Table 11. The Number and Proportion of School Districts (Towns) 



Declining in Population, 1950-1960, grouped according 



to Population in 1960. 



in population was indicated according to the percentage decline or in- 

 crease in population (Table 12). There is no evidence that the trend 

 in population is of significance in determining patterns of expenditures. 

 There is some tendency for school tax rates to be slightly higher for the 

 more densely populated districts than for the more rural districts, but 

 for neither group is there any consistent pattern as the trend changed 

 from over 10 percent decline to an increase of more than twenty percent. 

 There is some tendency in each group for the percent of taxable prop- 

 erty owned by permanent residents to increase with the population 

 trend. Consistent change in equalized valuation per capita and expendi- 

 tures per capita is not apparent. 



Table 12. Relation of Trend in Population to Tax Rates and Other Factors. 



'"Estimate based on continuance of 1950-1960 trend. 



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