Total and current expenditures per public elementary and secondary student, by district poverty level and locale: School year 2008

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Table E.1.a.-2 Total and current expenditures per public elementary and secondary student, by district poverty level and locale: School year 2008–09

Locale	Total	District poverty level¹
Locale	Total	Low	Middle low	Middle	Middle high	High
	Total expenditures
Total	$12,742	$13,913	$12,111	$12,153	$13,486	$12,077
City	13,340	12,016	11,391	12,612	15,330	13,406
Large	14,249	11,673	11,139	13,933	18,159	13,603
Midsize	12,279	12,063	10,842	11,717	11,598	13,603
Small	12,475	12,664	12,253	11,315	11,390	12,884
Suburban	13,011	15,164	12,512	11,980	11,463	11,967
Large	13,156	15,422	12,757	12,039	11,544	12,127
Midsize	12,087	13,485	11,477	11,579	11,018	10,783
Small	12,131	13,410	10,418	11,620	10,812	11,432
Town	11,565	12,046	11,395	11,137	10,770	10,560
Fringe	11,746	12,241	11,567	11,345	11,331	10,634
Distant	11,489	11,580	11,335	11,134	10,879	10,619
Remote	11,464	12,476	11,281	10,895	9,999	10,390
Rural	12,022	13,093	11,956	11,215	10,976	10,819
Fringe	11,917	13,222	11,558	10,730	10,785	10,500
Distant	11,763	12,450	12,185	11,373	10,867	10,747
Remote	13,261	14,308	13,142	12,943	12,137	12,597
	Current expenditures
Total	$10,476	$11,357	$10,043	$9,901	$10,932	$10,052
City	10,875	9,533	9,659	10,120	12,617	11,005
Large	11,457	8,918	9,582	10,765	14,792	11,024
Midsize	10,143	9,569	9,364	9,674	9,776	11,311
Small	10,369	10,738	10,027	9,496	9,563	10,710
Suburban	10,742	12,694	10,431	9,925	9,210	9,978
Large	10,881	12,966	10,650	10,012	9,266	10,093
Midsize	9,958	10,849	9,395	9,747	8,889	9,213
Small	9,744	10,976	8,741	8,722	8,780	9,466
Town	9,663	9,940	9,462	9,114	9,092	9,121
Fringe	9,780	10,202	9,440	9,159	9,596	9,181
Distant	9,598	9,637	9,318	9,253	9,041	9,149
Remote	9,621	10,067	9,695	8,867	8,607	9,011
Rural	9,847	10,422	9,522	9,289	9,085	9,335
Fringe	9,648	10,482	9,032	8,823	8,729	9,004
Distant	9,746	9,931	9,826	9,474	9,219	9,362
Remote	11,079	11,540	10,923	10,855	10,301	10,864

¹ District poverty was determined by ranking school districts by the percentage of enrolled children ages 5–17 whose families’ incomes were below the poverty threshold, and then dividing these districts into five categories with equal proportions of the total enrollment in each category. The low-poverty district category consists of the 20 percent of students in the districts with the lowest percentages of poor school-age children. Conversely, the high-poverty district category consists of the 20 percent of students in the districts with the highest percentages of poor school-age children.
NOTE: Current expenditures include instruction, support services, food services, and enterprise operations. Total expenditures include current expenditures, capital outlay, and interest on debt. Expenditures by locale include school districts with missing data on poverty level. Data are not adjusted for cost of living differences. For more details on urban-centric locale categories, see http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ruraled/definitions.asp.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," (version 1a) fiscal year 2009.

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