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Table 235.40. Public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures, by locale, source of revenue, and purpose of expenditure: 2012-13
Source of revenue and purpose of expenditure 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, fringe10 Rural, distant11 Rural, remote12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Revenue amounts (in millions of
      current dollars)
                         
Total revenue13 $606,778 $83,757 $28,720 $35,386 $189,618 $17,923 $8,362 $12,447 $24,745 $17,814 $37,849 $29,026 $11,289
Federal 55,104 9,596 3,383 3,465 12,127 1,376 667 978 2,471 2,082 3,136 2,530 1,266
Title I 14,213 3,228 959 903 2,600 323 146 212 627 545 685 628 328
Child Nutrition Act 14,020 2,269 837 863 3,238 392 169 262 677 492 853 715 277
Children with disabilities (IDEA) 11,249 1,341 559 686 3,242 310 165 215 470 356 686 440 162
Impact aid 1,522 108 83 65 195 26 3 63 35 120 118 72 170
Bilingual education 361 37 15 17 63 3 1 2 4 5 9 3 1
Indian education 107 5 2 3 6 1 0 2 8 12 5 7 10
Math, science, and professional
      development
1,577 230 95 95 253 38 18 26 75 78 87 78 45
Safe and drug-free schools 141 7 11 12 23 1 2 2 9 7 12 5 5
Vocational and technical education 555 89 32 35 137 15 9 9 29 26 40 19 8
Other and unclassified 11,361 2,283 789 786 2,371 267 152 184 537 440 640 563 258
                           
State 274,732 34,269 13,383 17,304 74,286 8,711 3,920 6,307 12,905 9,084 18,487 15,529 5,386
Special education programs 18,323 2,460 808 1,043 6,001 485 251 392 698 433 963 710 249
Compensatory and basic skills 5,610 659 177 415 1,635 195 43 83 182 102 278 184 81
Bilingual education 893 49 33 54 592 52 6 5 23 7 30 7 3
Gifted and talented 935 24 55 62 585 33 7 12 32 9 73 26 7
Vocational education 988 25 52 65 342 35 23 22 77 59 115 78 29
Other 247,982 31,052 12,257 15,666 65,132 7,911 3,591 5,794 11,892 8,474 17,028 14,525 5,017
                           
Local13 276,942 39,892 11,955 14,617 103,205 7,836 3,775 5,162 9,369 6,648 16,226 10,967 4,638
Property tax14 176,222 16,779 7,352 9,731 72,452 4,623 2,861 3,834 6,708 4,938 10,642 7,833 3,527
Parent government contribution14 48,335 14,845 2,199 2,189 16,167 1,808 148 249 661 151 2,342 874 166
Private (fees from individuals) 14,052 979 629 718 5,279 562 203 354 633 414 1,061 737 306
Other13 38,333 7,289 1,776 1,979 9,306 843 563 725 1,367 1,145 2,182 1,523 638
                           
Percentage distribution of revenue                          
Total revenue 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 9.1 11.5 11.8 9.8 6.4 7.7 8.0 7.9 10.0 11.7 8.3 8.7 11.2
State 45.3 40.9 46.6 48.9 39.2 48.6 46.9 50.7 52.2 51.0 48.8 53.5 47.7
Local 45.6 47.6 41.6 41.3 54.4 43.7 45.1 41.5 37.9 37.3 42.9 37.8 41.1
                           
                           
Expenditure amounts (in millions of
      current dollars)
                         
Total expenditures $618,331 $88,215 $28,979 $36,218 $190,912 $17,940 $8,617 $12,802 $25,154 $18,108 $38,076 $29,063 $11,467
Current expenditures for schools 526,937 72,281 24,946 30,913 164,730 15,638 7,410 10,881 21,720 15,583 33,164 25,359 9,734
Instruction 319,544 45,795 14,673 18,712 100,943 9,468 4,461 6,584 13,045 9,348 19,843 15,057 5,719
Support services, students 29,395 2,999 1,598 1,922 10,180 900 471 590 1,123 853 1,828 1,143 409
Support services, instructional
      staff
24,563 3,026 1,479 1,571 7,367 733 307 449 1,024 673 1,436 1,000 337
Administration 39,620 4,804 1,827 2,194 11,951 1,098 554 870 1,778 1,325 2,606 2,297 971
Operation and maintenance 49,918 7,023 2,249 2,871 15,331 1,484 672 996 2,010 1,503 3,111 2,398 962
Transportation 23,692 3,187 1,033 1,205 7,958 737 387 549 1,001 650 1,870 1,509 561
Food service 21,400 2,783 1,105 1,264 5,792 676 306 467 1,052 782 1,455 1,228 487
Other 18,804 2,664 981 1,175 5,208 542 252 377 686 449 1,014 728 287
                           
Other current expenditures 22,478 2,828 1,135 1,324 6,172 708 321 483 1,076 811 1,540 1,263 525
Interest on school debt 17,067 2,680 714 923 5,458 471 205 403 585 336 1,014 613 168
Capital outlay 47,281 7,551 2,323 3,028 12,885 1,235 611 1,034 1,986 1,663 2,527 1,997 964
                           
Percentage distribution of current
      expenditures for schools
                         
All current expenditures for schools 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 60.6 63.4 58.8 60.5 61.3 60.5 60.2 60.5 60.1 60.0 59.8 59.4 58.8
Support services 10.2 8.3 12.3 11.3 10.7 10.4 10.5 9.5 9.9 9.8 9.8 8.5 7.7
Administration 7.5 6.6 7.3 7.1 7.3 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.2 8.5 7.9 9.1 10.0
Operation and maintenance 9.5 9.7 9.0 9.3 9.3 9.5 9.1 9.1 9.3 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.9
Transportation 4.5 4.4 4.1 3.9 4.8 4.7 5.2 5.0 4.6 4.2 5.6 5.9 5.8
Food service and other 7.6 7.5 8.4 7.9 6.7 7.8 7.5 7.8 8.0 7.9 7.4 7.7 8.0
                           
Per student amounts (in current dollars)                          
Current expenditure per student $10,628 $12,169 $10,052 $10,803 $11,233 $10,115 $10,837 $10,178 $9,988 $9,836 $10,355 $10,334 $11,402
Instruction expenditure per student 6,445 7,710 5,913 6,539 6,884 6,124 6,523 6,158 5,999 5,901 6,196 6,136 6,699
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 Excludes revenues from other in-state school systems.
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: Total includes data for some school districts not identified by locale. 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 (F33)," 2012-13. (This table was prepared January 2016.)

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