A public school district in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with 86 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
49,002
Students enrolled
2,923.7
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
Suppressed by NCES
All staff, full-time equivalent
$12,118
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 49,002 in 2024–25
Ranks 92nd of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 5th of 334 in North Carolina. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $12,118 in fiscal year 2023
More than 17% 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
Cumberland County Schools spent $12,118 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,906 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
Cumberland County Schools spent $12,118 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,906 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
$12,118
$601.8 million
49,661
FY2022
$12,412
$606.4 million
48,860
FY2021
$10,286
$506.9 million
49,278
FY2020
$9,677
$491.1 million
50,750
FY2019
$9,588
$487.8 million
50,879
FY2018
$8,989
$456.0 million
50,725
FY2017
$8,486
$434.5 million
51,194
FY2016
$8,141
$416.7 million
51,187
FY2015
$8,275
$427.0 million
51,604
FY2014
$8,087
$416.2 million
51,471
FY2013
$8,097
$428.5 million
52,925
FY2012
$8,062
$427.7 million
53,053
FY2011
$8,168
$435.4 million
53,307
FY2010
$8,579
$455.0 million
53,035
FY2009
$8,373
$454.6 million
54,288
FY2008
$7,661
$401.5 million
52,407
FY2007
$7,609
$401.8 million
52,809
FY2006
$7,110
$372.9 million
52,439
FY2005
$6,906
$362.7 million
52,521
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Cumberland County Schools by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$170.3 million
25.8%
State
$366.3 million
55.6%
Local
$122.2 million
18.5%
Total
$658.8 million
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.
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.