Costs per student

[The Straight Story]

(Just have two areas here, but I thought I would share as people often ask 'where does the money go')
North Dakota:


Minnesota:


The cheapest place to educate a child in the Fargo-Moorhead area is West Fargo, 2008-09 figures from the North Dakota and Minnesota education departments show.

It cost $7,641.09 on average to teach a West Fargo student. That was nearly $2,000 less than the cost to teach a child in Fargo, which was $9,625.32 in 2008-09, the most recent year figures are available from the state Department of Public Instruction. The state average was $8,516.89.

Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton is the metro’s bargain spot east of the Red River, with the average cost to teach a student at $8,596, the Minnesota Department of Education reports.

Moorhead’s cost to educate a student for 2008-09, listed at $11,648 in education department records, appears initially to be close to the Minnesota average of $11,596.

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/306669/

[virgogal]

1. It's $16,200.00 per pupil where my grandkids go here in Eastern MA.

[MineralMan]

2. Costs vary widely from place to place. Cost of living varies

at about the same percentage in the same places. Since the largest factor is teacher salaries, that makes sense.