Table 22. Percent of public elementary schools that calculated the students' body mass index and measured students' height and weight indicating whether the information was sent to parents, by selected school characteristics: 2005

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Table 22. Percent of public elementary schools that calculated the students' body mass index and measured students' height and weight indicating whether the information was sent to parents, by selected school characteristics: 2005
School characteristic	Body mass index information	Height information	Weight information
All public elementary schools	49	39	39
Enrollment size
Less than 300	54	42	42
300 to 499	54	39	40
500 or more	43	36	37
School locale
City	45	39	39
Urban fringe	52	37	38
Town	‡	43	45
Rural	47	39	39
Region
Northeast	48	28	29
Southeast	62	43	43
Central	51	42	43
West	41	40	41
Percent minority enrollment
Less than 6 percent	56	39	39
6 to 20 percent	54	40	39
21 to 49 percent	49	39	40
50 percent or more	45	38	40
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
Less than 35 percent	50	37	37
35 to 49 percent	54	43	43
50 to 74 percent	47	41	41
75 percent or more	48	37	39
‡ Reporting standards not met.
NOTE: Data in this table are based on the number of schools that calculated the students' body mass index and measured the students' height or weight (table 21).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System (FRSS), "Foods and Physical Activity in Public Elementary Schools: 2005," FRSS 87, 2005.