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.