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Public Elementary and Secondary Education Statistics: School year 1996-97 / Table 7

Table 7. Estimated membership, number of teachers, revenues, expenditures, and pupil/teacher ratio, for public elementary and secondary schools, by state, for grades prekindergarten through 12: School year 1996-97/Fiscal year 1997

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                                                                     Current        Pupil/
                                   Number of        Revenues       expenditures    teacher   Per pupil   Per pupil
  State             Membership     teachers      (in thousands)   (in thousands)    ratio     revenue   expenditure
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United States       45,228,526 /a/ 2,633,516 /a/ $298,841,009 /a/ $274,065,348 /a/   17.2      $6,607    $6,060
Alabama                741,933        42,492 /b/    3,800,649        3,459,903       17.5       5,123     4,663
Alaska                 126,015         7,644        1,280,507        1,082,834       16.5      10,162     8,593
Arizona                749,759 /a/    38,509 /a/    4,099,983 /a/    3,549,233 /a/   19.5       5,468     4,734
Arkansas               457,076        29,194        1,696,161        1,541,900       15.7       3,711     3,373
California           5,535,312       228,028       33,796,257       30,273,699       24.3       6,106     5,469
Colorado               673,438        35,900        3,904,398 /a/    3,593,903 /a/   18.8       5,798     5,337
Connecticut            523,054        36,800        4,529,000        4,471,000       14.2       8,659     8,548
Delaware               110,549 /b/     6,642          889,807          783,317       16.6       8,049     7,086
District of Columbia    79,159 /a/     5,286 /a/      735,509 /a/      728,611 /a/   15.0       9,292     9,204
Florida              2,240,283 /b/   120,450 /b/   13,870,942       12,019,783       18.6       6,192     5,365
Georgia              1,321,239        81,683        8,530,402        8,247,879       16.2       6,456     6,243
Hawaii                 188,485        10,675        1,287,554 /a/      982,000       17.7       6,831     5,210
Idaho                  245,252 /b/    13,059        1,221,909        1,090,031       18.8       4,982     4,445
Illinois             1,961,299       115,859       12,521,048       12,547,068  /b   16.9       6,384     6,397
Indiana                984,610        56,412        6,878,000        5,837,000       17.5       6,986     5,928
Iowa                   504,511        32,549        3,156,861        2,873,445  /b   15.5       6,257     5,696
Kansas                 465,140        30,750        2,985,633        2,567,544       15.1       6,419     5,520
Kentucky               663,071        39,235        3,951,657        3,557,638       16.9       5,960     5,365
Louisiana              777,570 /b/    48,047        3,980,244        3,531,211       16.2       5,119     4,541
Maine                  218,560 /b/    14,458        1,500,150        1,322,663       15.1       6,864     6,052
Maryland               818,947        47,005        5,885,105        5,323,364       17.4       7,186     6,500
Massachusetts          936,794 /a/    64,497 /a/    7,316,919 /a/    7,054,231 /a/   14.5       7,811     7,530
Michigan             1,662,100        84,200       12,609,834       11,039,483       19.7       7,587     6,642
Minnesota              836,700        47,600        6,034,100        4,975,400       17.6       7,212     5,946
Mississippi            504,168 /b/    29,237        2,283,330        2,098,680       17.2       4,529     4,163
Missouri               883,327        59,222        5,413,064        4,405,644       14.9       6,128     4,988
Montana                166,909        10,110          952,374          878,365       16.5       5,706     5,263
Nebraska               292,121        20,109 /b/    1,972,529        1,749,955       14.5       6,752     5,991
Nevada                 282,131 /b/    14,723 /b/    1,601,746        1,415,231       19.2       5,677     5,016
New Hampshire          194,581 /b/    12,394        1,317,703        1,251,854       15.7       6,772     6,434
New Jersey           1,221,013 /a/    88,822 /a/   12,730,047 /a/   12,440,741 /a/   13.7      10,426    10,189
New Mexico             330,522        19,608 /b/    2,199,248 /b/    2,125,111       16.9       6,654     6,430
New York             2,825,000       185,063       26,559,743       24,531,980       15.3       9,402     8,684
North Carolina       1,199,962 /b/    73,839        6,496,609        6,169,266       16.3       5,414     5,141
North Dakota           118,427 /b/     7,706          657,456          578,704       15.4       5,552     4,887
Ohio                 1,841,095       104,583       12,000,000       11,000,000       17.6       6,518     5,975
Oklahoma               620,379        39,350        3,361,992        3,039,727       15.8       5,419     4,900
Oregon                 537,783 /b/    26,757        3,254,000        3,247,000       20.1       6,051     6,038
Pennsylvania         1,807,250       106,400       14,900,000       13,020,000       17.0       8,245     7,204
Rhode Island           151,181        10,586        1,162,591        1,103,286       14.3       7,690     7,298
South Carolina         648,980        40,640        3,749,680        3,173,705       16.0       5,778     4,890
South Dakota           142,910 /b/     9,474          759,845          665,026 /b/   15.1       5,317     4,653
Tennessee              891,101        51,369        4,229,112        4,570,746       17.3       4,746     5,129
Texas                3,809,186       247,526       21,726,450       20,944,470 /b/   15.4       5,704     5,498
Utah                   478,085 /b/    20,224 /b/    2,088,202 /b/    1,833,122 /b/   23.6       4,368     3,834
Vermont                106,607 /a/     7,787 /a/      819,518 /a/      753,516 /a/   13.7       7,687     7,068
Virginia             1,096,093 /b/    80,896        6,295,260        6,672,808       13.5       5,743     6,088
Washington             971,903 /b/    47,479 /b/    6,652,347        5,790,558 /b/   20.5       6,845     5,958
West Virginia          303,441 /b/    20,642        1,915,254        1,825,159 /b/   14.7       6,312     6,015
Wisconsin              884,738 /b/    55,296        6,640,280        5,732,554       16.0       7,505     6,479
Wyoming                 98,777 /b/     6,700          640,000          595,000       14.7       6,479     6,024
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  Outlying Areas
American Samoa          14,708 /a/       738 /a/       49,002 /a/       32,377 /a/   19.9       3,332     2,201
Guam                    33,754 /a/     1,854 /a/      192,117 /a/      187,947 /a/   18.2       5,692     5,568
Northern Marianas        8,253 /b/       421 /b/       53,304           50,953 /b/   19.6       6,459     6,174
Puerto Rico            613,009        39,748        1,692,145        1,658,302       15.4       2,760     2,705
Virgin Islands          22,146         1,603          147,482          140,299       13.8       6,660     6,335
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a/ Data estimated by NCES based on previous year's data.
b/ Actual preliminary count by state.

NOTE: All data are state estimates, except where noted. Detail may not sum to total due to rounding. Estimates are as of March 1997.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Common Core of Data.


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