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| Table A-2.1b. Number and percentage distribution of public elementary and secondary students, by race/ethnicity and locale: 2005-06 |
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| Locale | Total | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/Pacific Islander | American Indian/Alaska Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | ||||||
| Total | 47,724,895 | 27,463,756 | 7,990,596 | 9,208,688 | 2,101,292 | 635,410 |
| City | 13,595,614 | 4,765,366 | 3,702,997 | 4,078,163 | 836,445 | 117,601 |
| Suburban | 17,236,014 | 10,224,868 | 2,496,677 | 3,300,001 | 964,452 | 97,497 |
| Town | 6,208,942 | 4,369,707 | 699,066 | 873,921 | 106,585 | 126,211 |
| Rural | 10,684,325 | 8,103,815 | 1,091,856 | 956,603 | 193,810 | 294,101 |
| Fringe | 5,673,247 | 4,079,796 | 678,895 | 644,120 | 160,052 | 79,977 |
| Distant | 3,462,537 | 2,835,639 | 297,985 | 213,660 | 23,855 | 80,738 |
| Remote | 1,548,541 | 1,188,380 | 114,976 | 98,823 | 9,903 | 133,386 |
| Percentage distribution | ||||||
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| City | 28.5 | 17.4 | 46.3 | 44.3 | 39.8 | 18.5 |
| Suburban | 36.1 | 37.2 | 31.2 | 35.8 | 45.9 | 15.3 |
| Town | 13.0 | 15.9 | 8.7 | 9.5 | 5.1 | 19.9 |
| Rural | 22.4 | 29.5 | 13.7 | 10.4 | 9.2 | 46.3 |
| Fringe | 11.9 | 14.9 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 12.6 |
| Distant | 7.3 | 10.3 | 3.7 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 12.7 |
| Remote | 3.2 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 21.0 |
| NOTE: Includes students enrolled in Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools. Enrollment counts exclude schools with no reported enrollment. Race or locale information was not reported for 2.5 percent of students. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Rural areas are located outside any urbanized area or 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 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 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 and categories not separately shown. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2005–06. |
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