Michigan · NCES F-33 finance data

Highest Spending Districts in Michigan

The 50 Michigan 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.

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$38,970
Top per-pupil spend
$20,495
Avg across top 50
50
Districts listed

The spending picture in one line

Center Line Preparatory Academy spends $38,970 per student, the most of any Michigan district listed, against an average of $20,495 across the top 50.

$38,970
top spend (Center Line Preparatory Academy)
$17,604
lowest on this list
2.2×
spread across the listed districts
774
students in the top district
#DistrictPer-Pupil $
1Center Line Preparatory AcademyCenter Line$38,970
2New Buffalo Area SchoolsNew Buffalo$31,373
3Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe AcademySault Sainte Marie$24,750
4Bloomfield Hills SchoolsBloomfield Hills$24,485
5Redford Union Schools District No. 1Redford$23,855
6Glen Lake Community SchoolsMaple City$23,667
7Flint School District of the City ofFlint$23,067
8Ecorse Public SchoolsEcorse$22,606
9Detroit Public Schools Community DistrictDetroit$22,002
10Southfield Public School DistrictSouthfield$21,829
11Pontiac City School DistrictPontiac$21,463
12Wyandotte School District of the City ofWyandotte$21,410
13Wayne-Westland Community School DistrictWestland$21,347
14Whitmore Lake Public School DistrictWhitmore Lake$21,322
15Harbor Springs School DistrictHarbor Springs$21,114
16Mount Clemens Community School DistrictMount Clemens$20,776
17Hazel Park School District of the City ofHazel Park$20,621
18Birmingham Public SchoolsBeverly Hills$20,475
19Benton Harbor Area SchoolsBenton Harbor$20,390
20Garden City Public SchoolsGarden City$20,375
21Madison District Public SchoolsMadison Heights$20,200
22South Redford School DistrictRedford$19,850
23Berkley School DistrictOak Park$19,795
24Van Dyke Public SchoolsWarren$19,724
25Beecher Community School DistrictFlint$19,578
26Lincoln Park School District of the City ofLincoln Park$19,415
27Ann Arbor Public SchoolsAnn Arbor$19,271
28Lansing Public School DistrictLansing$19,256
29Muskegon Public Schools of the City ofMuskegon$19,051
30Bridgman Public SchoolsBridgman$18,981
31Grosse Pointe Public SchoolsGrosse Pointe Woods$18,743
32Ypsilanti Community SchoolsYpsilanti$18,696
33Brighton Area SchoolsBrighton$18,674
34Westwood Community School DistrictDearborn Heights$18,629
35Lamphere Public SchoolsMadison Heights$18,489
36Taylor School DistrictTaylor$18,464
37East Jordan Public SchoolsEast Jordan$18,283
38The Dearborn AcademyDearborn$18,250
39Dearborn City School DistrictDearborn$18,204
40Romulus Community SchoolsRomulus$18,171
41Clintondale Community SchoolsClinton Township$18,162
42Battle Creek Public SchoolsBattle Creek$18,138
43Madison AcademyFlint$17,963
44Oxford Community SchoolsOxford$17,920
45Eastpointe Community SchoolsEastpointe$17,919
46Waterford School DistrictWaterford$17,911
47Holland City School DistrictHolland$17,878
48Charlevoix Public SchoolsCharlevoix$17,818
49Southgate Community School DistrictSouthgate$17,801
50Farmington Public School DistrictFarmington$17,604

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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.