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Public Effort to Fund Elementary and Secondary Education
Table 39-1.  Total public revenue, fall enrollment, and public revenue per student in elementary and secondary schools: 1969–70 to 2001–02

[In constant 2001–02 dollars]
School year
ending
Total public revenue
(in billions of dollars)
Fall enrollment
(in millions)
Public revenue per
student in fall enrollment

1970 $190 45.6 $4,170
1971 200 45.9 4,351
1972 217 46.1 4,701
1973 217 45.7 4,745
1974 223 45.4 4,896
1975 222 45.1 4,918
1976 229 44.8 5,105
1977 229 44.3 5,161
1978 232 43.6 5,317
1979 229 42.6 5,380
1980 222 41.7 5,339
1981 218 40.9 5,332
1982 209 40.0 5,211
1983 213 39.6 5,392
1984 221 39.3 5,622
1985 231 39.2 5,899
1986 244 39.4 6,194
1987 254 39.8 6,388
1988 261 40.0 6,519
1989 282 40.2 7,025
1990 293 40.5 7,218
1991 297 41.2 7,211
1992 302 42.0 7,193
1993 310 42.8 7,230
1994 317 43.5 7,294
1995 324 44.1 7,336
1996 332 44.8 7,400
1997 342 45.6 7,500
1998 359 46.1 7,784
1999 376 46.5 8,083
2000 393 46.9 8,377
2001 408 47.2 8,653
2002 420 47.7 8,802

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Revenues are in constant 2001–02 dollars, adjusted using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). See supplemental note 9 for information about the CPI. Public revenue is measured by total revenue received by school districts providing public elementary and secondary education. Elementary and secondary enrollment includes pupils in local public school systems. See supplemental note 3 for more information about the Common Core of Data (CCD).

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). (2004). Digest of Education Statistics 2003 (NCES 2005–025), tables 3 and 156 and (2005) Digest of Education Statistics 2004 (NCES 2005–079), table 156; U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Statistics of State School Systems and Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, Common Core of Data (CCD), “National Public Education Financial Survey” (NPEFS), 1987–88 to 2001–02.

 
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