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Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2005–06 (Fiscal Year 2006)
NCES 2008-345
July 2008

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Table 4.  Current expenditures per pupil at the 5th, median, and 95th percentile cutpoints, federal range ratio, and number and percentage of unified school districts and students for public elementary and secondary unified school districts, by state and unified independent charter school districts: Fiscal year 2006
 
State and
independent charter school districts		 Current expenditures1 per pupil Federal range ratio2 Number of unified school districts3 Percentage of regular districts that are unified3 Number of students in unified school districts3 Percentage of students in unified school districts3
5th percentile Median 95th percentile
United States  $6,498 $8,401 $14,878 1.3 10,502 76.3 44,322,387 92.2
                 
Alabama  6,687 7,590 9,162 0.4 131 100.0 743,265 100.0
Alaska  9,142 15,827 29,967 2.3 53 100.0 132,893 100.0
Arizona  5,832 7,402 13,981 1.4 104 48.1 601,835 63.5
Arkansas  6,690 7,547 9,241 0.4 252 100.0 472,609 100.0
California  6,622 7,741 12,749 0.9 335 34.7 4,459,987 71.7
                 
Colorado  6,627 8,321 13,680 1.1 178 100.0 778,842 100.0
Connecticut  10,143 11,816 15,854 0.6 114 68.7 516,569 94.0
Delaware  8,766 10,754 13,798 0.6 16 100.0 108,535 100.0
District of Columbia  † 13,446 † † 1 100.0 59,616 100.0
Florida  7,057 7,630 9,594 0.4 67 100.0 2,663,973 100.0
                 
Georgia  7,164 8,206 10,489 0.5 175 97.8 1,596,005 99.9
Hawaii  † 9,640 † † 1 100.0 182,818 100.0
Idaho  5,325 7,174 11,400 1.1 108 94.7 258,200 100.0
Illinois  6,227 7,491 9,949 0.6 388 44.5 1,304,749 62.2
Indiana  6,858 7,916 10,827 0.6 291 99.7 1,025,865 100.0
                 
Iowa  6,664 7,745 9,881 0.5 348 95.3 481,143 99.5
Kansas  7,269 9,148 12,042 0.7 291 99.3 465,726 100.0
Kentucky  6,652 7,483 8,940 0.3 171 97.2 677,792 99.7
Louisiana  6,757 7,898 12,475 0.8 68 100.0 648,313 100.0
Maine  8,658 10,480 14,679 0.7 112 50.5 170,228 87.2
                 
Maryland  9,359 10,138 12,402 0.3 24 100.0 860,021 100.0
Massachusetts  9,041 10,787 15,647 0.7 212 70.2 861,617 93.2
Michigan  7,336 8,216 11,197 0.5 523 94.9 1,633,555 99.9
Minnesota  6,908 8,339 11,391 0.6 329 95.4 809,222 99.7
Mississippi  6,018 7,241 10,314 0.7 148 97.4 492,622 99.7
                 
Missouri  5,936 7,411 10,230 0.7 447 85.8 902,855 98.8
Montana  6,731 11,286 24,400 2.6 52 12.1 16,847 11.6
Nebraska  7,424 9,220 13,179 0.8 239 53.2 275,355 96.4
Nevada  7,092 8,808 21,314 2.0 16 94.1 412,661 100.0
New Hampshire  8,063 10,344 13,556 0.7 65 40.1 155,215 77.2
                 
New Jersey  11,039 13,161 19,101 0.7 221 40.1 1,016,098 75.2
New Mexico  7,298 9,991 18,137 1.5 89 100.0 326,761 100.0
New York  11,213 14,095 21,837 0.9 646 93.1 2,741,927 98.3
North Carolina  6,611 7,790 10,064 0.5 115 100.0 1,378,306 100.0
North Dakota  6,455 8,968 15,818 1.5 155 78.3 95,614 97.4
                 
Ohio  6,994 7,960 10,974 0.6 612 99.7 1,769,200 100.0
Oklahoma  5,747 7,216 11,034 0.9 429 79.4 612,462 96.5
Oregon  6,984 8,355 16,400 1.3 178 91.3 555,580 99.9
Pennsylvania  7,778 9,318 12,701 0.6 498 99.6 1,751,508 99.9
Rhode Island  9,640 11,823 14,980 0.6 32 88.9 148,241 98.8
                 
South Carolina  6,906 8,120 10,608 0.5 85 100.0 699,027 100.0
South Dakota  6,311 7,914 12,767 1.0 159 96.4 120,513 99.0
Tennessee  5,589 6,439 7,979 0.4 122 90.4 932,006 97.7
Texas  6,672 8,057 12,746 0.9 975 94.3 4,442,653 99.8
Utah  4,939 6,321 11,628 1.4 40 100.0 496,507 100.0
                 
Vermont  8,512 11,404 15,207 0.8 36 15.1 32,190 35.0
Virginia  7,655 8,692 12,479 0.6 132 100.0 1,213,616 100.0
Washington  6,901 7,995 15,946 1.3 250 84.5 1,023,789 99.2
West Virginia  8,376 9,338 10,470 0.3 55 100.0 279,788 100.0
Wisconsin  8,558 9,712 11,903 0.4 368 86.4 832,269 95.7
Wyoming  9,809 12,005 21,997 1.2 46 95.8 85,399 99.1
Unified independent charter school districts4  4,734 7,076 17,346 2.7 425 27.1 181,192 37.1
† Not applicable. The District of Columbia and Hawaii consist of only one unified school district each.
1 Current expenditures include instruction, instruction-related, support services, and other elementary/secondary current expenditures, but exclude expenditures on capital outlay, other programs and payments to state and local governments, interest on long-term debt, payments to other school districts, and payments to private and charter schools.
2 The federal range ratio indicates the difference between the amount per pupil of the district at the 95th percentile and the district at the 5th percentile divided by the amount per pupil for the district at the 5th percentile.
3 Unified school districts are school districts that provide both elementary and secondary education services and instruction.
4 All associated schools are charter schools that provide both elementary and secondary education services and instruction.
NOTE: How to read this table: Using Alabama as an example, this table shows that 5 percent of unified school districts have current expenditures per pupil of $6,687 or less. If all unified school districts were listed by size of current expenditures per pupil, the district at the midpoint (median) would have current expenditures per pupil of $7,590. Five percent of unified school districts have current expenditures per pupil of $9,162 or more. The federal range ratio shows that the current expenditures per pupil for district at the 95th percentile are approximately 40 percent higher than the current expenditures per pupil for district at the 5th percentile. National figures do not include independent charter school districts. National and state figures include charter schools that are affiliated with regular school districts. Only regular school districts matching the Common Core of Data (CCD) "Local Education Agency Universe Survey" and with student membership greater than zero were used in creating the national and state figures; 92.1 percent of all school districts met these criteria. Independent charter school districts matching the Common Core of Data (CCD) "Local Education Agency Universe Survey" with revenues greater than zero and expenditures greater than zero were included in the charter school analysis; 97.6 percent of charter school districts met these criteria.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal year 2006, Version 1a.

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