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Financial Information on public elementary/secondary education


Table 4. Total revenues, enrollment, and revenues per pupil, in public elementary and secondary schools: 1969–70 to 2005–06

[In 2006 constant dollars]


School year Total revenues
(thousands)
Fall enrollment
(millions)
Revenues per pupil
1969–70  $212,119,008 45.6 $4,652
1970–71  222,967,678 45.9 4,858
1971–72  241,806,205 46.1 5,245
1972–73  242,268,995 45.7 5,301
1973–74  248,525,076 45.4 5,474
1974–75  247,607,488 45.1 5,490
1975–76  255,498,555 44.8 5,703
1976–77  255,410,809 44.3 5,765
1977–78  258,753,968 43.6 5,935
1978–79  255,622,343 42.6 6,001
1979–80  248,329,664 41.7 5,955
1980–81  243,382,635 40.9 5,951
1981–82  233,000,155 40.0 5,825
1982–83  238,217,656 39.6 6,016
1983–84  246,446,067 39.3 6,271
1984–85  258,308,759 39.2 6,590
1985–86  272,707,710 39.4 6,922
1986–87  283,593,419 39.8 7,125
1987–88  291,271,528 40.0 7,282
1988–89  315,282,546 40.2 7,843
1989–90  326,830,468 40.5 8,070
1990–91  331,869,592 41.2 8,055
1991–92  337,750,483 42.0 8,042
1992–93  345,733,215 42.8 8,078
1993–94  354,060,423 43.5 8,139
1994–95  361,380,746 44.1 8,195
1995–96  370,553,814 44.8 8,271
1996–97  382,016,844 45.6 8,378
1997–98  400,988,045 46.1 8,698
1998–99  420,108,189 46.5 9,035
1999–2000  438,371,766 46.9 9,347
2000–01  456,140,193 47.2 9,664
2001–02  468,469,613 47.7 9,821
2002–03  480,966,137 48.2 9,979
2003–04  494,042,671 48.5 10,186
2004–05  506,328,117 48.8 10,376
2005–06  520,643,954 49.1 10,604
NOTE: Public revenue is measured by total revenue received by school districts providing public elementary and secondary education.
SOURCE: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and previously unpublished tabulation (November 2004); U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), The Condition of Education 2005 (NCES 2005-094) tables 39-1 and 39-2 ; U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Common Core of Data (CCD), “National Public Education Financial Survey” (NPEFS), 2002–03 to 2005–06.
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