Annual Reports and Key Findings

Our annual research report—currently in its eighth edition—presents a national summary of state K-12 finance systems in the United States.

In this seventh edition of our annual report, we evaluate the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The latest year of data we present is the 2021-22 school year. 

In this sixth edition of our annual report, we evaluate the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The latest year of data we present is the 2020-21 school year.

In this fifth edition of our annual report, we evaluate the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The latest year of data presented pertains to the 2019-20 school year, but we also examine trends in our measures going back 10-15 years.

In this fourth edition of our annual report, we evaluate the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The latest year of data presented in this report is 2019 (the 2018-19 school year), but we also examine trends in our measures going back as far as the mid-1990s.

In this third edition of our annual report, we evaluate the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This edition of our database and annual report was published in the middle of a terrible global crisis: the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the lag in the release of national school finance data, our measures (2017-18 school year) predate the economic crisis caused by this pandemic.

In this second edition of our annual report, we present key findings from the our School Finance Indicators Database (SFID), a public database of sophisticated but user-friendly state school finance measures going back to 1993. This latest version of the SFID includes data up to 2017 (the 2016-17 school year).

In this first edition of our annual report, we present key findings from the our School Finance Indicators Database (SFID), a public database of sophisticated but user-friendly state school finance measures going back to 1993. This latest version of the SFID includes data up to 2016 (the 2015-16 school year).