Table 86.

Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2004-05 and 2005-06

Selected characteristic	Total	City, large1	City, midsize2	City, small3	Suburban, large4	Suburban, midsize5	Suburban, small6	Town, fringe7	Town, distant8	Town, remote9	Rural, fringe10	Rural, distant11	Rural, remote12
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Enrollment, schools, and pupil/   teacher ratios, fall 2005
Enrollment (in thousands)	48,912	7,836	3,547	3,886	15,814	1,645	1,056	1,756	2,373	1,910	4,303	3,333	1,454
Percentage distribution of   enrollment, by race/ethnicity	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
White	57.1	23.2	41.1	55.2	57.9	72.1	70.2	76.0	71.1	68.2	76.2	80.9	77.8
Black	17.2	31.0	28.7	17.4	15.6	9.8	9.1	7.7	12.1	11.1	11.3	10.5	7.3
Hispanic	19.8	38.0	24.0	21.2	19.3	14.2	15.8	13.7	13.8	16.0	10.0	5.9	6.4
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.6	7.0	5.5	5.1	6.7	3.2	4.0	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.6	0.6	0.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.1	0.5	0.7	0.8	1.1	1.8	3.5	0.9	2.1	8.0
Schools13	97,382	12,805	6,246	7,175	24,112	2,873	1,980	3,681	5,671	5,501	8,913	10,299	8,126
Average school size14	521	627	599	560	676	587	551	493	439	368	511	337	184
Pupil/teacher ratio15	16.0	16.8	16.4	16.3	16.3	16.4	16.6	16.2	15.5	15.2	15.6	14.7	12.8
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	16.0	7.3	7.9	32.3	3.4	2.2	3.6	4.9	3.9	8.8	6.8	3.0
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	13.1	6.4	7.4	24.8	3.0	2.0	3.8	5.8	5.6	9.2	10.6	8.3
Revenues, 2004-05
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$499,703	$86,879	$35,340	$39,191	$168,663	$15,720	$10,055	$16,570	$22,283	$17,366	$41,005	$31,172	$15,458
Federal	44,655	11,139	3,973	3,789	10,209	1,101	743	1,274	2,264	2,168	3,132	2,817	2,047
Title I	11,067	3,577	1,014	953	2,142	239	168	296	556	527	537	596	462
Child Nutrition Act	8,496	1,958	759	711	1,975	227	143	265	458	395	667	611	326
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	9,056	1,889	745	828	2,808	281	200	257	402	348	640	440	217
Impact aid	1,183	79	77	60	201	23	9	45	44	146	73	99	325
Bilingual education	298	84	29	34	65	5	5	8	14	11	11	16	17
Indian education	99	9	3	5	7	1	1	3	6	12	5	11	35
Math, science, and professional   development	1,557	383	153	144	353	39	32	50	81	84	87	82	69
Safe and drug-free schools	324	89	30	28	66	7	7	8	16	20	20	20	13
Title V, Part A	276	83	18	20	61	7	4	7	14	16	17	18	13
Vocational and technical   education	626	136	55	57	144	15	14	16	34	36	60	34	24
Other and unclassified	11,673	2,851	1,090	948	2,387	257	160	319	640	572	1,014	890	545
State (in millions of dollars)	228,195	39,632	16,588	18,672	68,131	7,401	4,638	8,170	11,621	8,822	19,597	16,962	7,962
Special education programs	14,726	2,862	1,174	1,085	5,627	438	286	403	572	400	903	647	328
Compensatory and basic skills	5,710	1,542	427	627	2,022	149	77	115	151	82	253	166	99
Bilingual education	637	24	24	31	477	23	6	6	10	5	25	5	2
Gifted and talented	521	37	53	21	312	27	6	5	13	4	27	12	4
Vocational education	828	41	49	58	308	32	19	26	52	50	96	64	33
Other	205,773	35,126	14,862	16,850	59,385	6,732	4,244	7,615	10,823	8,281	18,292	16,068	7,496
Local (in millions of dollars)16	226,853	36,109	14,779	16,731	90,323	7,219	4,675	7,126	8,397	6,376	18,276	11,393	5,449
Property tax17	138,561	18,415	8,517	10,146	58,681	3,917	3,055	4,739	5,617	4,366	10,557	6,948	3,604
Parent government contribution17	37,070	10,542	2,634	2,307	13,827	1,701	474	451	521	167	2,786	1,339	320
Private (fees from individuals)	12,574	1,082	710	928	4,723	442	302	488	629	490	1,393	964	423
Other16	38,647	6,070	2,917	3,349	13,092	1,159	845	1,448	1,630	1,352	3,539	2,142	1,103
Total revenue (percentage distribution)	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	8.9	12.8	11.2	9.7	6.1	7.0	7.4	7.7	10.2	12.5	7.6	9.0	13.2
State	45.7	45.6	46.9	47.6	40.4	47.1	46.1	49.3	52.2	50.8	47.8	54.4	51.5
Local	45.4	41.6	41.8	42.7	53.6	45.9	46.5	43.0	37.7	36.7	44.6	36.5	35.3
Expenditures, 2004-05
Total expenditures   (in millions of dollars)	$509,392	$91,016	$35,640	$39,912	$171,952	$15,957	$10,539	$16,676	$22,385	$17,204	$41,656	$31,189	$15,267
Current expenditures for schools	423,255	75,563	29,869	33,181	140,875	13,261	8,412	14,060	19,004	14,941	34,259	26,658	13,171
Instruction	259,696	46,954	18,081	20,386	86,595	8,178	5,106	8,663	11,595	9,119	20,834	16,275	7,912
Support services, students	22,107	3,382	1,634	1,880	8,145	686	453	716	954	779	1,806	1,158	513
Support services, instructional staff	20,150	3,979	1,680	1,655	6,615	599	400	589	877	661	1,547	1,058	490
Administration	32,032	5,208	2,168	2,389	10,416	1,009	636	1,099	1,539	1,232	2,744	2,326	1,267
Operation and maintenance	40,567	7,255	2,827	3,170	13,637	1,299	804	1,331	1,812	1,459	3,190	2,480	1,304
Transportation	17,852	2,855	1,081	1,155	6,054	528	357	632	778	582	1,691	1,438	701
Food service	16,080	2,634	1,193	1,297	4,666	498	317	582	866	694	1,445	1,267	622
Other	14,771	3,297	1,207	1,248	4,747	462	338	449	583	417	1,003	657	363
Other current expenditures	17,107	2,780	1,239	1,361	5,046	559	346	605	894	747	1,548	1,314	669
Interest on school debt	12,781	2,386	794	831	4,651	394	267	456	493	309	1,248	706	247
Capital outlay	54,399	9,761	3,630	4,279	19,788	1,781	1,467	1,638	2,070	1,396	4,571	2,759	1,259
Current expenditures   (percentage distribution)	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	61.4	62.1	60.5	61.4	61.5	61.7	60.7	61.6	61.0	61.0	60.8	61.1	60.1
Support services	10.0	9.7	11.1	10.7	10.5	9.7	10.1	9.3	9.6	9.6	9.8	8.3	7.6
Administration	7.6	6.9	7.3	7.2	7.4	7.6	7.6	7.8	8.1	8.2	8.0	8.7	9.6
Operation and maintenance	9.6	9.6	9.5	9.6	9.7	9.8	9.6	9.5	9.5	9.8	9.3	9.3	9.9
Transportation	4.2	3.8	3.6	3.5	4.3	4.0	4.2	4.5	4.1	3.9	4.9	5.4	5.3
Food service and other	7.3	7.8	8.0	7.7	6.7	7.2	7.8	7.3	7.6	7.4	7.1	7.2	7.5
Current expenditure per student   (in dollars)	$8,742	$9,590	$8,472	$8,647	$9,045	$8,199	$8,115	$8,119	$8,059	$7,858	$8,196	$8,064	$8,982
Instruction expenditure per student   (in dollars)	5,364	5,959	5,129	5,313	5,560	5,057	4,925	5,003	4,917	4,796	4,984	4,923	5,396

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 Total includes 218 schools not reported by locale type. 14 Average for schools reporting enrollment. Enrollment data were available for 93,845 out of 97,382 institutions in 2005-06. 15 Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data. 16 Includes tuition and fee revenues from other in-state school systems, which are excluded from state data reported through the "National Public Education Financial Survey." 17 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 codes for districts with missing values were imputed, where possible. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and missing locale codes for some school districts. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005-06, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2004-05 and 2005-06; and "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)," 2004-05. (This table was prepared August 2007.)