A public school district in Long Beach, California, with 82 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
62,644
Students enrolled
2,647.1
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
5,367.8
All staff, full-time equivalent
$18,419
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 62,644 in 2024–25
Ranks 63rd of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 5th of 1,976 in California. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $18,419 in fiscal year 2023
More than 66% 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
Long Beach Unified spent $18,419 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,623 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
Long Beach Unified spent $18,419 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,623 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
$18,419
$1.2 billion
65,554
FY2022
$16,028
$1.1 billion
67,292
FY2021
$13,497
$936.9 million
69,413
FY2020
$12,985
$931.2 million
71,712
FY2019
$13,175
$960.9 million
72,935
FY2018
$12,489
$932.7 million
74,681
FY2017
$12,227
$934.5 million
76,428
FY2016
$11,346
$882.9 million
77,812
FY2015
$10,133
$807.7 million
79,709
FY2014
$8,884
$721.0 million
81,155
FY2013
$8,639
$710.6 million
82,256
FY2012
$8,767
$733.7 million
83,691
FY2011
$8,699
$737.8 million
84,812
FY2010
$8,948
$772.1 million
86,283
FY2009
$9,155
$801.1 million
87,509
FY2008
$9,646
$850.6 million
88,186
FY2007
$8,756
$793.8 million
90,663
FY2006
$8,103
$758.3 million
93,589
FY2005
$7,623
$734.2 million
96,319
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Long Beach Unified by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$227.4 million
13.3%
State
$1.1 billion
62.6%
Local
$411.3 million
24.1%
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.
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.