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School administration spending per pupil

Measure: School administration spending per pupil ($). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Public school spending per pupil by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: FY2024.

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2026-11-09
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National value: 946 (United States).

Washington: 1,059Idaho: 628Montana: 773North Dakota: 856Minnesota: 650Michigan: 933Ohio: 848Pennsylvania: 892New York: 1,383Vermont: 2,039New Hampshire: 1,291Maine: 1,077Arizona: 549California: 1,263New Mexico: 942Texas: 699Louisiana: 884Mississippi: 657Alabama: 775Florida: 644Georgia: 935South Carolina: 947North Carolina: 767Virginia: 980District of Columbia: 2,371Maryland: 1,299Delaware: 1,050New Jersey: 1,209Connecticut: 1,470Rhode Island: 1,061Massachusetts: 1,092Oregon: 1,149Utah: 716Wyoming: 1,029Nevada: 1,179Colorado: 1,151South Dakota: 633Nebraska: 790Kansas: 817Oklahoma: 671Iowa: 830Missouri: 789Wisconsin: 813Illinois: 1,098Kentucky: 822Arkansas: 673Tennessee: 769West Virginia: 812Indiana: 816Alaska: 1,204Hawaii: 1,479

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 2,371 $
  • RI 1,061 $
  • DE 1,050 $
  • CT 1,470 $
  • NJ 1,209 $
  • MD 1,299 $
  • MA 1,092 $
  • VT 2,039 $
  • NH 1,291 $
  • Lowest: 549 to 767 $
  • Group 2: 767 to 822 $
  • Group 3: 822 to 980 $
  • Group 4: 980 to 1,179 $
  • Highest: 1,179 to 2,371 $
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.

Note: Census Bureau fiscal-year data for public school systems. Current spending excludes capital outlay and debt interest; the District of Columbia is a single city system.

1District of Columbia2,371
2Vermont2,039
3Hawaii1,479
4Connecticut1,470
5New York1,383
6Maryland1,299
7New Hampshire1,291
8California1,263
9New Jersey1,209
10Alaska1,204
11Nevada1,179
12Colorado1,151
13Oregon1,149
14Illinois1,098
15Massachusetts1,092
16Maine1,077
17Rhode Island1,061
18Washington1,059
19Delaware1,050
20Wyoming1,029
21Virginia980
22South Carolina947
23New Mexico942
24Georgia935
25Michigan933
26Pennsylvania892
27Louisiana884
28North Dakota856
29Ohio848
30Iowa830
31Kentucky822
32Kansas817
33Indiana816
34Wisconsin813
35West Virginia812
36Nebraska790
37Missouri789
38Alabama775
39Montana773
40Tennessee769
41North Carolina767
42Utah716
43Texas699
44Arkansas673
45Oklahoma671
46Mississippi657
47Minnesota650
48Florida644
49South Dakota633
50Idaho628
51Arizona549

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data, fiscal year 2024, summary Table 8 (per pupil amounts for current spending). Reference period: FY2024.

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U.S. states ranked by school administration spending per pupil ($) (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-school-administration-spending-per-pupil/

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