Table 94.

Public elementary and secondary enrollment, student race/ethnicity, schools, school size, and pupil/teacher ratios, by type of locale: 2008-09 and 2009-10

Enrollment, race/ethnicity, schools, school size, and pupil/teacher ratios	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, fringe 10	Rural, distant 11	Rural, remote 12	Locale unknown
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
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	†
Fall 2009
Enrollment (in thousands)	49,136	7,563	3,175	3,694	14,293	1,574	1,003	956	3,090	1,854	7,266	3,496	1,171	#
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	100.0
White	54.1	21.4	35.0	49.3	53.7	64.5	66.7	71.7	69.2	64.0	67.8	81.4	76.1	44.4
Black	16.8	29.5	27.9	18.8	15.6	11.0	10.7	6.5	12.4	11.5	12.3	8.4	7.2	16.2
Hispanic	22.2	39.6	29.3	24.2	22.7	18.6	16.7	18.4	14.9	17.5	14.6	7.0	7.9	34.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	5.1	7.9	6.2	6.2	6.7	4.3	3.7	1.7	1.4	2.9	3.4	0.8	0.7	2.8
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.0	0.5	0.7	0.9	1.2	1.6	3.6	1.2	2.1	7.7	0.6
Other	0.7	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.7	1.0	1.2	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.3	0.4	1.1
Schools	98,817	13,234	5,705	6,828	22,395	2,771	1,875	1,926	7,069	4,991	13,156	11,687	7,103	77
Average school size13	516	586	582	565	656	583	555	513	462	399	579	308	170	13
Pupil/teacher ratio14	16.1	16.7	16.6	16.2	16.5	16.5	16.7	16.5	15.6	15.3	16.3	14.5	12.5	13.4
Enrollment (percentage distribution)	100.0	15.4	6.5	7.5	29.1	3.2	2.0	1.9	6.3	3.8	14.8	7.1	2.4	#
Schools (percentage distribution)	100.0	13.4	5.8	6.9	22.7	2.8	1.9	2.0	7.2	5.1	13.3	11.8	7.2	#

†Not applicable.

#Rounds to zero.

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. Enrollment data were available for 95,222 out of 98,817 institutions in 2009-10.

14 Ratio for schools reporting both full-time-equivalent teachers and fall enrollment data.

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," 2009-10, and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2008-09 and 2009-10. (This table was prepared December 2011.)