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Table 5.  Amounts and percentage change of inflation-adjusted current expenditures per pupil, by year and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal years 2011 through 2013

 
State or jurisdiction Inflation adjusted current expenditures1 per pupil
FY 2011
(inflation-adjusted
to 2013 dollars)
FY 2012
(inflation-adjusted
to 2013 dollars)
Percentage change
FY 2011–FY 2012
FY 2012
(inflation-adjusted
to 2013 dollars)
FY 2013 Percentage change
FY 2012–FY 2013
United States2 $11,158 $10,825 -3.0 $10,825 $10,763 -0.6
             
Alabama 9,131 8,720 -4.5 8,720 8,773 0.6
Alaska 17,437 17,766 1.9 17,766 18,217 2.5
Arizona 8,143 7,506 -7.8 7,506 7,495 -0.2
Arkansas 9,937 9,695 -2.4 9,695 9,538 -1.6
California 9,571 9,374 -2.1 9,374 9,258 -1.2
             
Colorado 9,194 8,737 -5.0 8,737 8,693 -0.5
Connecticut 16,977 17,135 0.9 17,135 17,321 1.1
Delaware 13,046 13,806 5.8 13,806 13,653 -1.1
District of Columbia 21,758 20,177 -7.3 20,177 20,530 1.7
Florida 9,450 8,662 -8.3 8,662 8,623 -0.4
             
Georgia 9,689 9,426 -2.7 9,426 9,121 -3.2
Hawaii 12,478 12,172 -2.5 12,172 11,743 -3.5
Idaho 7,138 6,737 -5.6 6,737 6,761 0.4
Illinois 12,287 12,211 -0.6 12,211 12,443 1.9
Indiana 9,681 9,747 0.7 9,747 9,421 -3.3
             
Iowa 10,249 10,194 -0.5 10,194 10,291 1.0
Kansas 10,257 10,188 -0.7 10,188 10,011 -1.7
Kentucky 9,656 9,482 -1.8 9,482 9,274 -2.2
Louisiana 11,300 10,905 -3.5 10,905 10,539 -3.4
Maine 13,160 12,540 -4.7 12,540 12,655 0.9
             
Maryland 14,594 14,106 -3.3 14,106 14,086 -0.1
Massachusetts 15,290 15,091 -1.3 15,091 15,321 1.5
Michigan 11,068 10,651 -3.8 10,651 10,515 -1.3
Minnesota 11,169 10,960 -1.9 10,960 11,065 1.0
Mississippi 8,294 8,232 -0.7 8,232 8,117 -1.4
             
Missouri 9,900 9,672 -2.3 9,672 9,702 0.3
Montana 11,217 10,745 -4.2 10,745 10,662 -0.8
Nebraska 12,247 11,684 -4.6 11,684 11,743 0.5
Nevada 8,802 8,265 -6.1 8,265 8,026 -2.9
New Hampshire 14,177 14,003 -1.2 14,003 14,050 0.3
             
New Jersey 17,637 18,281 3.7 18,281 18,523 1.3
New Mexico 9,679 9,163 -5.3 9,163 9,164 #
New York 19,733 19,719 -0.1 19,719 19,529 -1.0
North Carolina 8,651 8,295 -4.1 8,295 8,342 0.6
North Dakota 11,404 11,433 0.2 11,433 11,615 1.6
             
Ohio 11,924 11,511 -3.5 11,511 11,276 -2.0
Oklahoma 7,986 7,892 -1.2 7,892 7,914 0.3
Oregon 9,958 9,643 -3.2 9,643 9,183 -4.8
Pennsylvania 13,704 13,309 -2.9 13,309 13,445 1.0
Rhode Island 15,642 15,425 -1.4 15,425 14,889 -3.5
             
South Carolina 9,321 9,254 -0.7 9,254 9,444 2.1
South Dakota 9,346 8,736 -6.5 8,736 8,630 -1.2
Tennessee 8,717 8,487 -2.6 8,487 8,588 1.2
Texas 9,088 8,349 -8.1 8,349 8,261 -1.1
Utah 6,739 6,417 -4.8 6,417 6,432 0.2
             
Vermont 15,390 16,928 10.0 16,928 17,286 2.1
Virginia 10,844 10,833 -0.1 10,833 10,960 1.2
Washington 10,066 9,764 -3.0 9,764 9,714 -0.5
West Virginia 12,534 11,771 -6.1 11,771 11,257 -4.4
Wisconsin 12,502 11,420 -8.7 11,420 11,186 -2.1
             
Wyoming 16,549 16,254 -1.8 16,254 15,815 -2.7
           
Other jurisdictions
American Samoa
Guam 8,835 9,455 7.0 9,455 8,949 -5.4
Commonwealth of the
       Northern Mariana
       Islands
7,977 6,350 -20.4 6,350 5,733 -9.7
Puerto Rico 7,774 7,526 -3.2 7,526 7,981 6.1
U.S. Virgin Islands 13,840 11,863 -14.3 11,863 10,661 -10.1
— Not available. Data are missing for American Samoa because they did not report student membership.
# Rounds to zero.
1 Current expenditures 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 United States totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
NOTE: Data have been adjusted to FY 13 dollars to account for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is published by the U.S. Labor Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics. This price index measures the average change in inflation of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by consumers.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS)," fiscal year 2012, Version 2a; fiscal year 2013, Provisional Version 1a; Digest of Education Statistics: 2013, retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_106.70.asp.