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 2015-16

School level, type, and charter status	1995-96	2000-01	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	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
	Number of schools that closed
Total, all schools	954	1,193	2,168	1,913	1,553	1,877	2,120	1,515	1,822	1,929	1,840	1,493	1,737	1,573	1,160
School type
Regular	686	908	1,248	1,190	1,171	1,348	1,450	1,059	1,321	1,486	1,340	1,075	1,179	1,118	893
Special education	110	84	114	271	88	160	195	99	235	72	87	83	90	66	32
Vocational	17	17	33	18	28	14	30	15	11	7	11	66	20	23	14
Alternative1	141	184	773	434	266	355	445	342	255	364	402	269	448	366	221
School level and type
Elementary2	497	601	947	901	770	846	844	769	936	1,073	1,020	776	864	789	645
Regular	449	563	870	847	725	771	804	713	893	1,010	959	726	778	729	597
Special education	28	20	23	25	13	53	20	22	13	18	18	18	33	25	13
Vocational	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Alternative1	20	16	54	29	31	21	20	33	30	45	43	32	52	35	35
Secondary3	199	302	347	302	342	308	394	368	346	436	451	421	502	453	294
Regular	114	173	144	177	192	171	233	186	212	237	238	204	231	249	175
Special education	12	19	10	4	11	24	19	21	12	15	15	24	15	9	11
Vocational	17	14	33	18	27	13	29	13	11	7	10	64	19	20	14
Alternative1	56	96	160	103	112	100	113	148	111	177	188	129	237	175	94
Combined elementary/secondary4	42	146	158	321	184	193	172	164	91	157	207	170	183	220	150
Regular	10	83	54	68	82	65	65	50	42	74	82	64	67	88	68
Special education	13	22	30	28	38	45	48	34	16	24	34	34	33	25	7
Vocational	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	3	0
Alternative1	19	40	74	225	64	83	58	79	33	59	90	70	83	104	75
Other (not classified by grade span)	216	144	716	389	257	530	710	214	449	263	162	126	188	111	71
Regular	113	89	180	98	172	341	348	110	174	165	61	81	103	52	53
Special education	57	23	51	214	26	38	108	22	194	15	20	7	9	7	1
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	46	32	485	77	59	151	254	82	81	83	81	38	76	52	17
All charter schools5	—	72	74	171	206	267	133	161	189	216	202	183	284	308	280
	Prior year enrollment of schools that have closed
Total, enrollment	173,766	209,228	262,183	297,487	229,259	242,388	268,212	243,166	306,806	321,246	300,764	240,704	274,397	211,681	194,653
School type
Regular	151,574	198,699	242,383	282,432	216,360	227,260	253,409	227,714	292,915	304,001	281,961	227,444	252,172	198,338	183,032
Special education	4,475	1,665	4,144	2,799	3,068	4,745	4,060	1,916	2,173	1,709	3,765	1,168	4,331	1,881	917
Vocational	1,613	632	719	2,975	73	429	183	1,665	767	22	26	289	1,578	1,858	650
Alternative1	16,104	8,232	14,937	9,281	9,758	9,954	10,560	11,871	10,951	15,514	15,012	11,803	16,316	9,604	10,054
School level and type
Elementary2	112,328	134,934	194,752	213,607	161,649	172,403	179,554	171,722	221,681	242,193	225,205	174,885	195,776	139,599	138,734
Regular	108,440	134,060	192,117	211,822	158,744	169,895	176,862	169,815	219,469	239,913	222,186	173,272	190,138	137,237	135,061
Special education	2,991	338	1,040	1,153	1,158	1,892	2,131	651	727	404	1,539	272	2,042	919	368
Vocational	0	2	0	0	0	9	0	569	0	0	0	0	308	0	0
Alternative1	897	534	1,595	632	1,747	607	561	687	1,485	1,876	1,480	1,341	3,288	1,443	3,305
Secondary3	48,074	47,950	52,437	60,029	54,489	55,834	66,163	55,261	68,548	56,935	54,558	51,820	59,920	55,088	42,270
Regular	39,307	42,666	42,750	51,547	49,335	48,797	60,085	45,800	60,734	48,430	46,345	43,775	49,374	47,759	37,816
Special education	398	121	172	108	83	1,126	440	501	508	520	404	500	633	286	205
Vocational	1,613	592	719	2,975	73	420	183	1,096	767	22	19	202	1,270	1,698	650
Alternative1	6,756	4,571	8,796	5,399	4,998	5,491	5,455	7,864	6,539	7,963	7,790	7,343	8,643	5,345	3,599
Combined elementary/secondary4	12,418	25,031	13,150	22,022	12,993	12,157	19,349	16,093	12,151	21,360	20,931	13,963	18,614	16,994	13,649
Regular	3,743	21,973	7,484	18,415	8,281	7,682	16,295	12,081	8,342	14,941	13,430	10,361	12,660	13,342	10,155
Special education	326	701	1,328	840	1,791	1,293	1,008	692	882	744	1,752	396	1,569	676	344
Vocational	0	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	87	0	160	0
Alternative1	8,349	2,319	4,338	2,767	2,921	3,182	2,046	3,320	2,927	5,675	5,742	3,119	4,385	2,816	3,150
Other (not classified by grade span)	946	1,313	1,844	1,829	128	1,994	3,146	90	4,426	758	70	36	87	0	0
Regular	84	0	32	648	0	886	167	18	4,370	717	0	36	0	0	0
Special education	760	505	1,604	698	36	434	481	72	56	41	70	0	87	0	0
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	102	808	208	483	92	674	2,498	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All charter schools5	—	5,925	6,797	21,505	14,118	15,340	12,226	20,537	17,954	24,165	29,095	24,437	38,327	33,589	41,482

—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 2015-16. (This table was prepared June 2018.)