Table 216.20.

Enrollment 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	49,081,519	49,177,617	49,256,120	49,519,559	49,777,410	50,009,771	50,115,178	50,264,883	50,330,241	50,330,883	50,437,821
School type
Regular	48,186,142	48,259,245	48,273,539	48,583,049	48,863,752	49,178,890	49,313,134	49,459,192	49,531,526	49,534,589	49,629,390
Special education	192,989	190,910	195,161	198,626	214,611	186,269	180,155	184,261	185,073	180,523	173,348
Vocational	129,840	164,013	159,905	160,207	148,447	147,550	146,321	146,601	147,516	158,088	152,961
Alternative1	572,548	563,449	627,515	577,677	550,600	497,062	475,568	474,829	466,126	457,683	482,122
School level and type
Prekindergarten	135,304	159,013	162,063	167,303	178,408	176,494	186,614	190,523	196,914	211,861	217,022
Regular	116,035	136,480	140,455	144,748	151,393	154,408	164,564	166,721	172,789	184,778	188,319
Special education	16,959	19,719	18,662	19,353	24,359	19,685	20,129	21,716	22,969	26,084	27,339
Vocational	29	25	16	6	12	167	0	177	0	0	0
Alternative1	2,281	2,789	2,930	3,196	2,644	2,234	1,921	1,909	1,156	999	1,364
Elementary	23,593,467	23,725,686	23,830,842	23,971,083	24,131,417	24,223,110	24,154,981	24,051,448	24,077,645	23,898,171	23,808,079
Regular	23,496,556	23,624,599	23,697,886	23,868,105	24,030,001	24,150,353	24,084,883	23,991,773	24,010,516	23,838,158	23,755,547
Special education	33,962	34,400	36,205	36,077	35,031	30,911	29,200	19,347	26,974	21,347	17,463
Vocational	1,576	1,975	2,641	2,161	1,581	1,274	1,365	1,514	1,542	0	0
Alternative1	61,373	64,712	94,110	64,740	64,804	40,572	39,533	38,814	38,613	38,666	35,069
Middle	9,379,476	9,391,287	9,485,716	9,479,530	9,497,598	9,439,744	9,392,450	9,366,871	9,531,009	9,603,188	9,693,590
Regular	9,355,774	9,367,918	9,447,340	9,454,002	9,476,546	9,421,613	9,372,239	9,348,445	9,513,963	9,588,984	9,683,345
Special education	6,792	5,142	6,074	5,213	4,584	3,878	3,255	2,612	2,715	2,731	689
Vocational	287	1,495	2,361	1,567	358	308	364	429	289	148	156
Alternative1	16,623	16,732	29,941	18,748	16,110	13,945	16,592	15,385	14,042	11,325	9,400
Secondary and high	14,834,424	14,842,780	14,703,795	14,773,659	14,805,127	14,939,874	15,050,043	15,210,764	15,179,513	15,174,601	15,227,541
Regular	14,295,426	14,274,857	14,130,104	14,192,428	14,258,335	14,412,714	14,533,149	14,697,396	14,675,284	14,670,574	14,703,625
Special education	36,223	34,942	31,573	35,410	36,283	30,397	28,772	28,604	27,273	24,554	24,499
Vocational	127,566	155,719	154,160	156,275	146,310	145,617	144,532	144,331	145,566	157,822	152,691
Alternative1	375,209	377,262	387,958	389,546	364,199	351,146	343,590	340,433	331,390	321,651	346,726
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	1,138,848	1,058,851	1,073,704	1,127,984	1,164,860	1,230,549	1,331,090	1,445,277	1,345,160	1,443,062	1,491,589
Regular	922,351	855,391	857,754	923,766	947,477	1,039,802	1,158,299	1,254,857	1,158,974	1,252,095	1,298,554
Special education	99,053	96,707	102,647	102,573	114,354	101,398	98,799	111,982	105,142	105,807	103,358
Vocational	382	4,799	727	198	186	184	60	150	119	118	114
Alternative1	117,062	101,954	112,576	101,447	102,843	89,165	73,932	78,288	80,925	85,042	89,563
Charter status and level
All charter schools2	1,610,285	1,787,091	2,057,599	2,269,435	2,522,022	2,721,786	2,845,322	3,008,297	3,143,269	3,290,149	3,431,230
Prekindergarten	5,348	5,884	6,265	6,794	5,638	5,315	5,857	5,653	5,449	5,219	5,365
Elementary	696,827	771,063	887,941	980,889	1,095,419	1,196,503	1,235,990	1,289,641	1,376,412	1,443,839	1,512,281
Middle	137,338	156,606	194,508	194,003	219,359	232,530	235,177	243,333	246,751	249,027	256,721
Secondary and high	386,772	430,332	468,302	519,786	571,853	620,217	657,256	690,159	723,070	747,380	771,361
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	384,000	423,206	500,583	567,963	629,753	667,221	711,042	779,511	791,587	844,684	885,502
Magnet status and level
All magnet schools2	1,515,562	2,055,133	2,248,177	2,478,531	2,556,644	2,609,104	2,604,145	2,536,520	2,665,820	2,672,473	2,694,281
Prekindergarten	1,035	1,488	716	1,055	1,100	1,520	1,203	785	757	591	1,184
Elementary	570,676	707,591	777,624	834,683	851,600	853,557	838,514	810,267	881,389	882,526	886,750
Middle	260,190	374,297	436,570	506,174	497,684	509,944	505,172	495,047	528,151	552,592	560,470
Secondary and high	669,794	943,492	1,010,561	1,115,819	1,182,842	1,218,907	1,220,936	1,186,564	1,227,219	1,207,307	1,215,852
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	13,867	28,265	22,706	20,800	23,418	25,176	38,320	43,857	28,304	29,457	30,025
Virtual status and level
All virtual schools2,3	---	---	---	---	200,343	229,608	234,148	212,311	278,783	289,614	293,689
Prekindergarten	---	---	---	---	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Elementary	---	---	---	---	12,864	16,503	15,972	9,429	13,293	11,208	12,757
Middle	---	---	---	---	1,414	3,780	3,384	5,634	8,143	5,442	7,854
Secondary and high	---	---	---	---	31,392	43,556	47,373	45,829	62,363	65,749	64,444
Other, ungraded, and not     applicable/not reported	---	---	---	---	154,673	165,769	167,419	151,419	194,984	207,215	208,634

---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 October 2021.)