A public school district in Greensboro, North Carolina, with 120 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
67,620
Students enrolled
4,479.9
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
Suppressed by NCES
All staff, full-time equivalent
$12,897
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 67,620 in 2024–25
Ranks 54th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 3rd 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: $12,897 in fiscal year 2023
More than 24% 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
Guilford County Schools spent $12,897 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,409 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
Guilford County Schools spent $12,897 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,409 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
$12,897
$888.5 million
68,894
FY2022
$13,036
$901.7 million
69,173
FY2021
$11,254
$788.3 million
70,047
FY2020
$10,283
$747.4 million
72,682
FY2019
$10,096
$736.5 million
72,950
FY2018
$9,609
$703.5 million
73,210
FY2017
$9,654
$705.3 million
73,059
FY2016
$9,215
$674.1 million
73,151
FY2015
$9,296
$682.5 million
73,416
FY2014
$9,227
$665.1 million
72,081
FY2013
$9,035
$670.1 million
74,161
FY2012
$8,810
$652.7 million
74,086
FY2011
$8,684
$635.7 million
73,205
FY2010
$8,975
$653.0 million
72,758
FY2009
$9,058
$660.8 million
72,951
FY2008
$8,577
$608.6 million
70,960
FY2007
$8,297
$584.3 million
70,427
FY2006
$7,632
$525.0 million
68,797
FY2005
$7,409
$497.4 million
67,130
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Guilford County Schools by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$177.3 million
18.3%
State
$497.2 million
51.2%
Local
$296.8 million
30.6%
Total
$971.4 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.
The district’s schools
120 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.