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Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education
NCES 2008-328
April 2008


Table 5.  Current expenditures and percentage distribution of current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by function and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal year 2006
 
  Current expenditures1 [in thousands of dollars]   Percentage distribution
State or jurisdiction Total   Instruction and instruction-
related2
  Student support services3   Admin-
istration
  Operations   Instruction and instruction-
related2
Student support services3 Admin-
istration
Oper-
ations
United States4  $449,594,924 5  $296,104,516 5  $23,356,971 5  $48,663,020   $81,470,417 5  65.9 5.2 10.8 18.1
           
Alabama  5,699,076   3,613,442   293,235   620,053   1,172,346   63.4 5.1 10.9 20.6
Alaska  1,529,645   957,744   96,524   170,363   305,013   62.6 6.3 11.1 19.9
Arizona  7,130,341   4,586,419 5  400,463 5  753,420 5  1,390,040 5  64.3 5.6 10.6 19.5
Arkansas  3,808,011   2,534,474 5  174,344 5  410,107 5  689,087 5  66.6 4.6 10.8 18.1
California  53,436,103   35,850,215 5  2,458,675 5  6,403,792 5  8,723,420 5  67.1 4.6 12.0 16.3
           
Colorado  6,368,289   3,907,295   279,312   1,127,383   1,054,299   61.4 4.4 17.7 16.6
Connecticut  7,517,025   5,003,775 5  452,267 5  739,244 5  1,321,739 5  66.6 6.0 9.8 17.6
Delaware  1,405,465   866,591   67,087   185,253   286,534   61.7 4.8 13.2 20.4
District of Columbia6  1,057,166   625,904 5  66,358 5  130,926 5  233,979 5  59.2 6.3 12.4 22.1
Florida  20,897,327   13,764,969 5  984,592 5  1,943,735 5  4,204,030 5  65.9 4.7 9.3 20.1
           
Georgia  13,739,263   9,348,593 5  654,685 5  1,448,155 5  2,287,831 5  68.0 4.8 10.5 16.7
Hawaii6  1,805,521   1,143,214   216,531   185,222   260,554   63.3 12.0 10.3 14.4
Idaho  1,694,827   1,117,513 5  94,777 5  166,178 5  316,359 5  65.9 5.6 9.8 18.7
Illinois  19,244,908   12,223,957 5  1,218,203 5  2,295,142 5  3,507,606 5  63.5 6.3 11.9 18.2
Indiana  9,241,986   5,843,838 5  407,131 5  1,076,875 5  1,914,142 5  63.2 4.4 11.7 20.7
           
Iowa  4,039,389   2,605,837   239,001   481,318   713,233   64.5 5.9 11.9 17.7
Kansas  4,039,417   2,605,113   227,655   467,277   739,373   64.5 5.6 11.6 18.3
Kentucky  5,213,620   3,392,033   214,671   519,407   1,087,509   65.1 4.1 10.0 20.9
Louisiana  5,554,278   3,516,871 5  228,554 5  565,732 5  1,243,121 5  63.3 4.1 10.2 22.4
Maine  2,119,408   1,467,136 5  78,432 5  194,004 5  379,837   69.2 3.7 9.2 17.9
           
Maryland  9,381,613   6,250,392 5  391,342 5  985,038 5  1,754,841   66.6 4.2 10.5 18.7
Massachusetts  12,210,581   8,530,548 5  670,672 5  1,050,219   1,959,142   69.9 5.5 8.6 16.0
Michigan  16,681,981   10,269,636   1,210,229   2,124,960   3,077,156   61.6 7.3 12.7 18.4
Minnesota  7,686,638   5,304,226 5  205,659 5  806,166 5  1,370,587 5  69.0 2.7 10.5 17.8
Mississippi  3,550,261   2,267,086 5  160,537 5  368,694 5  753,944 5  63.9 4.5 10.4 21.2
           
Missouri  7,592,485   4,947,406   357,737   797,335   1,490,008   65.2 4.7 10.5 19.6
Montana  1,254,360   807,561   67,429   137,969   241,400   64.4 5.4 11.0 19.2
Nebraska  2,672,629   1,783,853   111,972   289,967   486,836   66.7 4.2 10.8 18.2
Nevada  2,959,728   1,890,821   111,762   447,929   509,216   63.9 3.8 15.1 17.2
New Hampshire  2,139,113   1,446,317   146,729   207,774   338,292   67.6 6.9 9.7 15.8
           
New Jersey  20,869,993   13,016,486   1,882,174   2,027,580   3,943,753   62.4 9.0 9.7 18.9
New Mexico  2,729,707   1,662,234   263,342   300,906   503,225   60.9 9.6 11.0 18.4
New York  41,149,457   29,622,407 5  1,317,736 5  3,453,769 5  6,755,545 5  72.0 3.2 8.4 16.4
North Carolina  10,476,056   6,899,740   568,446   1,166,570   1,841,300   65.9 5.4 11.1 17.6
North Dakota  857,774   546,554   34,285   97,632   179,304   63.7 4.0 11.4 20.9
           
Ohio  17,829,599   11,360,796   1,066,791   2,328,375   3,073,637   63.7 6.0 13.1 17.2
Oklahoma  4,406,002   2,673,852   285,058   495,383   951,709   60.7 6.5 11.2 21.6
Oregon  4,773,751   2,992,083   337,295   659,225   785,148   62.7 7.1 13.8 16.4
Pennsylvania  19,631,006   12,803,055   952,558   2,150,984   3,724,409   65.2 4.9 11.0 19.0
Rhode Island  1,934,429   1,257,095 5  230,464 5  163,631 5  283,239 5  65.0 11.9 8.5 14.6
           
South Carolina  5,696,629   3,699,189   391,163   566,770   1,039,507   64.9 6.9 9.9 18.2
South Dakota  948,671   590,657   52,232   116,229   189,554   62.3 5.5 12.3 20.0
Tennessee  6,681,456 5  4,668,182 5  227,033   608,069   1,178,172   69.9 3.4 9.1 17.6
Texas  33,851,773   21,998,997 5  1,643,051 5  3,596,031 5  6,613,695 5  65.0 4.9 10.6 19.5
Utah  2,778,236   1,885,924   102,818   260,881   528,613   67.9 3.7 9.4 19.0
           
Vermont  1,237,442   833,389   91,604   139,560   172,889   67.3 7.4 11.3 14.0
Virginia  11,470,735   7,761,049   548,473   1,015,378   2,145,836   67.7 4.8 8.9 18.7
Washington  8,239,716 5  5,262,132 5  524,785   949,096   1,503,703   63.9 6.4 11.5 18.2
West Virginia  2,651,491   1,690,818 5  94,580 5  252,323 5  613,770 5  63.8 3.6 9.5 23.1
Wisconsin  8,745,195   5,782,750   399,759   1,105,744   1,456,943   66.1 4.6 12.6 16.7
Wyoming  965,350   624,347   56,760   109,246   174,996   64.7 5.9 11.3 18.1
           
Other jurisdictions           
American Samoa  58,539   36,784   2,328   4,261   15,166   62.8 4.0 7.3 25.9
Guam  210,119   125,846 5  22,951   22,555   38,767   59.9 10.9 10.7 18.5
Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands 
57,694   47,079 5  1,064 5  2,658 5  6,893 5  81.6 1.8 4.6 11.9
Puerto Rico  3,082,295   2,190,152   153,625   104,333   634,185   71.1 5.0 3.4 20.6
U.S. Virgin Islands  146,872   99,432   8,922   18,622   19,896   67.7 6.1 12.7 13.5
1 Include instruction, instruction-related, support services, and other elementary/secondary current expenditures, but exclude expenditures on capital outlay, other programs, and interest on long-term debt.
2 Include current expenditures for classroom instruction (including teachers and teaching assistants), libraries, in-service teacher training, curriculum development, student assessment, and instruction technology,.
3 Include attendance and social work, guidance, health, psychological services, speech pathology, audiology, and other student support services.
4 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
5 Value affected by redistribution of reported values to correct for missing data items, and/or to distribute state direct support expenditures.
6 Both the District of Columbia and Hawaii have only one school district each; therefore, neither is comparable to other states.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS)," fiscal year 2006, Version 1a.