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Cost Per Pupil & Estimated Required Local Effort

Total Cost Per Pupil for FY23 through FY26

Per Virginia Code §22.1.92, Notification of the estimated average per pupil cost for pupil education in the school division for the coming year to each parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child enrolled in the relevant school division, in accordance with the budget estimates provided to the local governing body or bodies. Such notification shall include actual per pupil state and local education expenditures for the previous school year. The notice may also include federal funds expended for public education in the school division.

TYPE OF COST

FY23 Actual

FY24 Actual

FY25 Estimated

FY26 Estimated
 

$79,678,061

$84,557,319

$87,448,046

$86,217,540

City Appropriation Per Pupil 

$7,547

$8,391

$9,120

$9,124

Local Per Pupil 

$575

$84

$436

$240

State Per Pupil 

$6,052

$7,181

$8,175

$8,256

Retail Sales & Use Tax Per Pupil

$1,394

$1,264

$1,341

$1,453

Federal Per Pupil 

$3,200

$3,181

$2,927

$1,956

TOTAL COST PER PUPIL

$18,768

$20,101

$21,999

$21,029

Est End of Year Average Daily Membership

4,245

4,206

3,975

4,100


Estimated Required Local Effort - FY26 = $22,851,077

The local required match/effort are funds to be provided by the City for the cost of maintaining an educational program meeting the prescribed Standards of Quality, certain incentive programs, and some lottery funded programs. The total cost is apportioned between the state and the local government. (Reference: Virginia Code § 22.1-94)