Table 7.  Current expenditures and percentage distribution of current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, by function and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal year 2009
 
Current expenditures1 [in thousands of dollars]   Percentage distribution
State or jurisdiction Total   Instruction and instruction-
related2
  Student support services3   Admin-
istration4
  Operations5     Instruc-
tion and instruc-
tion-
related2
Student support services3 Admin-
istration4
Opera-
tions5
United States6  $518,997,430 7  $341,333,417 7  $28,104,003 7  $56,205,466 7  $93,354,543 7    65.8 5.4 10.8 18.0
                               
Alabama  6,683,843   4,209,460   373,911   720,345   1,380,127     63.0 5.6 10.8 20.6
Alaska  2,006,114   1,236,883   161,052   224,715   383,464     61.7 8.0 11.2 19.1
Arizona  8,625,276 7  5,437,417 7  530,369 7  923,845 7  1,733,645 7    63.0 6.1 10.7 20.1
Arkansas  4,240,839 7  2,798,792 7  210,994 7  431,139 7  799,914 7    66.0 5.0 10.2 18.9
California  60,080,929 7  39,870,809 7  3,067,163 7  7,134,964 7  10,007,994 7    66.4 5.1 11.9 16.7
                               
Colorado  7,187,267   4,536,864   334,618   1,119,177   1,196,607     63.1 4.7 15.6 16.6
Connecticut  8,708,294 7  5,714,525 7  539,182 7  877,466 7  1,577,120 7    65.6 6.2 10.1 18.1
Delaware  1,518,786   943,160   76,345   183,543   315,737     62.1 5.0 12.1 20.8
District of Columbia8  1,352,905 7  712,407 7  138,818   245,382   256,298     52.7 10.3 18.1 18.9
Florida  23,328,028 7  15,617,921 7  1,087,761 7  2,146,232 7  4,476,114 7    66.9 4.7 9.2 19.2
                               
Georgia  15,976,945 7  10,821,624 7  766,374 7  1,699,692 7  2,689,254 7    67.7 4.8 10.6 16.8
Hawaii8  2,225,437   1,457,641   211,127   223,022   333,647     65.5 9.5 10.0 15.0
Idaho  1,957,740 7  1,273,409 7  113,401 7  196,274 7  374,656 7    65.0 5.8 10.0 19.1
Illinois  23,495,271 7  14,897,532 7  1,508,922 7  3,027,032 7  4,061,785 7    63.4 6.4 12.9 17.3
Indiana  9,680,895 7  6,010,358 7  451,616 7  1,091,532 7  2,127,390 7    62.1 4.7 11.3 22.0
                               
Iowa  4,731,463   3,111,969   268,931   543,224   807,340     65.8 5.7 11.5 17.1
Kansas  4,805,310   3,127,431   276,623   543,474   857,782     65.1 5.8 11.3 17.9
Kentucky  5,886,890   3,796,829   260,815   588,775   1,240,471     64.5 4.4 10.0 21.1
Louisiana  7,276,651 7  4,612,957 7  334,256 7  813,512 7  1,515,927 7    63.4 4.6 11.2 20.8
Maine  2,350,447 7  1,527,457 7  147,738 7  241,229 7  434,023     65.0 6.3 10.3 18.5
                               
Maryland  11,591,965 7  7,744,425 7  529,879 7  1,203,579 7  2,114,082     66.8 4.6 10.4 18.2
Massachusetts  13,942,586 7  9,734,532 7  956,365 7  1,073,285   2,178,404     69.8 6.9 7.7 15.6
Michigan  17,217,584   10,663,874   1,306,870   2,152,661   3,094,179     61.9 7.6 12.5 18.0
Minnesota  9,270,281 7  6,467,005 7  247,591 7  995,876 7  1,559,809 7    69.8 2.7 10.7 16.8
Mississippi  3,967,232 7  2,509,877 7  186,883 7  435,199 7  835,274 7    63.3 4.7 11.0 21.1
                               
Missouri  8,827,224   5,710,394   414,203   986,285   1,716,343     64.7 4.7 11.2 19.4
Montana  1,436,062   917,809   81,182   152,746   284,325     63.9 5.7 10.6 19.8
Nebraska  3,053,575   2,069,593   112,011   307,745   564,226     67.8 3.7 10.1 18.5
Nevada  3,606,035   2,331,320   173,167   446,466   655,081     64.7 4.8 12.4 18.2
New Hampshire  2,490,623   1,678,766   173,945   243,606   394,306     67.4 7.0 9.8 15.8
                               
New Jersey  23,589,224   14,686,274   2,187,782   2,253,314   4,461,854     62.3 9.3 9.6 18.9
New Mexico  3,186,252   1,933,201   324,958   362,062   566,032     60.7 10.2 11.4 17.8
New York  48,635,363 7  35,005,524 7  1,629,616 7  4,191,181 7  7,809,042 7    72.0 3.4 8.6 16.1
North Carolina  12,470,470   8,372,971   572,903   1,301,261   2,223,336     67.1 4.6 10.4 17.8
North Dakota  928,528   570,648   38,023   111,595   208,262     61.5 4.1 12.0 22.4
                               
Ohio  19,397,511   12,310,607   1,180,645   2,555,132   3,351,127     63.5 6.1 13.2 17.3
Oklahoma  5,082,062   3,092,681   342,773   563,608   1,083,001     60.9 6.7 11.1 21.3
Oregon  5,529,831   3,457,726   397,276   781,815   893,015     62.5 7.2 14.1 16.1
Pennsylvania  21,831,816   14,053,422   1,086,621   2,419,772   4,272,001     64.4 5.0 11.1 19.6
Rhode Island  2,139,317 7  1,350,162 7  266,637 7  203,333 7  319,186 7    63.1 12.5 9.5 14.9
                               
South Carolina  6,626,763   4,263,993   487,739   682,779   1,192,252     64.3 7.4 10.3 18.0
South Dakota  1,080,054   671,377   61,302   131,806   215,569     62.2 5.7 12.2 20.0
Tennessee  7,768,052 7  5,327,093 7  321,372   746,738   1,372,849     68.6 4.1 9.6 17.7
Texas  40,688,181 7  26,535,438 7  1,971,160 7  4,363,881 7  7,817,702 7    65.2 4.8 10.7 19.2
Utah  3,638,775   2,510,179   138,666   344,254   645,675     69.0 3.8 9.5 17.7
                               
Vermont  1,413,329   937,989   103,821   163,303   208,216     66.4 7.3 11.6 14.7
Virginia  13,505,290   9,100,777   655,441   1,235,758   2,513,315     67.4 4.9 9.2 18.6
Washington  9,940,056 7  6,425,796 7  660,150   1,134,446   1,719,663     64.6 6.6 11.4 17.3
West Virginia  3,059,420 7  1,948,448 7  113,038 7  285,772 7  712,161 7    63.7 3.7 9.3 23.3
Wisconsin  9,696,228   6,406,522   448,911   1,259,262   1,581,533     66.1 4.6 13.0 16.3
Wyoming  1,268,407   829,548   73,057   142,376   223,426     65.4 5.8 11.2 17.6
Other jurisdictions 
American Samoa  65,436   36,109   1,799   8,514   19,014     55.2 2.7 13.0 29.1
Guam  235,711   142,016   26,318   20,738   46,639     60.3 11.2 8.8 19.8
Commonwealth of
   the Northern
   Mariana Islands 
62,787 7  33,763 7  7,857 7  8,674 7  12,493 7    53.8 12.5 13.8 19.9
Puerto Rico  3,502,757 7  1,906,650 7  227,299 7  500,594 7  868,215 7    54.4 6.5 14.3 24.8
U.S. Virgin Islands  201,326 7  121,231 7  11,687 7  36,440 7  31,968 7    60.2 5.8 18.1 15.9
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 Include general administration, school administration, and other support services.
5 Include operations and maintenance, student transportation, food services, and enterprise operations.
6 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
7 Value affected by redistribution of reported values to correct for missing data items, and/or to distribute state direct support expenditures.
8 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 2009, Version 1a.