Table 7.2. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by race/ethnicity and locale: 2007–08

Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities

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Table 7.2.

Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by race/ethnicity and locale: 2007–08

Locale	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native
	Number
Total	48,397,895	26,991,389	8,238,245	10,237,009	2,345,968	585,284
City	14,232,071	4,659,317	3,881,265	4,589,508	982,962	119,019
Suburban	16,913,887	9,751,799	2,513,524	3,536,220	1,017,506	94,838
Town	6,097,471	4,218,463	691,804	940,324	115,775	131,105
Rural	11,154,466	8,361,810	1,151,652	1,170,957	229,725	240,322
	Percentage distribution of race/ethnicity for each locale
Total	100.0	55.8	17.0	21.2	4.8	1.2
City	100.0	32.7	27.3	32.2	6.9	0.8
Suburban	100.0	57.7	14.9	20.9	6.0	0.6
Town	100.0	69.2	11.3	15.4	1.9	2.2
Rural	100.0	75.0	10.3	10.5	2.1	2.2
	Percentage distribution of locale for each race/ethnicity
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
City	29.4	17.3	47.1	44.8	41.9	20.3
Suburban	34.9	36.1	30.5	34.5	43.4	16.2
Town	12.6	15.6	8.4	9.2	4.9	22.4
Rural	23.0	31.0	14.0	11.4	9.8	41.1
NOTE: Enrollment counts exclude schools with no reported enrollment or missing race/ethnicity information. Total enrollment including students with missing race/ethnicity information is 48,910,025. Race/ethnicity categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. For definitions of locales, see Appendix A: Guide to Sources. 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," 2007–08.