Table 22a. Standard errors for the percent of public elementary schools that calculated the students' body mass index and measured students' height and weight indicating whether the information was sent to parents, by selected school characteristics: 2005

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Table 22a. Standard errors for the percent of public elementary schools that calculated the students' body mass index and measured students' height and weight indicating whether the information was sent to parents, by selected school characteristics: 2005
School characteristic	Body mass index information	Height information	Weight information
All public elementary schools	2.4	1.5	1.5
Enrollment size
Less than 300	5.4	3.1	3.2
300 to 499	5.2	3.2	3.2
500 or more	3.8	3.0	3.1
School locale
City	4.2	3.2	3.2
Urban fringe	4.6	3.0	3.1
Town	†	5.9	6.2
Rural	4.8	2.9	2.7
Region
Northeast	6.2	3.4	3.4
Southeast	5.0	4.3	4.3
Central	6.7	3.9	4.0
West	4.1	2.9	3.0
Percent minority enrollment
Less than 6 percent	5.5	3.4	3.4
6 to 20 percent	5.7	3.8	4.0
21 to 49 percent	5.4	3.6	3.8
50 percent or more	4.0	2.9	2.9
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
Less than 35 percent	4.8	2.6	2.8
35 to 49 percent	6.9	4.5	4.4
50 to 74 percent	4.8	3.1	3.1
75 percent or more	4.6	3.5	3.6
† Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), "Foods and Physical Activity in Public Elementary Schools: 2005," FRSS 87, 2005.