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School administration spending per pupil: U.S. states ranked (FY2024)

Measure: School district general 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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Data last updated
2026-11-09
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National value: 351 (United States).

Washington: 182Idaho: 217Montana: 475North Dakota: 681Minnesota: 646Michigan: 298Ohio: 503Pennsylvania: 543New York: 689Vermont: 566New Hampshire: 849Maine: 827Arizona: 198California: 364New Mexico: 391Texas: 187Louisiana: 428Mississippi: 408Alabama: 413Florida: 145Georgia: 233South Carolina: 129North Carolina: 141Virginia: 295District of Columbia: 1,521Maryland: 155Delaware: 184New Jersey: 471Connecticut: 604Rhode Island: 369Massachusetts: 382Oregon: 277Utah: 118Wyoming: 427Nevada: 145Colorado: 257South Dakota: 450Nebraska: 450Kansas: 428Oklahoma: 359Iowa: 374Missouri: 855Wisconsin: 332Illinois: 636Kentucky: 348Arkansas: 344Tennessee: 259West Virginia: 228Indiana: 262Alaska: 292Hawaii: 66

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 66 to 198 $
  • Group 2: 198 to 298 $
  • Group 3: 298 to 408 $
  • Group 4: 408 to 543 $
  • Highest: 543 to 1,521 $
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 Columbia1,521
2Missouri855
3New Hampshire849
4Maine827
5New York689
6North Dakota681
7Minnesota646
8Illinois636
9Connecticut604
10Vermont566
11Pennsylvania543
12Ohio503
13Montana475
14New Jersey471
15Nebraska450
15South Dakota450
17Kansas428
17Louisiana428
19Wyoming427
20Alabama413
21Mississippi408
22New Mexico391
23Massachusetts382
24Iowa374
25Rhode Island369
26California364
27Oklahoma359
28Kentucky348
29Arkansas344
30Wisconsin332
31Michigan298
32Virginia295
33Alaska292
34Oregon277
35Indiana262
36Tennessee259
37Colorado257
38Georgia233
39West Virginia228
40Idaho217
41Arizona198
42Texas187
43Delaware184
44Washington182
45Maryland155
46Florida145
46Nevada145
48North Carolina141
49South Carolina129
50Utah118
51Hawaii66

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 district general 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-district-general-administration-spending-per-pupil/

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