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Projections of Education Statistics to 2019

NCES 2011-017
March 2011


Table 19.  Actual and projected numbers for current expenditures and current expenditures per pupil in average daily attendance (ADA) for public elementary and secondary education: 1994–95 through 2019–20

School year ADA
(in thousands)
Current expenditures
Constant 2007–08 dollars1   Current dollars
Total
(in billions)
Per pupil
in ADA
  Total
(in billions)
Per pupil
in ADA
Actual            
1994–95 40,721 $343.3 $8,430   $243.9 $5,989
1995–96 41,502 349.5 8,423   255.1 6,147
1996–97 42,262 359.9 8,517   270.2 6,393
1997–98 42,766 373.6 8,738   285.5 6,676
1998–99 43,187 389.7 9,023   302.9 7,013
1999–2000 43,807 405.0 9,246   323.9 7,394
2000–01 44,076 421.3 9,556   348.4 7,904
2001–02 44,605 437.7 9,812   368.4 8,259
2002–03 45,017 450.6 10,009   387.6 8,610
2003–04 45,326 458.9 10,125   403.4 8,900
2004–05 45,625 469.4 10,288   425.0 9,316
2005–06 45,932 477.9 10,403   449.1 9,778
2006–07 46,128 494.5 10,720   476.8 10,337
Projected            
2007–08 46,005 495.0 10,759   495.0 10,759
2008–09 45,979 491.0 10,680   497.8 10,827
2009–10 46,024 488.1 10,606   499.3 10,849
2010–11 46,093 489.9 10,629   508.7 11,036
2011–12 46,249 494.9 10,701   524.8 11,348
2012–13 46,474 503.9 10,842   544.3 11,711
2013–14 46,748 514.3 11,002  
2014–15 47,082 529.7 11,250  
2015–16 47,437 543.1 11,448  
2016–17 47,784 556.3 11,642  
2017–18 48,143 570.2 11,843  
2018–19 48,482 585.3 12,073  
2019–20 48,851 598.4 12,248  
–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 about CPI, see table B-6 in appendix B.
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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1994–95 through 2006–07; National Elementary and Secondary Average Daily Attendance Model, 1994–95 through 2006–07; and Elementary and Secondary Education Current Expenditures Model, 1969–70 through 2006–07. (This table was prepared January 2010.)

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