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 2006

Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2005–06 (Fiscal Year 2006)

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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 2006
State and independent charter school districts	Current expenditures¹ per pupil			Federal range ratio²	Number of districts	Number of students
State and independent charter school districts	5^th percentile	Median	95^th percentile	Federal range ratio²	Number of districts	Number of students
United States	$6,464	$8,587	$16,150	1.5	13,766	48,097,541

Alabama	6,687	7,590	9,162	0.4	131	743,265
Alaska	9,142	15,827	29,967	2.3	53	132,893
Arizona	5,694	7,713	17,063	2.0	216	947,250
Arkansas	6,690	7,547	9,241	0.4	252	472,609
California	6,519	7,848	14,342	1.2	965	6,221,828

Colorado	6,627	8,321	13,680	1.1	178	778,842
Connecticut	10,143	11,898	15,995	0.6	166	549,744
Delaware	8,766	10,754	13,798	0.6	16	108,535
District of Columbia	†	13,446	†	†	1	59,616
Florida	7,057	7,630	9,594	0.4	67	2,663,973

Georgia	7,164	8,223	10,816	0.5	179	1,597,421
Hawaii	†	9,640	†	†	1	182,818
Idaho	5,325	7,313	14,052	1.6	114	258,314
Illinois	6,117	7,798	12,478	1.0	872	2,097,585
Indiana	6,858	7,913	10,827	0.6	292	1,026,106

Iowa	6,671	7,788	11,623	0.7	365	483,482
Kansas	7,269	9,151	12,042	0.7	293	465,926
Kentucky	6,645	7,484	9,018	0.4	176	679,621
Louisiana	6,757	7,898	12,475	0.8	68	648,313
Maine	8,674	10,927	16,337	0.9	222	195,174

Maryland	9,359	10,138	12,402	0.3	24	860,021
Massachusetts	9,073	11,114	17,346	0.9	302	924,420
Michigan	7,270	8,218	11,483	0.6	551	1,635,076
Minnesota	6,908	8,389	11,551	0.7	345	811,907
Mississippi	6,018	7,274	10,695	0.8	152	493,952

Missouri	5,961	7,543	10,948	0.8	521	913,765
Montana	6,267	9,682	23,581	2.8	430	145,259
Nebraska	6,030	9,278	16,143	1.7	449	285,547
Nevada	7,092	8,819	23,047	2.2	17	412,747
New Hampshire	8,384	10,922	15,551	0.9	162	201,044

New Jersey	10,759	13,165	19,234	0.8	551	1,350,392
New Mexico	7,298	9,991	18,137	1.5	89	326,761
New York	11,227	14,292	25,058	1.2	694	2,789,776
North Carolina	6,611	7,790	10,064	0.5	115	1,378,306
North Dakota	6,360	9,463	21,778	2.4	198	98,172

Ohio	6,989	7,960	10,974	0.6	614	1,769,331
Oklahoma	5,783	7,359	11,560	1.0	540	634,468
Oregon	7,134	8,458	17,727	1.5	195	555,967
Pennsylvania	7,819	9,318	12,678	0.6	500	1,752,402
Rhode Island	9,640	11,949	14,980	0.6	36	150,112

South Carolina	6,906	8,120	10,608	0.5	85	699,027
South Dakota	6,405	8,000	13,434	1.1	165	121,718
Tennessee	5,570	6,457	8,241	0.5	135	953,514
Texas	6,674	8,099	13,434	1.0	1,034	4,451,163
Utah	4,939	6,321	11,628	1.4	40	496,507

Vermont	7,887	11,413	15,567	1.0	238	92,049
Virginia	7,655	8,692	12,479	0.6	132	1,213,616
Washington	6,883	8,074	18,618	1.7	296	1,031,668
West Virginia	8,376	9,338	10,470	0.3	55	279,788
Wisconsin	8,371	9,706	12,169	0.5	426	869,596
Wyoming	9,809	12,133	22,109	1.3	48	86,155
Independent charter school districts³	4,728	7,499	15,095	2.2	1,569	487,783
† 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, payments to other school districts, and payments to private and charter schools.
² The federal range ratio indicates the difference between the amount per pupil of the district at the 95^th percentile 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 $6,687 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 $7,590. Five percent of school districts have current expenditures per pupil of $9,162 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; 92.1 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; 97.6 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 2006, Version 1a.

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