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Table 86. Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2000-01 and 1999-2000

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             Characteristic             |  Total  |Central |Central |  Urban   | Urban  | Large  | Small  | Rural  | Rural  |Unknown
                                        |         |  city  |  city  |  fringe  | fringe |town\5\ |town\6\ |outside | within |
                                        |         |of large|   of   |    of    |   of   |        |        |   an   |   an   |
                                        |         | MSA\1\ |midsize |  large   |midsize |        |        | MSA\7\ | MSA\8\ |
                                        |         |        | MSA\2\ |  MSA\3\  | MSA\4\ |        |        |        |        |
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                   1                    |    2    |   3    |   4    |    5     |   6    |   7    |   8    |   9    |   10   |   11
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                                        |                                       Schools, enrollment and teachers, 2000-2001
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Enrollment, (in thousands)..............|   46,693|   7,311|   5,996|    15,074|   4,920|     603|   4,650|   4,301|   3,836|       3
Schools.................................|   91,335|  10,673|  10,764|    23,301|   8,887|   1,285|  11,601|  16,191|   8,227|     406
Average school size\9\..................|      514|     685|     557|       648|     554|     469|     401|     266|     467|     745
Pupil/teacher ratio\10\.................|     16.3|    17.2|    16.2|      17.1|    16.5|    15.9|    15.5|    14.3|      16|       1
                                        |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
Enrollment (percent distribution).......|    100.0|    15.7|    12.8|      32.3|    10.5|     1.3|    10.0|     9.2|     8.2|     0.0
Schools (percent distribution)..........|    100.0|    11.7|    11.8|      25.5|     9.7|     1.4|    12.7|    17.7|     9.0|     0.4
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                                        |                   Revenues and expenditures, 1999-2000
                                        |____________________________________________________________________________________________
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)..| $378,087| $61,317| $48,874|  $125,322| $36,300|  $4,289| $34,044| $33,021| $30,461|  $4,460
 Federal ...............................|   26,364|   6,129|   3,979|     5,969|   2,195|     345|   2,690|   2,868|   1,300|     888
  Impact aid ...........................|      975|     125|      81|       192|      66|       4|      98|     360|      29|      20
  Bilingual education ..................|       60|      11|      10|        15|       5|       1|       5|       9|       2|       1
  Indian education .....................|       51|       4|       5|         5|       2|       2|      11|      21|       2|       0
  Children with disabilities ...........|    3,560|     560|     491|     1,072|     338|      44|     298|     251|     224|     281
  Eisenhower science awards ............|      153|      29|      24|        39|      14|       2|      14|      12|       7|      11
  Drug Free schools ....................|      225|      44|      36|        58|      20|       4|      22|      16|      12|      12
  Chapter 2 (block grants) .............|      500|      81|      70|       133|      50|       9|      63|      58|      32|       5
  Vocational education .................|      519|     105|      82|       102|      46|       8|      56|      46|      26|      46
  Title I ..............................|    5,623|   1,514|     926|       970|     518|      88|     674|     659|     261|      13
  Other and unclassified ...............|   14,701|   3,659|   2,253|     3,383|   1,136|     184|   1,449|   1,435|     705|     498
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 State..................................|  185,796|  29,826|  26,243|    54,260|  18,433|   2,367|  19,122|  18,861|  15,318|   1,365
  State school lunch programs ..........|      374|      58|      49|       118|      38|       4|      41|      37|      30|       1
                                        |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
 Local..................................|  165,927|  25,362|  18,651|    65,093|  15,671|   1,576|  12,231|  11,292|  13,843|   2,207
  Property tax\11\ .....................|  101,830|  13,443|  10,967|    43,310|   9,335|   1,016|   7,945|   6,840|   8,218|     756
  Parent government contribution\11\....|   27,412|   7,401|   3,290|     9,356|   2,749|     137|     937|   1,288|   2,200|      52
  Lunch sales ..........................|    5,425|     467|     624|     1,934|     636|      69|     567|     536|     583|       7
 Transportation.........................|       58|       1|       6|        33|       4|       1|       5|       3|       4|       1
  Other ................................|   31,203|   4,048|   3,763|    10,459|   2,946|     353|   2,778|   2,625|   2,839|   1,391
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Total revenue (percent                  |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
   distribution) .......................|    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|     100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0
  Federal...............................|      7.0|    10.0|     8.1|       4.8|     6.0|     8.0|     7.9|     8.7|     4.3|    19.9
  State.................................|     49.1|    48.6|    53.7|      43.3|    50.8|    55.2|    56.2|    57.1|    50.3|    30.6
  Local.................................|     43.9|    41.4|    38.2|      51.9|    43.2|    36.8|    35.9|    34.2|    45.4|    49.5
                                        |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
Total expenditures                      |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
   (in millions of dollars).............|  521,956|  84,930|  65,495|   175,309|  49,634|   5,734|  46,419|  44,824|  43,080|   6,531
  Current expenditures for schools .....|  384,728|  63,393|  48,844|   128,000|  36,566|   4,317|  34,572|  33,298|  31,321|   4,416
    Instruction ........................|  319,420|  52,670|  41,628|   105,378|  30,283|   3,733|  29,096|  27,981|  25,249|   3,401
    Operation and maintenance ..........|  192,896|  32,523|  25,121|    63,286|  18,525|   2,265|  17,750|  16,797|  15,264|   1,365
    Food service .......................|   29,886|   5,241|   3,903|     9,980|   2,796|     358|   2,649|   2,531|   2,290|     138
    Other ..............................|   12,666|   2,155|   1,681|     3,533|   1,324|     166|   1,390|   1,399|   1,005|      13
  Other current expenditures ...........|   83,972|  12,752|  10,923|    28,579|   7,638|     944|   7,307|   7,254|   6,690|   1,885
  Interest on school debt ..............|    8,725|   1,473|     911|     3,188|     869|      74|     683|     568|     941|      18
  Capital outlay .......................|   44,531|   7,313|   4,817|    15,542|   4,561|     399|   3,856|   3,704|   4,127|     212
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Current expenditures                    |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
 (percent distribution) ................|    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|     100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0
  Instruction ..........................|     60.4|    61.7|    60.3|      60.1|    61.2|    60.7|    61.0|    60.0|    60.5|    40.1
  Operation and maintenance ............|      9.4|     9.9|     9.4|       9.5|     9.2|     9.6|     9.1|     9.0|     9.1|     4.1
  Food service .........................|      4.0|     4.1|     4.0|       3.4|     4.4|     4.5|     4.8|     5.0|     4.0|     0.4
  Other ................................|     26.3|    24.2|    26.2|      27.1|    25.2|    25.3|    25.1|    25.9|    26.5|    55.4
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Current expenditure per student         |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
   (in dollars)\12\.....................|    6,880|   7,219|   6,930|     7,114|   6,209|   6,135|   6,212|   6,447|   6,670|(\13\)
Instruction expenditure per student     |         |        |        |          |        |        |        |        |        |
   (in dollars)\12\.....................|    4,155|   4,458|   4,182|     4,272|   3,798|   3,721|   3,789|   3,870|   4,032|(\13\)
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\1\Central city of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with population of 400,000 or more or a population density of 6,000 or more persons per square mile.
\2\Central city of an MSA but not designated as a large central city.
\3\Place within the MSA of a large central city.
\4\Place within the MSA of a midsize central city.
\5\Place not within an MSA but with population of 25,000 or more and defined as urban.
\6\Place not within an MSA with a population of at least 2,500, but less than 25,000.
\7\Place with a population of less than 2,500 outside an MSA.
\8\Place with a population of less than 2,500 within an MSA.
\9\Average for schools reporting enrollment.
\10\Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data.
\11\Property tax and parent government contributions are determined on the basis of independence or dependence of the local school system and are mutually exclusive.
\12\Expenditure and instruction per student was based on enrollment reported through U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Survey of Local Government Finances, unpublished data.
\13\Not applicable because most enrollment reported in other locale categories.

NOTE: The enrollment of schools within a school district was used to determine the locale classification of a district. The predominant locale of enrollment within a district was used for the entire district. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Survey of Local Government Finances, unpublished data. (This table was prepared September 2002.)


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