National School Funding Report

Posted by U.S. Department of Education on February 23, 2015

The National Center for Education Statistics on Thursday released its latest data on how much money states are investing in public school students.

NCES, an arm of the Department of Education, looked at each state’s revenues and expenditures per pupil in public elementary and secondary schools during the 2011-2012 school year. The agency also presented data on school spending and revenues at the level of individual school districts. School revenue is defined as funds from “local, intermediate, state, and federal sources,” while school expenditure refers to “all amounts of money paid out by a school system.”

The graphics below outline some of the data’s highlights. The first map shows which states spent the most per pupil in 2012. The District of Columbia and New York took the top spots, spending over $19,000 per student. Utah and Idaho spent the least per student, around $6,500.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/nces-school-spending-data_n_6565878.html

NCES report: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014303