Status of Education in Rural America (NCES 2007-040)

This report presents a series of indicators on the status of education in rural America in 2003-04. It applies a new locale classification system, developed in 2006 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Census Bureau that classifies the locale of school districts and schools based on their actual geographic coordinates. The new classification system has twelve locale categories and distinguishes between rural areas that are on the fringe of an urban area, rural areas that are at some distance, and rural areas that are remote.