Table A-1.9. Percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by percentage of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, detailed locale, and race/ethnicity: 2003

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Table A-1.9.

Percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by percentage of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, detailed locale, and race/ethnicity: 2003–04

Detailed locale and race/ethnicity	Total	10 percent or less	11–25 percent	26–50 percent	51–75 percent	More than 75 percent
Total ¹	100.0	15.0	20.6	29.1	20.3	15.0
White	100.0	20.7	27.6	33.2	14.9	3.7
Black	100.0	4.2	9.4	24.5	29.8	32.2
Hispanic	100.0	6.0	9.3	21.7	28.4	34.7
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	22.5	22.0	26.4	18.2	10.9
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	5.1	12.2	27.5	29.8	25.5
City, large ¹	100.0	5.9	9.3	18.7	25.7	40.5
White	100.0	13.8	22.9	30.4	19.8	13.1
Black	100.0	2.3	4.4	15.4	29.2	48.8
Hispanic	100.0	3.3	4.2	12.5	26.3	53.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	8.7	12.2	26.0	27.0	26.1
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	4.1	11.6	22.5	24.5	37.3
City, midsize ¹	100.0	10.5	13.5	26.7	24.7	24.7
White	100.0	16.7	21.6	33.3	20.0	8.4
Black	100.0	1.6	5.3	22.4	31.2	39.7
Hispanic	100.0	7.5	7.9	21.2	26.3	37.1
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	23.4	21.5	25.6	17.9	11.7
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	7.8	14.8	28.9	28.7	19.8
City, small ¹	100.0	11.4	19.2	32.9	22.5	14.1
White	100.0	14.0	26.3	37.1	17.6	5.0
Black	100.0	3.3	8.8	28.4	30.8	28.8
Hispanic	100.0	8.0	9.1	27.1	29.5	26.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	27.4	24.8	27.3	14.4	6.1
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	6.2	17.0	36.7	27.3	12.8
Suburban, large ¹	100.0	27.1	25.6	23.2	14.3	9.9
White	100.0	38.3	32.1	20.9	7.0	1.7
Black	100.0	8.2	16.5	30.8	25.4	19.1
Hispanic	100.0	7.5	13.2	23.9	27.1	28.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	30.8	25.3	23.0	14.8	6.2
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	15.0	26.8	31.5	18.0	8.7
Suburban, midsize ¹	100.0	18.9	26.0	32.7	16.2	6.2
White	100.0	22.3	30.3	32.8	12.0	2.6
Black	100.0	5.6	13.3	37.4	25.9	17.9
Hispanic	100.0	12.3	14.9	28.0	29.5	15.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	17.7	25.6	36.6	14.9	5.3
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	13.5	25.6	36.5	17.9	6.5
Suburban, small ¹	100.0	12.1	30.0	36.9	15.6	5.4
White	100.0	14.0	33.5	38.0	12.2	2.3
Black	100.0	5.6	17.8	38.2	27.0	11.5
Hispanic	100.0	4.6	19.4	32.5	26.4	17.2
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	22.5	35.3	26.9	9.7	5.7
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	6.1	28.5	41.9	17.3	6.2
Town, fringe ¹	100.0	13.4	27.9	35.0	16.6	7.2
White	100.0	16.1	33.1	36.8	12.2	1.8
Black	100.0	4.1	10.5	32.8	34.0	18.6
Hispanic	100.0	4.3	10.5	26.5	29.1	29.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	14.6	27.5	31.1	18.7	8.1
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	7.4	17.5	40.0	26.2	8.9
Town, distant ¹	100.0	3.1	16.8	40.4	28.3	11.4
White	100.0	3.2	21.9	46.9	23.7	4.2
Black	100.0	1.3	3.4	22.7	40.4	32.2
Hispanic	100.0	4.3	5.7	27.0	38.2	24.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	4.4	19.9	39.9	24.1	11.8
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	1.4	6.0	29.0	39.6	24.0
Town, remote ¹	100.0	2.3	13.7	41.7	29.9	12.5
White	100.0	2.9	18.2	49.0	25.7	4.2
Black	100.0	0.5	2.0	16.5	39.3	41.8
Hispanic	100.0	1.4	3.6	27.6	40.5	26.9
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	2.1	13.2	53.2	26.9	4.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	2.8	10.0	33.5	33.5	20.2
Rural, fringe ¹	100.0	19.0	26.6	31.5	16.9	6.1
White	100.0	22.5	30.4	32.6	12.7	1.9
Black	100.0	6.1	14.9	29.8	31.8	17.4
Hispanic	100.0	9.0	14.6	26.9	28.2	21.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	27.1	29.9	27.5	12.9	2.6
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	6.1	14.1	30.4	32.3	17.1
Rural, distant ¹	100.0	5.0	22.5	40.2	23.5	8.9
White	100.0	5.7	26.0	43.7	21.1	3.5
Black	100.0	1.3	5.5	23.0	32.8	37.4
Hispanic	100.0	2.3	9.0	28.6	35.5	24.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	6.5	21.6	35.7	24.9	11.3
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	1.1	6.5	20.9	35.3	36.2
Rural, remote ¹	100.0	1.6	9.3	43.8	32.0	13.3
White	100.0	1.8	11.3	50.9	30.7	5.4
Black	100.0	0.4	0.9	11.5	37.0	50.3
Hispanic	100.0	1.9	3.9	26.9	39.1	28.1
Asian/Pacific Islander	100.0	2.4	10.5	43.2	34.7	9.2
American Indian/Alaska Native	100.0	1.0	2.3	17.9	33.9	45.0
¹ Includes other racial/ethnic groups not separately shown. NOTE: The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program. To be eligible, a student must be from a household with an income at or below 130 percent of the poverty threshold for free lunch or between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty threshold for reduced-price lunch. Approximately 13,704 public schools did not report information on the number of students eligible for a free or reduced-price school lunch. Therefore, this information is missing for 5,227,075 public school students. For a comparison of poverty definitions, see appendix B. Race/ethnicity categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin unless otherwise specified. 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.