611110 Elementary and Secondary Schools

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and associated course work that comprise a basic preparatory education. A basic preparatory education ordinarily constitutes kindergarten through 12th grade. This industry includes school boards and school districts.

Examples Census gives

• Elementary schools
• Parochial schools, elementary or secondary
• High schools
• Primary schools
• Charter schools
• Kindergartens
• Military academies, elementary or secondary
• Schools for the physically disabled, elementary or secondary

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in providing care and early learning opportunities for infants and children and also offering pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and/or before- or after-school educational programs are classified in Industry 624410, Child Care Services.
• College-level military academies are classified in Industry 611310, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Child care or daycare

Activities listed under 611110

The Census index assigns these 29 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Academies, elementary or secondary
• Boarding schools, elementary or secondary
• Charter schools
• Elementary and secondary schools
• Elementary schools
• Finishing schools, secondary
• High schools
• High schools offering both academic and technical courses
• High schools offering both academic and vocational courses
• Junior high schools
• Kindergartens
• Kindergartens, combined with preschools
• Middle schools
• Military academies, elementary or secondary
• Montessori schools, elementary or secondary
• Parochial schools, elementary or secondary
• Preparatory schools, elementary or secondary
• Primary schools
• Private schools, elementary or secondary
• Public schools, elementary or secondary
• School boards, elementary and secondary
• School districts, elementary or secondary
• Schools for the intellectually and developmentally disabled (except preschool, job training, vocational rehabilitation)
• Schools for the physically disabled, elementary or secondary
• Schools, elementary
• Schools, online, elementary- or secondary-level (through a website or mobile application)
• Schools, secondary
• Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses
• Seminaries, below university grade

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 611110

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 611110, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $20 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8510, 8521, 8522), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 85100Pre-primary educationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.