Author: Natalie Camarena Lopez

How do we identify and count charter schools? The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools manages a database that serves as a repository for charter school data. The National Alliance collects data from a variety of sources including: In addition to reviewing the quality of the data and verifying the charter status, our team processes…

Charter schools can be self managed or managed by an external organization. In 2022-23, most charter schools were self-managed. MANAGEMENT ORG TYPE BY STATE Note: Data comes from 2022-23 and depicts the management organization types present in the state at that time. This map does not depict all the management types permitted under state law, only…

Charter schools have historically served proportionately more students of color and more students from low-income communities than district schools. For the past 10 years (2013-14 to 2022-23 school years), charter schools have consistently had a higher portion of students of color compared to district schools. According to data from the 2022-23 school year, 71.7% of charter…

Highlights from the 2022-23 School Year Public charter schools have grown significantly over the past two decades, serving 3.8 million public school students in the United States as of the 2022-23 school year. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is uniquely positioned to be a source of comprehensive data as the importance of charter…