Table 216.95.

Number and enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools that have closed, by school level, type, and charter status: School years 2010-11 through 2021-22

School level, type, and charter status	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Number of schools that closed
Total, all schools	1,741	1,692	1,394	1,644	1,336	1,070	1,068	1,310	1,122	1,130	865	755
School type
Regular	1,352	1,274	986	1,124	974	823	709	889	876	827	684	571
Special education	72	81	82	87	61	30	66	217	42	129	49	71
Vocational	6	12	68	18	23	14	9	13	24	22	11	7
Alternative1	311	325	258	415	278	203	284	191	180	152	121	106
School level and type
Prekindergarten	53	50	33	47	27	22	31	74	59	76	45	35
Regular	45	43	28	39	23	19	24	58	55	63	41	30
Special education	6	6	5	5	3	3	7	14	4	13	4	4
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	2	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
Elementary	759	725	587	601	482	450	390	492	410	457	362	324
Regular	727	698	561	554	449	422	352	400	394	438	349	315
Special education	12	9	12	18	16	6	12	79	7	13	9	4
Vocational	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	20	18	13	28	17	22	26	13	9	6	4	5
Middle	261	277	185	240	248	192	184	217	194	175	149	133
Regular	232	236	158	212	229	174	155	179	177	155	142	124
Special education	1	3	1	9	3	3	5	24	3	7	1	0
Vocational	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Alternative1	28	38	25	19	15	15	24	14	11	13	6	9
Secondary and high	428	458	443	497	437	317	343	387	315	244	248	171
Regular	204	223	180	211	213	167	130	199	162	117	132	84
Special education	26	20	28	20	14	11	11	53	12	20	17	15
Vocational	5	11	64	6	21	11	7	9	17	10	10	7
Alternative1	193	204	171	260	189	128	195	126	124	97	89	65
Other, ungraded, and not applicable/not      reported	240	182	146	259	142	89	120	140	144	178	61	92
Regular	144	74	59	108	60	41	48	53	88	54	20	18
Special education	27	43	36	35	25	7	31	47	16	76	18	48
Vocational	1	1	2	11	1	3	2	4	4	12	1	0
Alternative1	68	64	49	105	56	38	39	36	36	36	22	26
All charter schools2	157	185	153	232	206	236	181	247	215	235	179	89
	Prior year enrollment of schools that have closed
Total, enrollment	321,246	300,764	240,704	269,615	211,472	194,653	185,714	266,777	231,206	214,278	165,474	167,575
School type
Regular	303,604	282,993	224,884	249,350	197,868	183,032	174,077	251,765	223,165	208,464	159,620	164,644
Special education	1,933	3,909	1,168	4,170	2,654	917	1,566	3,953	1,178	1,654	1,619	349
Vocational	46	28	1,164	1,578	1,858	650	249	477	911	80	0	193
Alternative1	15,663	13,834	13,488	14,517	9,092	10,054	9,822	10,582	5,952	4,080	4,235	2,389
School level and type
Prekindergarten	4,392	4,268	2,556	3,556	2,487	788	3,383	5,821	2,229	4,393	2,419	2,780
Regular	4,101	4,220	2,544	3,499	2,396	788	3,252	4,444	2,225	4,029	1,793	2,599
Special education	270	28	12	56	91	0	131	626	4	364	626	34
Vocational	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	21	20	0	1	0	0	0	751	0	0	0	147
Elementary	174,635	162,855	131,677	145,541	93,489	100,511	86,681	109,151	101,641	114,150	84,991	84,787
Regular	173,264	161,463	130,684	142,333	91,873	97,795	85,244	107,264	100,694	113,963	84,746	84,746
Special education	325	977	155	1,157	772	258	410	1,066	336	145	89	38
Vocational	0	0	472	308	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	1,046	415	366	1,743	844	2,458	1,027	821	611	42	156	3
Middle	70,925	69,325	50,596	53,584	53,017	46,938	43,618	50,897	49,230	40,727	39,538	43,868
Regular	69,980	67,892	49,031	52,607	52,022	45,887	42,721	49,717	49,150	40,195	39,347	43,804
Special education	25	527	105	780	354	177	56	194	36	89	2	0
Vocational	0	0	403	0	160	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	920	906	1,057	197	481	874	841	986	44	443	189	64
Secondary and high	55,696	52,684	48,161	58,567	52,631	37,531	39,639	68,011	48,060	31,139	34,784	27,879
Regular	45,124	42,186	38,702	46,144	43,939	31,999	32,438	60,320	41,543	27,802	30,783	26,339
Special education	697	617	548	878	356	205	203	1,041	613	156	381	154
Vocational	22	21	202	1,270	1,698	650	249	477	911	80	0	193
Alternative1	9,853	9,860	8,709	10,275	6,638	4,677	6,749	6,173	4,993	3,101	3,620	1,193
Other, ungraded, and not applicable/not      reported	15,598	11,632	7,714	8,367	9,848	8,885	12,393	32,897	30,046	23,869	3,742	8,261
Regular	11,135	7,232	3,923	4,767	7,638	6,563	10,422	30,020	29,553	22,475	2,951	7,156
Special education	616	1,760	348	1,299	1,081	277	766	1,026	189	900	521	123
Vocational	24	7	87	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alternative1	3,823	2,633	3,356	2,301	1,129	2,045	1,205	1,851	304	494	270	982
All charter schools2	26,208	31,074	27,921	36,997	34,067	41,697	36,856	93,549	64,859	59,009	31,997	16,197

1Includes 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.

2Charter schools are also included under the school level and type categories, as appropriate.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This table indicates the school year by which the school no longer operated (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," 2010-11 through 2021-22. (This table was prepared November 2022.)