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

Measure: State share of public school revenue (%). All 50 states 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: 45.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

RI 40.3 %
DE 57.4 %
CT 35.8 %
NJ 46.3 %
MD 44.1 %
MA 43.6 %
VT 87 %
NH 28.3 %

Lowest: 28.3 to 38.6 %
Group 2: 38.6 to 44.3 %
Group 3: 44.3 to 50.9 %
Group 4: 50.9 to 57.4 %
Highest: 57.4 to 87 %

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	Vermont	87
2	Hawaii	85.3
3	Nevada	70.1
4	Arkansas	69.3
5	Idaho	67.4
6	Washington	65.6
7	New Mexico	63.6
8	Kansas	61.7
8	Minnesota	61.7
10	Delaware	57.4
11	North Carolina	57.1
12	Michigan	56.7
13	Indiana	55.9
14	Alaska	55.2
14	Missouri	55.2
16	California	53.4
17	Alabama	52.5
18	Wisconsin	52.1
19	Oregon	51.8
20	Iowa	50.9
21	Utah	50.6
22	Arizona	47.3
23	New Jersey	46.3
24	North Dakota	46.2
25	West Virginia	46
26	Kentucky	45.9
27	Wyoming	45.3
28	Mississippi	44.8
29	Oklahoma	44.6
30	Tennessee	44.3
31	Maryland	44.1
32	Massachusetts	43.6
33	South Carolina	42.5
34	Virginia	41.3
35	New York	40.8
36	Maine	40.6
37	Rhode Island	40.3
38	Georgia	39.4
39	Montana	39
40	Illinois	38.6
41	Pennsylvania	37.5
42	Colorado	36.8
43	Connecticut	35.8
43	Texas	35.8
45	Ohio	34.6
46	Louisiana	33.7
47	Nebraska	33.6
48	South Dakota	30.7
49	Florida	29.3
50	New Hampshire	28.3

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 state 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-state-share-of-public-school-revenue/

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