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Which States Spend the Most on Education?
National Center for Education Statistics
When you put it all together, the amount that the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia spend on education is astounding. Leading the pack for education spending is California, which is natural since it employs the second largest teaching workforce in the country. It’s fair to say that the more teachers there are per states to teach the larger student population raises the amount the state spends on education. Washington D.C., our nation’s capital, is probably the most interesting comparison. With only 5,400 teachers at last count, they spend a whopping $1,188,086,093 on education per year. The closest comparison is Vermont- who has double the teachers but spends about the same.
| State | Total Education Expenditures |
| NATIONAL AVERAGE | $9,521,659,166 |
| California | $61,923,329,738 |
| New York | 42,873,916,367 |
| Texas | $37,810,969,302 |
| Florida | $23,286,272,661 |
| New Jersey | $22,090,799,844 |
| Pennsylvania | $21,077,713,702 |
| Illinois | $20,936,893,403 |
| Ohio | $19,662,003,654 |
| Michigan | $18,798,355,879 |
| Georgia | $14,356,680,647 |
| Massachusetts | $12,193,298,093 |
| Virginia | $11,954,582,572 |
| North Carolina | $10,583,643,027 |
| Indiana | $10,148,008,407 |
| Washington | $9,208,397,802 |
| Wisconsin | $8,994,396,071 |
| Minnesota | $8,580,168,162 |
| Connecticut | $8,228,726,206 |
| Arizona | $7,344,672,693 |
| Colorado | $6,974,840,410 |
| Tennessee | $6,966,954,941 |
| South Carolina | $6,305,917,941 |
| Louisiana | $5,960,573,942 |
| Alabama | $5,785,154,620 |
| Kentucky | $5,623,625,165 |
| Oregon | $5,307,084,656 |
| Missouri | $4,982,842,114 |
| Oklahoma | $4,517,167,606 |
| Iowa | $4,382,302,002 |
| Arkansas | $4,009,384,630 |
| Kansas | $3,995,078,014 |
| Mississippi | $3,468,464,468 |
| Nevada | $3,290,941,908 |
| Utah | $3,178,866,468 |
| New Mexico | $3,044,253,113 |
| Nebraska | $2,759,740,369 |
| West Virginia | $2,615,510,662 |
| Maine | $2,199,102,036 |
| New Hampshire | $2,191,014,612 |
| Rhode Island | $1,895,197,570 |
| Idaho | $1,805,147,768 |
| Hawaii | $1,766,834,618 |
| Alaska | $1,719,803,116 |
| Delaware | $1,493,185,163 |
| Montana | $1,262,988,293 |
| Vermont | $1,244,809,558 |
| District of Columbia | $1,188,086,093 |
| Wyoming | $1,023,892,197 |
| South Dakota | $1,044,116,641 |
| North Dakota | $879,581,204 |
