Table 90.

Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2005–06 and 2006–07

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 2006
Enrollment (in thousands)	49,066	7,710	3,601	3,774	15,957	1,665	1,075	1,784	2,364	1,881	4,492	3,332	1,430
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	56.5	22.7	40.3	54.4	56.7	71.2	69.3	75.6	70.5	67.8	75.1	80.8	77.8
Black	17.1	30.4	28.2	17.9	15.8	9.8	8.8	7.7	12.0	11.1	11.2	10.1	7.2
Hispanic	20.5	39.0	25.1	21.4	20.2	15.0	16.9	14.1	14.4	16.5	11.0	6.3	6.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.7	7.0	5.7	5.2	6.8	3.3	4.2	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.7	0.6	0.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.1	0.5	0.7	0.9	1.1	1.8	3.4	0.9	2.2	7.8
Schools	98,793	12,931	6,419	7,096	24,650	2,926	2,026	3,808	5,743	5,495	9,192	10,413	8,094
Average school size13	521	616	598	558	674	590	553	490	439	368	520	338	184
Pupil/teacher ratio14	15.8	16.7	16.4	16.0	16.1	16.2	16.6	16.0	15.1	15.0	15.3	14.3	12.7
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	15.7	7.3	7.7	32.5	3.4	2.2	3.6	4.8	3.8	9.2	6.8	2.9
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	13.1	6.5	7.2	25.0	3.0	2.1	3.9	5.8	5.6	9.3	10.5	8.2
Revenues, 2005–06
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$529,720	$88,929	$37,353	$40,579	$181,208	$16,951	$10,776	$17,884	$23,473	$18,260	$45,264	$32,898	$16,145
Federal	47,061	10,906	4,222	4,021	11,252	1,223	867	1,455	2,387	2,212	3,488	2,980	2,046
Title I	11,371	3,798	1,045	941	2,202	246	167	303	559	522	556	572	461
Child Nutrition Act	8,910	1,967	794	750	2,093	243	155	285	491	414	734	648	335
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	9,638	1,665	794	871	3,176	307	220	320	448	377	766	468	226
Impact aid	1,236	85	90	59	218	22	7	42	40	143	75	122	332
Bilingual education	320	93	30	33	81	5	5	9	14	10	11	15	14
Indian education	100	9	4	5	6	1	1	3	7	12	5	12	36
Math, science, and professional development	1,545	364	155	139	348	40	32	51	83	86	92	83	70
Safe and drug-free schools	308	75	27	29	69	6	7	11	17	19	18	18	13
Title V, Part A	221	58	16	15	56	5	3	5	11	11	14	14	11
Vocational and technical education	642	154	51	52	155	15	13	16	34	35	62	31	21
Other and unclassified	12,771	2,638	1,216	1,128	2,847	333	257	409	683	584	1,154	995	526
State (in millions of dollars)	242,728	40,948	17,671	19,341	73,724	7,895	4,926	8,743	12,415	9,321	21,523	17,913	8,307
Special education programs	15,218	2,880	1,214	1,075	5,810	454	317	428	588	413	1,006	690	343
Compensatory and basic skills	5,873	1,544	366	629	2,196	157	74	120	155	80	277	175	100
Bilingual education	665	26	25	33	487	27	7	6	11	5	31	5	3
Gifted and talented	534	34	52	22	318	28	7	5	14	6	30	14	5
Vocational education	914	45	46	62	332	38	18	31	57	53	116	80	36
Other	219,524	36,419	15,968	17,521	64,581	7,192	4,503	8,153	11,591	8,764	20,064	16,948	7,820
Local (in millions of dollars)15	239,932	37,074	15,460	17,217	96,232	7,832	4,983	7,686	8,670	6,728	20,253	12,005	5,792
Property tax16	147,248	19,062	9,066	10,315	63,209	4,185	3,224	5,039	5,770	4,599	11,656	7,293	3,831
Parent government contribution16	39,189	11,260	2,722	2,475	14,555	1,708	526	492	528	202	2,991	1,391	338
Private (fees from individuals)	13,176	1,088	756	938	5,018	482	312	507	642	509	1,483	1,001	439
Other15	40,319	5,665	2,915	3,489	13,449	1,457	921	1,648	1,731	1,417	4,122	2,321	1,184
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	12.3	11.3	9.9	6.2	7.2	8.0	8.1	10.2	12.1	7.7	9.1	12.7
State	45.8	46.0	47.3	47.7	40.7	46.6	45.7	48.9	52.9	51.0	47.6	54.4	51.4
Local	45.3	41.7	41.4	42.4	53.1	46.2	46.2	43.0	36.9	36.8	44.7	36.5	35.9
Expenditures, 2005–06
Total expenditures (in millions of dollars)	$536,511	$92,513	$37,757	$40,380	$184,135	$17,074	$10,859	$17,984	$23,535	$18,083	$45,623	$32,721	$15,847
Current expenditures for schools	441,978	75,372	31,275	33,914	149,763	13,995	8,861	15,009	19,787	15,553	37,022	27,787	13,640
Instruction	271,753	47,611	18,952	20,823	92,101	8,581	5,374	9,208	12,067	9,441	22,484	16,922	8,188
Support services, students	22,677	3,193	1,706	1,901	8,463	711	469	767	994	811	1,925	1,205	531
Support services, instructional staff	21,228	4,053	1,791	1,727	7,021	642	412	632	919	706	1,693	1,118	513
Administration	32,337	4,761	2,223	2,351	10,788	1,029	665	1,151	1,566	1,298	2,862	2,367	1,277
Operation and maintenance	43,280	7,422	2,997	3,318	14,779	1,422	881	1,440	1,918	1,546	3,521	2,649	1,387
Transportation	19,010	2,945	1,142	1,191	6,558	567	382	689	820	610	1,857	1,513	737
Food service	16,734	2,690	1,233	1,309	4,905	527	333	611	896	711	1,564	1,314	640
Other	14,959	2,698	1,231	1,294	5,147	516	344	509	608	429	1,117	699	368
Other current expenditures	17,909	2,790	1,277	1,388	5,365	611	365	645	935	767	1,699	1,373	694
Interest on school debt	13,752	2,556	851	836	5,201	424	291	495	527	320	1,281	719	250
Capital outlay	58,804	10,884	4,165	3,920	21,475	1,992	1,257	1,852	2,223	1,531	5,352	2,947	1,207
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	61.5	63.2	60.6	61.4	61.5	61.3	60.6	61.4	61.0	60.7	60.7	60.9	60.0
Support services	9.9	9.6	11.2	10.7	10.3	9.7	9.9	9.3	9.7	9.8	9.8	8.4	7.7
Administration	7.3	6.3	7.1	6.9	7.2	7.3	7.5	7.7	7.9	8.3	7.7	8.5	9.4
Operation and maintenance	9.8	9.8	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.2	9.9	9.6	9.7	9.9	9.5	9.5	10.2
Transportation	4.3	3.9	3.7	3.5	4.4	4.1	4.3	4.6	4.1	3.9	5.0	5.4	5.4
Food service and other	7.2	7.1	7.9	7.7	6.7	7.5	7.6	7.5	7.6	7.3	7.2	7.2	7.4
Current expenditure per student (in dollars)	$9,151	$9,949	$8,852	$9,127	$9,529	$8,545	$8,451	$8,568	$8,400	$8,271	$8,561	$8,393	$9,406
Instruction expenditure per student (in dollars)	5,626	6,284	5,364	5,604	5,860	5,239	5,126	5,257	5,123	5,021	5,199	5,111	5,646

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 Average for schools reporting enrollment. Enrollment data were available for 94,164 out of 98,793 institutions in 2006–07. 14 Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data. 15 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." 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: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. 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," 2006–07, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2005–06 and 2006–07; and "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)," 2004–05. (This table was prepared September 2008.)