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


Table 8.  Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary education and other related programs, by type of expenditure and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal year 2006
 
State or jurisdiction Expenditures [in thousands of dollars]
Total   Current for public elementary/
secondary education1
  Facilities acquisition and construction   Replacement Equipment   Other programs2   Interest on debt  
United States3  $528,734,539 4,5  $449,594,924 4  $51,201,787   $6,173,512 4,5  $7,417,761 4,5  $14,346,556 4 
     
Alabama  6,607,382 5,699,076 604,657   64,084   112,922 126,642
Alaska  1,812,119 1,529,645 221,691   15,268   7,673 37,842
Arizona  8,529,997 5  7,130,341   849,085   281,300 5  49,015 5  220,257
Arkansas  4,424,593   3,808,011 416,664   79,202   24,995 95,721
California  65,854,208   53,436,103 9,741,869   235,834 4  1,043,342 1,397,060
       
Colorado  7,781,436   6,368,289 881,673   147,091   63,862 320,522
Connecticut  8,892,083 5  7,517,025 1,001,825   86,612 4,5  140,272 5  146,349
Delaware  1,684,615   1,405,465 224,117   8,760 4  16,160 4  30,113
District of Columbia6  1,214,589   1,057,166   105,335   38,770 4  13,318 0
Florida  26,827,338 20,897,327 4,617,106   237,340   468,287 607,278
     
Georgia  15,875,012 13,739,263 1,754,496   175,499   36,210 169,544
Hawaii6  2,026,154 1,805,521 37,514   38,451   59,457 85,211  
Idaho  1,928,348 1,694,827 161,131   30,567   4,519 37,303  
Illinois  21,954,250 19,244,908 1,547,282   465,806   152,670 543,585  
Indiana  10,713,543 4  9,241,986 815,910   156,105   63,064 436,478 4 
       
Iowa  4,735,943 4,039,389 505,627   91,206   31,684 68,036  
Kansas  4,506,242 4,039,417 159,941   167,017   4,485 135,381  
Kentucky  6,095,728 5,213,620 552,605   121,942   80,655 126,907  
Louisiana  6,188,015 5,554,278 355,390   104,766   68,602 104,980  
Maine  2,299,359 2,119,408 79,713   30,154   24,121 45,963  
       
Maryland  10,518,434 9,381,613 899,322   94,294   24,322 118,882  
Massachusetts  13,757,817 12,210,581 1,170,963   29,399   59,408 287,467  
Michigan  19,878,934 16,681,981 1,771,377   221,848   351,300 852,428  
Minnesota  9,531,590 7,686,638 949,970   135,479   359,612 399,891  
Mississippi  3,893,753 3,550,261 127,561   113,931 4  32,942 69,059  
       
Missouri  8,783,995   7,592,485   560,596   198,588   168,899 263,426  
Montana  1,376,246 1,254,360 80,846   20,648   7,208 13,185  
Nebraska  2,974,472   2,672,629 173,466   67,950 4  5,152 4  55,274  
Nevada  3,940,869   2,959,728 677,668   75,854   17,141 210,478  
New Hampshire  2,396,313 2,139,113 174,616   26,978   6,343 49,263  
       
New Jersey  23,353,204   20,869,993 1,831,918   100,623 4  205,034 4  345,636  
New Mexico  3,171,892 2,729,707 351,990   23,554   28,615 38,026  
New York  46,269,766 41,149,457 1,824,665   369,212   1,678,175 1,248,257  
North Carolina  12,133,667   10,476,056 1,152,944   87,487   49,326 367,854  
North Dakota  968,112 857,774 66,992   25,976   6,262 11,108  
       
Ohio  20,902,539 17,829,599 1,802,947   362,928   429,510 477,556  
Oklahoma  4,852,418 4,406,002 317,416   72,510   13,487 43,003  
Oregon  5,337,287 4,773,751 278,009   41,223   18,486 225,819  
Pennsylvania  23,026,118 19,631,006 1,783,079   253,050   531,743 827,241  
Rhode Island  2,046,113 1,934,429 17,958   12,531   49,253 31,941  
       
South Carolina  6,990,040 5,696,629 902,499   78,624   70,282 242,006  
South Dakota  1,058,470 948,671 50,743   35,528   3,138 20,390  
Tennessee  7,439,050 4  6,681,456 4  437,803   114,467   53,328 151,996  
Texas  42,152,918 33,851,773 5,781,724   388,727   303,929 1,826,766  
Utah  3,457,129 2,778,236 451,752   60,064   86,803 80,274
     
Vermont  1,314,627 1,237,442 39,039   19,909   4,145 14,091
Virginia  13,185,745 11,470,735 1,025,388   273,364   67,595 348,663
Washington  10,051,241 4  8,239,716 4  1,335,392   92,662   47,349 336,123
West Virginia  2,749,151 2,651,491 18,275   31,811 4  36,574 11,000
Wisconsin  10,131,019 8,745,195 379,541   132,007   233,505 640,770
Wyoming  1,140,656 965,350 131,701   36,512   3,583 3,512
     
Other jurisdictions     
American Samoa  67,460 58,539 3,571   958   4,392 0  
Guam  214,020 210,119 0   3,293   0 607
Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands 
59,817 57,694 1,328   288   507 0  
Puerto Rico  3,282,288 3,082,295 22,622   67,472   96,459 13,440
U.S. Virgin Islands  161,374 146,872 11,650   1,095   1,757 0  
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 expenditures for community services, adult education, community colleges, private schools, and other programs that are not part of public elementary and secondary education.
3 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
4 Value affected by redistribution of reported values to correct for missing data items, and/or to distribute state direct support expenditures.
5 Value contains imputation for missing data.
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.