Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by school type: School year 2009

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10

NCES 2011-345rev
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Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by school type: School year 2009–10

		School type

			Special education	Vocational education	Alternative education
Operational and student membership status¹	All schools	Regular	Special education	Vocational education	Alternative education
Operating schools²	98,817	89,018	2,089	1,417	6,293
Continuing	96,318	87,181	1,985	1,341	5,811
Added³	53	17	12	4	20
Reopened	349	57	37	20	235
Changed agency⁴	271	252	3	3	13
New⁵	1,826	1,511	52	49	214

Non-operating	2,809	1,873	243	20	673
Inactive⁶	591	209	6	9	367
Closed	1,822	1,321	235	11	255
Future⁷	396	343	2	0	51

Student membership status of operating schools
With membership	95,178	88,182	1,658	363	4,975
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)⁸,⁹	1,646	83	167	974	422
Without membership (not shared time)⁹	1,993	753	264	80	896
¹ Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.
² Operating schools include all those providing services during the reported school year.
³ Added schools are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than 1 year.
⁴ Schools that changed agency are affiliated with a different local education agency than that reported in the previous year.
⁵ New schools opened for the first time within the school year reported.
⁶ Inactive schools are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within 3 years.
⁷ Future schools are expected to open within 2 years.
⁸ Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported for some other school.
⁹ Includes schools for which membership is 0, missing, or not applicable.
NOTE: Table includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Charter status is independent of school type; charter schools are included in the school type totals.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2009–10, Version Provisional 2a.

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