CONNECTICUT

Find your district on the Connecticut Report Card and click on the computer icon to view spending for your school and the average for your district. Then click “I want to see the state report card” on the Connecticut Report Card page to see average spending per pupil.

Visit your district’s report card from the Connecticut Report Card page and click the computer icon to view per-pupil spending for every school in the district.

Visit your district report card from Connecticut Report Card page and click the computer icon to access financial data. Then, in the left-hand navigation under “2017-18 and later”, click Per-Pupil Expenditures by Function (District) to see the district average per-pupil on services. Then, click Per-Pupil Expenditures by Function (School) to view per-pupil spending on services for every school in the district. Visit the state report card, click on “Instruction/Resources”, and then click the Per-Pupil Expenditures 2019-20 bar chart to view the state average per-pupil spending on services.

From the EdSight homepage, click “Students” and then “Enrollment Counts.” There, select 2019-20, All Districts, All Schools, and filter by desired demographic metrics to identify demographically similar schools. Next, visit your district report card from Connecticut Report Card page and click the computer icon to access financial data. Then, click Per-Pupil Expenditures by Function (School) to view per-pupil spending on services for comparison schools.

The Connecticut Report Card does not yet provide the ability to directly compare school-by-school spending with demographics.

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Use the Connecticut Report Card to collect spending information for comparison schools.

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From the EdSight homepage, click “Students” and then “Enrollment Counts.” There, select 2019-20, All Districts, All Schools, and filter by desired demographic metrics to identify demographically similar schools. Next, visit comparison school report cards from Connecticut Report Card page and click the computer icon to access financial data.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, limited outcomes data was collected for school year 2019-20. Visit each school’s report card to gather comparison details on spending, demographics, and any available outcomes data.

Edunomics Lab developed interactive data displays to explore resource equity, how dollars are allocated to schools, and which schools are most able to leverage their money to maximize student outcomes. Explore the analyses here.