Section 4. Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: Current Expenditures

Figure 13. Actual and projected current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools (in constant 2008–09 dollars): School years 1995–96 through 2020–21

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NOTE: Numbers were placed in constant dollars using 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. 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,” 1995–96 through 2007–08; Public Elementary and Secondary School Current Expenditures Model, 1969–70 through 2007–08. (This figure was prepared March 2011.)

Current expenditures

Current expenditures in constant 2008–09 dollars

• increased 45 percent from 1995–96 to 2007–08, a period of 12 years; and
• are projected to increase 22 percent, to $627 billion, from 2007–08 to 2020–21, a period of 13 years.

For more information: Tables 18 and 19

Figure 14. Actual and projected current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools (in constant 2008–09 dollars): School years 1995–96 through 2020–21

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NOTE: Numbers were placed in constant dollars using 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. 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), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education,” 1995–96 through 2008–09; "National Public Education Financial Survey,” 1995–96 through 2007–08; National Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Model, 1972–2008; and Public Elementary and Secondary School Current Expenditures Model, 1969–70 through 2007–08. (This figure was prepared March 2011.)

Current expenditures per pupil

Current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment in constant 2008–09 dollars

• increased 32 percent from 1995–96 to 2007–08; and
• are projected to increase 14 percent, to $11,900, from 2007–08 to 2020–21.

For more information: Tables 18 and 19