A public school district in Omaha, Nebraska, with 112 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
52,524
Students enrolled
3,146
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
7,165.1
All staff, full-time equivalent
$16,585
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 52,524 in 2024–25
Ranks 76th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 1st of 252 in Nebraska. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $16,585 in fiscal year 2023
More than 56% 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
Omaha Public Schools spent $16,585 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,652 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
Omaha Public Schools spent $16,585 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,652 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
$16,585
$858.4 million
51,754
FY2022
$14,202
$733.2 million
51,626
FY2021
$14,665
$761.3 million
51,914
FY2020
$12,640
$676.0 million
53,483
FY2019
$12,503
$665.1 million
53,194
FY2018
$13,124
$693.4 million
52,836
FY2017
$12,578
$658.4 million
52,344
FY2016
$12,294
$638.8 million
51,966
FY2015
$11,788
$612.1 million
51,928
FY2014
$11,565
$590.6 million
51,069
FY2013
$11,414
$577.1 million
50,559
FY2012
$11,173
$562.4 million
50,340
FY2011
$10,710
$529.1 million
49,405
FY2010
$10,679
$520.0 million
48,692
FY2009
$9,620
$461.9 million
48,014
FY2008
$9,134
$436.3 million
47,763
FY2007
$8,354
$393.0 million
47,044
FY2006
$8,265
$385.9 million
46,686
FY2005
$7,652
$356.2 million
46,549
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Omaha Public Schools by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$173.9 million
18.7%
State
$363.1 million
39.0%
Local
$395.0 million
42.4%
Total
$931.9 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
112 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.