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Facts and Figures About Locales That Depend on State Funding for Education

Last Updated: July 28, 2011
 

This article appeared in the July 2011 Rural Policy Matters.

Question: Schools in which locale — city, suburb, town, or rural community — are most heavily reliant, on average, on state funding as a percentage of their education budget?

Answer: Suburban schools get an average 79.1% of their funding from the state, a higher percentage than urban, town or rural schools. See this month’s graph for more information about the distribution of federal, state, and local funding among schools in different locales.

Read more from the July 2011 Rural Policy Matters.