Public elementary and secondary schools, by type of school: 1967-68 to 1994-95

Table 93.

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         |Total, |                                               Regular schools                                              |
         |  all  |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
         |public |        |        Elementary schools           |            Secondary schools                     |Combined  |     Other
  Year   |schools|Total\1\|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------| elemen-  |   schools\7\
         |       |        |        | Middle  | One-  |  Other   |        |Junior | 3-year or | 5-year or |  Other  |  tary/   |
         |       |        |Total\2\|schools\3|teacher|elementary|Total\4\|high\5\|4-year high|6-year high|secondary|secondary |
         |       |        |        |         |schools| schools  |        |       |  schools  |  schools  | schools |schools\6\|
---------|-------|--------|--------|---------|-------|----------|--------|-------|-----------|-----------|---------|----------|-------------
    1    |   2   |   3    |   4    |    5    |   6   |    7     |   8    |   9   |    10     |    11     |   12    |    13    |       14
---------|-------|--------|--------|---------|-------|----------|--------|-------|-----------|-----------|---------|----------|-------------
1967-68 .|   --- | 94,197 | 67,186 |     --- | 4,146 |   63,040 | 23,318 | 7,437 |    10,751 |     4,650 |     480 |    3,693 |         ---
1970-71 .|   --- | 89,372 | 64,020 |   2,080 | 1,815 |   60,125 | 23,572 | 7,750 |    11,265 |     3,887 |     670 |    1,780 |         ---
1972-73 .|   --- | 88,864 | 62,942 |   2,308 | 1,475 |   59,159 | 23,919 | 7,878 |    11,550 |     3,962 |     529 |    2,003 |         ---
1974-75 .|   --- | 87,456 | 61,759 |   3,224 | 1,247 |   57,288 | 23,837 | 7,690 |    11,480 |     4,122 |     545 |    1,860 |         ---
1975-76  |88,597 | 87,034 | 61,704 |   3,916 | 1,166 |   56,622 | 23,792 | 7,521 |    11,572 |     4,113 |     586 |    1,538 |       1,563
         |       |        |        |         |       |          |        |       |           |           |         |          |
1976-77 .|   --- | 86,501 | 61,123 |   4,180 | 1,111 |   55,832 | 23,857 | 7,434 |    11,658 |     4,130 |     635 |    1,521 |         ---
1978-79 .|   --- | 84,816 | 60,312 |   5,879 | 1,056 |   53,377 | 22,834 | 6,282 |    11,410 |     4,429 |     713 |    1,670 |         ---
1980-81 .|85,982 | 83,688 | 59,326 |   6,003 |   921 |   52,402 | 22,619 | 5,890 |    10,758 |     4,193 |   1,778 |    1,743 |       2,294
1982-83 .|84,740 | 82,039 | 58,051 |   6,875 |   798 |   50,378 | 22,383 | 5,948 |    11,678 |     4,067 |     690 |    1,605 |       2,701
1983-84 .|84,178 | 81,418 | 57,471 |   6,885 |   838 |   49,748 | 22,336 | 5,936 |    11,670 |     4,046 |     684 |    1,611 |       2,760
         |       |        |        |         |       |          |        |       |           |           |         |          |
1984-85 .|84,007 | 81,147 | 57,231 |   6,893 |   825 |   49,513 | 22,320 | 5,916 |    11,671 |     4,021 |     712 |    1,596 |       2,860
1986-87 .|83,455 | 82,190 | 58,801 |   7,452 |   763 |   50,586 | 21,406 | 5,142 |    11,453 |     4,197 |     614 |    1,983 |\8\    1,265
1987-88 .|83,248 | 82,248 | 59,311 |   7,641 |   729 |   50,941 | 20,758 | 4,900 |    11,279 |     4,048 |     531 |    2,179 |\8\    1,000
1988-89 .|83,165 | 82,081 | 59,296 |   7,957 |   583 |   50,756 | 20,550 | 4,687 |    11,350 |     3,994 |     519 |    2,235 |\8\    1,084
1989-90 .|83,425 | 82,396 | 59,757 |   8,272 |   630 |   50,855 | 20,359 | 4,512 |    11,492 |     3,812 |     543 |    2,280 |\8\    1,029
         |       |        |        |         |       |          |        |       |           |           |         |          |
1990-91 .|84,538 | 81,746 | 59,015 |   8,545 |   617 |   49,853 | 20,406 | 4,561 |    11,537 |     3,723 |     585 |    2,325 |       2,792
1991-92 .|84,578 | 81,859 | 59,258 |   8,829 |   569 |   49,860 | 20,120 | 4,298 |    11,528 |     3,699 |     595 |    2,481 |       2,719
1992-93 .|84,501 | 82,224 | 59,680 |   9,154 |   430 |   50,096 | 19,995 | 4,115 |    11,651 |     3,613 |     616 |    2,549 |       2,277
1993-94 .|85,393 | 82,785 | 60,052 |   9,573 |   442 |   50,037 | 20,059 | 3,970 |    11,858 |     3,595 |     636 |    2,674 |       2,608
1994-95 .|86,221 | 83,854 | 60,808 |   9,954 |   458 |   50,396 | 20,282 | 3,859 |    12,058 |     3,628 |     737 |    2,764 |       2,367
---------|-------|--------|--------|---------|-------|----------|--------|-------|-----------|-----------|---------|----------|-------------

\1\Excludes special education, alternative, and other schools not classified by grade span.

\2\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or below and with no grade higher than 8.

\3\Includes schools with grade spans beginning with 4, 5, or 6 and ending with grade 6, 7, or 8.

\4\Includes schools with no grade lower than 7.

\5\Includes schools with grades 7 and 8 or grades 7 through 9.

\6\Includes schools beginning with grade 6 or lower and ending with grade 9 or above.

\7\Includes special education, alternative, and other schools not classified by grade span.

\8\Because of revision in data collection procedures, figures not comparable to data for other years.

---Data not available.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems; and Common Core of Data surveys. (This table was prepared October 1996.)

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