913	222,186
Special education	2,991	734	338	591	1,020	1,040	1,153	1,158	1,892	2,131	651	727	404	1,539
Vocational	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	569	0	0	0
Alternative1	897	748	534	992	1,676	1,595	632	1,747	607	561	687	1,485	1,876	1,480
Secondary3	48,074	44,371	47,950	30,817	33,243	52,437	60,029	54,489	55,834	66,163	55,261	68,548	56,935	54,558
Regular	39,307	39,919	42,666	27,752	30,271	42,750	51,547	49,335	48,797	60,085	45,800	60,734	48,430	46,345
Special education	398	509	121	175	357	172	108	83	1,126	440	501	508	520	404
Vocational	1,613	1,021	592	72	223	719	2,975	73	420	183	1,096	767	22	19
Alternative1	6,756	2,922	4,571	2,818	2,392	8,796	5,399	4,998	5,491	5,455	7,864	6,539	7,963	7,790
Combined elementary/secondary4	12,418	13,083	25,031	12,622	12,957	13,150	22,022	12,993	12,157	19,349	16,093	12,151	21,360	20,931
Regular	3,743	8,044	21,973	8,999	9,451	7,484	18,415	8,281	7,682	16,295	12,081	8,342	14,941	13,430
Special education	326	515	701	410	365	1,328	840	1,791	1,293	1,008	692	882	744	1,752
Vocational	0	0	38	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Alternative1	8,349	4,524	2,319	3,210	3,141	4,338	2,767	2,921	3,182	2,046	3,320	2,927	5,675	5,742
Other (not classified by      grade span)	946	1,613	1,313	2,477	2,124	1,844	1,829	128	1,994	3,146	90	4,426	758	70
Regular	84	176	0	742	1,801	32	648	0	886	167	18	4,370	717	0
Special education	760	1,115	505	1,664	47	1,604	698	36	434	481	72	56	41	70
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	102	322	808	71	276	208	483	92	674	2,498	0	0	0	0
All charter schools5	—	7,141	5,925	11,134	11,894	6,797	21,505	14,118	15,340	12,226	20,537	17,954	24,165	29,095

—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 Charter schools are also included under the school level and type categories, as appropriate.

NOTE: The closure of a school does not necessarily mean that a building is no longer used for educational purposes. A single school may share a building with another school, or one school may be housed in several buildings.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1995-96 through 2011-12. (This table was prepared September 2013.)