Table 1.1. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary districts, schools, and students, by locale: 2003–04

Status of Education in Rural America

NCES 2007-040
June 2007

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Table 1.1.

Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary districts, schools, and students, by locale: 2003–04

Locale	Districts	Schools	Students
	Number
Total	14,076	95,726	48,353,523
City	831	24,597	14,685,209
Suburban	2,800	26,589	17,137,511
Town	2,572	14,563	6,222,788
Rural	7,873	29,977	10,308,015
Fringe	1,568	10,176	5,305,303
Distant	3,062	11,036	3,438,256
Remote	3,243	8,765	1,564,456
	Percentage distribution
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
City	5.9	25.7	30.4
Suburban	19.9	27.8	35.4
Town	18.3	15.2	12.9
Rural	55.9	31.3	21.3
Fringe	11.1	10.6	11.0
Distant	21.8	11.5	7.1
Remote	23.0	9.2	3.2
NOTE: Schools with no reported enrollment are included in school totals but excluded from student totals. Rural areas are located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster. Urbanized areas are densely settled areas containing at least 50,000 people. Urban clusters are densely settled areas with a population of 2,500 to 49,999. Fringe rural areas are 5 miles or less from an urbanized area or 2.5 miles or less from an urban cluster. Distant rural areas are 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. Remote rural areas are more than 25 miles from an urbanized area and more than 10 miles from an urban cluster. For more details on Census-defined areas, see http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/ua_2k.html. 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), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey" and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2003–04.