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Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005–06
NCES 2007-354
July 2007

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Table 7.  Number and percent of students in city, suburban, town, and rural public elementary and secondary schools with membership who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, by state or jurisdiction: School year 2005–06
 
State or jurisdiction  Total   City   Suburban   Town   Rural
Number
of
students		 Percent free- or reduced price lunch eligible   Number
of
students		 Percent free- or reduced price lunch eligible   Number
of
students		 Percent free- or reduced price lunch eligible   Number
of
students		 Percent free- or reduced price lunch eligible   Number
of
students		 Percent free- or reduced price lunch eligible
Reporting States1  47,957,375 42 14,223,123 54.9 19,465,550 32.7 3,865,068 46.9 10,403,634 38.3
 
Alabama  738,986 52 164,335 61.7 159,593 41.9 86,728 53.8 328,330 50.8
Alaska  120,646 34 50,138 28.3 16,645 27.6 18,914 27.6 34,949 49.3
Arizona  1,018,457 47 498,231 52.0 303,775 38.8 79,406 54.4 137,045 45.1
Arkansas  473,256 53 119,152 53.5 72,872 44.9 92,463 60.5 188,769 51.7
California  6,124,988 49 2,731,568 54.2 2,877,847 44.8 65,178 45.3 450,395 41.5
 
Colorado  766,018 33 259,711 44.6 317,979 25.1 53,169 41.3 135,159 26.8
Connecticut  558,749 26 131,744 62.1 322,414 15.4 26,763 31.0 77,828 8.2
Delaware  112,253 37 17,362 52.1 58,640 32.6 9,194 44.0 27,057 34.2
District of Columbia  71,607 55 71,607 55.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Florida  2,614,228 46 664,016 47.5 1,495,259 45.4 72,043 53.3 382,910 43.0
 
Georgia  1,591,307 50 240,151 66.2 701,427 45.0 165,198 61.0 484,531 44.8
Hawaii  184,598 41 43,671 39.1 81,940 39.9 34,940 38.6 24,047 48.4
Idaho  257,032 38 75,168 32.9 53,944 34.2 50,379 41.9 77,541 41.7
Illinois  2,076,435 37 640,415 62.2 1,017,381 24.9 141,693 37.5 276,946 25.0
Indiana  1,030,592 36 274,299 55.3 320,374 28.7 107,338 37.9 328,581 26.4
 
Iowa  476,177 32 117,337 43.8 68,052 19.2 106,480 36.8 184,308 26.4
Kansas  466,266 39 114,823 53.2 102,403 22.8 94,756 49.1 154,284 32.3
Kentucky  634,264 52 87,667 52.7 167,143 46.5 117,354 54.0 262,100 54.8
Louisiana  639,218 61 163,946 63.3 171,735 55.7 87,610 68.9 215,927 60.9
Maine  195,420 34 18,495 42.3 33,474 20.9 34,905 35.9 108,546 35.5
 
Maryland  834,319 31 125,489 55.9 550,268 29.0 12,409 33.0 146,153 19.4
Massachusetts  936,126 28 251,647 62.4 570,798 15.5 10,969 33.2 102,712 11.5
Michigan  1,660,823 36 430,821 56.0 719,111 25.6 120,211 35.5 390,680 32.4
Minnesota  808,648 30 168,380 45.4 314,313 21.5 100,939 32.1 225,016 29.3
Mississippi  494,954 70 51,612 82.9 74,987 54.2 124,398 76.4 243,957 67.9
 
Missouri  911,879 39 172,477 54.9 348,506 28.7 119,182 45.2 271,714 39.9
Montana  145,259 34 32,900 30.6 5,553 32.7 47,039 30.5 59,767 39.9
Nebraska  284,833 35 91,305 38.4 44,009 21.3 60,082 41.3 89,437 33.1
Nevada  407,601 41 171,115 44.4 161,590 44.1 31,258 27.1 43,638 28.9
New Hampshire  205,767 17 37,862 27.8 63,910 9.9 30,536 21.2 73,459 16.0
 
New Jersey  1,363,174 27 136,920 47.7 1,098,957 25.4 0 0.0 127,297 14.5
New Mexico  320,200 56 108,236 44.9 61,455 57.5 86,018 60.6 64,491 67.3
New York  2,739,709 44 1,165,786 72.0 1,101,031 20.5 104,015 39.2 368,877 28.6
North Carolina  1,408,664 43 347,273 46.8 275,167 36.4 149,760 49.7 636,464 41.2
North Dakota  98,284 30 26,852 22.7 9,705 23.3 19,546 29.6 42,181 35.4
 
Ohio  1,834,479 32 392,141 57.7 818,688 23.9 164,200 36.8 459,450 24.7
Oklahoma  634,739 55 137,260 64.0 168,706 41.0 113,242 57.5 215,531 57.6
Oregon  531,481 43 164,209 43.2 192,924 39.3 76,415 52.6 97,933 43.4
Pennsylvania  1,794,967 31 364,704 63.1 880,096 20.6 136,131 32.4 414,036 26.4
Rhode Island  147,610 35 51,434 61.1 80,284 22.6 0 0.0 15,892 10.4
 
South Carolina  695,826 52 96,803 53.6 262,875 43.2 89,086 65.6 247,062 54.8
South Dakota  120,971 32 30,659 30.6 6,759 27.1 28,317 29.3 55,236 35.4
Tennessee  947,277 47 290,894 59.1 211,259 32.0 112,665 50.1 332,459 44.9
Texas  4,451,130 48 1,922,740 54.9 1,433,371 39.4 325,149 56.1 769,870 43.3
Utah  497,873 33 93,269 45.8 318,005 27.4 30,825 38.7 55,774 35.9
 
Vermont  94,645 27 3,547 46.3 15,145 17.6 24,669 30.2 51,284 26.0
Virginia  1,210,963 31 293,163 43.6 499,882 22.5 50,084 43.3 367,834 31.3
Washington  991,469 37 269,211 45.2 496,059 31.7 63,461 48.0 162,738 36.7
West Virginia  279,434 49 40,989 44.6 54,111 41.5 46,493 50.2 137,841 53.0
Wisconsin  870,745 29 248,861 47.6 284,037 17.2 106,103 28.4 231,744 25.1
Wyoming  83,029 31 20,728 29.1 1,092 59.0 37,355 28.9 23,854 36.0
Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions 
DoDDS: DoDs Overseas2  62,543 — † † † † † † † †
DDESS: DoDs Domestic2  28,329 — 8,068 — 12,619 — 1,663 — 1,298 —
Bureau of Indian Education  50,155 0 2,047 — 4,413 — 6,906 — 36,789 —
American Samoa  16,134 99 † † † † † † † †
Guam  30,985 45 † † † † † † † †
Northern Mariana Islands  11,691 99 † † † † † † † †
Puerto Rico  541,074 — † † † † † † † †
U.S. Virgin Islands  16,679 — † †   † †   † †   † †
— Not available.
† Not applicable.
1 A reporting states total is shown if data for any item in the table were not available for some, but not more than 15 percent, of all schools in the United States.
2 DoDDS and DDESS are the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas) and the Department of Defense dependents schools (domestic), respectively.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because not all schools could be assigned to a locale category. City includes the categories of large city and mid-size city. Suburban includes the categories of urban fringe of a large city and urban fringe of a mid-size city. Town includes the categories of large town and small town. Rural includes the categories of rural, within a core-based statistical area and rural, outside a core-based statistical area. See Glossary for more detail. The number of students eligible for free- or reduced-price lunch was unavailable for 6.8 percent of U.S. schools.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005–06, Version 1a.

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