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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">NCES releases revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary school districts for School Year 2011-12 (FY 12)<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The national median of total revenues per pupil across all local education agencies (LEAs) was $11,770 in FY 12, which represents a decrease of
2.9 percent from FY 11, after adjusting for inflation. The national median of current expenditures per pupil among all LEAs was $9,937 in FY 12, a decrease of 2.5 percent from FY 11.<br>
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In FY 12, current expenditures per pupil in the 100 largest public school districts ranged from a low of $5,412 in Alpine School District, Utah to a high of $20,226 in New York City School District, New York. Current expenditures per pupil were next highest
in Boston City Schools, Massachusetts ($19,720); Baltimore City Schools, Maryland ($15,287); Anchorage School District, Alaska ($14,963); Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland ($14,873); Howard County Public Schools, Maryland ($14,747); Columbus City
Schools, Ohio ($14,008); and Atlanta Public Schools, Georgia ($14,006).<br>
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The First Look report provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary (PK-12) education in the United States for school year 2011-12. State education agencies in the 50 states and the District
of Columbia provide the data to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.
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