Charter School Related Data

Charter Schools—Their Numbers and Enrollment (June 2008) The number of charter schools in California has increased steadily since 1992, when California first authorized charter schools.

The Number of Charter Schools in California Has Grown Steadily (July 2007) This bar graph shows the steady and substantial growth in the number of charter schools in California since 1993.

Types of Charter Schools (May 2006) This page shows the 2005-06 percentage of charter schools that are conversions vs. start-ups and classroom-based vs. nonclassroom-based. It also shows grade level configurations for both charter and non-charter schools for the 2005-06 school year.

California Charter School Student Characteristics in 2004–05 (May 2006) Students in charter schools vary substantially from those in noncharter schools in terms of ethnicity.

EdSource Considers the Relationship Between Autonomy and Performance of Charter Schools (May 2006) Most charter school advocates see freedom from school district control and requirements as crucial to improving education for their students. Others, however, believe that the oversight and support a chartering agency (school district or county office of education) provides can help ensure that a charter school is well run. With these conflicting beliefs in mind, EdSource took a look at autonomy from the school district to see what role it played in charter performance.

California Charter School Distribution 2005-06 (May 2006) This bar chart shows the distribution of California charter schools by district type as of the 2005-06 school year.