Just how much does it cost to educate our students?
I was running some numbers for a personal project and figured I may as well share them.
I calculated the cost for just the schools and their programs (w/o Admin) and then I calculated the cost for the schools and programs plus all the other costs such as the district wide administration and maintenance costs. These amounts are per student.
Pre-K Cost w/o Admin $1,519.08
Pre-K Cost w/ Admin $5,754.66
Elementary Average Cost w/o Admin $5,858.52
Elementary Average Cost w/ Admin $10,272.12
Middle School w/o Admin $7,214.17
Middle School w/ Admin $11,206.47
High School w/o Admin $8,412.58
High School w/ Admin $18,102.96
Special Education w/o Admin $10,166.83
Special Education w/ Admin $ 14,402.41
District Wide Enrollment Estimate : 7,645 Students
Estimated Average Cost/Student: $10,945.92
These numbers of course are rough and based on student population estimates and the 08-09 budget proposal.
I guess the obvious is that we don’t spend enough on our students…
Thank you for taking the time to state the obvious.
You included costs of maintenance, is that a fair comparison?
Could you break it out?
A typical school has what? 3 administrators and 50 teachers?
Seeing an experienced teacher makes almost as much as an administrator your ratios seem out of wack, unless of course maintenance is huge.
Wondering what you consider the specific cost of education. Did you consider transportation? Utilities? Materials? What did you include in each of the two for comparison? Which administrators are you using? Business manager? Principal? Supt? Reading/LA Consultant?
@DRG & Bob
The costs come from the budget book starting on page 111 of the book sequence or 120 in pdf sequence.
The cost without admin is the school budget by location divided by the estimated student population of the location. This number includes building operation costs, staff costs and other location specific costs such as textbooks.
The admin portion is the sum of all the district wide (non location specific) costs divided by the total district student population. This includes the budget items for Administration, Maintenance and Instructional Services which includes transportation with limited exception and substitutes.
St. Rose and St. Chris transportation costs were not included in the calculations at all.
hmmmm-
substitutes, maintenance, transportation, instructional services?
maybe you need a greater explanation for those items as they are most probably not administrative in need or distribution.