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Why Not You Academy

A public school district in Des Moines, Washington, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.

The district in 2024–25

126
Students enrolled: 8
Teachers, full-time equivalent: Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.; 13.4
All staff, full-time equivalent: $26,856
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023: Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.

How this compares

Students enrolled: 126 in 2024–⁠25: Ranks 16,110th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 270th of 324 in Washington. Larger than 9% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $26,856 in fiscal year 2023: More than 90% 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

Why Not You Academy spent $19,829 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $32,160 in fiscal year 2022

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.

Source: NCES

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The figures

Why Not You Academy spent $19,829 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $32,160 in fiscal year 2022. 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
FY2024	$19,829	$3.8 million	193
FY2023	$26,856	$3.9 million	146
FY2022	$32,160	$3.2 million	100

Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023

Revenue to Why Not You Academy by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source	Revenue	Share of total
Federal	$1.4 million	30.3%
State	$2.4 million	53.5%
Local	$725,000	16.2%
Total	$4.5 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

1 operational school, A to Z.

2 more columns on a wider screen

Schools in Why Not You Academy
School	City	Level	Students
Cascade Public Schools	Des Moines	High	126

The district’s entry

Status: Open
Type: Independent charter district
Charter status: LEA for federal programs
Grades: Grade 9 to Grade 12
NCES district ID: 5300349

Elsewhere

Public schools in Washington — enrollment, teachers and spending across the state, against the nation.
Every school district in Washington — A to Z, each with its page.
Washington on the American Factbook — the state’s entry, across every hub.

Sources

Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2022 to 2024
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2022 to 2024.

Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 and School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2022 to 2024 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 30, 2026