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Table 87.Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil-teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 1993

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                                        |         | Large  |Mid-size|  Urban  |  Urban  | Large | Small  |Rural\8\|Unknown\9\
             Characteristic             |Total\1\ |central |central |fringe of|fringe of|town\6\|town\7\ |        |
                                        |         |city\2\ |city\3\ |  large  |mid-size |       |        |        |
                                        |         |        |        | city\4\ | city\5\ |       |        |        |
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                   1                    |    2    |   3    |   4    |    5    |    6    |   7   |   8    |   9    |    10
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                                        |             Schools, enrollment, and teachers, 1993-94
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Enrollment, in thousands................|  44,082 |  6,197 |  8,124 |   7,453 |   4,970 | 1,303 |  5,679 |  9,682 |      673
Schools.................................|  87,110 |  8,677 | 13,562 |  12,279 |   8,321 | 2,553 | 12,224 | 27,415 |    2,079
Average school size\10\.................|     512 |    724 |    610 |     630 |     615 |   526 |    486 |    314 |      324
Pupil-teacher ratio\11\.................|    17.8 |   19.0 |   17.9 |    18.6 |    18.3 |  17.7 |   17.2 |   16.7 |     20.5
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |        |
Enrollment (percent distribution).......|   100.0 |   14.1 |   18.4 |    16.9 |    11.3 |   3.0 |   12.9 |   22.0 |      1.5
Schools (percent distribution)..........|   100.0 |   10.0 |   15.6 |    14.1 |     9.6 |   2.9 |   14.0 |   31.5 |      2.4
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                                        |          Revenues and expenditures, 1992-93 (in millions)
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Total revenue...........................|$223,291 |$36,428 |$39,787 | $41,589 | $26,467 |$6,398 |$27,672 |$44,644 |     $304
  Federal...............................|  15,426 |  3,649 |  3,096 |   1,628 |   1,353 |   427 |  1,795 |  3,429 |       49
    Impact aid .........................|     549 |     36 |     96 |      37 |      82 |    26 |     81 |    192 |        0
    Bilingual education ................|      20 |      6 |      4 |       1 |       2 |     1 |      2 |      4 |        0
    Indian education ...................|      34 |      1 |      3 |       1 |       0 |     1 |      5 |     22 |        0
    Children with disabilites ..........|   1,603 |    404 |    372 |     255 |     159 |    47 |    142 |    218 |        6
    Eisenhower science awards ..........|      34 |      9 |      7 |       4 |       3 |     1 |      3 |      7 |        0
    Drug Free schools ..................|     102 |     18 |     25 |      12 |      11 |     3 |      9 |     22 |        1
    Chapter 2 (block grants) ...........|     246 |     64 |     56 |      30 |      26 |     8 |     19 |     42 |        1
    Vocational education ...............|     327 |     83 |     76 |      36 |      33 |     9 |     28 |     51 |       11
    Chapter 1 ..........................|   3,458 |  1,159 |    760 |     273 |     315 |   100 |    252 |    595 |        4
    Other and unclassified .............|   9,052 |  1,869 |  1,697 |     980 |     722 |   231 |  1,252 |  2,277 |       25
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  State.................................| 103,301 | 17,190 | 19,174 |  15,073 |  12,363 | 3,017 | 13,046 | 23,365 |       74
   State school lunch programs .........|     233 |     64 |     46 |      30 |      42 |     5 |     15 |     31 |        0
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  Local.................................| 104,563 | 15,589 | 17,517 |  24,889 |  12,751 | 2,955 | 12,830 | 17,851 |      182
    Property tax\12\ ...................|  18,743 |  5,272 |  2,859 |   4,524 |   1,647 |   751 |  1,533 |  2,157 |        0
    Parent government contribution\12\..|  56,325 |  7,906 | 11,383 |  15,216 |   7,870 | 1,405 |  5,509 |  6,900 |      136
    Lunch sales ........................|   2,936 |    302 |    625 |     639 |     406 |    98 |    310 |    552 |        4
    Transportation .....................|      42 |      8 |      9 |      13 |       3 |     1 |      4 |      3 |        0
    Other and unclassified .............|  26,517 |  2,102 |  2,640 |   4,497 |   2,825 |   699 |  5,474 |  8,238 |       41
                                        |         |        |        |         |         |       |        |        |
Total revenue (percent distribution)....|   100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 | 100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |    100.0
  Federal...............................|     6.9 |   10.0 |    7.8 |     3.9 |     5.1 |   6.7 |    6.5 |    7.7 |     16.0
  State.................................|    46.3 |   47.2 |   48.2 |    36.2 |    46.7 |  47.2 |   47.1 |   52.3 |     24.2
  Local.................................|    46.8 |   42.8 |   44.0 |    59.8 |    48.2 |  46.2 |   46.4 |   40.0 |     59.8
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Total expenditures......................| 215,242 | 34,972 | 38,424 |  40,357 |  25,442 | 6,204 | 26,666 | 42,733 |      444
  Current expenditures..................| 203,273 | 33,551 | 36,212 |  38,109 |  24,013 | 5,804 | 25,095 | 40,067 |      422
    Instruction ........................| 100,706 | 20,226 | 20,671 |  20,263 |  12,726 | 3,043 |  9,140 | 14,431 |      206
    Operation and maintenance ..........|  16,554 |  3,292 |  3,492 |   3,414 |   2,042 |   499 |  1,453 |  2,316 |       47
    Food service .......................|   6,816 |  1,438 |  1,524 |   1,026 |     802 |   209 |    596 |  1,213 |        8
    Other ..............................|  79,197 |  8,594 | 10,525 |  13,406 |   8,443 | 2,054 | 13,906 | 22,107 |      161
  Other current ........................|   1,266 |    171 |    280 |     247 |     217 |    65 |    133 |    148 |        5
  Capital outlay........................|   6,411 |    675 |  1,188 |   1,138 |     750 |   219 |    850 |  1,576 |       15
  Interest on debt......................|   4,292 |    575 |    744 |     862 |     461 |   116 |    589 |    942 |        3
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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
    Instruction ........................|    49.5 |   60.3 |   57.1 |    53.2 |    53.0 |  52.4 |   36.4 |   36.0 |     48.8
    Operation and maintenance ..........|     8.1 |    9.8 |    9.6 |     9.0 |     8.5 |   8.6 |    5.8 |    5.8 |     11.0
    Food service .......................|     3.4 |    4.3 |    4.2 |     2.7 |     3.3 |   3.6 |    2.4 |    3.0 |      2.0
    Other ..............................|    39.0 |   25.6 |   29.1 |    35.2 |    35.2 |  35.4 |   55.4 |   55.2 |     38.2
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Current expenditure per student ........|   4,901 |  5,560 |  4,652 |   5,477 |   5,053 | 4,484 |  4,612 |  4,358 |   19,612
Instruction expenditure per student.....|   2,428 |  3,352 |  2,656 |   2,912 |   2,678 | 2,350 |  1,680 |  1,570 |    9,563
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\1\ Includes data for districts not identified by locale.
\2\ Central city of metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with population of 400,000 or more or a population density of 6,000 or more persons per square mile.
\3\ Central city of an MSA but not designated as a large central city.
\4\ Place within the MSA of a large central city.
\5\ Place within the MSA of a mid-size central city.
\6\Place not within an MSA but with population of 25,000 or more and defined as urban.
\7\ Place not within an MSA with a population of at least 2,500 but less than 25,000.
\8\ Place with a population of less than 2,500.
\9\ Urbanicity code was not determined.
\10\ Average for schools reporting enrollment.
\11\ Ratio for schools reporting both FTE teachers and fall enrollment data.
\12\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.--Locale classification procedures not comparable with previous years. Enrollments by locale were used to distribute 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 July 1995.)


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