Ranking

States compared

All 50 states and DC, sorted by enrollment. Select any column heading to re-sort.

State table

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1	California	2,130	10,303	5,789,934	21.9	1,276	$17,799
2	Texas	1,243	9,192	5,545,640	15.1	1,056	$14,396
3	Florida	84	4,186	2,856,320	18.2	734	$12,074
4	New York	1,119	4,810	2,503,633	11.4	350	$30,973
5	Illinois	1,032	4,398	1,842,881	13.7	131	$20,743
6	Georgia	256	2,329	1,744,185	14.4	96	$13,517
7	Pennsylvania	790	2,932	1,666,699	13.5	175	$21,044
8	Ohio	1,073	3,543	1,661,295	17.3	339	$16,266
9	North Carolina	374	2,705	1,550,037	16.3	213	$11,869
10	Michigan	886	3,468	1,369,409	16.9	368	$14,795
11	New Jersey	700	2,557	1,355,569	11.7	86	$25,026
12	Virginia	209	2,126	1,257,315	14.0	7	$15,293
13	Arizona	726	2,432	1,102,246	17.7	569	$11,583
14	Washington	342	2,543	1,094,502	18.2	17	$19,323
15	Indiana	456	1,919	1,037,604	15.5	134	$12,675
16	Tennessee	149	1,913	1,002,363		114	$11,798
17	Massachusetts	424	1,823	915,932	12.0	73	$24,749
18	Maryland	25	1,408	891,525	14.6	50	$18,655
19	Missouri	566	2,451	885,243	13.0	81	$14,065
20	Minnesota	582	2,741	875,579	15.2	309	$17,873
21	Colorado	273	1,900	865,055	16.7	260	$15,467
22	Wisconsin	468	2,190	805,901	14.0	225	$16,827
23	South Carolina	96	1,277	796,780	14.4	104	$15,302
24	Alabama	162	1,532	751,060	17.2	23	$12,393
25	Oklahoma	595	1,781	697,358	16.5	73	$11,596
26	Utah	159	1,097	684,604	21.9	142	$10,840
27	Louisiana	194	1,308	666,840	13.9	146	$14,898
28	Kentucky	177	1,550	655,997	15.6	0	$13,951
29	Oregon	223	1,291	539,417	18.4	128	$17,838
30	Iowa	347	1,318	497,102	14.4	7	$15,206
31	Arkansas	308	1,106	491,268	12.7	110	$12,724
32	Connecticut	210	1,007	490,969	12.3	21	$25,007
33	Kansas	337	1,341	477,006	13.8	7	$16,437
34	Nevada	20	735	474,586	19.8	104	$12,177
35	Mississippi	152	1,019	431,206	14.1	10	$12,016
36	Nebraska	281	1,097	330,483	14.1	0	$16,481
37	Idaho	196	796	315,191	18.3	84	$9,647
38	New Mexico	157	879	304,084	13.2	99	$14,192
39	West Virginia	67	676	242,155	13.6	6	$14,491
40	Hawaii	1	296	167,071	14.2	38	$17,656
41	Maine	276	589	166,127	11.5	11	$20,160
42	New Hampshire	219	501	162,945	11.3	42	$21,936
43	Montana	482	842	147,049	14.2	0	$15,680
44	Delaware	46	236	142,156	14.7	24	$18,901
45	South Dakota	165	706	140,592	14.2	0	$13,231
46	Rhode Island	68	313	133,879	13.0	42	$20,707
47	Alaska	54	488	127,890	19.2	31	$21,336
48	North Dakota	225	514	119,656	11.7	0	$18,090
49	District of Columbia	72	245	94,038	11.0	125	$31,930
50	Wyoming	62	360	89,915	12.4	8	$20,151
51	Vermont	188	304	77,756	11.4	0	$24,082

Method

Counts and enrollment come from the 2024-25 Common Core of Data. The student-teacher ratio is total enrollment divided by total teachers across schools that report both. Spending per pupil is total 2020 district expenditure divided by 2020 finance enrollment, for districts reporting both, in nominal dollars.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.