A public school district in Marietta, Georgia, with 110 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
105,738
Students enrolled
7,518.8
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
13,959
All staff, full-time equivalent
$14,680
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 105,738 in 2024–25
Ranks 25th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 2nd of 234 in Georgia. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $14,680 in fiscal year 2023
More than 42% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.
Spending and revenue
Cobb County spent $14,680 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,790 in fiscal year 2005
Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics — School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal year 2005 onwards
The figures behind this chart
Cobb County spent $14,680 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,790 in fiscal year 2005. Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
Fiscal year
Spending per pupil
Current expenditure
Membership
FY2023
$14,680
$1.6 billion
106,703
FY2022
$13,203
$1.4 billion
106,970
FY2021
$11,902
$1.3 billion
107,379
FY2020
$11,494
$1.3 billion
112,097
FY2019
$10,784
$1.2 billion
111,854
FY2018
$10,368
$1.2 billion
112,084
FY2017
$9,951
$1.1 billion
113,151
FY2016
$9,706
$1.1 billion
112,708
FY2015
$9,144
$1.0 billion
111,751
FY2014
$8,651
$951.6 million
110,001
FY2013
$8,814
$955.9 million
108,452
FY2012
$8,995
$965.0 million
107,291
FY2011
$8,831
$947.7 million
107,315
FY2010
$9,103
$976.3 million
107,245
FY2009
$9,471
$1.0 billion
106,747
FY2008
$9,557
$1.0 billion
107,307
FY2007
$8,815
$945.6 million
107,274
FY2006
$8,066
$860.9 million
106,724
FY2005
$7,790
$809.6 million
103,935
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Cobb County by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$193.5 million
10.5%
State
$625.7 million
34.0%
Local
$1.0 billion
55.4%
Total
$1.8 billion
Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.
The district’s schools
110 operational schools, A to Z, 100 to a page: page 1 of 2.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2005 to 2023.