Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by school type and charter status: School year 2006

Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07

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Table 1. Operational and student membership status of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States, by school type and charter status: School year 2006–07

Operational and student membership status¹	All schools	School type				Charter schools of any type
Operational and student membership status¹	All schools	Regular	Special education	Voca- tional	Alter- native	Charter schools of any type
Operational status
Operating schools²	98,793	88,959	1,956	1,240	6,638	4,527
Continuing	95,676	86,608	1,805	1,093	6,170	3,603
Added³	883	416	85	138	244	56
Reopened	36	26	1	0	9	2
Changed agency⁴	271	232	2	2	35	61
New⁵	1,927	1,677	63	7	180	410

Non-operating	2,723	2,026	169	16	512	395
Inactive⁶	215	185	3	1	26	5
Closed	1,877	1,348	160	14	355	267
Future⁷	631	493	6	1	131	123

Student membership status of operating schools
With membership	94,164	87,619	1,457	334	4,754	3,970
Without membership, providing instruction (shared time)⁸,⁹	667	14	35	537	81	3
Without membership (not shared time)⁹	3,962	1,326	464	369	1,803	159
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 one 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 three years.
⁷ Future schools are expected to open within two years.
⁸ Shared time schools provide instruction on a regular basis to students whose membership is reported for some other school.
⁹ Includes schools with missing membership data.
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," 2006–07, Version 1a.

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