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Table 1. | Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States, by type: School year 2015–16 |
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School type | Agency type | ||||||||||||
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Status of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies | All schools | Regular | Special education |
Vocational education |
Alternative education |
All agencies | Regular school districts |
Supervisory unions1 |
Regional education service agencies2 |
Independent charter agencies3 |
State agencies |
Federal and other agencies |
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All | 100,553 | 91,104 | 2,059 | 1,442 | 5,948 | 18,639 | 13,647 | 218 | 1,170 | 3,192 | 270 | 142 | |
Operating schools/agencies4 | 98,456 | 89,644 | 2,011 | 1,419 | 5,382 | 18,328 | 13,584 | 218 | 1,159 | 2,964 | 263 | 140 | |
Continuing | 97,016 | 88,555 | 1,918 | 1,395 | 5,148 | 18,031 | 13,552 | 218 | 1,154 | 2,710 | 257 | 140 | |
Added5 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Reopened | 28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Changed agency / boundary6 | 144 | 143 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
New7 | 1,253 | 920 | 89 | 23 | 221 | 274 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 242 | 4 | 0 | |
Nonoperating schools/agencies | 2,097 | 1,460 | 48 | 23 | 566 | 311 | 63 | 0 | 11 | 228 | 7 | 2 | |
Inactive8 | 527 | 192 | 8 | 6 | 321 | 40 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 1 | |
Closed | 1,160 | 887 | 35 | 14 | 224 | 195 | 40 | 0 | 5 | 145 | 4 | 1 | |
Future9 | 410 | 381 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 76 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 63 | 1 | 0 | |
Student membership10status of operating schools/agencies | |||||||||||||
With membership | 95,227 | 88,835 | 1,618 | 357 | 4,417 | 16,676 | 13,376 | 2 | 230 | 2,919 | 128 | 21 | |
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)11,12 | 1,382 | 68 | 103 | 826 | 385 | † | † | † | † | † | † | † | |
Without membership (not shared time)12 | 1,847 | 741 | 290 | 236 | 580 | 1,652 | 208 | 216 | 929 | 45 | 135 | 119 | |
† Not applicable. | |||||||||||||
1 Supervisory unions provide administrative services to school districts through a common superintendent. | |||||||||||||
2 Regional education service agencies provide services to a variety of local education agencies (LEAs). | |||||||||||||
3 Independent charter agencies contain only charter schools. Other charter schools may be reported through a different LEA type that contains both charter and noncharter schools. | |||||||||||||
4 Operating schools/agencies include all those providing services as of the start of the reported school year. Total number of operating schools excludes schools also reported by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The number of operating schools shared with the BIE includes one in Arizona, one in Michigan, and eight in North Dakota. | |||||||||||||
5 Added schools/agencies are reported for the first time although they have been operating for more than 1 year. | |||||||||||||
6 Schools that changed agency are affiliated with a different LEA than that reported in the previous year. | |||||||||||||
7 New schools/agencies opened for the first time within the school year reported. | |||||||||||||
8 Inactive schools/agencies are closed temporarily and expected to reopen within 3 years. | |||||||||||||
9 Future schools/agencies are expected to open within 2 years. | |||||||||||||
10 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. | |||||||||||||
11 Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported by another school. Schools not reporting a shared time status are counted as "not shared time" schools. | |||||||||||||
12 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. For analytical purposes, New York City Public Schools, New York, is treated as a single regular school district. | |||||||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/ Secondary School Universe Survey", 2015-16, Provisional Version 1a and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey" 2015–16, Version 1a. |
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