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Table 88.Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil-teacherratios, and finances, by type of locale: 1995

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                                        |         | Large  |Mid-size|  Urban  |  Urban  | Large | Small  |Rural\7\ 
             Characteristic             |  Total  |central |central |fringe of|fringe of|town\5\|town\6\ |
                                        |         |city\1\ |city\2\ |  large  |mid-size |       |        |
                                        |         |        |        | city\3\ | city\4\ |       |        |
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                   1                    |    2    |   3    |   4    |    5    |    6    |   7   |   8    |   9
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                                        |             Schools, enrollment, and teachers, 1995-96
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Enrollment, in thousands................|  44,709 |  8,069 |  7,546 |  13,076 |   4,255 |   792 |  5,237 |  5,734
Schools.................................|  87,125 | 11,754 | 12,983 |  21,073 |   7,753 | 1,582 | 12,483 | 19,497
Average school size\8\..................|     513 |    686 |    581 |     621 |     549 |   500 |    420 |    294
Pupil-teacher ratio\9\..................|    17.7 |   19.0 |   17.7 |    18.5 |    17.7 |  17.3 |   16.7 |   15.8
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Enrollment (percent distribution).......|   100.0 |   18.0 |   16.9 |    29.2 |     9.5 |   1.8 |   11.7 |   12.8
Schools (percent distribution)..........|   100.0 |   13.5 |   14.9 |    24.2 |     8.9 |   1.8 |   14.3 |   22.4
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                                        |          Revenues and expenditures, 1993-94 (in millions)
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Total revenue...........................|$232,578 |$47,538 |$39,767 | $69,514 | $20,733 |$3,545 |$23,642 |$27,839
  Federal...............................|  21,963 |  6,024 |  4,045 |   4,784 |   1,626 |   354 |  2,555 |  2,575
    Impact aid .........................|     691 |     71 |    113 |     141 |      47 |    17 |    132 |    170
    Bilingual education ................|     415 |    186 |     58 |     102 |      37 |     3 |     18 |     12
    Indian education ...................|      30 |      3 |      2 |       2 |       1 |     1 |     11 |     10
    Children with disabilites ..........|   1,654 |    326 |    343 |     430 |     151 |    32 |    203 |    169
    Eisenhower science awards ..........|     145 |     42 |     28 |      31 |      11 |     3 |     16 |     14
    Drug Free schools ..................|     366 |    109 |     70 |      75 |      27 |     6 |     42 |     38
    Chapter 2 (block grants) ...........|     356 |    102 |     67 |      73 |      26 |     8 |     41 |     39
    Vocational education ...............|     547 |    180 |    109 |      88 |      40 |    10 |     71 |     49
    Chapter 1 ..........................|   5,984 |  1,980 |  1,144 |     875 |     410 |   100 |    747 |    728
    Other and unclassified .............|  11,774 |  3,025 |  2,110 |   2,968 |     876 |   174 |  1,274 |  1,346
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
  State.................................| 105,758 | 21,959 | 19,370 |  26,242 |   9,622 | 1,936 | 12,442 | 14,186
   State school lunch programs .........|     290 |     75 |     51 |      68 |      24 |     4 |     33 |     35
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
  Local.................................| 104,858 | 19,555 | 16,352 |  38,488 |   9,485 | 1,255 |  8,645 | 11,079
    Property tax\10\ ...................|  75,441 | 12,043 | 11,693 |  28,993 |   6,458 |   966 |  6,834 |  8,453
    Parent government contribution\10\..|  20,564 |  5,839 |  3,220 |   6,985 |   2,045 |   158 |    833 |  1,483
    Lunch sales ........................|   3,798 |    467 |    615 |   1,251 |     409 |    66 |    452 |    539
    Transportation .....................|      45 |      4 |      9 |      19 |       4 |     1 |      4 |      4
    Other and unclassified .............|   5,010 |  1,202 |    815 |   1,239 |     569 |    63 |    522 |    600
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Total revenue (percent distribution)....|   100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 | 100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
  Federal...............................|     9.4 |   12.7 |   10.2 |     6.9 |     7.8 |  10.0 |   10.8 |    9.2
  State.................................|    45.5 |   46.2 |   48.7 |    37.8 |    46.4 |  54.6 |   52.6 |   51.0
  Local.................................|    45.1 |   41.1 |   41.1 |    55.4 |    45.7 |  35.4 |   36.6 |   39.8
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Total expenditures......................| 240,654 | 49,523 | 41,383 |  72,799 |  21,156 | 3,667 | 24,118 | 28,008
  Current expenditures..................| 219,723 | 45,460 | 37,742 |  66,198 |  19,200 | 3,384 | 22,106 | 25,633
    Instruction ........................| 132,384 | 27,161 | 22,606 |  39,604 |  11,861 | 2,070 | 13,503 | 15,579
    Operation and maintenance ..........|  22,396 |  4,886 |  3,857 |   6,923 |   1,860 |   344 |  2,108 |  2,418
    Food service .......................|   9,042 |  1,929 |  1,587 |   2,146 |     834 |   154 |  1,149 |  1,244
    Other ..............................|  55,901 | 11,485 |  9,692 |  17,525 |   4,645 |   816 |  5,346 |  6,391
  Capital outlay........................|  16,423 |  3,230 |  2,894 |   5,115 |   1,514 |   218 |  1,621 |  1,831
  Interest on debt......................|   4,508 |    833 |    748 |   1,486 |     442 |    64 |    391 |    544
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  Current expenditures (percent         |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
   distribution)........................|   100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 | 100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
    Instruction ........................|    60.3 |   59.7 |   59.9 |    59.8 |    61.8 |  61.2 |   61.1 |   60.8
    Operation and maintenance ..........|    10.2 |   10.7 |   10.2 |    10.5 |     9.7 |  10.2 |    9.5 |    9.4
    Food service .......................|     4.1 |    4.2 |    4.2 |     3.2 |     4.3 |   4.6 |    5.2 |    4.9
    Other ..............................|    25.4 |   25.3 |   25.7 |    26.5 |    24.2 |  24.1 |   24.2 |   24.9
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Current expenditure per student ........|   5,386 |  5,818 |  5,272 |   5,815 |   4,944 | 4,526 |  4,642 |  5,081
Instruction expenditure per student.....|   3,245 |  3,476 |  3,158 |   3,479 |   3,055 | 2,768 |  2,835 |  3,088
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\1\Central city of metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with population of 400,000 or more or a population density

\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 mid-size 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.

\8\Average for schools reporting enrollment.

\9\Ratio for schools reporting both FTE teachers and fall enrollment data.

\10\Property tax and parent government contributions are determined on the basis of independence or dependence of

NOTE.--Locale classification procedures not comparable with previous years. Enrollments by locale were used to distribute school district revenue and expenditure amounts by locale classification.

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 October 1997.)



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