EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EDT, AUGUST 13, 1998 (THURSDAY) Public Information Office CB98-138 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-4067 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Sharon Meade 301-457-1574 Elementary and Secondary School Revenues Were $275 Billion in 1994-1995, Census Bureau Reports The nation's elementary and secondary school revenues from all government sources climbed to $275 billion in 1994-1995, a 5 percent increase from the previous year, according to tables released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. The embargoed data can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/dcmd/www/embargo/ embargo.html. After the release time, go to http://www.census.gov/govs/www/school.html. State governments continued to contribute the greatest share of public school funding to elementary and secondary school systems, $131 billion (47.5 percent), closely followed by local governments, $126 billion (46 percent) and the federal government $18 billion (7 percent). The tabulations from the 1995 Annual Survey of Local Government Finances provide financial statistics for public elementary and secondary education. They show data on revenues, expenditures, and indebtedness for individual public elementary-secondary school systems with enrollment of 15,000 students or more. The tables also include state rankings of elementary-secondary revenues and expenditures per pupil and rankings based on the relation of elementary-secondary revenues and expenditures to state personal income. The data are in current dollars and have not been adjusted for price and wage changes occurring through the years. Data for this report came from all elementary and secondary schools and are not subject to sampling error. Quality assurance procedures were applied to all phases of collection, processing, and tabulation to minimize errors. However, the data are subject to miscoding errors, misreporting errors, and difficulties in identifying every unit that should be included in the report. -X- Editor's Note: The Public Information Office now has a media-access server for embargoed news releases and data sets. It is available to accredited media representatives only. To gain access, please contact us for a username and password. The media-access server's Internet address is http://www.census.gov/dcmd/www/embargo/embargo.html. We would appreciate any comments you may have about the site. The Census Bureau pre-eminent collector and provider of timely, relevant and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. In more than 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving from the first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information about America's people, businesses, industries and institutions.
