Table 6. Student membership and current expenditures per pupil for public elementary and secondary education, by function and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal year 2007

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

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March 2009

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Table 6. Student membership and current expenditures per pupil for public elementary and secondary education, by function and state or jurisdiction: Fiscal year 2007
State or jurisdiction	Fall 2006 student membership		Current expenditures¹ per pupil
State or jurisdiction	Fall 2006 student membership		Total		Instruction and Instruction-related²		Student support services³		Administration		Operations
United States⁴	49,245,840	⁵	$9,683	⁵,⁶	$6,373	⁵,⁶	$512	⁵,⁶	$1,050	⁵,⁶	$1,747	⁵,⁶

Alabama	743,632		8,398		5,326		445		913		1,715
Alaska	132,608		12,324		7,708		794		1,367		2,455
Arizona	1,065,082		7,338		4,635	⁶	521	⁶	776	⁶	1,406	⁶
Arkansas	476,409		8,391		5,566	⁶	397	⁶	879	⁶	1,549	⁶
California	6,406,821	⁵	8,952	⁵	5,974	⁵,⁶	426	⁵,⁶	1,076	⁵,⁶	1,475	⁵,⁶

Colorado	794,026		8,286		5,234		375		1,293		1,384
Connecticut	575,100		13,659		9,026	⁶	829	⁶	1,355	⁶	2,449	⁶
Delaware	122,254		11,760		7,210		597		1,526		2,427
District of Columbia⁷	72,850		15,511		9,112	⁶	861	⁶	1,990	⁶	3,549	⁶
Florida	2,671,513		8,567		5,682	⁶	397	⁶	809	⁶	1,679	⁶

Georgia	1,629,157		9,102		6,220	⁶	427	⁶	970	⁶	1,485	⁶
Hawaii⁷	180,728		11,060		6,898		1,333		1,147		1,682
Idaho	267,380		6,648		4,379	⁶	373	⁶	652	⁶	1,243	⁶
Illinois	2,118,276		9,596		6,093	⁶	624	⁶	1,144	⁶	1,734	⁶
Indiana	1,045,940		9,080		5,727	⁶	403	⁶	1,051	⁶	1,899	⁶

Iowa	481,368		8,791		5,697		503		1,055		1,537
Kansas	469,506		9,243		6,028		521		1,046		1,647
Kentucky	683,173	⁵	7,940	⁵	5,151	⁵	340	⁵	788	⁵	1,661	⁵
Louisiana	675,851		8,937		5,652	⁶	385	⁶	951	⁶	1,950	⁶
Maine	193,986		11,644		8,051	⁶	463	⁶	1,038	⁶	2,092

Maryland	851,640		11,975		7,995	⁶	502	⁶	1,217	⁶	2,260
Massachusetts	968,661		12,857		8,896	⁶	722	⁶	1,132		2,107
Michigan	1,714,709		9,922		6,121		737		1,262		1,802
Minnesota	840,565		9,589		6,632	⁶	260	⁶	994	⁶	1,703	⁶
Mississippi	495,026		7,459		4,741	⁶	342	⁶	799	⁶	1,576	⁶

Missouri	899,426		8,848		5,754		423		945		1,726
Montana	143,624		9,191		5,918		513		996		1,764
Nebraska	280,647		10,068		6,731		434		1,092		1,811
Nevada	424,240		7,806		4,962		283		1,199		1,362
New Hampshire	203,551		11,037		7,455		756		1,079		1,748

New Jersey	1,388,850		16,163		10,144	⁶	1,479	⁶	1,540	⁶	3,000	⁶
New Mexico	328,220		8,849		5,285		865		1,090		1,609
New York	2,809,649		15,546		11,173	⁶	500	⁶	1,352	⁶	2,522	⁶
North Carolina	1,427,880		7,878		5,208		444		868		1,358
North Dakota	96,670		8,671		5,308		370		1,046		1,947

Ohio	1,836,096		9,940		6,333		596		1,304		1,707
Oklahoma	639,391		7,430		4,586		478		810		1,557
Oregon	562,574		8,958		5,624		626		1,245		1,463
Pennsylvania	1,871,060		10,905		7,088		535		1,194		2,088
Rhode Island	151,612		13,453		8,731	⁶	1,560	⁶	1,166	⁶	1,997	⁶

South Carolina	703,119		8,566		5,526		606		867		1,568
South Dakota	121,158		8,064		5,027		444		987		1,606
Tennessee	978,368		7,129	⁶	4,945	⁶	248		670		1,266
Texas	4,599,509		7,850		5,099	⁶	382	⁶	846	⁶	1,523	⁶
Utah	523,586		5,706		3,859		213		550		1,085

Vermont	95,399		13,629		9,149		1,004		1,557		1,919
Virginia	1,220,440		10,214		6,927		490		906		1,892
Washington	1,026,774		8,524	⁶	5,450	⁶	554		975		1,545
West Virginia	281,939		9,727		6,167	⁶	348	⁶	926	⁶	2,285	⁶
Wisconsin	871,027		10,367		6,849		478		1,309		1,731
Wyoming	84,770		13,266		8,699		777		1,489		2,300

Other jurisdictions
American Samoa	16,427		3,476		1,944		92		498		941
Guam	—		—		—		—		—		—
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	11,695		4,707		3,740	⁶	72	⁶	151	⁶	744	⁶
Puerto Rico	544,138		6,006		4,181		464		110		1,251
U.S. Virgin Islands	16,284		9,669		6,191		615		1,230	⁶	1,631
— Not available.
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 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
⁵ The prekindergarten student membership was imputed, affecting the total student count and per pupil expenditures calculation.
⁶ Value affected by redistribution of reported expenditure values to correct for missing data items, and/or to distribute state direct support expenditures.
⁷ 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 2007, Version 1a.

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