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 2014-15

School level, type, and charter status	1995-96	2000-01	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
	Number of schools that closed
Total, all schools	954	1,193	1,368	2,168	1,913	1,553	1,877	2,120	1,515	1,822	1,929	1,840	1,493	1,737	1,573
School type
Regular	686	908	985	1,248	1,190	1,171	1,348	1,450	1,059	1,321	1,486	1,340	1,075	1,179	1,118
Special education	110	84	91	114	271	88	160	195	99	235	72	87	83	90	66
Vocational	17	17	27	33	18	28	14	30	15	11	7	11	66	20	23
Alternative1	141	184	265	773	434	266	355	445	342	255	364	402	269	448	366
School level and type
Elementary2	497	601	721	947	901	770	846	844	769	936	1,073	1,020	776	864	789
Regular	449	563	660	870	847	725	771	804	713	893	1,010	959	726	778	729
Special education	28	20	26	23	25	13	53	20	22	13	18	18	18	33	25
Vocational	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Alternative1	20	16	35	54	29	31	21	20	33	30	45	43	32	52	35
Secondary3	199	302	245	347	302	342	308	394	368	346	436	451	421	502	453
Regular	114	173	127	144	177	192	171	233	186	212	237	238	204	231	249
Special education	12	19	9	10	4	11	24	19	21	12	15	15	24	15	9
Vocational	17	14	27	33	18	27	13	29	13	11	7	10	64	19	20
Alternative1	56	96	82	160	103	112	100	113	148	111	177	188	129	237	175
Combined elementary/secondary4	42	146	124	158	321	184	193	172	164	91	157	207	170	183	220
Regular	10	83	57	54	68	82	65	65	50	42	74	82	64	67	88
Special education	13	22	22	30	28	38	45	48	34	16	24	34	34	33	25
Vocational	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	3
Alternative1	19	40	45	74	225	64	83	58	79	33	59	90	70	83	104
Other (not classified by        grade span)	216	144	278	716	389	257	530	710	214	449	263	162	126	188	111
Regular	113	89	141	180	98	172	341	348	110	174	165	61	81	103	52
Special education	57	23	34	51	214	26	38	108	22	194	15	20	7	9	7
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	46	32	103	485	77	59	151	254	82	81	83	81	38	76	52
All charter schools5	—	72	85	74	171	206	267	133	161	189	216	202	183	284	308
	Prior year enrollment of schools that have closed
Total, enrollment	173,766	209,228	195,033	262,183	297,487	229,259	242,388	268,212	243,166	306,806	321,246	300,764	240,704	274,397	211,681
School type
Regular	151,574	198,699	185,536	242,383	282,432	216,360	227,260	253,409	227,714	292,915	304,001	281,961	227,444	252,172	198,338
Special education	4,475	1,665	1,789	4,144	2,799	3,068	4,745	4,060	1,916	2,173	1,709	3,765	1,168	4,331	1,881
Vocational	1,613	632	223	719	2,975	73	429	183	1,665	767	22	26	289	1,578	1,858
Alternative1	16,104	8,232	7,485	14,937	9,281	9,758	9,954	10,560	11,871	10,951	15,514	15,012	11,803	16,316	9,604
School level and type
Elementary2	112,328	134,934	146,709	194,752	213,607	161,649	172,403	179,554	171,722	221,681	242,193	225,205	174,885	195,776	139,599
Regular	108,440	134,060	144,013	192,117	211,822	158,744	169,895	176,862	169,815	219,469	239,913	222,186	173,272	190,138	137,237
Special education	2,991	338	1,020	1,040	1,153	1,158	1,892	2,131	651	727	404	1,539	272	2,042	919
Vocational	0	2	0	0	0	0	9	0	569	0	0	0	0	308	0
Alternative1	897	534	1,676	1,595	632	1,747	607	561	687	1,485	1,876	1,480	1,341	3,288	1,443
Secondary3	48,074	47,950	33,243	52,437	60,029	54,489	55,834	66,163	55,261	68,548	56,935	54,558	51,820	59,920	55,088
Regular	39,307	42,666	30,271	42,750	51,547	49,335	48,797	60,085	45,800	60,734	48,430	46,345	43,775	49,374	47,759
Special education	398	121	357	172	108	83	1,126	440	501	508	520	404	500	633	286
Vocational	1,613	592	223	719	2,975	73	420	183	1,096	767	22	19	202	1,270	1,698
Alternative1	6,756	4,571	2,392	8,796	5,399	4,998	5,491	5,455	7,864	6,539	7,963	7,790	7,343	8,643	5,345
Combined elementary/secondary4	12,418	25,031	12,957	13,150	22,022	12,993	12,157	19,349	16,093	12,151	21,360	20,931	13,963	18,614	16,994
Regular	3,743	21,973	9,451	7,484	18,415	8,281	7,682	16,295	12,081	8,342	14,941	13,430	10,361	12,660	13,342
Special education	326	701	365	1,328	840	1,791	1,293	1,008	692	882	744	1,752	396	1,569	676
Vocational	0	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	87	0	160
Alternative1	8,349	2,319	3,141	4,338	2,767	2,921	3,182	2,046	3,320	2,927	5,675	5,742	3,119	4,385	2,816
Other (not classified by        grade span)	946	1,313	2,124	1,844	1,829	128	1,994	3,146	90	4,426	758	70	36	87	0
Regular	84	0	1,801	32	648	0	886	167	18	4,370	717	0	36	0	0
Special education	760	505	47	1,604	698	36	434	481	72	56	41	70	0	87	0
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	102	808	276	208	483	92	674	2,498	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All charter schools5	—	5,925	11,894	6,797	21,505	14,118	15,340	12,226	20,537	17,954	24,165	29,095	24,437	38,327	33,589

—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: This table indicates the school year by which the school no longer operated (generally it closed between that school year and the prior school year). 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 2014-15. (This table was prepared June 2017.)