During the same period, the number of junior high schools declined by 57 percent (from 7,800 in 1970–71 to 3,300 in 2000–01). Between 2004–05 and 2014–15, the number of all elementary schools rose by 2 percent to 67,100, while the subset of middle schools rose by 6 percent to 13,300. read more
Unlike college, high school is an experience nearly all of us share. Yet I struggle to get even a simple count of them. When I started my annual ratings of public high schools in 1998, the national total was about 27,000, I was told. read more
Across the United States there are 26,407 public secondary schools and 10,693 private secondary schools. read more