Elementary and Secondary Education

Finance

Table A-36-1. Current expenditures per student in fall enrollment in public school districts, by district poverty category: Selected school years, 1995–96 through 2006–07

	Current expenditures per student
District poverty category¹											Percent change from 1995–96 to 2006–07

	1995–96	1997–98	1999– 2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07
[In current dollars]
Total	$5,560	$6,023	$6,727	$7,200	$7,540	$7,870	$8,134	$8,540	$8,979	$9,501	70.9
Low	6,210	6,551	7,207	7,713	8,126	8,477	8,833	9,243	9,820	10,318	66.2
Middle low	5,414	5,853	6,604	7,032	7,345	7,640	7,862	8,202	8,543	9,070	67.5
Middle	5,186	5,621	6,194	6,601	6,951	7,215	7,455	7,725	8,111	8,731	68.3
Middle high	5,136	5,608	6,441	6,876	7,212	7,418	7,707	8,052	8,591	8,945	74.2
High	5,858	6,482	7,181	7,782	8,075	8,606	8,853	9,484	9,830	10,440	78.2

[In constant 2008–09 dollars²]
Total	$7,725	$7,994	$8,529	$8,828	$9,083	$9,277	$9,383	$9,564	$9,686	$9,991	29.3
Low	8,628	8,695	9,138	9,457	9,789	9,993	10,189	10,351	10,593	10,850	25.8
Middle low	7,523	7,769	8,373	8,621	8,849	9,005	9,069	9,184	9,216	9,538	26.8
Middle	7,206	7,460	7,854	8,092	8,374	8,505	8,600	8,651	8,750	9,181	27.4
Middle high	7,135	7,442	8,167	8,430	8,688	8,744	8,890	9,017	9,267	9,406	31.8
High	8,139	8,603	9,106	9,540	9,728	10,144	10,212	10,621	10,604	10,978	34.9
¹Districts were ranked by the percentage of school-age children (5- to 17-year-olds) in poverty and then divided into five groups with approximately equal public school enrollments. For more information on poverty, see supplemental note 1.
²Expenditures have been adjusted for the effects of inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and are in constant 2008–09 dollars. For more information on using the CPI to adjust for inflation, see supplemental note 10.
NOTE: For more information on classifications of expenditures for elementary and secondary education, see supplemental note X. For more information on the Common Core of Data (CCD), see supplemental note 3. Districts include elementary/secondary combined districts and separate elementary or secondary districts. They exclude Department of Defense districts and Bureau of Indian Education districts.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, “Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates,” 1995–96, 1997–98, and 1999–2000 through 2006–07; and U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), “School District Finance Survey (Form F-33),” 1995–96, 1997–98, and 1999–2000 through 2006–07.

Would you like to help us improve our products and website by taking a short survey?

YES, I would like to take the survey

or

No Thanks

The survey consists of a few short questions and takes less than one minute to complete.