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Per-Pupil Expenditures Excluding Other Commitments
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WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
This chart removes the “Other Commitments” category (and students served out-of-district) for a picture of the strictly educational costs within the district itself. The chart is re-sorted, high to low by per-pupil expenditure, shuffling the districts somewhat as some of the anomalous costs are removed. The value of the total bar is represented in real numbers over to the right, expressed as a per-pupil expenditure.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Please note how much one category’s removal makes a considerable difference in both the resulting per-pupil expenditure and in a district’s placement on the chart. Each district has decisions and circumstances that might strongly affect one category but not the others. For example, a rural district whose children travel great distances on a bus will have a relatively high per-pupil transportation cost; that district’s per-pupil expenditure will seem high when the Operations category is included and drop with seeming suddenness when it is removed.
New Shoreham
The New Shoreham district includes only Block Island, where conducting any and all business is more expensive than on the mainland. School lunch supplies, for example, must be ferried or flown to the island, incurring costs beyond the costs to a school to which a truck has easy access. New Shoreham’s costs are high across the board.
The career-and-technical programs and schools
Career-and-technical education is more expensive than general education because of the specialized machinery, materials, shops, and so on. Districts with their own dedicated career-and-technical centers absorb the full cost into the district. Some districts share the cost of a career-and-technical center. Others send their students to one of the two state-operated career-and-technical schools – Davies and the Met – which absorb the cost entirely for each student no matter where the child came from. Thus career-and-technical costs appear to be unevenly balanced among the districts.