Table 214.10.

Number of public school districts and public and private elementary and secondary schools: Selected years, 1869-70 through 2019-20

School year	Regular public school dis- tricts1	Total, all public and private schools	Public schools					Private schools2
			Total, all public schools3	Total, schools with reported grade spans4	Schools with any grade in prekindergarten through grade 85		Schools with any grade in grades 7 through 126	Total, all private schools3		Schools with any grade in prekinder- garten through grade 87		Schools with any grade in grades 7 through 12
					Total	One-teacher8
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		10		11
1869-70	---	---	116,312	---	---	---	---	---		---		---
1879-80	---	---	178,122	---	---	---	---	---		---		---
1889-90	---	---	224,526	---	---	---	---	---		---		---
1899-1900	---	---	248,279	---	---	---	---	---		---		---
1909-10	---	---	265,474	---	---	212,448	---	---		---		---
1919-20	---	---	271,319	---	---	187,948	---	---		---		---
1929-30	---	---	248,117	---	238,306	148,712	23,930	---		9,275	9	3,258	9
1939-40	117,108	---	226,762	---	---	113,600	---	---		11,306	9	3,568	9
1949-50	83,718	---	---	---	128,225	59,652	24,542	---		10,375	9	3,331	9
1959-60	40,520	---	---	---	91,853	20,213	25,784	---		13,574	9	4,061	9
1961-62	35,676	125,634	107,260	---	81,910	13,333	25,350	18,374		14,762	9	4,129	9
1963-64	31,705	---	104,015	---	77,584	9,895	26,431	---		---		4,451	9
1965-66	26,983	117,662	99,813	---	73,216	6,491	26,597	17,849	9	15,340	9	4,606	9
1967-68	22,010	---	---	94,197	70,879	4,146	27,011	---		---		---
1970-71	17,995	---	---	89,372	65,800	1,815	25,352	---		14,372	9	3,770	9
1973-74	16,730	---	---	88,655	65,070	1,365	25,906	---		---		---
1975-76	16,376	---	88,597	87,034	63,242	1,166	25,330	---		---		---
1976-77	16,271	---	---	86,501	62,644	1,111	25,378	19,910	9	16,385	9	5,904	9
1978-79	16,014	---	---	84,816	61,982	1,056	24,504	19,489	9	16,097	9	5,766	9
1979-80	15,944	---	87,004	---	---	---	---	---		---		---
1980-81	15,912	106,746	85,982	83,688	61,069	921	24,362	20,764	9	16,792	9	5,678	9
1982-83	15,824	---	84,740	82,039	59,656	798	23,988	---		---		---
1983-84	15,747	111,872	84,178	81,418	59,082	838	23,947	27,694		20,872		7,862
1984-85	---	---	84,007	81,147	58,827	825	23,916	---		---		---
1985-86	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	25,616		20,252		7,387
1986-87	15,713	---	83,421	82,316	60,811	763	23,481	---		---		---
1987-88	15,577	110,055	83,248	81,416	59,754	729	23,841	26,807		22,959		8,418
1988-89	15,376	---	83,165	81,579	60,176	583	23,638	---		---		---
1989-90	15,367	110,137	83,425	81,880	60,699	630	23,461	26,712		24,221		10,197
1990-91	15,358	109,228	84,538	82,475	61,340	617	23,460	24,690		22,223		8,989
1991-92	15,173	110,576	84,578	82,506	61,739	569	23,248	25,998		23,523		9,282
1992-93	15,025	---	84,497	82,896	62,225	430	23,220	---		---		---
1993-94	14,881	111,486	85,393	83,431	62,726	442	23,379	26,093		23,543		10,555
1994-95	14,772	---	86,221	84,476	63,572	458	23,668	---		---		---
1995-96	14,766	121,519	87,125	84,958	63,961	474	23,793	34,394		32,401		10,942
1996-97	14,841	---	88,223	86,092	64,785	487	24,287	---		---		---
1997-98	14,805	123,403	89,508	87,541	65,859	476	24,802	33,895		31,408		10,779
1998-99	14,891	---	90,874	89,259	67,183	463	25,797	---		---		---
1999-2000	14,928	125,007	92,012	90,538	68,173	423	26,407	32,995		30,457		10,693
2000-01	14,859	---	93,273	91,691	69,697	411	27,090	---		---		---
2001-02	14,559	130,007	94,112	92,696	70,516	408	27,468	35,895		33,191		11,846
2002-03	14,465	---	95,615	93,869	71,270	366	28,151	---		---		---
2003-04	14,383	130,407	95,726	93,977	71,195	376	28,219	34,681		31,988		11,188
2004-05	14,205	---	96,513	95,001	71,556	338	29,017	---		---		---
2005-06	14,166	132,436	97,382	95,731	71,733	326	29,705	35,054		32,127		12,184
2006-07	13,856	---	98,793	96,362	72,442	313	29,904	---		---		---
2007-08	13,838	132,656	98,916	97,654	73,011	288	30,542	33,740		30,808		11,870
2008-09	13,809	---	98,706	97,119	72,771	237	29,971	---		---		---
2009-10	13,625	132,183	98,817	97,521	72,870	217	30,381	33,366		30,590		11,941
2010-11	13,588	---	98,817	97,767	73,223	224	30,681	---		---		---
2011-12	13,567	129,189	98,328	97,357	73,000	205	30,668	30,861		28,184		11,165
2012-13	13,515	---	98,454	97,331	73,037	196	30,623	---		---		---
2013-14	13,491	131,890	98,271	97,290	73,223	193	30,256	33,619		30,919		11,110
2014-15	13,601	---	98,176	97,601	73,420	165	30,528	---		---		---
2015-16	13,584	132,853	98,277	97,586	73,546	197	30,828	34,576		31,630		12,669
2016-17	13,598	---	98,158	97,434	73,620	203	30,597	---		---		---
2017-18	13,551	130,930	98,469	97,568	73,686	188	30,160	32,461		29,616		12,371
2018-19	13,452	---	98,755	98,064	74,192	185	30,458	---		---		---
2019-20	13,349	128,961	98,469	97,868	74,302	187	30,407	30,492		27,662		11,815

---Not available.

1 Regular districts exclude regional education service agencies and supervisory union administrative centers, state-operated agencies, federally operated agencies, and other types of local education agencies, such as independent charter schools.

2 Data for most years prior to 1976-77 are partly estimated. Prior to 1995-96, excludes schools whose highest grade offered was kindergarten.

3 Includes schools not classified by grade span, which are not shown separately.

4 Includes prekindergarten, elementary, middle, secondary, and high schools.

5 Excludes schools whose lowest grade offered was grade 7 or grade 8. However, includes schools whose only grade offered was grade 7 or grade 8.

6 Excludes schools whose only grade offered was grade 7 or grade 8.

7 Excludes schools whose lowest grade offered was grade 7 or grade 8.

8 Excludes alternative schools, academies, hospitals, virtual schools, prisons, and juvenile detention facilities.

9 These data cannot be compared directly with the data for years after 1980-81.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1870 through 1910; Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1919-20 through 1949-50; Statistics of State School Systems, 1951-52 through 1967-68; Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1970-71 through 1980-81; Statistics of Public and Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Day Schools, 1968-69; Statistics of Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools, 1970-71; Private Schools in American Education; Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Private School Questionnaire," 1987-88 and 1990-91; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989-90 through 2019-20; and Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey" and "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 1982-83 through 2019-20. (This table was prepared April 2022.)