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 2013-14

School level, type, and charter and magnet status	Number of schools										Enrollment
	1990-91	2000-01	2003-04	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	1990-91	2000-01	2003-04	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
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	95,726	98,916	98,706	98,817	98,817	98,328	98,454	98,271	41,141,366	47,060,714	48,353,523	48,910,025	49,053,786	49,081,519	49,177,617	49,256,120	49,474,030	49,709,977
School type
Regular	80,395	85,422	86,340	88,274	88,801	89,018	88,929	88,663	89,031	89,183	40,599,943	46,194,730	47,415,655	47,962,492	48,168,727	48,186,142	48,259,245	48,273,539	48,539,891	48,800,105
Special education	1,932	2,008	2,328	2,267	2,289	2,089	2,206	2,087	2,034	2,010	209,145	174,577	211,623	207,030	164,874	192,989	190,910	195,161	198,417	213,077
Vocational	1,060	1,025	1,100	1,409	1,409	1,417	1,485	1,434	1,403	1,380	198,117	199,669	182,343	163,003	156,390	129,840	164,013	159,905	159,917	148,451
Alternative1	1,151	4,818	5,958	6,966	6,207	6,293	6,197	6,144	5,986	5,698	134,161	491,738	543,902	577,500	563,795	572,548	563,449	627,515	575,805	548,344
School level and type
Elementary2	59,015	64,601	65,758	67,112	67,148	67,140	67,086	66,689	66,718	67,034	26,503,677	30,673,453	31,204,774	31,225,474	31,446,040	31,547,988	31,581,751	31,724,573	31,893,347	32,183,080
Regular	58,440	63,674	64,721	65,721	65,999	65,947	65,874	65,461	65,581	65,948	26,400,740	30,582,610	31,088,893	31,093,502	31,325,566	31,413,221	31,441,027	31,545,886	31,747,440	32,040,651
Special education	419	496	487	583	538	520	587	544	540	543	58,204	42,127	44,908	63,371	49,661	56,959	58,987	58,844	59,537	62,580
Vocational	31	8	5	7	1	24	16	17	15	7	17,686	2,409	1,917	1,634	16	1,892	3,495	4,558	3,734	1,791
Alternative1	125	423	545	801	610	649	609	667	582	536	27,047	46,307	69,056	66,967	70,797	75,916	78,242	115,285	82,636	78,058
Secondary3	21,135	21,994	22,782	24,643	24,348	24,651	24,544	24,357	24,280	24,053	13,569,787	15,038,171	15,751,624	16,184,724	16,055,123	15,930,401	15,692,610	15,708,815	15,644,214	15,618,300
Regular	19,459	18,456	18,810	19,371	19,349	19,604	19,449	19,441	19,470	19,409	13,313,097	14,567,969	15,279,073	15,680,507	15,568,281	15,454,043	15,197,786	15,194,153	15,137,814	15,148,323
Special education	165	219	274	375	325	354	359	339	330	329	11,913	12,607	17,743	30,680	24,266	30,443	27,990	27,905	27,731	28,014
Vocational	1,010	997	1,069	1,356	1,326	1,343	1,387	1,349	1,324	1,311	174,105	193,981	176,022	159,270	154,522	126,827	154,088	154,187	154,275	144,070
Alternative1	501	2,322	2,629	3,541	3,348	3,350	3,349	3,228	3,156	3,004	70,672	263,614	278,786	314,267	308,054	319,088	312,746	332,570	324,394	297,893
Combined elementary/       secondary4	2,325	5,096	5,437	5,899	5,623	5,730	6,137	6,311	6,371	6,205	925,887	1,266,778	1,310,435	1,472,248	1,520,246	1,542,734	1,897,712	1,818,020	1,934,697	1,896,908
Regular	1,784	2,780	2,657	2,786	2,793	3,028	3,363	3,435	3,572	3,448	855,814	1,007,368	1,030,665	1,187,281	1,253,785	1,288,109	1,620,031	1,533,002	1,654,256	1,610,750
Special education	376	715	801	904	938	847	964	970	960	951	43,992	86,253	98,668	88,000	80,245	76,691	99,120	104,344	109,992	111,175
Vocational	19	20	26	46	82	50	82	68	64	62	6,326	3,279	4,404	2,099	1,852	1,121	6,430	1,160	1,908	2,590
Alternative1	146	1,581	1,953	2,163	1,810	1,805	1,728	1,838	1,775	1,744	19,755	169,878	176,698	194,868	184,364	176,813	172,131	179,514	168,541	172,393
Other (not classified by       grade span)	2,063	1,582	1,749	1,262	1,587	1,296	1,050	971	1,085	979	142,015	82,312	86,690	27,579	32,377	60,396	5,544	4,712	1,772	11,689
Regular	712	512	152	396	660	439	243	326	408	378	30,292	36,783	17,024	1,202	21,095	30,769	401	498	381	381
Special education	972	578	766	405	488	368	296	234	204	187	95,036	33,590	50,304	24,979	10,702	28,896	4,813	4,068	1,157	11,308
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	379	492	831	461	439	489	511	411	473	414	16,687	11,939	19,362	1,398	580	731	330	146	234	0
Charter status and level
All charter schools5	—	1,993	2,977	4,388	4,694	4,952	5,274	5,696	6,079	6,465	—	448,343	789,479	1,276,731	1,433,116	1,610,285	1,787,091	2,057,599	2,267,814	2,519,065
Elementary2	—	1,011	1,549	2,340	2,513	2,679	2,866	3,127	3,391	3,636	—	249,101	414,225	674,990	746,950	824,297	905,575	1,045,492	1,156,384	1,287,378
Secondary3	—	467	779	1,218	1,255	1,329	1,368	1,418	1,463	1,521	—	79,588	158,999	264,402	291,016	327,289	341,534	386,482	398,430	441,762
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	448	626	803	865	929	1,027	1,112	1,204	1,269	—	117,377	215,462	337,195	395,122	458,075	539,653	625,429	712,634	789,777
Other (not classified       by grade span)	—	67	23	27	61	15	13	39	21	39	—	2,277	793	144	28	624	329	196	366	148
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools5	—	1,469	2,108	2,793	3,021	2,213	2,722	2,949	3,151	3,254	—	1,213,976	1,619,779	2,132,395	2,307,712	1,515,562	2,055,133	2,248,177	2,479,188	2,554,828
Elementary2	—	1,111	1,566	2,015	2,193	1,530	1,849	2,012	2,150	2,164	—	704,763	946,815	1,157,470	1,267,944	799,546	1,035,288	1,158,405	1,287,589	1,298,904
Secondary3	—	328	478	688	728	582	746	802	862	939	—	484,684	633,080	926,314	976,483	668,832	944,434	1,015,267	1,119,369	1,177,869
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	29	59	83	92	79	103	116	121	133	—	24,529	39,011	48,593	63,285	46,467	75,411	74,505	72,192	78,055
Other (not classified       by grade span)	—	1	5	7	8	22	24	19	18	18	—	0	873	18	0	717	0	0	38	0

—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 2013-14. (This table was prepared September 2015.)