National ranking · NCES F-33
School Spending Rankings
Public schools ranked by their district's per-pupil expenditure, comparing the highest and lowest funded schools with 100 or more students.
- $94,124
- Highest per-student $
- $4,055
- Lowest per-student $
- 100
- Schools ranked
School funding gap: $94,124 vs $4,055 per student (23.2×)
According to NCES finance joined to CCD school records, PlainSchools lists the highest- and lowest-funded US schools by district per-pupil expenditure. Mount Pleasant-Cottage School sits at $94,124; Excel Center - Anderson at $4,055 - a 23.2× gap. Figures inherit the district finance survey, not school-level budgets.
- $94,124 highest per-student $
- $4,055 lowest per-student $
- 23.2x funding gap
The ranking in one line
Students at Mount Pleasant-Cottage School are funded at $94,124 a year, 23.2 times the $4,055 behind students at Excel Center - Anderson.
- 23.2x
- highest vs lowest funding gap
- $53,850
- floor of the top-50 list
- $6,532
- ceiling of the bottom-50 list
Top 50 Highest-Funded Schools
Schools whose districts report the highest per-pupil expenditure. The shaded bar behind each value shows its magnitude; see our methodology.
Top 50 Lowest-Funded Schools
Schools whose districts report the lowest per-pupil expenditure. A short bar means less funding behind each student.
About this data: Per-pupil expenditure is from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey (Fiscal Year 2022-23). Figures represent district-wide averages, all schools within a district share the same per-student spending amount.
Individual school-level budgets are required under ESSA Section 1111(h)(1)(C)(iii) but are not yet consistently reported at the national level. This ranking uses the best available federal data.
Every figure on PlainSchools is rendered directly from the source NCES, CRDC and F-33 federal records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.