Table 6. Median current expenditures per pupil and numbers of districts and students for public elementary and secondary regular school districts with no charter schools and independent charter school districts in states that have reported independent charter school district data, by function, district type, and state: 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 6. Median current expenditures per pupil and numbers of districts and students for public elementary and secondary regular school districts with no charter schools and independent charter school districts in states that have reported independent charter school district data, by function, district type, and state: Fiscal year 2006
District type and state	Median current expenditures¹ per pupil					Number of districts	Number of students
District type and state	Total	Instruction and instruction-related	Student support service	Administration	Operations	Number of districts	Number of students
Regular school districts²
Arizona	$7,787	$4,333	$368	$1,101	$1,817	210	928,303
Arkansas	7,546	4,978	293	825	1,384	243	412,075
California	7,953	5,210	221	1,120	1,393	756	3,111,003
Colorado	8,781	5,272	234	1,431	1,738	131	118,890
Connecticut	11,898	7,822	770	1,296	2,210	166	549,744

Delaware	10,754	6,808	538	1,366	2,141	16	108,535
District of Columbia	13,446	6,898	917	1,888	3,743	1	59,616
Georgia	8,221	5,523	411	863	1,431	162	1,063,004
Idaho	7,468	4,789	280	844	1,511	100	131,892
Indiana	7,910	4,888	257	1,011	1,738	291	1,012,643

Michigan	8,218	5,328	301	974	1,570	551	1,635,076
Minnesota	8,389	5,666	168	851	1,658	345	811,907
New Jersey	13,165	8,226	1,238	1,435	2,281	551	1,350,392
North Carolina	7,790	5,006	427	823	1,380	115	1,378,306
Ohio	7,960	5,086	379	1,027	1,499	611	1,763,927

Oregon	8,687	5,322	301	1,278	1,794	163	294,684
Pennsylvania	9,318	6,029	408	941	1,924	500	1,752,402
Rhode Island	11,949	7,642	1,286	979	1,892	34	113,565
Texas	8,098	5,183	279	975	1,611	1,033	4,450,139
Utah	6,321	4,230	169	638	1,293	40	496,507

Independent charter school districts³
Arizona	$6,006	$3,099	$96	$1,451	$1,141	339	87,972
Arkansas	7,097	4,155	104	1,576	1,212	8	1,381
California	7,011	4,377	37	1,093	1,475	8	6,306
Colorado	6,082	4,215	—	1,756	111	1	377
Connecticut	9,055	5,257	909	1,447	1,370	14	2,927

Delaware	8,488	4,827	391	1,120	2,269	13	6,566
District of Columbia	12,431	8,000	—	—	4,034	43	14,790
Georgia	12,395	7,989	437	1,820	2,149	1	261
Idaho	4,952	3,585	—	626	667	8	3,593
Indiana	6,650	4,748	86	1,304	775	14	4,077

Michigan	7,783	3,890	192	1,942	1,675	216	91,508
Minnesota	8,494	5,343	13	1,870	1,016	123	20,321
New Jersey	11,313	6,483	—	2,284	2,195	50	14,769
North Carolina	7,197	4,262	133	2,093	528	99	27,364
Ohio	8,405	4,750	132	1,715	473	282	68,198

Oregon	13,970	7,194	441	2,801	3,534	2	218
Pennsylvania	9,105	5,051	282	1,841	1,495	115	55,266
Rhode Island	10,719	6,195	1,093	2,014	939	8	1,625
Texas	7,049	3,833	109	1,543	1,400	189	68,825
Utah	5,317	3,411	74	798	1,054	36	11,439
— Not available.
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 All associated schools are noncharter schools.
³ All associated schools are charter schools.
NOTE: How to read this table: Using Arizona (under regular school districts) as an example, if all regular school districts were listed by size of total current expenditures per pupil, the district at the midpoint (median) would have total current expenditures per pupil of $7,787. Median expenditures are reported for each data item, so details do not sum to totals. Only regular school districts matching the Common Core of Data (CCD) "Local Education Agency Universe Survey" and with student membership greater than zero and no charter schools were used in creating the state figures. 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. Only the 20 states that have reported independent charter school district data are included in this table.
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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