Appendix Tables

Table 1.-Revenue per classroom unit and possible revenue per classroom unit if States used 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 percent of income of the residents, 1953–54

1 Source: Based on 1950 figures listed in Expenditures for Education at the Midcentury, U. S. Office of Education, Misc. No. 18 and Current Population Reports, Bureau of the Census, Series P-25, No. 106, Dec. 6, 1954. Table 6, p. 8.

2 Public School Finance Programs of the 48 States, Office of Education, Misc. No. 22. Does not include junior colleges.

Table 2.-Total revenue required to maintain national average per classroom unit, and percent this revenue is of total income of the residents, 1953-54

1 Estimated number of classroom units multiplied by $7,025.
Source: Survey of Current Business, U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Aug. 1954.

Table 3.-Revenue available for education if States use 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 percent of total income of the residents, and additional amounts required for less able States to attain national average per classroom unit, 1953-54

Table 4.-Percent of State, county, and local public school revenue from property axes and from other sources, 1953-54

1 Corrected on basis of more recent reports.

Source: Public School Finance Programs of the United States, U. S. Office of Education, Misc. No. 22, 1955.

Table 5.-Percent of public school revenue from State sources for selected

1 Statistics of State School Systems, Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, ch. 2, Office of Education.

2 Public School Finance Programs of the United States, Office of Education, Misc. No. 22, 1955.

Table 6.—Average income per child 5–17, 1940, and 1953, and rank of each

Source: Survey of Current Business, U. S. Department of Commerce, August 1954, and Current Popula tion Reports, Bureau of the Census, Series P-25.

Table 7.-Increase in average income per child 5-7, from 1940 to 1953, adjusted to 1953 dollars