Per pupil cost varies by school size, could be basis for closing schoolsBy Diette Courrégé (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, August 16, 2008
It costs $5,023 per student to run Cario Middle in Mount Pleasant, a school with a population of about 1,200 students. Less than 30 miles up the road at rural McClellanville Middle, it costs about four times that much, or $20,362 per student. The school has about 110 children. Those two schools represent the greatest and least amount of money Charleston County School District shelled out per pupil in the 2006-07 school year, the latest data available. So-called per-pupil costs could become a critical figure this year. The school board asked the superintendent to make recommendations on ways to improve spending, specifically suggesting closing or consolidating schools. Charleston Schools Superintendent Nancy McGinley has said those decisions would be tied to per pupil costs. She is expected to give the board within a month a strategy on how to address the issue. Read more in tomorrow's Post and Courier. |
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Posted by Smart_Enough_2_Know_Better on August 16, 2008 at 5:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds to me like the higher tax-rate paying parents of Cario students are due a significant amount more in spending on their children to bring them back to par with the folks of McClellanville. $18,406,800, to be exact.
Here's what I don't get- how is it that the least costly school in the county is also among the (if not THE) best middle schools in the county?
Posted by Pluffmuddy on August 16, 2008 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Simple...throwing money at schools almost never improves the students. Parental involvement always does. Period.