SPENDING DISPARITIES: Look up a district to see how spending correlates with the percentage of students considered economically disadvantaged. A dotted line indicates a weak correlation, while a solid line indicates a moderate to strong correlation. No line means the correlation was too weak to be considered significant.
| School | Economically disadvantaged | Per-pupil expenditure |
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DATA: State and local per-pupil expenditures taken from all states’ reports, with the exception of Maine, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio and Oregon, which made only combined federal, state and local data available. States use different definitions for economically disadvantaged students, so take care when comparing districts across states. Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Wyoming provide data on the percent of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch by school. Exact eligibility percentages are suppressed for schools above 90% eligible in Minnesota. Data are from the 2018-19 academic year for all states except Nevada, for which 2017-18 data were the most recent available at the time of publication.