Table 216.10.

Number of public elementary and secondary schools, by school level, type, and charter, magnet, and virtual status: 2009-10 through 2019-20

School level, type, and charter, magnet, or virtual status	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Total, all schools	98,817	98,817	98,328	98,454	98,271	98,176	98,277	98,158	98,469	98,755	98,469
School type
Regular	89,018	88,929	88,663	89,031	89,183	89,386	89,501	89,527	89,914	90,019	89,831
Special education	2,089	2,206	2,087	2,034	2,010	1,954	2,005	1,991	1,903	2,061	1,932
Vocational	1,417	1,485	1,434	1,403	1,380	1,387	1,396	1,391	1,467	1,507	1,491
Alternative1	6,293	6,197	6,144	5,986	5,698	5,449	5,375	5,249	5,185	5,168	5,215
School level and type
Prekindergarten	988	1,195	1,087	1,118	1,197	1,234	1,276	1,287	1,418	1,545	1,453
Regular	706	881	818	847	909	957	1,011	1,019	1,110	1,206	1,149
Special education	217	266	232	232	255	248	241	241	288	316	278
Vocational	12	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Alternative1	53	46	36	38	32	28	24	26	20	23	26
Elementary	52,551	52,571	52,427	52,332	52,300	52,379	52,243	52,084	52,353	52,394	52,322
Regular	51,924	51,954	51,716	51,702	51,719	51,835	51,696	51,578	51,888	51,927	51,877
Special education	257	279	281	274	261	287	293	271	238	244	227
Vocational	10	9	10	8	4	2	2	2	2	0	0
Alternative1	360	329	420	348	316	255	252	233	225	223	218
Middle	16,603	16,661	16,777	16,557	16,553	16,500	16,412	16,241	16,341	16,322	16,264
Regular	16,220	16,217	16,225	16,215	16,234	16,178	16,102	15,939	16,074	16,021	16,025
Special education	58	54	68	47	41	55	54	49	34	51	39
Vocational	5	8	14	9	6	6	6	6	5	4	4
Alternative1	320	382	470	286	272	261	250	247	228	246	196
Secondary and high	23,499	23,728	23,195	23,348	23,311	23,441	23,472	23,379	23,318	23,567	23,529
Regular	17,581	17,710	17,602	17,841	17,959	18,103	18,173	18,303	18,212	18,225	18,137
Special education	448	460	355	432	437	430	408	411	385	415	390
Vocational	1,332	1,382	1,330	1,054	1,032	1,040	1,065	948	1,062	1,216	1,210
Alternative1	4,138	4,176	3,908	4,021	3,883	3,868	3,826	3,717	3,659	3,711	3,792
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	5,176	4,662	4,842	5,099	4,910	4,622	4,874	5,167	5,039	4,927	4,901
Regular	2,587	2,167	2,302	2,426	2,362	2,313	2,519	2,688	2,630	2,640	2,643
Special education	1,109	1,147	1,151	1,049	1,016	934	1,009	1,019	958	1,035	998
Vocational	58	84	79	331	337	338	323	434	398	287	277
Alternative1	1,422	1,264	1,310	1,293	1,195	1,037	1,023	1,026	1,053	965	983
Charter status and level
All charter schools2	4,952	5,274	5,696	6,079	6,465	6,747	6,855	7,011	7,193	7,427	7,547
Prekindergarten	24	26	26	25	22	19	24	25	25	24	34
Elementary	2,157	2,322	2,547	2,760	2,970	3,146	3,155	3,215	3,350	3,453	3,544
Middle	575	626	695	696	741	779	768	780	772	783	792
Secondary and high	1,528	1,614	1,636	1,766	1,826	1,897	1,943	1,985	2,036	2,060	2,088
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	668	686	792	832	906	906	965	1,006	1,010	1,107	1,089
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools2	2,213	2,722	2,949	3,151	3,254	3,285	3,237	3,164	3,421	3,484	3,497
Prekindergarten	4	4	5	5	5	8	7	3	12	12	9
Elementary	1,205	1,411	1,515	1,597	1,610	1,637	1,590	1,530	1,689	1,715	1,735
Middle	366	502	575	626	618	646	630	610	666	686	688
Secondary and high	586	740	796	863	954	928	922	911	979	993	984
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	52	65	58	60	67	66	88	110	75	78	81
Virtual status and level
All virtual schools2,3	---	---	---	---	477	576	592	562	656	675	691
Prekindergarten	---	---	---	---	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Elementary	---	---	---	---	59	69	63	61	65	64	61
Middle	---	---	---	---	7	12	14	11	18	18	20
Secondary and high	---	---	---	---	199	240	250	235	273	292	292
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	---	---	---	---	212	255	265	255	300	301	318

---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 Magnet, charter, and virtual schools are also included under regular, special education, vocational, or alternative schools as appropriate.

3 Virtual schools are defined as having instruction during which students and teachers are separated by time and/or location and interact via internet-connected computers or other electronic devices.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2009-10 through 2019-20. (This table was prepared November 2021.)