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Expenditure per pupil, average teacher salary, and pupil/teacher ratio, in public schools, from non-NAEP sources: By state, school years 2000–2001, 2002–03, and fall 2001
 
  In public elementary and secondary schools
State/jurisdiction Expenditure per pupil: 2000-2001 (unadjusted dollars) Estimated average annual salary of teachers: 2002-2003 (current dollars) Pupil/teacher ratio: Fall 2001
   Nation $7,376 $45,822 1 15.9 2
Alabama 5,885 38,246   15.8 2
Alaska  9,216 49,685   16.7
Arizona  5,278 40,894 1 20.0
Arkansas  5,568 37,753 1 13.6
California 6,987 56,283 1 20.5 2
Colorado  6,567 41,275 1 16.8
Connecticut 10,127 54,362 1 13.7
Delaware  8,958 50,772   15.3
Florida  6,170 39,465   18.6
Georgia  6,929 45,533   15.9  
Hawaii  6,596 44,464   16.8
Idaho 5,725 40,148   17.8
Illinois  7,643 51,289   16.0
Indiana 7,630 45,097   16.7
Iowa 6,930 38,921   13.9  
Kansas  6,925 38,123   14.2
Kentucky  6,079 38,981   16.2
Louisiana  6,037 36,878 1 16.6
Maine  8,232 38,121   12.3
Maryland  8,256 49,677   16.0  
Massachusetts  9,509 52,043   14.1
Michigan  8,278 54,071 1 17.5
Minnesota 7,645 42,833 1 16.0
Mississippi 5,175 34,555 1 15.8
Missouri 6,657 38,826   13.9  
Montana  6,726 35,754   14.6
Nebraska 7,223 37,896   13.5
Nevada 5,807 41,795 1 18.5
New Hampshire  7,286 40,519 1 14.1
New Jersey  11,248 54,166   12.9  
New Mexico  6,313 36,687   14.7
New York  10,716 52,600   13.7
North Carolina  6,346 43,076   15.4
North Dakota  6,125 33,210   13.2
Ohio 7,571 45,452   15.0  
Oklahoma  6,019 34,854   14.9
Oregon  7,528 47,600   19.4
Pennsylvania 8,210 51,800   15.4
Rhode Island  9,315 51,076 1 14.2
South Carolina 6,631 41,279   14.8  
South Dakota  6,191 32,416   13.6
Tennessee  5,687 39,677   15.9 2
Texas  6,539 40,001   14.7
Utah 4,674 38,413 1 21.8
Vermont  9,153 41,603   11.8  
Virginia  7,281 43,152   13.0
Washington  6,750 44,949   19.2
West Virginia 7,534 38,508   14.0
Wisconsin  8,243 42,871   14.4
Wyoming  7,835 37,876   12.5  
Other Jurisdictions    
  District of Columbia 12,046 50,763   13.9 3
  DDESS4 — —   13.2
  DoDDS5 — —   14.2  
— Not available.
1 Data estimated by the National Education Association. 
2 Includes imputations for underreporting of prekindergarten teachers.
3 Ratio excludes 6,943 students in charter schools for which no teacher data were reported. 
4 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools.
5 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (overseas).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institue of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2003 (NCES 2005–025), tables 66, 78 and 170 (pp. 86, 96, 208-209). Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, various years; Statistics of State School Systems, various years; and the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1985-86 through 2000-01, and "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1996-97 through 2001-02; and National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics, 1969-70 through 2002-03. (Copyright © 2003 by the National Education Association. All rights reserved.)
Last updated 11 October 2005 (FW)