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 2015-16

School level, type, and charter and magnet status	Number of schools										Fall enrollment
	1990-91	2000-01	2005-06	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	1990-91	2000-01	2005-06	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
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	98,817	98,817	98,328	98,454	98,271	98,176	98,277	41,141,366	47,060,714	48,912,085	49,081,519	49,177,617	49,256,120	49,519,559	49,777,410	50,009,771	50,115,178
School type
Regular	80,395	85,422	87,585	89,018	88,929	88,663	89,031	89,183	89,386	89,501	40,599,943	46,194,730	47,957,375	48,186,142	48,259,245	48,273,539	48,583,049	48,863,752	49,178,890	49,313,134
Special education	1,932	2,008	2,128	2,089	2,206	2,087	2,034	2,010	1,954	2,005	209,145	174,577	222,497	192,989	190,910	195,161	198,626	214,611	186,269	180,155
Vocational	1,060	1,025	1,221	1,417	1,485	1,434	1,403	1,380	1,387	1,396	198,117	199,669	217,621	129,840	164,013	159,905	160,207	148,447	147,550	146,321
Alternative1	1,151	4,818	6,448	6,293	6,197	6,144	5,986	5,698	5,449	5,375	134,161	491,738	514,592	572,548	563,449	627,515	577,677	550,600	497,062	475,568
School level and type
Elementary2	59,015	64,601	66,026	67,140	67,086	66,689	66,708	67,034	67,073	66,758	26,503,677	30,673,453	31,104,018	31,547,988	31,581,751	31,724,573	31,918,613	32,226,881	32,225,908	32,035,708
Regular	58,440	63,674	64,996	65,947	65,874	65,461	65,572	65,948	66,036	65,734	26,400,740	30,582,610	31,003,942	31,413,221	31,441,027	31,545,886	31,772,432	32,083,759	32,116,995	31,930,363
Special education	419	496	508	520	587	544	541	543	578	568	58,204	42,127	49,652	56,959	58,987	58,844	59,826	62,596	54,161	50,508
Vocational	31	8	8	24	16	17	15	7	6	5	17,686	2,409	1,713	1,892	3,495	4,558	3,734	1,791	1,749	1,729
Alternative1	125	423	514	649	609	667	580	536	453	451	27,047	46,307	48,711	75,916	78,242	115,285	82,621	78,735	53,003	53,108
Secondary3	21,135	21,994	23,998	24,651	24,544	24,357	24,294	24,067	24,181	24,040	13,569,787	15,038,171	16,219,309	15,930,401	15,692,610	15,708,815	15,670,275	15,640,128	15,731,561	15,748,184
Regular	19,459	18,456	19,252	19,604	19,449	19,441	19,479	19,411	19,441	19,325	13,313,097	14,567,969	15,685,032	15,454,043	15,197,786	15,194,153	15,161,226	15,167,671	15,270,834	15,296,173
Special education	165	219	368	354	359	339	333	331	339	313	11,913	12,607	42,696	30,443	27,990	27,905	28,235	28,312	24,729	21,929
Vocational	1,010	997	1,185	1,343	1,387	1,349	1,324	1,311	1,318	1,329	174,105	193,981	209,762	126,827	154,088	154,187	154,610	144,066	144,042	142,611
Alternative1	501	2,322	3,193	3,350	3,349	3,228	3,158	3,014	3,083	3,073	70,672	263,614	281,819	319,088	312,746	332,570	326,204	300,079	291,956	287,471
Combined elementary/       secondary4	2,325	5,096	5,707	5,730	6,137	6,311	6,329	6,189	6,347	6,788	925,887	1,266,778	1,526,186	1,542,734	1,897,712	1,818,020	1,926,786	1,898,252	2,049,039	2,329,346
Regular	1,784	2,780	3,121	3,028	3,363	3,435	3,558	3,446	3,713	4,236	855,814	1,007,368	1,263,952	1,288,109	1,620,031	1,533,002	1,649,010	1,611,918	1,790,208	2,085,918
Special education	376	715	735	847	964	970	935	940	935	923	43,992	86,253	91,966	76,691	99,120	104,344	107,295	111,958	106,500	107,658
Vocational	19	20	28	50	82	68	64	62	63	62	6,326	3,279	6,146	1,121	6,430	1,160	1,863	2,590	1,759	1,981
Alternative1	146	1,581	1,823	1,805	1,728	1,838	1,772	1,741	1,636	1,567	19,755	169,878	164,122	176,813	172,131	179,514	168,618	171,786	150,572	133,789
Other (not classified by       grade span)	2,063	1,582	1,651	1,296	1,050	971	1,123	981	575	691	142,015	82,312	62,572	60,396	5,544	4,712	3,885	12,149	3,263	1,940
Regular	712	512	216	439	243	326	422	378	196	206	30,292	36,783	4,449	30,769	401	498	381	404	853	680
Special education	972	578	517	368	296	234	225	196	102	201	95,036	33,590	38,183	28,896	4,813	4,068	3,270	11,745	879	60
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	489	511	411	476	407	277	284	16,687	11,939	19,940	731	330	146	234	0	1,531	1,200
Charter status and level
All charter schools5	—	1,993	3,780	4,952	5,274	5,696	6,079	6,465	6,747	6,855	—	448,343	1,012,906	1,610,285	1,787,091	2,057,599	2,269,435	2,522,022	2,721,786	2,845,322
Elementary2	—	1,011	1,969	2,679	2,866	3,127	3,388	3,634	3,851	3,854	—	249,101	532,217	824,297	905,575	1,045,492	1,156,075	1,288,568	1,405,015	1,448,523
Secondary3	—	467	1,057	1,329	1,368	1,418	1,465	1,522	1,563	1,576	—	79,588	219,627	327,289	341,534	386,482	399,921	443,423	467,231	482,296
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	448	704	929	1,027	1,112	1,204	1,268	1,330	1,406	—	117,377	259,837	458,075	539,653	625,429	713,073	789,883	848,875	914,110
Other (not classified       by grade span)	—	67	50	15	13	39	22	41	3	19	—	2,277	1,225	624	329	196	366	148	665	393
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools5	—	1,469	2,736	2,213	2,722	2,949	3,151	3,254	3,285	3,237	—	1,213,976	2,103,013	1,515,562	2,055,133	2,248,177	2,478,531	2,556,644	2,609,104	2,604,145
Elementary2	—	1,111	1,994	1,530	1,849	2,012	2,150	2,164	2,216	2,135	—	704,763	1,186,160	799,546	1,035,288	1,158,405	1,287,771	1,300,317	1,312,571	1,281,873
Secondary3	—	328	643	582	746	802	862	939	911	884	—	484,684	869,010	668,832	944,434	1,015,267	1,118,574	1,178,272	1,207,248	1,188,316
Combined elementary/       secondary4	—	29	80	79	103	116	121	133	142	203	—	24,529	47,509	46,467	75,411	74,505	72,148	78,055	89,277	133,956
Other (not classified       by grade span)	—	1	19	22	24	19	18	18	16	15	—	0	334	717	0	0	38	0	8	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 2015-16. (This table was prepared August 2017.)