Expenditure per pupil, average teacher salary, and pupil/teacher ratio, in public schools, from non-NAEP sources: By state, school years 1999–2000, 2001–02, and Fall 2000
In public elementary and secondary schools
Expenditure per
pupil:
Estimated average
annual salary of teachers:
Pupil/teacher
ratio:
1999–2000
2001–02
Fall 2000
Nation
$6,911
$44,604
16
1
Alabama
5,638
39,268
15
1
Alaska
8,806
49,418
17
Arizona
4,999
36,966
20
Arkansas
5,277
35,389
14
California
6,314
53,870
21
1
Colorado
6,215
40,222
17
Connecticut
9,753
54,300
14
Delaware
8,310
48,363
15
Florida
5,831
38,719
18
Georgia
6,437
44,073
16
Hawaii
6,530
41,951
17
Idaho
5,315
37,482
18
Illinois
7,133
50,000
16
Indiana
7,192
44,195
17
Iowa
6,564
38,230
14
Kansas
6,294
36,673
14
Kentucky
5,921
37,847
17
Louisiana
5,804
35,437
17
Maine
7,667
37,100
13
Maryland
7,731
46,200
16
Massachusetts
8,761
50,293
14
Michigan
8,110
52,037
18
1
Minnesota
7,190
43,330
16
Mississippi
5,014
32,800
16
Missouri
6,187
37,695
14
Montana
6,314
34,379
15
Nebraska
6,683
36,236
14
Nevada
5,760
41,524
19
New
Hampshire
6,860
38,911
15
New
Jersey
10,337
54,575
13
New
Mexico
5,825
36,490
15
New
York
9,846
53,081
14
North
Carolina
6,045
42,959
15
North
Dakota
5,667
31,709
13
Ohio
7,065
44,492
16
Oklahoma
5,395
35,412
15
Oregon
7,149
43,886
19
Pennsylvania
7,772
50,599
16
Rhode
Island
8,904
49,758
15
South Carolina
6,130
38,943
15
South
Dakota
5,632
31,295
14
Tennessee
5,383
38,554
15
1
Texas
6,288
39,293
15
Utah
4,378
37,414
22
Vermont
8,323
38,802
12
Virginia
6,841
41,262
13
1
Washington
6,376
43,483
20
West Virginia
7,152
36,751
14
Wisconsin
7,806
43,114
14
Wyoming
7,425
37,841
13
Other Jurisdictions
District of Columbia
10,107
47,049
14
DDESS
2
—
—
14
DoDDS
3
—
—
14
— Not available. 1 Includes imputations for underreporting. 2 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools. 3 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas).
NOTE: Constant 2001-02 dollars based on the Consumer Price Index prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Price index does not account for different rates of change in the cost of living among states. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institue of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2002 (NCES 2003–060), tables 67, 78 and 169 (pp. 79, 88, 198-99), 2003.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, various years; Statistics of State School Systems, various years; and Common Core of Data surveys. National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics; and unpublished data, 2002.
