A public school district in Atlanta, Georgia, with 106 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
87,019
Students enrolled
6,174.4
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
12,425.6
All staff, full-time equivalent
$15,183
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 87,019 in 2024–25
Ranks 35th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 4th 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: $15,183 in fiscal year 2023
More than 46% 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
Fulton County spent $15,183 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $9,058 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
Fulton County spent $15,183 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $9,058 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
$15,183
$1.4 billion
89,935
FY2022
$13,999
$1.3 billion
90,355
FY2021
$12,506
$1.1 billion
90,300
FY2020
$12,404
$1.2 billion
93,897
FY2019
$11,933
$1.1 billion
94,491
FY2018
$11,619
$1.1 billion
95,534
FY2017
$10,590
$1.0 billion
96,122
FY2016
$10,145
$970.3 million
95,641
FY2015
$9,569
$913.4 million
95,460
FY2014
$9,638
$917.8 million
95,232
FY2013
$9,671
$908.1 million
93,907
FY2012
$9,305
$861.7 million
92,604
FY2011
$9,177
$843.0 million
91,864
FY2010
$9,824
$888.1 million
90,399
FY2009
$9,992
$882.3 million
88,299
FY2008
$10,411
$897.7 million
86,225
FY2007
$9,406
$788.8 million
83,861
FY2006
$9,138
$741.1 million
81,100
FY2005
$9,058
$687.5 million
75,891
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Fulton County by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$165.9 million
9.7%
State
$456.0 million
26.7%
Local
$1.1 billion
63.6%
Total
$1.7 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
106 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.