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 sample Expenditure reports - Page 1 | Page 2

What you are looking at

The pie charts in the top two fields of the report show district expenditures, on a per-pupil basis for various educational programs.

Quick Definitions of the other four major In$ite categories:

Instruction includes all face-to-face teaching, substitutes, and all instruction-related classroom materials.

Instructional support refers to pupil support, such as guidance, library, extracurricular, and health services; teacher support, which includes professional development; and program support, which refers to evaluators, therapists, psychologists, and so on.

Operations includes transportation, food service, safety, facilities, and all business services.

Leadership includes principals, superintendents, costs associated with school committees, legal, and secretarial.

Other Commitments include costs for district students taught outside of the district, debt service for facilities construction and repair, capital projects, retiree benefits and community service operations such as adult continuing education, child care centers, and so on.

The table at the bottom of the page shows per-pupil expenditures, as well as the number of pupils served in the district, for various educational programs. (All pupils in the district are part of the general-education program.)

The pie chart at the bottom of the page shows the sources of revenue, on a percentage basis, for the district.

What you are looking for

You are looking at this page to get a general sense of where the district gets its revenue and how it spends its funds. For all districts, the largest expenditure will be for instruction and the largest part of that expenditure will be for classroom teachers.