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Table 88. Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil to teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2000-01 and 2001-02 

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               Characteristic                |Total\1\ | Large  |  Mid-  |  Urban  | Urban  | Large  | Small  | Rural  | Rural
                                             |         |city\2\ |  size  | fringe  | fringe |town\6\ |town\7\ |outside | within
                                             |         |        |city\3\ |  of a   |  of a  |        |        |   an   |   an
                                             |         |        |        |  large  |midsize |        |        | MSA\8\ | MSA\9\
                                             |         |        |        | city\4\ |city\5\ |        |        |        |
_____________________________________________|_________|________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________
                      1                      |    2    |   3    |   4    |    5    |   6    |   7    |   8    |   9    |   10
_____________________________________________|_________|________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________
                                             |                     Schools, enrollment and teachers, 2001-02
                                             |__________________________________________________________________________________
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Enrollment, in thousands.....................|   47,061|   7,336|   6,006|   15,405|   5,002|     608|   4,539|   4,345|   3,817
Schools......................................|   91,759|  10,746|  10,813|   23,669|   9,026|   1,298|  11,284|  16,397|   8,168
Average school size\10\......................|      515|     683|     556|      651|     555|     469|     403|     265|     468
Pupil/teacher ratio\11\......................|     16.2|    17.0|    16.0|     17.0|    16.4|    15.9|    15.4|    14.2|      16
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Enrollment (percent distribution)............|    100.0|    15.6|    12.8|     32.7|    10.6|     1.3|     9.6|     9.2|     8.1
Schools (percent distribution)...............|    100.0|    11.7|    11.8|     25.8|     9.8|     1.4|    12.3|    17.9|     8.9
                                             |_________|________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________
                                             |                         Revenues and expenditures, 2000-01
                                             |__________________________________________________________________________________
Total revenue, in millions of dollars........| $406,508| $66,320| $51,964| $136,530| $39,127|  $4,580| $35,271| $35,623| $32,347
 Federal ................................    |   28,417|   6,408|   4,390|    6,409|   2,372|     382|   2,904|   3,115|   1,397
  Impact aid ................................|      873|      47|      90|      178|      57|       5|     109|     339|      29
  Bilingual education .......................|       64|      12|      11|       17|       2|       1|       5|      10|       2
  Indian education ..........................|       56|       5|       5|        5|       2|       2|      11|      24|       2
  Children with disabilites .................|    4,285|     672|     583|    1,248|     381|      52|     329|     268|     232
  Eisenhower science awards .................|      154|      28|      25|       40|      15|       2|      14|      12|       7
  Drug Free schools .........................|      247|      46|      44|       70|      21|       4|      22|      16|      13
  Chapter 2 (block grants) ..................|      757|     133|     127|      190|      69|      11|      90|      79|      46
  Vocational education ......................|      534|     112|      80|      106|      52|       8|      56|      45|      23
  Title I ...................................|    6,232|   1,682|   1,065|    1,152|     562|      88|     693|     674|     281
  Other and unclassified ....................|   15,216|   3,670|   2,360|    3,403|   1,210|     211|   1,576|   1,648|     761
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
 State.......................................|  200,153|  32,328|  28,069|   60,026|  19,755|   2,518|  19,641|  20,274|  16,148
  State school lunch programs ...............|      377|      60|      52|      117|      41|       4|      39|      36|      28
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
 Local.......................................|  177,938|  27,583|  19,505|   70,094|  17,000|   1,679|  12,726|  12,234|  14,803
  Property tax\12\ ......................    |  108,061|  14,579|  11,242|   46,153|  10,150|   1,072|   8,217|   7,287|   8,618
  Parent government contribution\12\...      |   29,727|   7,996|   3,557|   10,281|   2,897|     141|   1,007|   1,393|   2,422
  Lunch sales ...............................|    5,761|     517|     640|    2,084|     684|      74|     578|     563|     615
  Transportation ............................|       66|       2|       6|       38|       5|       1|       4|       3|       4
  Other .....................................|   34,322|   4,489|   4,058|   11,539|   3,265|     392|   2,920|   2,987|   3,144
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Total revenue (percent                       |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
 distribution).............................  |    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0
  Federal....................................|      7.0|     9.7|     8.4|      4.7|     6.1|     8.3|     8.2|     8.7|     4.3
  State......................................|     49.2|    48.7|    54.0|     44.0|    50.5|    55.0|    55.7|    56.9|    49.9
  Local......................................|     43.8|    41.6|    37.5|     51.3|    43.4|    36.7|    36.1|    34.3|    45.8
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Total expenditures,                          |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
   in millions of dollars....................| $564,187| $93,780| $69,804| $192,173| $53,851|  $6,190| $47,444| $47,984| $45,736
  Current expenditures for schools .......   |  415,162|  69,938|  52,020|  139,778|  39,585|   4,630|  35,527|  35,688|  33,197
    Instruction .............................|  343,859|  57,735|  44,257|  114,304|  32,655|   3,962|  30,287|  30,158|  26,748
    Operation and maintenance ...............|  206,904|  35,922|  26,545|   68,401|  19,869|   2,381|  18,339|  17,969|  16,054
    Food service ............................|   32,802|   5,770|   4,223|   11,010|   3,085|     389|   2,854|   2,826|   2,485
    Other ...................................|   13,414|   2,299|   1,763|    3,768|   1,422|     178|   1,425|   1,492|   1,052
  Other current expenditures .............   |   90,738|  13,744|  11,726|   31,123|   8,280|   1,015|   7,669|   7,871|   7,158
  Interest on school debt ...................|    9,536|   1,545|     987|    3,481|     999|      89|     729|     637|   1,048
  Capital outlay ............................|   48,751|   8,553|   5,070|   17,790|   4,987|     457|   3,519|   3,788|   4,332
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Current expenditures                         |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
 (percent distribution) .................    |    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|    100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0
  Instruction ...............................|     60.2|    62.2|    60.0|     59.8|    60.8|    60.1|    60.6|    59.6|    60.0
  Operation and maintenance .................|      9.5|    10.0|     9.5|      9.6|     9.4|     9.8|     9.4|     9.4|     9.3
  Food service ..............................|      3.9|     4.0|     4.0|      3.3|     4.4|     4.5|     4.7|     4.9|     3.9
  Other .....................................|     26.4|    23.8|    26.5|     27.2|    25.4|    25.6|    25.3|    26.1|    26.8
                                             |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
Current expenditure per student              |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
  (in dollars) ....................          |    7,372|   7,902|   7,409|    7,572|   6,612|   6,499|   6,638|   6,895|   7,118
Instruction expenditure per student          |         |        |        |         |        |        |        |        |
  (in dollars) ....................          |    4,436|   4,916|   4,444|    4,531|   4,023|   3,906|   4,019|   4,108|   4,272
_____________________________________________|_________|________|________|_________|________|________|________|________|________

\1\The total column includes data for 126 LEAs with unknown locale codes.
\2\Central city of a consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA) or metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with the city having a population greater than or equal to 250,000.
\3\Central city of a CMSA or an MSA with the city having a population of less than 250,000.
\4\Any incorporated place, Census designated place, or non-place territory within a CMSA or an MSA of a large city and defined as urban by the Census Bureau.
\5\Any incorporated place, Census designated place, or non-place territory within a CMSA or an MSA of a mid-size city and defined as urban by the Census Bureau.
\6\Place not within an MSA but with population of 25,000 or more.
\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 outside a CMSA or an MSA, and designated as rural by the Census Bureau.
\9\Place with a population of less than 2,500 within a CMSA or an MSA and designated as rural by the Census Bureau.
\10\Average for schools reporting enrollment.
\11\Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent 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: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), Local Education Agency Universe Survey, 2000-01; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Survey of Local Government Finances, unpublished data. (This table was prepared September 2003.)


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