Public School Expenditures
This indicator reports the total expenditures of public schools including spending on instruction, salaries, capital outlay, support services, and other areas.
Source
Additional data analysis by CARES.
Source Description
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations. It fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States; conduct and publish reports and specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics; assist state and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems; and review and report on education activities in foreign countries.
Citation: Documentation to the NCES Common Core of Data Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey (2011).
The National Center for Education Statistics releases a dataset containing detailed information about every public school in the United States in their annual Common Core of Data (CCD) files. The information from which this data is compiled is supplied by state education agency officials. The CCD reports information about both schools and school districts, including name, address, and phone number; descriptive information about students and staff demographics; and fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures.
For more information, please visit the Common Core of Data web page.
Methodology
School finance data are from the F-33 survey, a component of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES Common Core of Data (CCD)). The F-33 survey collects finance data from the entire universe of LEAs in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Detailed fiscal data on revenues and expenditures for all school districts providing public education to pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students, as well as student counts are provided. Expenditures include those instruction, support services, food services, capital outlays, and other operating expenses. Local Education Agency (School District) Finance Survey data are reported for Local Education Agencies (school districts) and are summarized to the county level using county codes provided in the NCES data file.