RI Schools: The Basic Facts
Profile of Schools, Student Characteristics,
   and Kids Count

Learning and Achievement
Assessments
Disaggregations
Accountability
How Rhode Island Classifies Schools
2004 School-Performance Classification:
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Using Information
State Indicators
Value Added:
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Attendance and Graduation Rates,
Learning Support Indicators:
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Safe and Supportive Environments
Students' Point of View:Middle  |High
Suspensions

Equity and Adequacy of Resources
Property Value/Student Compared to
   Tax Rate
Tax Capacity and Effort
In$ite: Including Other Commitments
In$ite: Excluding Other Commitments
Out-of-District Obligations
In$ite: Instruction
In$ite: General Education
Middle  |High

Curriculum and Instruction
Advanced Placement Exams
Teaching Practices:
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Inclusion
Students with Disabilities
Students with Disabilities: Participation
Elementary  |Middle  |High
Students with Disabilities: Participation by District
Elementary  |Middle  |High

Engaging Families
Elementary  |Middle  |High

View/download Out-of-District Obligations (PDF, 24 KB)

What you are looking at

“Other Commitments” is one of the five categories of school expenditures tracked by In$ite financial reporting. “Out-of-District Obligations” is one of the components of “Other Commitments.” This table gives a detailed breakdown, on a per-pupil basis, of the out-of-district expenses incurred by each district.

As the text above the table explains, the out-of-district obligations consist of three components: retiree benefits, out-of-district tuitions, and expenses paid for students who live in the district and attend private or diocesan schools.

Note that on this table, the tuition for out-placed students concerns only students with disabilities. The cost to districts (Jamestown and Little Compton) that do not have high schools and therefore pay tuition to neighboring districts for all of their public high-school students is excluded from the data on this table.

What you are looking for

The table is ranked by the cost of retiree benefits to the district, on a per-pupil basis.

In general, you would like to see that the district costs are relatively low, on a per-pupil basis, although the out-of-district expenses should be seen in the context of all district expenditures. The districts are obligated by state and federal law to provide services to students with disabilities, for example, and some districts may have to send these students to out-of-district schools in order to meet their educational needs.