Topic:
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS; SCHOOL FINANCE;
Location:
EDUCATION - (GENERAL);

OLR Research Report


May 18, 2004

  

2004-R-0439

DERBY EDUCATION STATISTICS

By: Judith Lohman, Chief Analyst

You asked for certain K-12 public school enrollment and budget statistics for Connecticut as a whole and for Derby. The requested figures are shown in Table 1 below. For your further information, we attach a second table, provided by the Office of Fiscal Analysis, that shows estimated state grants of all types to Derby for FY 2004 and for FY 2005 under the governor’s proposed budget and the final budget approved by the legislature (HB 5692).

Table 1: Derby and Statewide Education Statistics

 

Statewide

Derby

Public school enrollment (10/03)

567,257

1,627

FY 2005 state education aid to towns

$ 1,900,880,0501

$ 6,433,3202

FY 2005 state education aid per student

$ 3,351

$ 3,954

ECS grant increase for FY 2005

$ 40,000,000

$ 151,7662

ECS grant increase per student for FY 2005

$ 70. 51

$ 93. 28

1State Department of Education’s total appropriation for Payments to Local Governments (HB 5692, §1)

2FY 2005 estimated state education grants to Derby (Office of Fiscal Analysis - see attachment 1)

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