State School Statistics Index
Statewide public school statistics for 30 states: enrollment, school counts and per-pupil spending from NCES federal files, each figure labeled by year.
Each state page totals the NCES Common Core of Data state files for the 2023–24 school year — enrollment from the State Membership file, FTE teachers and the statewide student–teacher ratio from the State Staff file, and regular diplomas from the State Completers file — and pairs them with fiscal year 2024 finance from the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS), including the published per-pupil current expenditure. State pages also rank the state’s twelve largest districts by enrollment and link to full district pages where they exist. States were chosen for this launch by enrollment and by the states represented among the largest districts; the underlying federal files cover all fifty states, and coverage expands from the same files.
| State | Enrollment 2023–24 | Schools | Per-pupil spending FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 748,650 | 1,376 | $14,107 |
| Arizona | 1,117,630 | 2,399 | $13,113 |
| California | 5,837,338 | 10,120 | $21,438 |
| Colorado | 865,661 | 1,883 | $17,053 |
| Florida | 2,872,335 | 4,184 | $12,682 |
| Georgia | 1,749,701 | 2,308 | $15,923 |
| Hawaii | 169,308 | 295 | $25,713 |
| Illinois | 1,846,264 | 4,175 | $24,010 |
| Indiana | 1,032,723 | 1,892 | $14,216 |
| Kentucky | 657,520 | 1,526 | $16,245 |
| Massachusetts | 914,958 | 1,814 | $27,497 |
| Maryland | 890,122 | 1,403 | $22,160 |
| Michigan | 1,426,491 | 3,469 | $18,277 |
| Minnesota | 869,967 | 2,646 | $18,090 |
| Missouri | 891,248 | 2,457 | $15,403 |
| North Carolina | 1,544,289 | 2,697 | $13,782 |
| New Jersey | 1,392,567 | 2,534 | $28,918 |
| New Mexico | 311,719 | 882 | $17,620 |
| Nevada | 485,566 | 752 | $14,780 |
| New York | 2,533,449 | 4,788 | $33,102 |
| Ohio | 1,675,300 | 3,548 | $17,349 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,692,829 | 2,914 | $22,333 |
| Puerto Rico | 240,910 | 855 | $13,889 |
| South Carolina | 793,860 | 1,254 | $14,839 |
| Tennessee | 1,004,625 | 1,880 | $13,736 |
| Texas | 5,532,518 | 9,078 | $13,642 |
| Utah | 689,883 | 1,089 | $11,933 |
| Virginia | 1,258,852 | 1,861 | $18,185 |
| Washington | 1,093,745 | 2,523 | $20,786 |
| Wisconsin | 814,202 | 2,214 | $17,096 |
Per-pupil spending varies widely across states — from under $11,000 in the lowest-spending states in this index to over $30,000 in New York — because it reflects state funding formulas, regional salary levels and how much of the cost of pensions and transportation sits inside school budgets. The figure shown is current spending per pupil from NPEFS, the NCES-published measure designed for exactly this comparison. See the per-pupil spending guide for what current spending includes and excludes, and the district index for agency-level figures.
How to compare states fairly
Three cautions govern every comparison in the table. First, enrollment and spending come from different federal surveys with different labels — 2023–24 membership beside fiscal year 2024 finance — and each state page keeps those labels attached row by row. Second, statewide averages conceal enormous internal spread: a state’s largest district can spend thousands of dollars per pupil more or less than the state figure, which is why state pages also rank their largest districts. Third, staffing ratios and spending move together but not in lockstep, because salary levels differ by state; a high-spending state is not automatically a low-ratio state. The state pages are built so all three checks — enrollment, staffing and money — sit on one screen for each state, drawn from the same file vintage, before any cross-state conclusion is drawn.
Data: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts, retrieved October 2026, from nces.ed.gov. Enrollment, staffing and lunch figures are for the 2023–24 school year; finance figures are fiscal year 2024 (school year 2023–24) unless a page labels them otherwise.
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