The North Carolina School Spending Data Explorer Tool
This data explorer allows users to identify trends in education spending and examine relationships between per pupil expenditures (PPE) and other school-level data. More information on how to use the data explorer can be found below.
Understanding and Using the NC School Spending Data Explorer Tool
In the widget below, you can choose to view a scatterplot that compares per pupil expenditures in a single year to student characteristics such as poverty, achievement and growth or to compare per pupil expenditures trends over several years. A visual explainer for navigating each tool can be found by clicking the “Guide” and “Glossary of Terms” buttons below, and highlights from the School Spending Explorer Tool can be found by clicking “Break Down the Data.”
Breaking Down the Data
Using school–level expenditure data, we are able to provide more detailed analysis of North Carolina’s per pupil expenditures by school types, growth and rural status, race and ethnicity, and more:
K-12 Public School per Pupil Expenditures, by School Level (2023-24)
K-12 Public School per Pupil Expenditures, by Source & Rural Status (2023-24)
Median per Pupil Expenditures in K-12 Public Schools, by Source and School Poverty Quartile (2023-24)
K-12 Traditional Public School per Pupil Expenditures, by Race and Ethnicity (2023-24)
K-12 Public School per Pupil Expenditures, by School Growth Status (2023-24)
K-12 Public School per Pupil Expenditures, by School Performance Grade (2023-24)
Average K-12 per Pupil Expenditures* in Traditional and Public Charter Schools (2020-21 to 2023-24)
