Digest of Education Statistics
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Table 235.40. Public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures, by locale, source of revenue, and purpose of expenditure: 2013-14
Source of revenue and purpose of expenditure 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
Revenue amounts (in millions of
      current dollars)
                         
Total revenue13 $627,802 $116,565 $43,463 $44,773 $234,785 $22,549 $11,388 $15,412 $28,659 $20,706 $42,814 $32,625 $13,832
Federal 54,325 13,376 4,756 4,187 15,111 1,718 895 1,218 2,827 2,315 3,455 2,811 1,623
Title I 13,935 4,196 1,233 1,072 3,298 402 205 283 761 586 792 718 390
Child Nutrition Act 14,641 3,298 1,223 1,097 4,395 508 239 343 821 572 990 820 333
Children with disabilities (IDEA) 11,013 2,071 927 854 3,932 397 221 254 515 388 773 484 189
Impact aid 1,150 131 72 71 145 22 8 56 28 151 90 84 292
Bilingual education 344 94 34 30 128 9 6 7 10 7 13 5 2
Indian education 100 12 4 4 9 2 3 2 10 13 5 9 28
Math, science, and professional
       development
1,505 354 141 119 371 50 27 33 90 82 95 90 53
Safe and drug-free schools 120 19 13 9 23 2 2 3 10 6 16 11 6
Vocational and technical education 521 110 41 41 159 18 10 11 29 26 42 22 11
Other and unclassified 10,996 3,091 1,068 889 2,652 309 174 228 553 484 640 568 318
                           
State 291,559 52,137 21,464 21,796 99,362 11,249 5,562 8,086 15,294 10,750 21,100 17,698 7,005
Special education programs 19,215 4,197 1,518 1,277 7,336 638 301 446 765 523 1,155 771 288
Compensatory and basic skills 4,414 701 379 413 1,507 227 65 93 235 129 315 243 102
Bilingual education 952 74 39 54 633 57 7 4 27 10 35 8 4
Gifted and talented 1,162 31 75 76 672 53 15 16 44 32 101 32 16
Vocational education 1,102 44 62 74 430 54 27 23 81 63 127 84 34
Other 264,714 47,091 19,391 19,902 88,785 10,220 5,147 7,504 14,143 9,993 19,366 16,559 6,562
                           
Local13 281,918 51,052 17,243 18,791 120,312 9,582 4,931 6,108 10,537 7,640 18,259 12,116 5,204
Property tax14  179,402 24,552 10,528 12,311 82,282 5,483 3,500 4,356 7,352 5,495 11,496 8,339 3,709
Parent government contribution14 50,607 16,615 3,050 2,543 20,096 2,389 459 471 714 204 2,778 1,010 277
Private (fees from individuals) 14,066 1,478 820 913 6,020 569 256 398 703 482 1,150 851 354
Other13 37,843 8,407 2,845 3,024 11,914 1,141 716 883 1,768 1,459 2,835 1,916 865
                           
Percentage distribution of revenue                          
Total revenue 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 8.7 11.5 10.9 9.4 6.4 7.6 7.9 7.9 9.9 11.2 8.1 8.6 11.7
State 46.4 44.7 49.4 48.7 42.3 49.9 48.8 52.5 53.4 51.9 49.3 54.2 50.6
Local 44.9 43.8 39.7 42.0 51.2 42.5 43.3 39.6 36.8 36.9 42.6 37.1 37.6
                           
                           
Expenditure amounts (in millions of
      current dollars)
                         
Total expenditures $638,442 $120,837 $44,052 $46,100 $237,230 $22,627 $11,731 $15,761 $29,094 $20,984 $43,095 $32,678 $14,002
Current expenditures for schools 546,034 99,459 37,465 39,156 204,565 19,866 10,136 13,428 25,293 18,274 37,503 28,598 12,062
Instruction 329,268 61,332 21,949 23,370 124,783 11,934 6,045 8,061 15,026 10,742 22,319 16,807 6,856
Support services, students 31,269 4,694 2,346 2,563 12,877 1,169 634 738 1,324 992 2,083 1,313 523
Support services, instructional
       staff
25,042 4,676 2,181 1,981 9,073 946 442 544 1,162 843 1,549 1,124 497
Administration 41,228 6,728 2,807 2,889 14,924 1,421 780 1,089 2,108 1,617 3,002 2,622 1,230
Operation and maintenance 52,343 9,931 3,457 3,676 19,253 1,912 958 1,263 2,431 1,807 3,594 2,774 1,282
Transportation 24,151 4,036 1,443 1,450 8,951 879 468 639 1,137 754 2,043 1,684 665
Food service 21,882 3,946 1,597 1,590 7,201 824 404 580 1,231 896 1,632 1,396 584
Other 20,851 4,116 1,686 1,637 7,502 781 405 514 875 624 1,282 879 426
                           
Other current expenditures 26,342 7,203 1,933 1,752 9,300 761 479 622 837 449 1,590 1,009 392
Interest on school debt 17,607 4,143 1,135 1,129 6,893 565 280 431 613 398 1,159 669 191
Capital outlay 48,459 10,032 3,518 4,063 16,472 1,435 835 1,280 2,351 1,862 2,842 2,401 1,357
                           
Percentage distribution of current
      expenditures for schools
                         
All current expenditures for schools 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 60.3 61.7 58.6 59.7 61.0 60.1 59.6 60.0 59.4 58.8 59.5 58.8 56.8
Support services 10.3 9.4 12.1 11.6 10.7 10.6 10.6 9.5 9.8 10.0 9.7 8.5 8.5
Administration 7.6 6.8 7.5 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.7 8.1 8.3 8.8 8.0 9.2 10.2
Operation and maintenance 9.6 10.0 9.2 9.4 9.4 9.6 9.5 9.4 9.6 9.9 9.6 9.7 10.6
Transportation 4.4 4.1 3.9 3.7 4.4 4.4 4.6 4.8 4.5 4.1 5.4 5.9 5.5
Food service and other 7.8 8.1 8.8 8.2 7.2 8.1 8.0 8.1 8.3 8.3 7.8 8.0 8.4
                           
Per student amounts (in current dollars)                          
Current expenditure per student $10,962 $11,695 $10,384 $10,902 $11,151 $10,373 $10,527 $10,393 $10,066 $10,003 $10,593 $10,539 $12,054
Instruction expenditure per student 6,610 7,212 6,083 6,507 6,802 6,231 6,278 6,239 5,980 5,879 6,304 6,194 6,851
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 Excludes revenues from other in-state school systems.
14 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: Total includes data for some school districts not identified by locale. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency (School District) Finance Survey (F33)," 2013-14. (This table was prepared December 2016.)

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