A public school district in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with 129 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
91,752
Students enrolled
6,745.9
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
14,753.9
All staff, full-time equivalent
$15,368
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 91,752 in 2024–25
Ranks 31st of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 3rd 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: $15,368 in fiscal year 2023
More than 48% 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
DeKalb County spent $15,368 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,426 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
DeKalb County spent $15,368 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,426 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
$15,368
$1.4 billion
92,368
FY2022
$15,594
$1.5 billion
93,473
FY2021
$13,668
$1.3 billion
93,470
FY2020
$13,088
$1.3 billion
98,800
FY2019
$12,636
$1.3 billion
99,166
FY2018
$11,802
$1.2 billion
100,144
FY2017
$10,602
$1.1 billion
101,284
FY2016
$9,795
$993.1 million
101,389
FY2015
$9,175
$927.7 million
101,103
FY2014
$8,847
$879.3 million
99,388
FY2013
$8,736
$864.1 million
98,910
FY2012
$10,094
$990.1 million
98,088
FY2011
$10,029
$984.0 million
98,115
FY2010
$10,013
$995.3 million
99,406
FY2009
$10,281
$1.0 billion
99,775
FY2008
$10,567
$1.1 billion
100,273
FY2007
$10,073
$1.0 billion
101,396
FY2006
$9,967
$1.0 billion
102,310
FY2005
$8,426
$842.5 million
99,986
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to DeKalb County by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$192.2 million
10.7%
State
$575.0 million
32.1%
Local
$1.0 billion
57.1%
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
129 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.