
| Table 18. Actual and projected numbers for current expenditures and current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment for public elementary and secondary education: 1994–95 through 2019–20 |
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| School year | Fall enrollment (in thousands) |
Current expenditures | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constant 2007–08 dollars1 | Current dollars | |||||
| Total (in billions) |
Per pupil in fall enrollment |
Total (in billions) |
Per pupil in fall enrollment |
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| Actual | ||||||
| 1994–95 | 44,111 | $343.3 | $7,782 | $243.9 | $5,529 | |
| 1995–96 | 44,840 | 349.5 | 7,795 | 255.1 | 5,689 | |
| 1996–97 | 45,611 | 359.9 | 7,892 | 270.2 | 5,923 | |
| 1997–98 | 46,127 | 373.6 | 8,100 | 285.5 | 6,189 | |
| 1998–99 | 46,539 | 389.7 | 8,373 | 302.9 | 6,508 | |
| 1999–2000 | 46,857 | 405.0 | 8,644 | 323.9 | 6,912 | |
| 2000–01 | 47,204 | 421.3 | 8,923 | 348.4 | 7,380 | |
| 2001–02 | 47,672 | 437.7 | 9,181 | 368.4 | 7,727 | |
| 2002–03 | 48,183 | 450.6 | 9,351 | 387.6 | 8,044 | |
| 2003–04 | 48,540 | 458.9 | 9,454 | 403.4 | 8,310 | |
| 2004–05 | 48,795 | 469.4 | 9,620 | 425.0 | 8,711 | |
| 2005–06 | 49,113 | 477.9 | 9,729 | 449.1 | 9,145 | |
| 2006–07 2 | 49,246 | 494.5 | 10,041 | 476.8 | 9,683 | |
| Projected | ||||||
| 2007–08 | 49,293 | 495.0 | 10,042 | 495.0 | 10,042 | |
| 2008–09 | 49,265 | 491.0 | 9,967 | 497.8 | 10,105 | |
| 2009–10 | 49,312 | 488.1 | 9,899 | 499.3 | 10,126 | |
| 2010–11 | 49,386 | 489.9 | 9,920 | 508.7 | 10,300 | |
| 2011–12 | 49,554 | 494.9 | 9,987 | 524.8 | 10,591 | |
| 2012–13 | 49,795 | 503.9 | 10,119 | 544.3 | 10,930 | |
| 2013–14 | 50,088 | 514.3 | 10,268 | – | – | |
| 2014–15 | 50,446 | 529.7 | 10,500 | – | – | |
| 2015–16 | 50,827 | 543.1 | 10,684 | – | – | |
| 2016–17 | 51,198 | 556.3 | 10,866 | – | – | |
| 2017–18 | 51,583 | 570.2 | 11,053 | – | – | |
| 2018–19 | 51,946 | 585.3 | 11,267 | – | – | |
| 2019–20 | 52,342 | 598.4 | 11,432 | – | – | |
| –Not available. | ||||||
| 1Based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all urban consumers, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. For more detail on the CPI, see table B-6 in appendix B. | ||||||
| 2Fall enrollment pertains only to students for whom finance data were collected. This enrollment count differs slightly from enrollment counts reproted on other tables. | ||||||
| NOTE: Calculations were made using unrounded numbers. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Mean absolute percentage errors of selected education statistics can be found in table A-2, appendix A. The fall enrollment number for 2007–08 is an actual number. | ||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 1994–95 through 2007–08; "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1994–95 through 2006–07; National Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Model, 1972–2007; and Public Elementary and Secondary Education Current Expenditures Model, 1969–70 through 2006–07. (This table was prepared January 2010.) |