Skip Navigation
Digest of Education Statistics
2000 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest

Table 158. Revenues for public elementary and secondary schools, by source of funds: 1919-20 to 1997-98
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
             |                   In thousands                     |         Percentage distribution
             |____________________________________________________|________________________________________
 School year |             |            |            |    Local   |         |         |         |  Local
             |             |            |            | (including |         |         |         |(including
             |    Total    |   Federal  |    State   |  interme-  |  Total  | Federal |  State  | interme-
             |             |            |            | diate)\1\  |         |         |         |diate)\1\
_____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_________|_________|_________|__________
      1      |      2      |     3      |     4      |     5      |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9
_____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_________|_________|_________|__________
1919-20 .....|    $970,121 |     $2,475 |   $160,085 |   $807,561 |   100.0 |     0.3 |    16.5 |     83.2
1929-30 .....|   2,088,557 |      7,334 |    353,670 |  1,727,553 |   100.0 |     0.4 |    16.9 |     82.7
1939-40 .....|   2,260,527 |     39,810 |    684,354 |  1,536,363 |   100.0 |     1.8 |    30.3 |     68.0
1941-42 .....|   2,416,580 |     34,305 |    759,993 |  1,622,281 |   100.0 |     1.4 |    31.4 |     67.1
1943-44 .....|   2,604,322 |     35,886 |    859,183 |  1,709,253 |   100.0 |     1.4 |    33.0 |     65.6
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1945-46 .....|   3,059,845 |     41,378 |  1,062,057 |  1,956,409 |   100.0 |     1.4 |    34.7 |     63.9
1947-48 .....|   4,311,534 |    120,270 |  1,676,362 |  2,514,902 |   100.0 |     2.8 |    38.9 |     58.3
1949-50 .....|   5,437,044 |    155,848 |  2,165,689 |  3,115,507 |   100.0 |     2.9 |    39.8 |     57.3
1951-52 .....|   6,423,816 |    227,711 |  2,478,596 |  3,717,507 |   100.0 |     3.5 |    38.6 |     57.9
1953-54 .....|   7,866,852 |    355,237 |  2,944,103 |  4,567,512 |   100.0 |     4.5 |    37.4 |     58.1
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1955-56 .....|   9,686,677 |    441,442 |  3,828,886 |  5,416,350 |   100.0 |     4.6 |    39.5 |     55.9
1957-58 .....|  12,181,513 |    486,484 |  4,800,368 |  6,894,661 |   100.0 |     4.0 |    39.4 |     56.6
1959-60 .....|  14,746,618 |    651,639 |  5,768,047 |  8,326,932 |   100.0 |     4.4 |    39.1 |     56.5
1961-62 .....|  17,527,707 |    760,975 |  6,789,190 |  9,977,542 |   100.0 |     4.3 |    38.7 |     56.9
1963-64 .....|  20,544,182 |    896,956 |  8,078,014 | 11,569,213 |   100.0 |     4.4 |    39.3 |     56.3
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1965-66 .....|  25,356,858 |  1,996,954 |  9,920,219 | 13,439,686 |   100.0 |     7.9 |    39.1 |     53.0
1967-68 .....|  31,903,064 |  2,806,469 | 12,275,536 | 16,821,063 |   100.0 |     8.8 |    38.5 |     52.7
1969-70 .....|  40,266,923 |  3,219,557 | 16,062,776 | 20,984,589 |   100.0 |     8.0 |    39.9 |     52.1
1970-71 .....|  44,511,292 |  3,753,461 | 17,409,086 | 23,348,745 |   100.0 |     8.4 |    39.1 |     52.5
1971-72 .....|  50,003,645 |  4,467,969 | 19,133,256 | 26,402,420 |   100.0 |     8.9 |    38.3 |     52.8
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1972-73 .....|  52,117,930 |  4,525,000 | 20,699,752 | 26,893,180 |   100.0 |     8.7 |    39.7 |     51.6
1973-74 .....|  58,230,892 |  4,930,351 | 24,113,409 | 29,187,132 |   100.0 |     8.5 |    41.4 |     50.1
1974-75 .....|  64,445,239 |  5,811,595 | 27,060,563 | 31,573,079 |   100.0 |     9.0 |    42.0 |     49.0
1975-76 .....|  71,206,073 |  6,318,345 | 31,602,885 | 33,284,840 |   100.0 |     8.9 |    44.4 |     46.7
1976-77 .....|  75,322,532 |  6,629,498 | 32,526,018 | 36,137,018 |   100.0 |     8.8 |    43.2 |     48.0
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1977-78 .....|  81,443,160 |  7,694,194 | 35,013,266 | 38,735,700 |   100.0 |     9.4 |    43.0 |     47.6
1978-79 .....|  87,994,143 |  8,600,116 | 40,132,136 | 39,261,891 |   100.0 |     9.8 |    45.6 |     44.6
1979-80 .....|  96,881,165 |  9,503,537 | 45,348,814 | 42,028,813 |   100.0 |     9.8 |    46.8 |     43.4
1980-81 .....| 105,949,087 |  9,768,262 | 50,182,659 | 45,998,166 |   100.0 |     9.2 |    47.4 |     43.4
1981-82 .....| 110,191,257 |  8,186,466 | 52,436,435 | 49,568,356 |   100.0 |     7.4 |    47.6 |     45.0
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1982-83 .....| 117,497,502 |  8,339,990 | 56,282,157 | 52,875,354 |   100.0 |     7.1 |    47.9 |     45.0
1983-84 .....| 126,055,419 |  8,576,547 | 60,232,981 | 57,245,892 |   100.0 |     6.8 |    47.8 |     45.4
1984-85 .....| 137,294,678 |  9,105,569 | 67,168,684 | 61,020,425 |   100.0 |     6.6 |    48.9 |     44.4
1985-86 .....| 149,127,779 |  9,975,622 | 73,619,575 | 65,532,582 |   100.0 |     6.7 |    49.4 |     43.9
1986-87 .....| 158,523,693 | 10,146,013 | 78,830,437 | 69,547,243 |   100.0 |     6.4 |    49.7 |     43.9
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1987-88 .....| 169,561,974 | 10,716,687 | 84,004,415 | 74,840,873 |   100.0 |     6.3 |    49.5 |     44.1
1988-89 .....| 192,016,374 | 11,902,001 | 91,768,911 | 88,345,462 |   100.0 |     6.2 |    47.8 |     46.0
1989-90 .....| 208,547,573 | 12,700,784 | 98,238,633 | 97,608,157 |   100.0 |     6.1 |    47.1 |     46.8
1990-91 .....| 223,340,537 | 13,776,066 |105,324,533 |104,239,939 |   100.0 |     6.2 |    47.2 |     46.7
1991-92 .....| 234,581,384 | 15,493,330 |108,783,449 |110,304,605 |   100.0 |     6.6 |    46.4 |     47.0
             |             |            |            |            |         |         |         |
1992-93 .....| 247,626,168 | 17,261,252 |113,403,436 |116,961,481 |   100.0 |     7.0 |    45.8 |     47.2
1993-94 .....| 260,159,468 | 18,341,483 |117,474,209 |124,343,776 |   100.0 |     7.1 |    45.2 |     47.8
1994-95 .....| 273,149,449 | 18,582,157 |127,729,576 |126,837,717 |   100.0 |     6.8 |    46.8 |     46.4
1995-96 .....| 287,702,844 | 19,104,019 |136,670,754 |131,928,071 |   100.0 |     6.6 |    47.5 |     45.9
1996-97\2\ ..| 305,065,192 | 20,081,287 |146,435,584 |138,548,321 |   100.0 |     6.6 |    48.0 |     45.4
1997-98 .....| 325,976,011 | 22,201,965 |157,645,372 |146,128,674 |   100.0 |     6.8 |    48.4 |     44.8
_____________|_____________|____________|____________|____________|_________|_________|_________|__________

\1\Includes a relatively small amount from nongovernmental private sources (gifts and tuition and transportation fees from patrons). These sources accounted for 2.6 percent of total revenues in 1997-98.
\2\Revised from previously published figures.

NOTE: Beginning in 1980-81, revenues for state education agencies are excluded. Beginning in 1988-89, data reflect new survey collection procedures and may not be entirely comparable with figures for earlier years. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education; and Common Core of Data surveys. (This table was prepared May 2000.)


2000 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest