Table 93.

Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, by type of locale: 2007-08 and 2008-09

Selected characteristic	Total	City, large1	City, mid-size2	City, small3	Suburban, large4	Suburban, mid-size5	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 2008
Enrollment (in thousands)	49,054	7,425	3,146	3,752	14,438	1,590	1,019	2,087	2,325	1,586	6,933	3,554	1,197
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	54.9	21.2	35.0	50.3	54.7	65.6	67.6	72.8	68.4	64.8	68.8	81.7	76.1
Black	16.9	30.0	29.3	19.0	15.6	10.8	10.7	8.6	13.7	10.9	12.3	8.4	7.6
Hispanic	21.5	39.6	28.2	22.9	22.0	17.7	16.4	15.5	14.6	17.3	13.9	6.9	7.7
Asian/Pacific Islander	5.0	7.9	6.1	6.2	6.6	4.2	3.6	1.7	1.2	3.1	3.3	0.8	0.7
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.7	0.9	1.1	1.9	3.7	1.2	2.1	7.8
Other	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.6	0.7	1.0	0.8	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1
Schools	98,706	12,927	5,780	6,968	22,482	2,786	1,900	4,258	5,639	4,331	12,625	11,792	7,218
Average school size13	517	588	575	566	662	591	558	512	443	396	579	311	171
Pupil/teacher ratio14	15.8	16.5	16.0	15.9	16.0	16.0	16.5	15.9	15.2	15.1	16.0	14.4	12.5
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	15.1	6.4	7.6	29.4	3.2	2.1	4.3	4.7	3.2	14.1	7.2	2.4
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	13.1	5.9	7.1	22.8	2.8	1.9	4.3	5.7	4.4	12.8	11.9	7.3
Revenues, 2007-08
Total revenue (in millions of dollars)	$597,193	$102,104	$40,859	$46,151	$199,567	$18,784	$11,049	$21,596	$25,850	$17,903	$61,101	$37,241	$14,856
Federal	47,598	10,974	4,316	3,972	11,486	1,186	756	1,556	2,397	1,915	4,322	2,961	1,728
Title I	11,402	3,759	1,098	952	2,250	232	153	322	561	455	667	589	366
Child Nutrition Act	9,986	2,164	868	843	2,403	259	161	343	554	376	1,003	717	292
Children with disabilities (IDEA)	10,049	1,832	724	893	3,308	303	214	355	460	339	947	486	188
Impact aid	1,245	80	80	47	218	23	6	59	36	127	116	110	343
Bilingual education	310	79	28	37	76	6	5	10	12	11	15	17	15
Indian education	92	9	3	4	7	1	2	3	6	11	7	9	30
Math, science, and professional     development	1,538	351	158	146	357	39	34	52	75	74	109	83	60
Safe and drug-free schools	261	62	20	25	60	5	5	12	15	12	20	16	10
Title V, Part A	105	21	9	7	20	2	2	3	6	7	11	11	7
Vocational and technical education	605	130	48	51	154	14	12	16	33	28	69	31	17
Other and unclassified	12,006	2,488	1,280	967	2,633	304	162	382	639	476	1,359	892	400
State (in millions of dollars)	280,246	49,989	20,145	22,550	81,476	9,005	5,276	10,901	13,985	9,263	29,221	20,627	7,763
Special education programs	16,384	3,239	1,094	1,321	6,058	506	303	544	617	408	1,210	776	279
Compensatory and basic skills	6,927	1,630	452	827	2,645	192	90	154	203	86	320	229	100
Bilingual education	727	47	22	45	490	38	5	8	17	3	41	8	3
Gifted and talented	577	37	40	25	350	29	4	6	17	5	42	18	4
Vocational education	966	55	50	71	309	33	16	26	62	49	162	100	32
Other	254,666	44,981	18,487	20,261	71,624	8,207	4,857	10,163	13,069	8,712	27,445	19,496	7,346
Local (in millions of dollars)15	269,349	41,140	16,398	19,629	106,605	8,593	5,017	9,139	9,469	6,725	27,558	13,654	5,365
Property tax16	161,859	20,424	9,085	11,734	68,436	4,678	3,204	5,829	5,957	4,471	16,209	8,353	3,478
Parent government contribution16	43,824	12,399	2,872	2,494	16,595	1,832	577	597	671	144	3,990	1,364	288
Private (fees from individuals)	13,253	1,112	687	933	4,850	652	262	545	621	446	1,750	1,024	360
Other15	50,413	7,205	3,754	4,469	16,724	1,431	974	2,167	2,220	1,664	5,608	2,912	1,238
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	8.0	10.7	10.6	8.6	5.8	6.3	6.8	7.2	9.3	10.7	7.1	8.0	11.6
State	46.9	49.0	49.3	48.9	40.8	47.9	47.7	50.5	54.1	51.7	47.8	55.4	52.3
Local	45.1	40.3	40.1	42.5	53.4	45.7	45.4	42.3	36.6	37.6	45.1	36.7	36.1
Expenditures, 2007-08
Total expenditures (in millions of
dollars)	$609,820	$106,796	$40,919	$46,996	$204,007	$18,969	$11,256	$21,726	$25,884	$17,996	$63,038	$37,400	$14,688
Current expenditures for schools	489,006	84,116	32,666	37,941	163,157	14,907	8,948	17,961	21,474	15,251	49,002	31,078	12,427
Instruction	307,408	54,740	20,439	23,957	103,115	9,410	5,550	11,141	13,286	9,269	30,322	18,833	7,322
Support services, students	26,987	3,894	1,917	2,347	10,000	826	522	961	1,123	817	2,675	1,408	498
Support services, instructional     staff	9,564	1,049	487	607	2,851	254	170	436	549	536	1,095	1,012	518
Administration	37,351	5,734	2,504	2,786	12,192	1,111	700	1,425	1,761	1,367	3,877	2,716	1,179
Operation and maintenance	49,018	8,626	3,315	3,796	16,384	1,514	913	1,743	2,137	1,522	4,776	2,998	1,293
Transportation	22,199	3,428	1,278	1,434	7,531	629	407	860	943	612	2,584	1,784	679
Food service	18,833	3,054	1,348	1,492	5,395	567	341	732	1,009	694	2,127	1,472	583
Other	17,645	3,592	1,377	1,521	5,688	596	345	664	666	434	1,547	856	356
Other current expenditures	20,124	3,188	1,386	1,580	5,899	659	380	763	1,043	727	2,305	1,543	630
Interest on school debt	16,080	3,014	1,009	1,085	5,775	464	286	601	574	332	1,889	841	209
Capital outlay	69,042	12,009	4,521	5,074	22,837	2,495	1,311	2,227	2,520	1,725	8,835	3,991	1,486
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	62.9	65.1	62.6	63.1	63.2	63.1	62.0	62.0	61.9	60.8	61.9	60.6	58.9
Support services	7.5	5.9	7.4	7.8	7.9	7.2	7.7	7.8	7.8	8.9	7.7	7.8	8.2
Administration	7.6	6.8	7.7	7.3	7.5	7.5	7.8	7.9	8.2	9.0	7.9	8.7	9.5
Operation and maintenance	10.0	10.3	10.1	10.0	10.0	10.2	10.2	9.7	10.0	10.0	9.7	9.6	10.4
Transportation	4.5	4.1	3.9	3.8	4.6	4.2	4.6	4.8	4.4	4.0	5.3	5.7	5.5
Food service and other	7.5	7.9	8.3	7.9	6.8	7.8	7.7	7.8	7.8	7.4	7.5	7.5	7.6
Current expenditure per student    (in dollars)	$9,992	$10,894	$9,561	$9,825	$10,391	$9,608	$9,246	$9,364	$9,155	$9,180	$9,200	$9,401	$10,703
Instruction expenditure per student     (in dollars)	6,282	7,090	5,982	6,204	6,567	6,066	5,735	5,809	5,665	5,579	5,693	5,697	6,307

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 94,820 out of 98,706 institutions in 2008-09.

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," 2008-09, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2007-08 and 2008-09; and "School District Finance Survey (Form F-33)," 2007-08. (This table was prepared November 2010.)