Spending on K-12 education by school is far from equal, according to per student spending by school in the US.
Nationwide, the top spending schools [1] by expenditure per student spent $40,566 or more in 2019, more than three times the median school expenditure per student of $11,953.
The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) required states to publish school-level per-pupil expenditure data every fiscal year. But the law didn’t set out rules for how to organize that data across all states.
