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Table 89  Public elementary and secondary students, schools, pupil/teacher ratios, and finances, bytype of locale: 1996 and 1997

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                                        |           | Large  |Mid-size|  Urban  |  Urban  | Large | Small  |Rural\7\
             Characteristic             |   Total   |central |central |fringe of|fringe of|town\5\|town\6\ |
                                        |           |city\1\ |city\2\ |  large  |mid-size |       |        |
                                        |           |        |        | city\3\ | city\4\ |       |        |
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                   1                    |     2     |   3    |   4    |    5    |    6    |   7   |   8    |   9
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                                        |               Schools, enrollment, and teachers, 1997-98
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Enrollment, in thousands................|    46,241 |  8,485 |  7,717 |  13,788 |   4,310 |   794 |  5,293 |  5,854
Schools.................................|    89,505 | 12,368 | 13,358 |  21,812 |   7,902 | 1,625 | 12,688 | 19,752
Average school size\8\..................|       525 |    718 |    585 |     637 |     554 |   499 |    424 |    299
Pupil/teacher ratio\9\..................|      17.3 |   18.6 |   17.1 |    18.0 |    17.3 |  16.9 |   16.4 |   15.4
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Enrollment (percentage distribution)....|     100.0 |   18.4 |   16.7 |    29.8 |     9.3 |   1.7 |   11.4 |   12.7
Schools (percent distribution)..........|     100.0 |   13.8 |   14.9 |    24.4 |     8.8 |   1.8 |   14.2 |   22.1
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                                        |            Revenues and expenditures, 1995-96 (in millions)
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Total revenue...........................|   279,836 |$53,740 |$46,071 | $87,522 | $24,563 |$4,245 |$28,711 |$34,982
  Federal...............................|    18,100 |  5,085 |  3,365 |   3,432 |   1,328 |   325 |  2,287 |  2,278
    Impact aid .........................|       746 |    100 |     91 |     151 |      55 |    14 |    138 |    196
    Bilingual education ................|        19 |      5 |      3 |       3 |       1 |     1 |      3 |      3
    Indian education ...................|        45 |      4 |      4 |       3 |       1 |     2 |     14 |     18
    Children with disabilites ..........|     2,077 |    479 |    387 |     563 |     170 |    39 |    230 |    209
    Eisenhower science awards ..........|       157 |     41 |     28 |      37 |      12 |     3 |     18 |     17
    Drug Free schools ..................|       276 |     72 |     52 |      70 |      20 |     5 |     30 |     27
    Chapter 2 (block grants) ...........|       298 |     87 |     53 |      63 |      22 |     6 |     34 |     35
    Vocational education ...............|       501 |    148 |     97 |      89 |      37 |    11 |     68 |     51
    Chapter 1 ..........................|     6,270 |  1,886 |  1,233 |     973 |     427 |   115 |    834 |    803
    Other and unclassified .............|     7,711 |  2,263 |  1,416 |   1,481 |     583 |   130 |    918 |    919
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
  State.................................|   135,917 | 25,555 | 23,939 |  36,475 |  12,362 | 2,362 | 16,067 | 19,158
   State school lunch programs .........|       572 |    112 |    110 |     146 |      56 |     6 |     57 |     85
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
  Local.................................|   125,819 | 23,101 | 18,767 |  47,615 |  10,874 | 1,558 | 10,358 | 13,546
    Property tax\10\ ...................|    85,426 | 14,193 | 12,223 |  34,398 |   6,860 | 1,061 |  7,359 |  9,332
    Parent government contribution\10\..|    22,198 |  6,031 |  3,602 |   7,666 |   2,183 |   171 |    887 |  1,658
    Lunch sales ........................|     4,310 |    520 |    682 |   1,439 |     442 |    75 |    521 |    630
    Transportation .....................|        40 |      5 |      6 |      18 |       3 |     1 |      5 |      3
    Other ..............................|    13,845 |  2,353 |  2,254 |   4,094 |   1,386 |   250 |  1,586 |  1,923
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Total revenue (percentage distribution).|     100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 | 100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
  Federal...............................|       6.5 |    9.5 |    7.3 |     3.9 |     5.4 |   7.7 |    8.0 |    6.5
  State.................................|      48.6 |   47.6 |   52.0 |    41.7 |    50.3 |  55.6 |   56.0 |   54.8
  Local.................................|      45.0 |   43.0 |   40.7 |    54.4 |    44.3 |  36.7 |   36.1 |   38.7
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Total expenditures......................|  $279,107 |$54,023 |$45,669 | $87,470 | $24,442 |$4,207 |$28,671 |$34,625
  Current expenditures..................|   250,933 | 48,850 | 41,418 |  78,215 |  21,740 | 3,847 | 25,979 | 30,883
    Instruction ........................|   155,475 | 30,256 | 25,493 |  48,415 |  13,697 | 2,398 | 16,164 | 19,052
    Operation and maintenance ..........|    25,048 |  5,265 |  4,158 |   7,928 |   2,025 |   385 |  2,425 |  2,862
    Food service .......................|    10,349 |  2,018 |  1,762 |   2,609 |     947 |   178 |  1,343 |  1,491
    Other ..............................|    60,061 | 11,311 | 10,005 |  19,264 |   5,070 |   886 |  6,047 |  7,478
  Capital outlay .......................|    22,395 |  4,146 |  3,379 |   7,242 |   2,144 |   283 |  2,187 |  3,013
  Interest on school debt ..............|     5,779 |  1,027 |    872 |   2,012 |     557 |    78 |    506 |    728
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  Current expenditures (percentage      |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
   distribution)........................|     100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 | 100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
    Instruction ........................|      62.0 |   61.9 |   61.6 |    61.9 |    63.0 |  62.3 |   62.2 |   61.7
    Operation and maintenance ..........|      10.0 |   10.8 |   10.0 |    10.1 |     9.3 |  10.0 |    9.3 |    9.3
    Food service .......................|       4.1 |    4.1 |    4.3 |     3.3 |     4.4 |   4.6 |    5.2 |    4.8
    Other ..............................|      23.9 |   23.2 |   24.2 |    24.6 |    23.3 |  23.0 |   23.3 |   24.2
                                        |           |        |        |         |         |       |        |
Current expenditure per student ........|    $5,638 | $5,949 | $5,549 |  $6,017 |  $5,236 |$4,928 | $5,004 | $5,407
Instruction expenditure per student.....|     3,493 |  3,685 |  3,416 |   3,724 |   3,299 | 3,071 |  3,114 |  3,336
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\1\Central city of metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with population of 400,000 or more or a population density of 6,000 or more persons per square mile.
\2\Central city of an MSA but not designated as a large central city.
\3\Place within the MSA of a large central city.
\4\Place within the MSA of a mid-size central city.
\5\Place not within an MSA but with population of 25,000 or more and defined as urban.
\6\Place not within an MSA with a population of at least 2,500 but less than 25,000.
\7\Place with a population of less than 2,500.
\8\Average for schools reporting enrollment.
\9\Ratio for schools reporting both FTE teachers and fall enrollment data.
\10\Property tax and parent government contributions are determined on the basis of independence or dependence of the local school system and are mutually exclusive. NOTE.
--Enrollments by locale were used to distribute school district revenue and expenditure amounts by locale classification.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data survey; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Survey of Local Government Finances, unpublished data. (This table was prepared August 1999.)


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