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Table 235.40. Public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures, by type of locale: 2010-11
Selected characteristic Total City, large1 City, mid-size2 City, small3 Subur- ban, large4 Subur- ban, mid-size5 Subur- ban, small6 Town, fringe7 Town, dis- tant8 Town,
re- mote9
Rural, fringe 10 Rural, distant 11 Rural, remote 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Revenues, 2010-11                          
Total revenue (in millions of dollars) $618,593 $110,099 $41,108 $46,720 $205,993 $18,494 $10,945 $10,099 $34,990 $21,917 $65,304 $37,936 $14,900
Federal 74,944 18,093 6,015 5,927 18,961 1,995 1,143 951 4,449 3,258 7,322 4,552 2,249
Title I 17,114 5,900 1,467 1,351 3,508 348 210 175 945 701 1,161 871 476
Child Nutrition Act 12,479 2,662 1,019 1,015 3,208 337 199 176 829 537 1,303 858 336
Children with disabilities (IDEA) 13,976 2,472 1,040 1,269 4,562 435 253 191 809 516 1,476 705 240
Impact aid 1,152 106 88 53 187 21 9 26 41 94 162 100 264
Bilingual education 372 110 36 37 112 9 6 7 13 8 23 6 4
Indian education 104 12 4 5 7 1 1 1 9 14 13 10 27
Math, science, and professional
   development
1,827 417 175 160 389 50 30 25 123 105 166 119 68
Safe and drug-free schools 178 40 14 17 37 2 4 2 17 10 17 12 8
Vocational and technical education 608 127 49 50 159 15 11 5 37 35 72 32 14
Other and unclassified 27,134 6,246 2,123 1,971 6,792 778 419 344 1,626 1,238 2,928 1,839 811
                           
State (in millions of dollars) 267,762 47,204 18,731 21,559 78,789 8,291 5,038 4,713 17,057 10,525 29,366 19,468 6,993
Special education programs 16,877 3,492 1,163 1,333 6,001 532 281 278 833 522 1,382 775 283
Compensatory and basic skills 4,650 927 382 451 1,593 173 87 67 202 123 316 225 102
Bilingual education 732 62 28 40 475 39 3 2 21 8 42 8 3
Gifted and talented 484 18 30 13 324 21 1 1 13 6 38 13 5
Vocational education 856 39 46 57 248 30 12 7 70 66 162 83 36
Other 244,163 42,666 17,083 19,665 70,147 7,496 4,654 4,357 15,919 9,799 27,425 18,364 6,565
                           
Local (in millions of dollars)13 275,887 44,803 16,362 19,234 108,242 8,208 4,763 4,435 13,484 8,134 28,616 13,916 5,658
Property tax14 170,188 21,471 9,704 11,847 71,857 4,604 3,204 2,987 8,993 5,677 17,064 8,893 3,883
Parent government contribution14 46,985 14,179 2,832 2,521 17,434 1,904 531 415 762 247 4,518 1,334 309
Private (fees from individuals) 13,527 1,156 716 900 5,180 429 251 271 854 511 1,889 999 368
Other13 45,187 7,996 3,111 3,966 13,772 1,272 776 763 2,876 1,700 5,146 2,690 1,099
                           
Total revenue (percentage distribution) 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Federal 12.1 16.4 14.6 12.7 9.2 10.8 10.4 9.4 12.7 14.9 11.2 12.0 15.1
State 43.3 42.9 45.6 46.1 38.2 44.8 46.0 46.7 48.7 48.0 45.0 51.3 46.9
Local 44.6 40.7 39.8 41.2 52.5 44.4 43.5 43.9 38.5 37.1 43.8 36.7 38.0
                           
Expenditures, 2010-11                          
Total expenditures (in millions of
     dollars)
$616,991 $112,924 $40,993 $46,498 $203,479 $18,559 $10,920 $10,019 $34,693 $21,881 $64,558 $37,577 $14,771
Current expenditures for schools 519,324 91,564 34,447 39,316 173,702 15,588 9,190 8,423 29,632 18,549 54,200 32,126 12,510
Instruction 316,518 56,947 20,613 23,871 106,541 9,515 5,560 5,147 17,923 11,215 32,599 19,188 7,369
Support services, students 29,009 4,476 2,065 2,391 10,485 890 532 467 1,555 1,035 3,084 1,500 520
Support services, instructional
   staff
24,619 4,613 1,937 2,087 7,998 739 420 336 1,361 815 2,486 1,322 486
Administration 38,626 6,010 2,543 2,790 12,669 1,153 693 656 2,354 1,543 4,206 2,798 1,202
Operation and maintenance 49,656 8,973 3,220 3,638 16,684 1,492 874 787 2,776 1,788 5,091 3,052 1,277
Transportation 22,834 3,602 1,317 1,418 7,755 643 412 413 1,328 725 2,690 1,851 676
Food service 19,989 3,354 1,395 1,529 5,794 581 355 326 1,335 859 2,339 1,521 600
Other 18,072 3,587 1,357 1,593 5,775 573 343 290 999 570 1,705 895 380
                           
Other current expenditures 21,243 3,446 1,438 1,615 6,285 664 379 338 1,392 891 2,526 1,594 649
Interest on school debt 17,894 3,422 1,157 1,211 6,157 530 339 325 861 487 2,293 891 219
Capital outlay 52,984 11,617 3,666 3,799 15,068 1,605 1,016 912 2,933 2,155 5,593 3,231 1,386
                           
Current expenditures (percentage
     distribution)
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Instruction 60.9 62.2 59.8 60.7 61.3 61.0 60.5 61.1 60.5 60.5 60.1 59.7 58.9
Support services 10.3 9.9 11.6 11.4 10.6 10.5 10.4 9.5 9.8 10.0 10.3 8.8 8.0
Administration 7.4 6.6 7.4 7.1 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.8 7.9 8.3 7.8 8.7 9.6
Operation and maintenance 9.6 9.8 9.3 9.3 9.6 9.6 9.5 9.3 9.4 9.6 9.4 9.5 10.2
Transportation 4.4 3.9 3.8 3.6 4.5 4.1 4.5 4.9 4.5 3.9 5.0 5.8 5.4
Food service and other 7.3 7.6 8.0 7.9 6.7 7.4 7.6 7.3 7.9 7.7 7.5 7.5 7.8
                           
Current expenditure per student
   (in dollars)
$10,532 $11,592 $10,051 $10,499 $10,851 $10,196 $9,881 $10,030 $9,851 $9,641 $9,571 $9,945 $11,311
Instruction expenditure per student
   (in dollars)
6,419 7,210 6,015 6,374 6,656 6,224 5,978 6,129 5,958 5,829 5,757 5,940 6,663
1 Located inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with a population of at least 250,000.
2 Located inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with a population of at least 100,000, but less than 250,000.
3 Located inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with a population less than 100,000.
4 Located inside an urbanized area and outside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
5 Located inside an urbanized area and outside a principal city with a population of at least 100,000, but less than 250,000.
6 Located inside an urbanized area and outside a principal city with a population less than 100,000.
7 Located inside an urban cluster that is 10 miles or less from an urbanized area.
8 Located inside an urban cluster that is more than 10 but less than or equal to 35 miles from an urbanized area.
9 Located inside an urban cluster that is more than 35 miles from an urbanized area.
10 Located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster, but 5 miles or less from an urbanized area or 2.5 miles or less from an urban cluster.
11 Located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster and more than 5 miles but less than or equal to 25 miles from an urbanized area, or more than 2.5 miles but less than or equal to 10 miles from an urban cluster.
12 Located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster, more than 25 miles from an urbanized area, and more than 10 miles from an urban cluster.
13 Includes tuition and fee revenues from other in-state school systems, which are excluded from state data reported through the "National Public Education Financial Survey."
14 Property tax and parent government contributions are determined on the basis of independence or dependence of the local school system and are mutually exclusive.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency (School District) Finance Survey (F-33)," 2010-11. (This table was prepared May 2014.)

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