Table 89.

Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2006-07 and 2007-08

Selected characteristic	Total	City, large1	City, mid-size2	City, small3	Subur- ban, large4	Subur- ban, mid-size5	Subur- ban, small6	Town, fringe7	Town, dis- tant8	Town,  re- mote9	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 2007
Enrollment (in thousands)	48,910	7,664	3,490	3,829	16,020	1,590	1,061	1,997	2,352	1,672	4,752	3,325	1,158
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	55.8	22.4	38.5	53.8	55.9	70.2	68.4	74.8	69.9	66.9	73.7	81.4	76.8
Black	17.0	30.0	28.7	17.7	15.7	9.8	9.5	7.9	12.1	10.7	11.4	9.8	7.0
Hispanic	21.2	39.7	26.3	21.8	20.9	15.7	17.0	14.6	14.7	17.7	11.6	6.3	7.4
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.8	7.1	5.7	5.6	7.0	3.5	4.3	1.5	1.2	1.3	1.9	0.6	0.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.9	0.7	1.1	0.5	0.7	0.8	1.1	2.0	3.5	1.5	1.8	8.3
Schools	98,916	13,055	6,264	7,225	24,982	2,829	1,973	4,293	5,867	4,916	9,738	10,859	6,915
Average school size13	516	604	581	553	665	580	557	484	423	366	519	321	174
Pupil/teacher ratio14	15.7	16.1	16.0	15.8	16.2	15.8	16.1	15.9	15.2	14.9	15.5	14.4	12.6
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	15.7	7.1	7.8	32.8	3.3	2.2	4.1	4.8	3.4	9.7	6.8	2.4
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	13.2	6.3	7.3	25.3	2.9	2.0	4.3	5.9	5.0	9.8	11.0	7.0
Revenues, 2006-07
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$565,641	$96,092	$39,498	$43,448	$193,563	$17,794	$11,291	$21,482	$24,798	$17,129	$51,309	$35,110	$14,126
Federal	46,407	10,758	4,235	3,919	11,163	1,185	829	1,600	2,446	1,920	3,730	2,946	1,676
Title I	11,296	3,769	1,056	913	2,250	232	159	334	572	459	574	603	374
Child Nutrition Act	9,314	2,018	825	775	2,265	248	164	340	523	361	826	687	282
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	9,749	1,685	806	898	3,107	313	223	371	484	341	836	486	199
Impact aid	1,155	78	78	48	204	22	12	51	34	129	132	84	283
Bilingual education	480	94	28	65	74	24	7	23	38	20	34	49	23
Indian education	98	9	3	5	6	1	1	3	8	11	10	9	31
Math, science, and professional        development	1,533	355	157	140	357	39	32	56	85	75	94	86	58
Safe and drug-free schools	275	70	22	28	59	5	6	12	16	14	17	17	10
Title V, Part A	138	38	9	9	29	2	2	4	7	7	9	12	7
Vocational and technical education	622	151	52	52	148	14	13	18	35	29	57	33	18
Other and unclassified	11,749	2,492	1,199	985	2,663	284	211	386	645	475	1,138	881	390
State (in millions of dollars)	264,503	46,170	19,268	20,925	80,050	8,538	5,299	10,804	13,295	8,713	24,743	19,429	7,270
Special education programs	15,717	3,170	1,268	1,111	5,768	482	324	528	623	365	1,080	736	262
Compensatory and basic skills	6,344	1,575	405	758	2,328	174	83	149	180	74	314	205	98
Bilingual education	704	35	20	38	499	34	8	8	16	3	33	8	2
Gifted and talented	564	36	39	23	351	29	7	7	16	4	34	15	4
Vocational education	951	46	52	71	312	35	21	38	67	48	140	89	33
Other	240,223	41,308	17,483	18,925	70,792	7,784	4,856	10,074	12,393	8,219	23,142	18,376	6,872
Local (in millions of dollars)15	254,731	39,163	15,996	18,605	102,350	8,072	5,163	9,078	9,057	6,495	22,837	12,735	5,179
Property tax16	155,320	19,558	9,069	11,286	67,273	4,465	3,287	5,897	5,932	4,446	12,977	7,731	3,398
Parent government contribution16	41,567	12,317	2,816	2,411	15,311	1,691	590	591	527	165	3,469	1,376	304
Private (fees from individuals)	13,661	1,149	755	1,001	5,195	482	324	578	674	460	1,641	1,037	364
Other15	44,184	6,139	3,355	3,907	14,571	1,434	961	2,013	1,924	1,424	4,750	2,592	1,113
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	8.2	11.2	10.7	9.0	5.8	6.7	7.3	7.4	9.9	11.2	7.3	8.4	11.9
State	46.8	48.0	48.8	48.2	41.4	48.0	46.9	50.3	53.6	50.9	48.2	55.3	51.5
Local	45.0	40.8	40.5	42.8	52.9	45.4	45.7	42.3	36.5	37.9	44.5	36.3	36.7
Expenditures, 2006-07
Total expenditures (in millions of    dollars)	$569,619	$97,597	$39,039	$43,368	$196,208	$17,990	$11,372	$21,393	$24,689	$17,088	$52,091	$34,938	$13,846
Current expenditures for schools	468,387	79,867	32,420	36,505	159,383	14,527	9,310	17,839	20,888	14,493	41,808	29,582	11,766
Instruction	288,108	50,248	19,539	22,440	98,353	8,895	5,678	10,924	12,701	8,797	25,470	18,016	7,047
Support services, students	24,307	3,441	1,848	2,087	9,001	759	493	907	1,065	765	2,211	1,272	458
Support services, instructional        staff	22,441	4,321	1,846	1,859	7,367	667	443	763	976	635	1,923	1,209	436
Administration	34,144	5,073	2,313	2,530	11,387	1,055	688	1,365	1,667	1,222	3,208	2,526	1,109
Operation and maintenance	45,578	7,772	3,126	3,572	15,613	1,458	917	1,710	2,037	1,447	3,917	2,796	1,214
Transportation	20,123	3,131	1,197	1,286	6,995	590	396	810	851	557	2,061	1,621	627
Food service	17,591	2,801	1,277	1,391	5,219	547	352	723	955	655	1,731	1,391	549
Other	16,095	3,080	1,273	1,339	5,449	557	343	637	636	415	1,287	751	327
Other current expenditures	18,819	2,895	1,329	1,469	5,712	635	385	757	993	696	1,895	1,458	595
Interest on school debt	14,775	2,666	932	972	5,632	443	305	600	526	305	1,459	739	196
Capital outlay	64,061	11,045	4,178	4,286	23,728	2,350	1,341	2,203	2,186	1,648	6,654	3,213	1,230
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	62.9	60.3	61.5	61.7	61.2	61.0	61.2	60.8	60.7	60.9	60.9	59.9
Support services	10.0	9.7	11.4	10.8	10.3	9.8	10.0	9.4	9.8	9.7	9.9	8.4	7.6
Administration	7.3	6.4	7.1	6.9	7.1	7.3	7.4	7.7	8.0	8.4	7.7	8.5	9.4
Operation and maintenance	9.7	9.7	9.6	9.8	9.8	10.0	9.9	9.6	9.8	10.0	9.4	9.5	10.3
Transportation	4.3	3.9	3.7	3.5	4.4	4.1	4.3	4.5	4.1	3.8	4.9	5.5	5.3
Food service and other	7.2	7.4	7.9	7.5	6.7	7.6	7.5	7.6	7.6	7.4	7.2	7.2	7.4
Current expenditure per student    (in dollars)	$9,677	$10,670	$9,399	$9,612	$10,037	$9,118	$8,866	$9,015	$8,875	$8,706	$8,976	$8,906	$10,022
Instruction expenditure per student      (in dollars)	5,952	6,713	5,665	5,909	6,194	5,583	5,408	5,521	5,396	5,284	5,468	5,424	6,002

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 94,775 out of 98,916 institutions in 2007-08.

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," 2007-08, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2006-07 and 2007-08; and "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)," 2006-07. (This table was prepared September 2009.)