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The two are never mixed in one figure.","Current spending only: the Census excludes construction, land, debt, and spending for students outside a district's fall membership, so this figure runs below the all-in per-student total shown elsewhere on this site.","The state ranking divides by average daily attendance, NCES's own denominator; dividing by fall membership instead moves Texas only from 44 to 45 of 51.","Texas charter schools have no Census F-33 row at all — the Census surveys governments, and charters are not independent governments — so they have no national percentile, by construction rather than by omission.","Districts under 500 students are shown but not ranked, the same rule used across this site."],"min_students_ranked":500,"released":"2026-05-07","sources":{"bridge":{"file":"ccd_lea_directory_2425.csv","sha256":"c03aff55620f0782202dd0a61aab1dad1421294c5760849019ca6d21deafe148","source":"ccd_lea_directory"},"district_finance":{"file":"census_f33_2024.xlsx","sha256":"af178bc61c85b579ed54745e9a039ccb563e60a02f763d6d884bf14935b9d4cf","source":"census_f33"},"state_npefs":{"file":"npefs_state_2024.txt","sha256":"a436a5212a162b350ce44859cfa0b803551776c92279b7488d60ed5964bb9904","source":"nces_npefs"}}},"national":{"districts_in_pool":9294,"median_ppcs":15770,"pool_rule":"U.S. districts with 500+ students and a positive per-pupil current spending figure"},"states":{"denominator_check":{"note":"PPE15 divides by average daily attendance (ADA), NCES's own denominator. 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