Comparison of number and percentage of public elementary and secondary schools and students classified as rural under the former metro-centric classification system and under the new urban-centric classification system: 2003

NCES 2007-040
June 2007

Exhibit B:

Comparison of number and percentage of public elementary and secondary schools and students classified as rural under the former metro-centric classification system and under the new urban-centric classification system: 2003–04

Characteristic	All locales	Rural under former system	Rural under new system	Unchanged (rural in both systems)	No longer classified as rural	Newly classified as rural	Net increase
Number of schools	95,726	29,517	29,977	27,099	2,418	2,878	460
Percentage of
All schools	100.0	30.8	31.3	28.3	2.5	3.0	0.5
Former rural schools	†	100.0	101.6¹	91.8	8.2	†	†

Number of students (in thousands)	48,354	9,971	10,308	8,851	1,120	1,457	337
Percentage of
All students	100.0	20.6	21.3	18.3	2.3	3.0	0.7
Students formerly classified as rural	†	100.0	103.4¹	88.8	11.2	†	†
† Not applicable ¹ This percentage, which represents the number under the new system divided by the number under the former system, is over 100 percent because the new classification system increased the total number classified as rural. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Locale Code File," 2003–04.