Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04. E.D. TAB. NCES 2006-352

Overview & Synopsis

This report presents current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education for school year 2003-04 (or fiscal year 2004). This data is from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD), National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) and School District Finance Survey (F-33). The data for these collections were reported to NCES by state education agencies and represent current expenditures for public education, grades prekindergarten, kindergarten, 1 through 12, and ungraded classes. The fiscal year began on July 1, 2003 and ended on June 30, 2004 for most states. The fiscal year for Alabama ran from October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004, and the fiscal year for Nebraska and Texas ran from September 1, 2003 through August 31, 2004. These data are not adjusted to conform to a uniform fiscal year. This report presents a different breakout of current expenditures than that in previous E.D. TAB reports by NCES. This report is also the first time that data from the state-level NPEFS and district-level F-33 surveys appear in the same NCES report. The NPEFS data include public education expenditures for regular education, special education, and vocational education programs, as well as all charter schools (if they reported data to the state education agency). The following are appended: (1) Technical Notes; and (2) Definitions. (Contains 4 tables and 3 footnotes.)