Table 3. Current expenditures per pupil at the 5th, median, and 95th percentile cutpoints, federal range ratio, and numbers of districts and students for public elementary and secondary regular school districts, by state and independent charter school districts: Fiscal year 2007

Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2006–07 (Fiscal Year 2007)

NCES 2009-338
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Table 3. Current expenditures per pupil at the 5^th, median, and 95^th percentile cutpoints, federal range ratio, and numbers of districts and students for public elementary and secondary regular school districts, by state and independent charter school districts: Fiscal year 2007
State (excluding independent charter school districts)	Current expenditures ¹ per pupil			Federal range ratio²	Number of districts	Number of students
State (excluding independent charter school districts)	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile	Federal range ratio²	Number of districts	Number of students

United States	$6,806	$9,056	$17,266	1.5	13,560	48,168,045

Alabama	7,256	8,286	10,042	0.4	131	743,273
Alaska	9,489	18,678	30,563	2.2	53	132,197
Arizona	5,979	7,928	18,101	2.0	215	969,852
Arkansas	6,821	7,859	9,665	0.4	245	474,532
California	6,993	8,477	15,633	1.2	964	6,197,212

Colorado	6,795	8,612	14,929	1.2	178	790,211
Connecticut	10,435	12,415	17,363	0.7	169	553,331
Delaware	9,241	11,172	14,342	0.6	16	108,495
District of Columbia	†	14,324	†	†	1	56,943
Florida	7,698	8,422	10,476	0.4	67	2,656,176

Georgia	7,810	8,948	11,194	0.4	179	1,628,153
Hawaii	†	11,060	†	†	1	180,728
Idaho	5,567	7,494	15,667	1.8	114	262,935
Illinois	6,324	8,158	13,358	1.1	872	2,101,085
Indiana	6,999	8,067	10,757	0.5	292	1,034,588

Iowa	7,022	8,136	11,540	0.6	365	483,122
Kansas	7,647	9,647	13,282	0.7	296	468,974
Kentucky	7,147	8,220	9,903	0.4	175	646,360
Louisiana	7,208	8,464	13,433	0.9	71	664,098
Maine	9,619	11,927	20,079	1.1	227	193,539

Maryland	10,082	11,167	13,390	0.3	24	851,640
Massachusetts	9,632	11,758	19,323	1.0	302	919,220
Michigan	7,507	8,420	12,000	0.6	551	1,601,774
Minnesota	7,279	8,834	12,316	0.7	342	809,988
Mississippi	6,259	7,599	10,563	0.7	152	494,135

Missouri	6,460	8,076	12,007	0.9	522	910,142
Montana	6,735	10,371	24,818	2.7	425	144,258
Nebraska	7,792	9,699	15,168	0.9	254	287,135
Nevada	7,781	9,472	28,426	2.7	17	422,782
New Hampshire	8,829	11,637	17,140	0.9	162	198,625

New Jersey	11,601	14,203	20,898	0.8	551	1,342,783
New Mexico	7,811	10,710	19,576	1.5	89	327,816
New York	11,846	15,198	26,981	1.3	694	2,757,487
North Carolina	7,116	8,267	10,878	0.5	115	1,399,586
North Dakota	6,634	9,643	24,739	2.7	195	96,577

Ohio	7,077	8,142	11,240	0.6	614	1,758,834
Oklahoma	6,180	7,800	12,421	1.0	540	639,032
Oregon	7,356	8,909	19,119	1.6	194	559,398
Pennsylvania	8,080	9,654	13,141	0.6	500	1,760,451
Rhode Island	10,396	13,016	15,937	0.5	36	147,861

South Carolina	7,109	8,515	11,162	0.6	85	701,580
South Dakota	6,783	8,525	14,602	1.2	165	121,158
Tennessee	5,810	6,657	8,498	0.5	135	978,084
Texas	6,883	8,398	13,730	1.0	1,031	4,513,835
Utah	5,203	6,360	12,696	1.4	40	504,079

Vermont	8,824	12,093	16,030	0.8	238	90,504
Virginia	8,177	9,308	13,246	0.6	132	1,220,440
Washington	7,354	8,644	21,600	1.9	296	1,026,121
West Virginia	8,515	9,523	10,750	0.3	55	281,298
Wisconsin	8,680	10,065	12,918	0.5	425	870,584
Wyoming	11,877	14,358	26,509	1.2	48	85,034
Independent charter school districts³	4,600	7,748	15,956	2.5	1,673	558,976
† Not applicable. The District of Columbia and Hawaii consist of one 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, and payments to private and charter schools.
² The federal range ratio is the difference between the amount per pupil of the district at the 95^th percentile of current expenditures per pupil and the district at the 5^th percentile divided by the amount per pupil for the district at the 5^th percentile.
³ All associated schools are charter schools.
NOTE: How to read this table: Using Alabama as an example, this table shows that 5 percent of school districts have current expenditures per pupil of $7,256 or less. If all school districts were listed by size of current expenditures per pupil, the district at the midpoint (median) would have current expenditures per pupil of $8,286. Five percent of school districts have current expenditures per pupil of $10,042 or more. The federal range ratio shows that the current expenditures per pupil for district at the 95^th percentile are approximately 40 percent higher than the current expenditures per pupil for district at the 5^th 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; 92.9 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; 99.1 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 2007, Version 1a.

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