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Field 8b: District Expenditures Per Pupil
(Against a State Average)

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This Year’s District and State Templates

Even without the accuracy of the In$ite system, financial information is still critical to understanding student achievement and will be reported again this year with the information provided at the district level on Form 31. Form 31 is the RIDE’s financial reporting instrument that is submitted annually by each district.

District Expenditures Per Pupil
(Against a State Average)

What You Are Looking At

These numbers should help you see how districts spend their money, where their money comes from and how much money they have to spend.

What You Are Looking For

You are looking to make a determination as to whether the community and state is adequately supporting its schools, in general, and certain programs or populations of students, in particular.

Median family income: This indicator shows the family income level at which half of the community families had more income and half had less, as measured in the 1990 federal census. Single person households are not counted as families.

Per capita income: This measure of the economic status of persons in the community is a 1989 estimate made by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. It represents average income per person in the community, counting persons of all ages.

Property value per student: This is a measure of community wealth. Equalized, weighted, assessed property valuation is divided by resident average daily membership.

Relative property tax capacity: This indicator shows the amount of taxable property wealth available to a municipality per capita. Thus, if a municipality has a large amount of property wealth and a small population, it would have a higher tax capacity than a municipality with the same amount of property wealth but a larger population. For educational purposes in the regionalized school districts, the tax capacities of the cities and towns have been translated into district capacities.

Relative tax effort: This indicator shows how heavily or lightly a district is taxed in relation to the rest of the state. The property tax of the municipality is divided by the statewide property tax rate for all municipalities and multiplied by 100. Thus, if a municipality taxes its property wealth at a rate lower than the statewide rate, the number will be smaller than 100.

Special to the State Template

Relative tax effort and capacity are graphical5visualized, by district, in the state-level report, the first report in Information Works!

Property tax rate per $1,000

The tax rate specifies the amount that is paid by a property owner for every $1,000 of assessed value.

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