Table 1.3. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by race/ethnicity and locale: 2003–04

Status of Education in Rural America

NCES 2007-040
June 2007

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Table 1.3.

Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by race/ethnicity and locale: 2003–04

Locale	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native
	Number
Total	47,277,389	27,612,086	8,089,204	8,883,272	2,107,001	585,826
City	14,358,734	5,049,347	3,998,670	4,243,922	945,856	120,939
Suburban	16,899,108	10,466,158	2,397,357	3,032,308	909,026	94,259
Town	6,058,054	4,352,994	679,916	803,520	99,898	121,726
Rural	9,961,493	7,743,587	1,013,261	803,522	152,221	248,902
Fringe	5,115,917	3,806,283	596,189	519,923	122,728	70,794
Distant	3,309,673	2,731,320	299,375	188,831	20,284	69,863
Remote	1,535,903	1,205,984	117,697	94,768	9,209	108,245
	Percentage distribution
Total	100.0	58.4	17.1	18.8	4.5	1.2
City	100.0	35.2	27.8	29.6	6.6	0.8
Suburban	100.0	61.9	14.2	17.9	5.4	0.6
Town	100.0	71.9	11.2	13.3	1.6	2.0
Rural	100.0	77.7	10.2	8.1	1.5	2.5
Fringe	100.0	74.4	11.7	10.2	2.4	1.4
Distant	100.0	82.5	9.0	5.7	0.6	2.1
Remote	100.0	78.5	7.7	6.2	0.6	7.0
NOTE: Enrollment counts exclude schools with no reported enrollment. Race/ethnicity information was not reported for 1,076,134 students. Race/ethnicity categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin unless otherwise specified. Rural areas are located outside any urbanized area and urban cluster. Urbanized areas are densely settled areas containing at least 50,000 people. Urban clusters are densely settled areas with a population of 2,500 to 49,999. Fringe rural areas are 5 miles or less from an urbanized area or 2.5 miles or less from an urban cluster. Distant rural areas are 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. Remote rural areas are more than 25 miles from an urbanized area or more than 10 miles from an urban cluster. For more details on Census-defined areas, see http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/ua_2k.html. 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), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2003–04.