Table 216.20.

Number and enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools, by school level, type, and charter and magnet status: Selected years, 1990-91 through 2012-13

School level, type, and charter and magnet status	Number of schools										Enrollment
	1990-91	2000-01	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	1990-91	2000-01	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Total, all schools	84,538	93,273	97,382	98,793	98,916	98,706	98,817	98,817	98,328	98,454	41,141,366	47,060,714	48,912,085	49,065,594	48,910,025	49,053,786	49,081,519	49,177,617	49,256,120	49,474,030
School type
Regular	80,395	85,422	87,585	88,273	88,274	88,801	89,018	88,929	88,663	89,031	40,599,943	46,194,730	47,957,375	48,098,781	47,962,492	48,168,727	48,186,142	48,259,245	48,273,539	48,539,891
Special education	1,932	2,008	2,128	2,325	2,267	2,289	2,089	2,206	2,087	2,034	209,145	174,577	222,497	221,728	207,030	164,874	192,989	190,910	195,161	198,417
Vocational	1,060	1,025	1,221	1,289	1,409	1,409	1,417	1,485	1,434	1,403	198,117	199,669	217,621	204,101	163,003	156,390	129,840	164,013	159,905	159,917
Alternative1	1,151	4,818	6,448	6,906	6,966	6,207	6,293	6,197	6,144	5,986	134,161	491,738	514,592	540,984	577,500	563,795	572,548	563,449	627,515	575,805
School level and type
Elementary2	59,015	64,601	66,026	66,458	67,112	67,148	67,140	67,086	66,689	66,718	26,503,677	30,673,453	31,104,018	31,273,476	31,225,474	31,446,040	31,547,988	31,581,751	31,724,573	31,893,347
Regular	58,440	63,674	64,996	65,232	65,721	65,999	65,947	65,874	65,461	65,581	26,400,740	30,582,610	31,003,942	31,151,419	31,093,502	31,325,566	31,413,221	31,441,027	31,545,886	31,747,440
Special education	419	496	508	545	583	538	520	587	544	540	58,204	42,127	49,652	63,253	63,371	49,661	56,959	58,987	58,844	59,537
Vocational	31	8	8	10	7	1	24	16	17	15	17,686	2,409	1,713	2,719	1,634	16	1,892	3,495	4,558	3,734
Alternative1	125	423	514	671	801	610	649	609	667	582	27,047	46,307	48,711	56,085	66,967	70,797	75,916	78,242	115,285	82,636
Secondary3	21,135	21,994	23,998	23,920	24,643	24,348	24,651	24,544	24,357	24,280	13,569,787	15,038,171	16,219,309	16,068,448	16,184,724	16,055,123	15,930,401	15,692,610	15,708,815	15,644,214
Regular	19,459	18,456	19,252	19,152	19,371	19,349	19,604	19,449	19,441	19,470	13,313,097	14,567,969	15,685,032	15,549,702	15,680,507	15,568,281	15,454,043	15,197,786	15,194,153	15,137,814
Special education	165	219	368	365	375	325	354	359	339	330	11,913	12,607	42,696	39,232	30,680	24,266	30,443	27,990	27,905	27,731
Vocational	1,010	997	1,185	1,213	1,356	1,326	1,343	1,387	1,349	1,324	174,105	193,981	209,762	198,071	159,270	154,522	126,827	154,088	154,187	154,275
Alternative1	501	2,322	3,193	3,190	3,541	3,348	3,350	3,349	3,228	3,156	70,672	263,614	281,819	281,443	314,267	308,054	319,088	312,746	332,570	324,394
Combined elementary/       secondary4	2,325	5,096	5,707	5,984	5,899	5,623	5,730	6,137	6,311	6,371	925,887	1,266,778	1,526,186	1,672,583	1,472,248	1,520,246	1,542,734	1,897,712	1,818,020	1,934,697
Regular	1,784	2,780	3,121	3,058	2,786	2,793	3,028	3,363	3,435	3,572	855,814	1,007,368	1,263,952	1,393,546	1,187,281	1,253,785	1,288,109	1,620,031	1,533,002	1,654,256
Special education	376	715	735	850	904	938	847	964	970	960	43,992	86,253	91,966	87,018	88,000	80,245	76,691	99,120	104,344	109,992
Vocational	19	20	28	66	46	82	50	82	68	64	6,326	3,279	6,146	3,311	2,099	1,852	1,121	6,430	1,160	1,908
Alternative1	146	1,581	1,823	2,010	2,163	1,810	1,805	1,728	1,838	1,775	19,755	169,878	164,122	188,708	194,868	184,364	176,813	172,131	179,514	168,541
Other (not classified by       grade span)	2,063	1,582	1,651	2,431	1,262	1,587	1,296	1,050	971	1,085	142,015	82,312	62,572	51,087	27,579	32,377	60,396	5,544	4,712	1,772
Regular	712	512	216	831	396	660	439	243	326	408	30,292	36,783	4,449	4,114	1,202	21,095	30,769	401	498	381
Special education	972	578	517	565	405	488	368	296	234	204	95,036	33,590	38,183	32,225	24,979	10,702	28,896	4,813	4,068	1,157
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	379	492	918	1,035	461	439	489	511	411	473	16,687	11,939	19,940	14,748	1,398	580	731	330	146	234
Charter status and level
All charter schools5	—	1,993	3,780	4,132	4,388	4,694	4,952	5,274	5,696	6,079	—	448,343	1,012,906	1,157,359	1,276,731	1,433,116	1,610,285	1,787,091	2,057,599	2,267,814
Elementary2	—	1,011	1,969	2,150	2,340	2,513	2,679	2,866	3,127	3,391	—	249,101	532,217	611,095	674,990	746,950	824,297	905,575	1,045,492	1,156,384
Secondary3	—	467	1,057	1,110	1,218	1,255	1,329	1,368	1,418	1,463	—	79,588	219,627	235,912	264,402	291,016	327,289	341,534	386,482	398,430
Combined elementary/      secondary4	—	448	704	762	803	865	929	1,027	1,112	1,204	—	117,377	259,837	309,480	337,195	395,122	458,075	539,653	625,429	712,634
Other (not classified by      grade span)	—	67	50	110	27	61	15	13	39	21	—	2,277	1,225	872	144	28	624	329	196	366
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools5	—	1,469	2,736	2,266	2,793	3,021	2,213	2,722	2,949	3,151	—	1,213,976	2,103,013	1,592,614	2,132,395	2,307,712	1,515,562	2,055,133	2,248,177	2,479,188
Elementary2	—	1,111	1,994	1,666	2,015	2,193	1,530	1,849	2,012	2,150	—	704,763	1,186,160	904,536	1,157,470	1,267,944	799,546	1,035,288	1,158,405	1,287,589
Secondary3	—	328	643	510	688	728	582	746	802	862	—	484,684	869,010	618,349	926,314	976,483	668,832	944,434	1,015,267	1,119,369
Combined elementary/      secondary4	—	29	80	81	83	92	79	103	116	121	—	24,529	47,509	69,476	48,593	63,285	46,467	75,411	74,505	72,192
Other (not classified by      grade span)	—	1	19	9	7	8	22	24	19	18	—	0	334	253	18	0	717	0	0	38

—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, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1990-91 through 2012-13. (This table was prepared January 2015.)