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Local share of public school revenue: U.S. states ranked (FY2024)

Measure: Local share of public school revenue (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Public school revenue by source by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: FY2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 43.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 86.1 %
RI 47.1 %
DE 31.8 %
CT 56.1 %
NJ 47.4 %
MD 46.5 %
MA 48.1 %
VT 2.6 %
NH 63.4 %

Lowest: 1.5 to 30.2 %
Group 2: 30.2 to 37 %
Group 3: 37 to 46.5 %
Group 4: 46.5 to 51 %
Highest: 51 to 86.1 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	86.1
2	New Hampshire	63.4
3	Connecticut	56.1
4	Nebraska	55.9
5	Florida	55.4
6	Colorado	54.8
7	Missouri	53.7
8	Ohio	53.6
9	Pennsylvania	52.4
10	Illinois	51.1
11	Maine	51
12	New York	50.9
13	Texas	50.8
14	South Dakota	49.9
15	Virginia	48.9
16	Georgia	48.6
17	Massachusetts	48.1
18	New Jersey	47.4
19	Louisiana	47.1
19	Rhode Island	47.1
21	Maryland	46.5
22	South Carolina	44.6
23	Montana	43.2
24	Oklahoma	41.5
24	Utah	41.5
26	Iowa	39.9
27	Tennessee	39.8
28	Wyoming	39.1
29	North Dakota	38.4
30	Oregon	37.7
31	Kentucky	37
32	Wisconsin	36
33	West Virginia	35.6
34	California	35
35	Arizona	34.7
36	Indiana	32.7
37	Mississippi	32.5
38	Michigan	32.4
39	Delaware	31.8
40	Alabama	31.3
41	Minnesota	30.2
42	Kansas	26.5
43	Washington	26.1
44	North Carolina	25.5
45	Alaska	23.8
46	Idaho	20.9
47	New Mexico	16.7
48	Nevada	16.3
49	Arkansas	16
50	Vermont	2.6
51	Hawaii	1.5

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data, fiscal year 2024, summary Table 5 (percentage distribution of revenue by source). Reference period: FY2024.

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U.S. states ranked by local share of public school revenue (%) (FY2024). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-local-share-of-public-school-revenue/

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