Georgia · NCES F-33 finance data

Highest Spending Districts in Georgia

The 50 Georgia districts that spend the most per student, ranked from NCES F-33 finance data (2022-23). Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are included.

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

The spending picture in one line

Hancock County spends $25,667 per student, the most of any Georgia district listed, against an average of $17,320 across the top 50.

$25,667
top spend (Hancock County): $15,101
lowest on this list: 1.7×
spread across the listed districts: 703
students in the top district

#	District	Enrollment	Schools	Per-Pupil $
1	Hancock CountySparta	703	3	$25,667
2	Twiggs CountyJeffersonville	717	3	$23,591
3	Atlanta Public SchoolsAtlanta	50,325	86	$23,046
4	Randolph CountyCuthbert	642	3	$22,226
5	Clarke CountyAthens	12,340	21	$21,012
6	Mitchell CountyCamilla	1,304	4	$20,008
7	Greene CountyGreensboro	2,589	5	$19,636
8	Burke CountyWaynesboro	3,990	5	$19,444
9	Dooly CountyVienna	1,110	4	$19,422
10	Warren CountyWarrenton	662	3	$19,118
11	Towns CountyHiawassee	1,002	3	$18,874
12	Dougherty CountyAlbany	13,043	22	$18,742
13	Wilkinson CountyIrwinton	1,119	4	$18,397
14	Early CountyBlakely	1,668	3	$18,154
15	Miller CountyColquitt	735	3	$18,152
16	Marietta CityMarietta	8,711	13	$17,612
17	Terrell CountyDawson	1,035	3	$17,581
18	Dublin CityDublin	2,288	5	$17,579
19	Macon CountyOglethorpe	1,114	3	$16,984
20	Rabun CountyClayton	2,270	4	$16,978
21	City Schools of DecaturDecatur	5,655	9	$16,939
22	Turner CountyAshburn	1,189	3	$16,906
23	Putnam CountyEatonton	2,978	4	$16,867
24	Glascock CountyGibson	573	2	$16,480
25	Fannin CountyBlue Ridge	2,799	5	$16,158
26	Taylor CountyButler	1,229	4	$16,136
27	Meriwether CountyGreenville	2,323	7	$16,105
28	Wilkes CountyWashington	1,265	4	$16,070
29	Mcintosh CountyDarien	1,333	3	$16,059
30	Atkinson CountyPearson	1,630	4	$16,014
31	State Charter Schools Ii- Atlanta Heights Charter SchoolAtlanta	681	1	$15,940
32	Brooks CountyQuitman	2,141	6	$15,866
33	Wheeler CountyAlamo	873	3	$15,865
34	Rockdale CountyConyers	15,734	18	$15,849
35	Ben Hill CountyFitzgerald	3,003	5	$15,740
36	Montgomery CountyMt. Vernon	951	3	$15,683
37	Mcduffie CountyThomson	3,272	6	$15,648
38	Treutlen CountySoperton	1,020	2	$15,639
39	Sumter CountyAmericus	3,630	5	$15,611
40	Jefferson CountyLouisville	2,059	5	$15,562
41	Dawson CountyDawsonville	3,906	7	$15,470
42	Ware CountyWaycross	5,973	9	$15,387
43	Dekalb CountyStone Mountain	92,368	131	$15,368
44	Savannah-Chatham CountySavannah	36,326	58	$15,342
45	Union CountyBlairsville	3,024	5	$15,291
46	Telfair CountyMcrae	1,586	4	$15,247
47	Fulton CountyAtlanta	89,935	108	$15,183
48	Baldwin CountyMilledgeville	4,693	6	$15,131
49	Seminole CountyDonalsonville	1,340	2	$15,125
50	Evans CountyClaxton	1,818	4	$15,101

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Methodology

Per-pupil expenditure data comes from the NCES F-33 Finance Survey. Only districts with 500 or more students are included to ensure meaningful comparisons. Spending figures include all current operational expenditures divided by total enrollment.

Per-pupil spending figures come from the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2022-23, the federal government's annual census of revenues and expenditures across more than 13,000 public school districts. Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are ranked, to keep small-district outliers from distorting the comparison.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.