Table 86.

Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2003–04 and 2004–05

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 2004
Enrollment (in thousands)	48,582	7,695	3,521	4,115	15,651	1,730	1,042	1,764	2,477	1,892	3,948	3,249	1,497
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	57.7	23.1	40.5	54.5	59.5	71.7	72.0	76.8	71.8	69.1	76.7	81.4	77.8
Black	17.1	31.0	28.4	18.1	15.5	9.4	8.9	7.6	12.0	10.9	11.6	9.8	7.5
Hispanic	19.4	38.1	24.6	21.0	18.1	15.0	14.3	13.2	13.3	15.6	9.0	6.0	6.5
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.5	7.0	5.8	5.3	6.4	3.2	3.9	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.4	0.6	0.5
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.0	0.5	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.7	3.2	1.3	2.3	7.7
Schools13	96,513	12,361	6,092	7,468	23,857	2,990	1,944	3,736	5,960	5,423	8,229	9,994	8,241
Average school size14	521	634	601	570	674	592	556	487	435	368	502	335	186
Pupil/teacher ratio15	16.2	17.1	16.6	16.4	16.6	16.7	16.9	16.4	15.6	15.2	15.6	14.7	12.9
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	15.8	7.2	8.5	32.2	3.6	2.1	3.6	5.1	3.9	8.1	6.7	3.1
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	12.8	6.3	7.8	24.8	3.1	2.0	3.9	6.2	5.6	8.5	10.4	8.6
Revenues, 2003–04
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$467,123	$79,827	$33,059	$39,065	$158,051	$15,440	$9,345	$15,764	$21,490	$16,344	$35,039	$28,701	$14,999
Federal	40,319	9,726	3,512	3,727	9,289	1,047	679	1,168	2,114	1,925	2,661	2,546	1,925
Title I	10,182	3,172	937	962	1,941	228	160	285	543	489	476	554	437
Child Nutrition Act	7,933	1,846	702	716	1,816	224	127	248	447	362	577	555	312
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	7,315	1,481	598	674	2,359	244	173	220	319	274	446	357	168
Impact aid	1,140	74	30	114	200	22	16	34	35	115	98	107	297
Bilingual education	208	71	25	24	44	4	3	6	7	4	7	5	8
Indian education	95	9	3	5	6	1	1	2	7	10	6	13	32
Math, science, and professional development	1,386	277	139	149	307	39	29	50	78	85	79	80	75
Safe and drug-free schools	306	72	30	30	69	8	6	9	15	18	18	17	14
Title V, Part A	295	69	22	23	69	8	6	9	16	17	18	21	18
Vocational and technical education	514	118	51	52	121	14	10	14	28	27	32	28	18
Other and unclassified	10,945	2,537	974	977	2,356	256	147	291	621	524	902	811	548
State (in millions of dollars)	215,212	36,388	15,621	18,660	64,406	7,285	4,356	7,922	11,449	8,492	17,062	15,762	7,809
Special education programs	14,051	2,777	1,084	1,117	5,370	467	269	377	520	364	802	599	303
Compensatory and basic skills	4,801	1,271	358	565	1,703	140	74	99	130	69	184	128	81
Bilingual education	608	19	18	34	466	32	5	6	10	5	8	4	2
Gifted and talented	510	34	36	36	308	27	6	6	14	4	24	12	4
Vocational education	765	52	37	60	278	33	18	25	50	42	81	58	31
Other	194,477	32,235	14,089	16,849	56,281	6,585	3,984	7,410	10,725	8,009	15,963	14,961	7,387
Local (in millions of dollars)	211,591	33,713	13,926	16,678	84,357	7,108	4,310	6,673	7,926	5,926	15,316	10,392	5,265
Property tax16	132,253	17,924	8,337	10,454	55,526	4,056	2,960	4,468	5,399	4,124	8,883	6,598	3,523
Parent government contribution16	35,066	10,088	2,467	2,166	13,121	1,571	423	499	496	195	2,624	1,113	304
Private (fees from individuals)	11,582	1,001	663	958	4,366	441	261	446	600	457	1,106	872	412
Other	32,690	4,700	2,459	3,101	11,343	1,040	666	1,260	1,431	1,150	2,703	1,810	1,026
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	8.6	12.2	10.6	9.5	5.9	6.8	7.3	7.4	9.8	11.8	7.6	8.9	12.8
State	46.1	45.6	47.3	47.8	40.7	47.2	46.6	50.3	53.3	52.0	48.7	54.9	52.1
Local	45.3	42.2	42.1	42.7	53.4	46.0	46.1	42.3	36.9	36.3	43.7	36.2	35.1
Expenditures, 2003–04
Total expenditures (in millions of dollars)	$477,745	$83,304	$33,386	$39,644	$161,523	$15,702	$9,724	$16,292	$22,131	$16,265	$35,588	$29,158	$15,030
Current expenditures for schools	394,227	68,176	27,939	32,871	131,763	12,866	7,839	13,415	18,550	14,030	29,410	24,548	12,820
Instruction	244,165	43,061	17,113	20,385	81,616	7,968	4,814	8,337	11,389	8,623	18,045	15,063	7,751
Support services, students	20,228	3,067	1,519	1,806	7,501	665	402	661	894	697	1,506	1,029	481
Support services, instructional staff	18,367	3,540	1,510	1,625	6,212	577	341	546	803	587	1,231	941	456
Administration	22,532	3,971	1,691	1,890	7,488	756	454	748	1,047	775	1,653	1,367	692
Operation and maintenance	38,211	6,686	2,694	3,183	12,857	1,266	759	1,279	1,785	1,373	2,760	2,295	1,272
Transportation	16,661	2,585	1,003	1,129	5,717	507	342	599	765	540	1,480	1,325	668
Food service	15,305	2,517	1,138	1,309	4,414	508	299	559	864	648	1,269	1,171	608
Other	18,759	2,749	1,270	1,545	5,959	618	428	685	1,003	787	1,466	1,357	892
Other current expenditures	16,192	2,600	1,180	1,379	4,769	568	319	582	886	685	1,363	1,207	653
Interest on school debt	12,136	2,351	723	868	4,391	391	249	458	489	304	1,001	665	245
Capital outlay	52,109	8,858	3,089	4,358	18,664	1,920	1,288	1,814	2,346	1,441	3,898	2,985	1,446
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	61.9	63.2	61.3	62.0	61.9	61.9	61.4	62.1	61.4	61.5	61.4	61.4	60.5
Support services	9.8	9.7	10.8	10.4	10.4	9.7	9.5	9.0	9.2	9.1	9.3	8.0	7.3
Administration	5.7	5.8	6.1	5.7	5.7	5.9	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.4
Operation and maintenance	9.7	9.8	9.6	9.7	9.8	9.8	9.7	9.5	9.6	9.8	9.4	9.4	9.9
Transportation	4.2	3.8	3.6	3.4	4.3	3.9	4.4	4.5	4.1	3.9	5.0	5.4	5.2
Food service and other	8.6	7.7	8.6	8.7	7.9	8.8	9.3	9.3	10.1	10.2	9.3	10.3	11.7
Current expenditure per student (in dollars)	$8,187	$8,859	$8,035	$8,035	$8,537	$7,649	$7,525	$7,645	$7,500	$7,407	$7,634	$7,577	$8,438
Instruction expenditure per student (in dollars)	5,070	5,596	4,922	4,983	5,288	4,737	4,621	4,751	4,605	4,553	4,684	4,649	5,102

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 and is 5 miles or less from an urban­ized area or 2 miles or less from an urban cluster. 11 Located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster and is more than 5 miles and less than or equal to 25 miles from an urbanized area, or more than 2 miles and less than or equal to 10 miles from an urban cluster. 12 Located outside any urbanized area or urban cluster and more than 25 miles from an urbanized area or 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 93,295 out of 96,513 institutions in 2004–05. 15 Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data. 16 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 origin. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Com­mon Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2004–05, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2003–04 and 2004–05; and "National Public Education Financial Survey," 2003–04. (This table was prepared October 2006.)