New York spends more per pupil in schools than any other state, and its per-pupil spending is 62 percent above the national average, data released May 24 by the U.S. Census Bureau show.

The data, for 2004-2005, show that New York's per-pupil spending was $14,119, compared to the national average of $8,701. New York's spending was 2 percent above the second-highest spender, New Jersey, where spending that year was $13,800.

The data also show that:

• New York's per-pupil spending increased 9 percent compared to the previous year's spending. In that year, 2003-04, New York's spending per pupil was $12,930, which was already 56 percent above the national average.
  
  
• With some $19.2 billion in state aid to schools that year, New York ranked sixth nationally in the amount of per-pupil spending that came from state taxpayers. That per-pupil spending of state aid, at $6,930, is 45 percent above the national average. It is also more per-pupil spending than Tennessee, Nevada, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah spent from all sources.

The Census Bureau report is available at www.census.gov/govs/www/school.html.

The table below shows per-pupil figures for current spending, and the two major sources of school districts' revenues.

Per Pupil spending and revenue, 2004-05
Rank	State	Total per-pupil spending	State revenue rank	Per-pupil school revenue from state sources	Local revenue rank	Per-pupil revenue from local sources
1	NEW YORK	$14,119.37	6	$6,930.17	3	$7,722.25
2	New Jersey	$13,799.79	7	$6,790.38	1	$8,740.82
3	Vermont	$11,835.27	1	$11,599.89	49	$687.77
4	Connecticut	$11,572.42	17	$5,165.90	2	$8,005.79
5	Massachusetts	$11,267.07	13	$5,690.98	4	$6,985.99
6	Delaware	$10,910.06	3	$7,946.71	29	$3,362.15
7	Alaska	$10,829.97	8	$6,628.53	34	$3,151.39
8	Pennsylvania	$10,552.01	28	$4,349.62	5	$6,865.26
9	Rhode Island	$10,371.31	21	$4,865.75	6	$6,512.82
10	Wyoming	$10,254.80	5	$6,961.58	15	$5,206.88
11	Maine	$10,106.03	25	$4,518.10	11	$5,743.35
12	Maryland	$9,815.24	30	$4,319.85	7	$6,369.25
13	Wisconsin	$9,743.84	15	$5,551.48	16	$4,788.39
14	New Hampshire	$9,448.30	29	$4,347.08	8	$6,115.31
15	Michigan	$9,328.76	11	$6,306.98	30	$3,311.07
16	Ohio	$9,260.18	23	$4,673.96	12	$5,415.00
17	West Virginia	$9,004.96	12	$5,752.01	39	$2,707.13
18	Hawaii	$8,996.84	2	$10,844.86	50	$276.10
19	Illinois	$8,943.60	45	$3,442.33	10	$5,775.17
20	Virginia	$8,891.25	33	$4,047.37	14	$5,221.42
21	Indiana	$8,797.80	18	$5,149.49	13	$5,378.00
22	Minnesota	$8,661.63	4	$7,206.57	42	$2,508.25
23	Nebraska	$8,282.33	48	$3,079.51	9	$5,798.75
24	North Dakota	$8,159.46	46	$3,398.73	21	$4,332.00
25	Oregon	$8,114.58	27	$4,430.56	26	$3,700.46
26	California	$8,066.72	14	$5,556.01	35	$2,888.74
27	Montana	$8,057.54	38	$3,947.75	27	$3,515.93
28	Georgia	$8,028.06	32	$4,153.41	19	$4,439.63
29	Iowa	$7,972.38	31	$4,290.08	22	$4,273.18
30	Colorado	$7,729.79	41	$3,857.82	18	$4,483.67
31	Missouri	$7,716.89	36	$4,026.80	20	$4,359.21
32	Kansas	$7,705.72	19	$5,037.81	33	$3,212.98
33	Louisiana	$7,604.52	39	$3,884.40	31	$3,260.73
34	New Mexico	$7,580.49	10	$6,447.89	47	$1,223.01
35	Washington	$7,560.33	16	$5,479.32	40	$2,680.58
36	South Carolina	$7,554.79	34	$4,039.42	25	$4,072.00
37	Arkansas	$7,504.07	9	$6,489.43	48	$1,129.50
38	Texas	$7,266.86	49	$3,003.17	17	$4,737.88
39	Florida	$7,206.63	42	$3,757.94	24	$4,136.66
40	South Dakota	$7,197.22	50	$2,805.00	23	$4,188.99
41	North Carolina	$7,159.29	22	$4,737.25	41	$2,603.37
42	Kentucky	$7,117.98	24	$4,625.85	43	$2,482.54
43	Alabama	$7,066.03	26	$4,452.74	38	$2,707.42
44	Tennessee	$6,729.04	47	$3,147.57	32	$3,218.08
45	Nevada	$6,721.60	20	$4,991.45	36	$2,818.09
46	Oklahoma	$6,612.62	40	$3,879.89	37	$2,816.93
47	Mississippi	$6,574.52	37	$3,961.51	46	$2,269.82
48	Idaho	$6,283.31	35	$4,033.19	45	$2,284.24
49	Arizona	$6,261.39	44	$3,469.27	28	$3,409.67
50	Utah	$5,257.15	43	$3,543.54	44	$2,298.04
United States		$8,701.06		$4,773.83		$4,462.80
NYS +/- U.S. average		62%		45%		73%

 

 

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