A public school district in Louisville, Kentucky, with 172 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
95,180
Students enrolled
6,243.2
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
14,356.2
All staff, full-time equivalent
$18,189
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 95,180 in 2024–25
Ranks 29th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 1st of 175 in Kentucky. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $18,189 in fiscal year 2023
More than 65% 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
Jefferson County spent $18,189 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,161 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
Jefferson County spent $18,189 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $8,161 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
$18,189
$1.7 billion
95,230
FY2022
$17,376
$1.6 billion
94,393
FY2021
$14,931
$1.4 billion
95,911
FY2020
$14,228
$1.4 billion
100,348
FY2019
$14,132
$1.4 billion
97,936
FY2018
$13,972
$1.4 billion
98,797
FY2017
$12,519
$1.2 billion
99,813
FY2016
$11,975
$1.2 billion
100,777
FY2015
$11,803
$1.2 billion
100,602
FY2014
$11,289
$1.1 billion
100,529
FY2013
$11,318
$1.1 billion
100,316
FY2012
$11,406
$1.1 billion
99,191
FY2011
$10,989
$1.1 billion
97,331
FY2010
$10,312
$1.0 billion
98,808
FY2009
$9,956
$983.3 million
98,774
FY2008
$9,966
$955.5 million
95,871
FY2007
$9,698
$898.6 million
92,659
FY2006
$8,741
$861.3 million
98,537
FY2005
$8,161
$799.6 million
97,976
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Jefferson County by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$313.7 million
15.8%
State
$713.4 million
35.9%
Local
$961.1 million
48.3%
Total
$2.0 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
172 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.