Public School System Finances
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Public Elementary–Secondary Education Finance Data
Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets [cash and security holdings] of elementary and secondary public school systems. Statistics cover school systems in all states, and include the District of Columbia. Data are available in viewable tables and downloadable files.
2012 Data
Public Education Finances Report [PDF, 8.3MB]
2012 Current Spending Infographic [PDF, 150KB]
- American FactFinder
- Downloadable Data – Files are available containing complete data for all items surveyed and all data item flags.
- State-level Tables – State-level tables containing selected revenue, expenditure, debt, and asset (cash and securities) data items available in Excel format.
[EXCEL, 461KB] (Survey Documentation and File Layout) [PDF, 195KB] - Individual Unit Tables – Individual unit tables containing data for selected revenue, expenditure, and debt data items for all school systems.
[EXCEL 7.94MB] | [TXT, 4.77MB] (Survey Documentation and File Layout) [PDF, 195KB] - All Data Items – Files containing data for all items on the F-33 survey form, as well as unit identifiers, descriptive variables, and summary data items. Each file contains data for all school systems.
[EXCEL, 14.42MB] | [TXT 7.12MB] (Survey Documentation and File Layout) [PDF, 195KB] - Data Item Flags – Beginning with fiscal year 1999, the F-33 school system finance files include data item flags to indicate whether a data item was reported by the state education agency or adjusted by the Census Bureau.
[EXCEL 27,13MB] | [TXT 8.16MB] (Survey Documentation and File Layout) [PDF, 195KB]
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