Education Spending

What Bethany spends on schools, per student and against its peers, on the state’s uniform figures.

AUDITED FY 2013-14 → FY 2022-23
PULLED 2026-08-10

Enrollment 792 Average daily membership, FY 2022-23. CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf).

Education spending $17.3M Audited actual, FY 2022-23. For a town in a regional district this includes its payment to the district. CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf).

Net current expenditures per pupil $20,768RANK 44 / 169 11% below the statewide median of $23,247 Net current expenditures ÷ average daily membership of resident students, FY 2024-25. CT State Department of Education. Net current expenditures exclude transportation, capital, debt service and adult education, and count a regional district's costs against its member towns.

Before you read these charts.

Per-pupil spending — There is more than one per-pupil number, and they are not interchangeable. The town pages and the statewide rankings print the state Department of Education's Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil; a figure divided from OPM spending and average daily membership, which this site used until September 2026, is a different measure.
Medians, and why the town is left out of its own — A group is summarized by its median — the middle town, not the average. The subject town is excluded from its own group median, because a town cannot be part of the benchmark it is measured against.
Peer groups — A peer group is a tool for a specific question, not a verdict. A group that is right for comparing school spending can be wrong for comparing snow plowing. Where two defensible groups disagree, this site shows both.
Reported school staffing — Staffing figures are positions each district reports to the state under fixed assignment categories. They count reported roles, not workload, and a category boundary can move a person between lines without anyone changing jobs.
Audited actuals — Audited actuals are what a town actually spent and received across all its governmental funds, as reported after the year closed. They are not the budget the town adopted.
State aid — Intergovernmental revenue is money from the state and federal governments, education aid included. A town's share of it reflects state formulas as much as anything the town decides.

10 terms bear on this page; the 6 most used are above. Full definitions, what each measure does not support, and the source behind it: How these numbers work.

Read this before the first chart: two different state sources sit on this page, and each chart says which it uses. The four per-pupil charts use the state Department of Education’s own published figure, net current expenditures per pupil. The education-share and state-aid charts use the CT Office of Policy and Management’s Municipal Fiscal Indicators and OPM’s estimates of statutory aid, and one chart adds US Census income estimates. Four further charts sit below those six: they count students and reported positions rather than dollars, they come from the Department of Education’s EdSight reporting, and they carry their own note where they begin.

Per-pupil spending here is the state’s published figure. Net current expenditures (CGS § 10-261) leave out transportation, capital, debt service, adult education and several receipts, and add tuition a town pays for students educated elsewhere; they are divided by the resident students the town is responsible for. A regional district’s costs are counted against its member towns. This replaced a figure the site used to divide itself from OPM’s education spending and enrollment, which is a different measure and gives different numbers — why the two differ, and both figures for every town.
Towns whose regional district runs every grade. Since 2017–18 the state has printed no separate per-pupil row for these towns, only the regional district’s. For those years such a town’s figure is its district’s, the same for every member town, and each chart names the district where it does this.
Coverage. The per-pupil charts and the OPM charts cover different spans; the exact years appear here once the data loads. The four charts below them come from a different source on a school-year basis and cover a span of their own, named in their own note.
The state datasets on this page cover different years. The per-pupil figures, OPM’s audited spending and the Education Cost Sharing estimates each end in a different year. Each chart names the years its own numbers come from rather than assuming they line up.

01 What does the town spend on each student?

Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil Over Time

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Bureau of Fiscal Services, Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (ncep, with nce ÷ adm), via ct_ncep_towns.json: the Connecticut Public School Expenditures Report workbooks for the earlier years, the Department’s per-pupil reports as mirrored by the School + State Finance Project for the years the Department no longer posts, and its current workbook for the latest year. Each peer town’s own figure is taken first; the two dashed lines are the median across those figures, year by year, and exclude the subject town. For a town whose regional district runs every grade, years from 2017–18 are the district’s own figure, named in the finding. Nominal dollars.

Notes

The state Department of Education’s net current expenditures per pupil, each school year, against the median of the surrounding towns and the median of the District Reference Group peers. The line moves when spending changes, when the number of resident students changes, or both. Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Which per-pupil figure this is

The state’s published figure: net current expenditures divided by the average daily membership of the resident students the town is responsible for, including those in a regional district or sent elsewhere on tuition. It leaves out transportation, capital, debt service and adult education, so it is lower than a figure divided from a town’s total education spending. Earlier versions of this page showed such a figure, divided from OPM’s audited education expenditures and average enrollment; the two measures give different numbers. See per-pupil spending.

How a regional district enters the figure

The state counts a regional district’s costs against its member towns, by each town’s share of the district’s students, so a town in a regional district for some grades is measured across every grade like any other town. Before 2017–18, every member town of a district that runs all grades carried the same figure; since then the state prints only the district’s row, and this page shows that row for its member towns. Where the row changes, the line can step for that reason as well as for a change in spending.

02 How much has that changed?

Change in Spending Per Pupil, First to Last Reported Year

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (ncep), via ct_ncep_towns.json, each town indexed off its own first and last reported values rather than off fixed endpoints. For a town whose regional district runs every grade, the later figure is the district’s. A change in this measure can come from the spending side, the student side, or both; the chart does not separate them. Nominal dollars.

Notes

Percent change in net current expenditures per pupil between each town’s own first and last reported year. Where the source skips a year for a town, that town’s span can differ from the others; each bar names the years it was measured over when hovered. Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

What these figures are, and are not

These are nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. A change here can come from the spending side, from a falling or rising number of resident students, or from both at once, and the chart does not separate them. For a town whose regional district runs every grade, the span starts on the town’s own row and ends on the district’s, so a bar can include a step where the row changes.

03 How does that compare with similar towns?

Spending Per Pupil, Latest Reported Year

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (ncep), via ct_ncep_towns.json, most recent reported school year. Towns the source reports no figure for in that year are omitted rather than charted at zero. Towns whose regional district runs every grade carry the district’s figure, so towns in the same district show the same bar. District size, grade span, transportation distance and special-education needs differ from town to town.

04 How does spending per pupil line up with town income?

Income and Spending Per Pupil, Connecticut Towns Reporting Both

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Source: vertical axis — CT State Department of Education, Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (ncep), via ct_ncep_towns.json, most recent reported school year. Horizontal axis — US Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B19013 (median_household_income), most recent release carried in /data/ct_town_income.json. The two axes come from different sources on different year bases: the spending figure is a single school year, while an ACS 5-year estimate pools five calendar years and is expressed in dollars of its release year, so the two are not aligned in time and the chart does not claim they are. The dashed line is a least-squares fit describing the pattern across the towns plotted; it is a description of those points, not a prediction for any town and not evidence that either measure causes the other. ACS figures carry margins of error that are not shown here. Towns whose regional district runs every grade carry the district’s figure.

Notes

One point per town that has both figures: median household income on the horizontal axis, net current expenditures per pupil on the vertical axis. The subject town is marked, the two peer groups are colored, and every other town is shown in grey for context. The dashed line is a least-squares fit through the points.

What a scatter can and cannot show

Two figures moving together is not one causing the other. The dashed line is a least-squares fit describing the pattern across the towns plotted; it is a description of those points, not a prediction for any town. Towns differ in what their schools have to do as well as in what they can afford, and neither axis measures that.

Why the two axes are not on the same basis

They come from different sources on different year bases — a single school year on one axis, a five-year pooled Census estimate expressed in dollars of its release year on the other — and the Census figures carry margins of error that are not shown.

06 How much education aid does the state send?

Education Cost Sharing Per Pupil, Latest Estimated Year

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Source: numerator — CT OPM, Estimates of Statutory Aid to Municipalities, sdcm-adr4 (education_cost_sharing). These are OPM estimates of statutory aid, not audited receipts; a town’s books can differ and the estimate is revised. The dataset carries only a few fiscal years and no education-aid history beyond them — the insight box below names them — so it supports a current-year comparison rather than a trend. Education Cost Sharing is one component of intergovernmental revenue, not the whole of it. Denominator — CT OPM Municipal Fiscal Indicators, ej6f-y2wf (school_enrollment_average). The two datasets do not cover the same fiscal years; the insight box names the aid year and the enrollment year separately rather than implying they match. Regional-district towns and towns running their own districts count students differently for this purpose, and the grant is set by a statutory formula that is not a per-pupil rate.

Notes

The state’s Education Cost Sharing grant divided by average enrollment, for the subject town and both peer groups. Education Cost Sharing is a state education grant distributed to municipalities under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-262h, and one component of a town’s intergovernmental revenue rather than the whole of it. The dataset behind this chart carries only a few fiscal years — the insight box below names them — which supports a comparison of the current estimate across towns and does not support a trend; no trend is shown or implied here.

How the state decides this

Education Cost Sharing is distributed by a formula the General Assembly writes, on town wealth and student need (CGS §10-262f, §10-262h). A town’s figure reflects that formula as much as anything the town decides. See state aid.

What these amounts are, and are not

These are OPM estimates of statutory aid rather than audited receipts, and the amounts are revised. Education Cost Sharing is one component of a town’s intergovernmental revenue, not the whole of it, and the grant is set by a statutory formula that is not a per-pupil rate.

The four charts below count students and positions, not dollars, they come from a different source than the six charts above, and they count students on a different basis: the student figure below is the state’s single-day October 1 headcount, while the per-pupil and state-aid charts above divide by average membership across the school year. The two measures give different student counts for the same town in the same year. Every figure on this page uses one measure or the other, and no figure on this page mixes them. These four charts are built from the Connecticut State Department of Education’s EdSight reporting — the enrollment dashboard and the FTE staffing report — and were collected one school year at a time, because the reports’ own trend view returns only a few years at once. They are reported by school year rather than by fiscal year, so their years do not line up with the spending charts above, and no chart on this page places the two sources on one axis.

Coverage and collection. The school years covered, and the collection method the file records for itself, appear here once the data loads.
The source’s own caveats, carried word for word: these appear here once the data loads.
Which district each chart covers. The districts this file carries for this town appear here once the data loads. Staffing is reported by the district that employs the staff. A town that sends some grades to a regional school district therefore does not have those teachers and administrators in its own district’s count — they are counted in the receiving district. Every chart below names the district each line covers, and no chart adds two districts together.
Grouping the assignment categories is this site’s editorial decision, not the state’s. The state reports positions under assignment categories whose names are its own and whose wording has changed over the years covered. Two charts below combine those categories into named groups so the legend stays readable; the groups, and the exact source categories in each, appear here once the data loads. A different grouping would produce different lines, and the groups are this site’s, not the state’s.

07 Has staffing moved with the number of students?

October 1 Enrollment and Total Reported Staffing

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Source: CT State Department of Education, EdSight — the enrollment dashboard (enrollment.total_enrollment, the October 1 count) and the FTE staffing report (the fte value of every category under fte_staffing.categories, summed). Read one school year at a time. FTE staffing is reported by the district that employs the staff, so a district’s line covers only the positions that district employs. A school year the source has no row for is a gap, left as a break in the line rather than plotted as zero.

Notes

Each line is set to 100 in the first school year its district reports both figures, so the chart shows movement from a common starting point rather than counts. Enrollment is the October 1 count. Staffing is every assignment category the state reports for that district, added together, in full-time equivalent positions. The two series are shown side by side over the same school years; the chart does not establish that either one caused the other.

What a staffing count is, and is not

These are full-time equivalent positions from the state’s October 1 FTE staffing report, summed across every assignment category — not a headcount and not payroll. FTE staffing is reported by the district that employs the staff, and a category boundary can move a person between lines without anyone changing jobs. See staffing counts.

What the chart does not establish

The chart places the two series side by side over the same years. It does not establish that either one caused the other, in either direction. The state reports the counts and not the reasons for them, and nothing on this page identifies why either count moved.

08 What kinds of positions make up the staff?

Reported Positions by Assignment Category, Share of Each Year’s Total

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Source: CT State Department of Education, EdSight FTE staffing report (the fte value of each category under fte_staffing.categories, as a share of the same year’s reported total). Read one school year at a time. Category names are the state’s own and their wording has changed over the years covered; the grouping below is this site’s editorial decision and the file makes no grouping of its own. A category with no row in a given year is a gap in the source rather than a zero, so a year missing a category is a share of the categories that year reports.

Notes

One bar per school year for the district this town runs itself, each bar drawn to full height, so the bars show how the reported positions divide up rather than how many there are. A segment can widen when that group’s own count rises, when another group’s falls, or both. The groups combine the state’s own assignment categories; the source note names every category in each group.

How to read a share, and what a count is not

These are shares of a moving total, so a group’s segment can widen while its own position count falls, and narrow while it rises. The grouping is this site’s editorial decision, the category names are the state’s own and their wording has changed over the years covered, and a different grouping would produce different segments; the source note names every category in each group. A count of positions is not a count of people and says nothing about what any position is paid.

09 Which roles grew and which shrank?

Change in Reported Positions: Administrators and Coordinators, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, and Instructional Specialists

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Source: CT State Department of Education, EdSight FTE staffing report (the fte value of the categories under fte_staffing.categories named here: ). Read one school year at a time. Combining the two administrator categories into one line is this site’s editorial decision; the state reports them separately. Percent change is computed off each group’s own first reported year, and the insight box names those years. A group is a count of positions, not of people or of spending, and it says nothing about what those positions are paid.

Notes

Percent change from each group’s own first reported year for the district this town runs itself, in four of the groups shown in the chart above: administrators, coordinators and department chairs; general education teachers; special education teachers; and instructional specialists who support teachers. The other groups the state reports for this district are not charted here — the insight box below names them, and the composition chart above shows every group. The flat line at zero marks the starting level. A line above it means more reported positions than in the base year, a line below it means fewer. The administrator line combines two of the state’s own categories, named word for word in the source note.

Why percent change is not comparable across groups

Percent change from a base year magnifies movement in a small group: a group of a few positions can post a large percent change from a change of one position, while the same one-position change in a large group barely registers, so the lines are not comparable in size. These are counts of positions, not of people or of dollars, and the chart does not say why any count changed.

10 How many students are there per teaching position?

Students per General Education Teaching Position

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Source: numerator — CT State Department of Education, EdSight enrollment dashboard (enrollment.total_enrollment, the October 1 count). Denominator — EdSight FTE staffing report (the fte value of the general education teacher category under fte_staffing.categories). Read one school year at a time. Both figures come from the same district and the same school year, and both are reported by the district that employs the staff. This ratio is not a class size, not an average class size, and not a figure the state publishes; the state does not report class sizes here and this page does not estimate them.

Notes

The October 1 enrollment count divided by the reported full-time equivalent positions in the state’s general education teacher category, school year by school year. This is not a class size. It is a ratio of two reported totals; it leaves out special education teachers, paraprofessionals and every other category, and it does not account for how positions are deployed across buildings, grades, subjects or programs.

Why this is not class size

Students divided by general-education teaching positions is a district-wide ratio. It is not class size: it takes no account of grade level, of specialist and special-education staff taught alongside, or of how a school actually groups its students.

What this ratio leaves out

It is one reported total divided by another. It excludes special education teachers, paraprofessional instructional assistants, instructional specialists and every other category the state reports, and it does not account for how positions are deployed across buildings, grades, subjects or programs, for part-time schedules, or for students served outside a general education classroom. A district can hold this ratio steady while the number of students in any particular room changes. The state does not publish a class size on this report and this page does not estimate one.

Where both figures come from

Both figures come from the same district and the same school year, and both are reported by the district that employs the staff.

The three charts below come from the same state source as the per-pupil charts at the top of the page, and add the totals behind them: net current expenditures, the students they are divided by, and the state’s Education Cost Sharing grant. They come from the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Bureau of Fiscal Services, which publishes each town’s net current expenditures per pupil and its Education Cost Sharing entitlement.

A different measure from the OPM education-share and state-aid charts above. Net current expenditures are defined in Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-261: school operating costs less transportation, capital and debt service, adult education and several reimbursed items. The pupil count is the average daily membership of the students the town pays for. Neither side matches OPM’s audited education spending, so a number here will not match a number there, and no chart on this page places the two on one axis — why the per-pupil figures differ.
The town is the unit, including the grades a regional district runs. Where a town belongs to a regional school district, the state folds the district’s costs and students back onto each member town by its share of the students, and counts tuition a town pays to send students elsewhere. That puts member towns and towns running every grade themselves on one basis, which the OPM figures above do not.
Coverage. The school years covered, and any year this town is not reported, appear here once the data loads.

11 Over a longer span, how has school spending moved against enrollment and prices?

Net Current Education Expenditures, Enrollment and Consumer Prices, Indexed

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Bureau of Fiscal Services, net current expenditures (nce) and average daily membership (adm) by town, packaged as ct_school_finance_trend.json (cut from ct_school_finance_town.json). Consumer prices — US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U, series CUUR0000SA0, annual averages, with each school fiscal year carrying the calendar year it begins in. Each line is set to 100 in the first school year this town reports. Net current expenditures are the state’s statutory measure, not the OPM education expenditures charted above and not a town’s adopted school budget. CPI-U is a consumer price index, not a school cost index.

Notes

Three lines, each set to 100 in the first school year shown: the town’s net current education expenditures, the number of students it pays to educate (average daily membership), and consumer prices. The chart shows how far each has moved from a common start. It does not show that any one caused another.

What net current expenditures leave out

The state’s definition excludes student transportation, capital spending and debt service, adult education, and costs covered by tuition received from other towns, food service and student-activity receipts. It is an operating measure, so it is smaller than a school budget and smaller than the OPM education figure above.

Why consumer prices, and what that comparison leaves out

CPI-U is the price of a consumer basket. Most of a school budget is salaries and benefits, whose costs have generally run above consumer prices, so a spending line above the CPI line is not by itself evidence that more was bought. A school cost index is not published town by town.

12 What has that meant per student, before and after inflation?

Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil, Nominal and Adjusted for Consumer Prices

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Bureau of Fiscal Services, net current expenditures per pupil (ncep, net current expenditures ÷ average daily membership, as the state publishes it), packaged as ct_ncep_towns.json. The adjusted line divides each year by CPI-U (CUUR0000SA0, annual averages, each school fiscal year carrying the calendar year it begins in) relative to the first year shown. The dashed line is the median across every other town with a figure in every year shown, each town’s own figure first; the subject town is excluded from it. Read from ct_ncep_towns.json, the same series as the per-pupil charts at the top of the page; for a town whose regional district runs every grade, the later years are the district’s figure and the finding names it.

Notes

The state’s published net current expenditures per pupil for this town each school year, in the dollars of that year and again in the dollars of the first year shown, beside the statewide median in the dollars of each year. The nominal line is the same series as the first chart on this page; what this chart adds is the inflation-adjusted view. A per-pupil figure rises when spending rises, when the number of students falls, or both.

Why the per-pupil figure can rise while spending does not

It is a division. When enrollment falls faster than costs can be reduced — a building, a bus route or a grade-level teacher serves fewer students but costs about the same — the figure rises with no new spending. The chart above shows the two sides of the division separately.

13 How large is the state’s education grant next to what the schools cost?

Education Cost Sharing Entitlement as a Share of Net Current Expenditures

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Source: CT State Department of Education, Bureau of Fiscal Services — Education Cost Sharing entitlement (ecs, excluding prior-year adjustments) divided by net current expenditures (nce), same town, same school fiscal year, packaged as ct_school_finance_trend.json. The entitlement is the formula amount, not the payment the town recorded, and not the OPM estimate of statutory aid in the sixth chart on this page. The dashed line is the median across every other town the state reports in every year shown, each town’s own share first; the subject town is excluded from it.

Notes

The state’s Education Cost Sharing entitlement for this town divided by the town’s net current education expenditures, each school year, beside the statewide median share. It compares the size of two figures. It is not the share of school costs the state paid.

Why this is a comparison of sizes, not a share the state paid

Education Cost Sharing is paid into the town’s general fund, not to its board of education, and it is one of several revenues that together pay for the schools. So this ratio says how large the grant is next to the schools’ operating cost; it does not say who paid for what. See state aid.

What moves the line

The line moves when the grant changes, when school costs change, or both. The grant is set by a formula the General Assembly writes on town wealth and student need, and the legislature has held the grant flat for years at a time and rewritten the formula, for every town at once.

The data behind these charts

Bethany’s own series behind the charts on this page, as text. Each table names the dataset it came from and the year of every row. The peer towns and group medians the charts also plot are not repeated here; they are in the same source files, linked in the footer.

Who Bethany is compared with

Surrounding towns 7 towns

Beacon Falls · Cheshire · Hamden · Naugatuck · Prospect · Seymour · Woodbridge

The towns that share a border or an immediate labor market. Right for regional context; they are not matched on size or wealth.

District Reference Group C 32 towns

Andover · Barkhamsted · Bethlehem · Bolton · Bridgewater · Burlington · Canton · Columbia · Cornwall · Durham · Ellington · Essex · Haddam · Harwinton · Hebron · Killingworth · Lyme · Mansfield · Marlborough · Middlefield · New Hartford · Old Lyme · Oxford · Pomfret · Roxbury · Salem · Sherman · Somers · Suffield · Tolland · Washington · Woodbury

The CT State Department of Education grouping of school districts on family income, parent education, family structure and enrollment. Last assigned in 2006, and built for education questions rather than town-side spending.

Municipal peers 12 towns

Burlington · North Stonington · Harwinton · Marlborough · Bolton · Middlebury · Woodbridge · Granby · New Hartford · Haddam · Pomfret · East Granby

Town-side spending, debt, reserves, and tax comparisons. Chosen by a published formula over state data rather than by hand: the nearest towns by standardized distance on the stated variables.

School peers 12 towns

North Stonington · Middlebury · Marlborough · Burlington · Canton · Bolton · East Granby · Harwinton · Preston · Prospect · Granby · Woodstock

Education spending comparisons. Chosen by a published formula over state data rather than by hand: the nearest towns by standardized distance on the stated variables.

Bethany is left out of each list above, because a town is never part of the benchmark it is measured against. Group medians elsewhere on the site exclude it the same way. Sources: surrounding towns and District Reference Group are the published groupings; the peer sets are built by a stated formula over CT OPM data (Data/build_peer_sets.py), not selected by hand.

Education spending and enrollment by fiscal year

Education spending and enrollment by fiscal year for Bethany, Connecticut
Fiscal year	Enrollment (average daily membership)	Education expenditures	Share of total spending
FY 2013-14	914	$15,923,151	72.7%
FY 2014-15	885	$16,405,008	72.5%
FY 2015-16	841	$16,698,230	71.9%
FY 2016-17	793	$17,059,134	72.6%
FY 2017-18	785	$17,215,700	72.6%
FY 2018-19	769	$17,764,382	70.2%
FY 2019-20	761	$17,117,365	70.1%
FY 2020-21	756	$18,035,074	69.9%
FY 2021-22	756	$16,773,402	68.9%
FY 2022-23	792	$17,304,829	68.7%

For a town in a regional district, education spending includes its payment to the district. Per-pupil spending is in the next table, on the state Department of Education's own measure; dividing these two columns gives a different figure. Source: CT OPM, Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf) - audited actuals as filed by each town.

Net current expenditures per pupil by school year

Net current expenditures per pupil by school year for Bethany, Connecticut
School year	Per pupil	Net current expenditures	Resident students (average daily membership)	Row reported
FY 07-08	$11,742	$12,773,702	1,088	Bethany
FY 08-09	$12,596	$13,535,299	1,075	Bethany
FY 09-10	$13,130	$13,649,313	1,040	Bethany
FY 10-11	$13,511	$13,705,852	1,014	Bethany
FY 11-12	$14,237	$13,860,464	974	Bethany
FY 12-13	$14,774	$13,940,813	944	Bethany
FY 13-14	$15,843	$14,483,933	914	Bethany
FY 14-15	$16,690	$14,769,712	885	Bethany
FY 15-16	$17,428	$14,651,504	841	Bethany
FY 16-17	$18,444	$14,625,985	793	Bethany
FY 17-18	$18,497	$14,515,843	785	Bethany
FY 18-19	$18,577	$14,282,895	769	Bethany
FY 19-20	$18,944	$14,414,293	761	Bethany
FY 20-21	$20,210	$15,271,696	756	Bethany
FY 21-22	$19,582	$14,794,681	756	Bethany
FY 22-23	$18,948	$15,010,824	792	Bethany
FY 23-24	$19,909	$15,587,956	783	Bethany
FY 24-25	$20,768	$16,051,560	773	Bethany

The state Department of Education's measure (CGS 10-261): current education spending less transportation, capital, debt service, adult education and several receipts, plus tuition paid for students educated elsewhere, divided by the resident students the town is responsible for. A regional district's costs are counted against its member towns. From 2017-18 the state prints no separate row for a town whose regional district runs every grade; those years are the district's figures, and its spending and students cover every member town. Nominal dollars. Source: CT State Department of Education, Bureau of Fiscal Services - Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (via ct_ncep_towns.json).

Where Bethany sits among all 169 Connecticut towns, FY 2022-23

Where Bethany sits among all 169 Connecticut towns, FY 2022-23 for Bethany, Connecticut
Measure	Bethany	Rank, lowest to highest	Statewide median
Total expenditures per resident	$4,777	123 of 169	$4,217
Net current expenditures per pupil (school year 2024-25)	$20,768	44 of 169	$23,247
Equalized mill rate	17.72 mills	92 of 169	17.18 mills
Equalized net grand list per resident	$229,757	118 of 169	$189,668
Total fund balance as a share of total expenditures	26.3%	129 of 169	19.9%
Bonded long-term debt per resident	$2,536	115 of 169	$1,741
Intergovernmental revenue as a share of total revenues	16.1%	64 of 169	20.5%

A rank is a position, not a grade. Which end of the list is preferable depends on the measure and on what a reader is trying to find out. Per-pupil spending is the state Department of Education's Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil for the school year in its label, every town read in that same year; a town whose regional district runs every grade carries the district's figure, so the member towns of one district tie. Source: CT OPM, Municipal Fiscal Indicators (ej6f-y2wf) - audited actuals as filed by each town. Ranks computed for FY 2022-23 across all 169 towns. Per-pupil spending: CT State Department of Education, Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil (via ct_ncep_towns.json).

Education Spending

Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil Over Time

Change in Spending Per Pupil, First to Last Reported Year

Spending Per Pupil, Latest Reported Year

Income and Spending Per Pupil, Connecticut Towns Reporting Both

Education as a Share of Total Spending

Education Cost Sharing Per Pupil, Latest Estimated Year

October 1 Enrollment and Total Reported Staffing

Reported Positions by Assignment Category, Share of Each Year’s Total

Change in Reported Positions: Administrators and Coordinators, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, and Instructional Specialists

Students per General Education Teaching Position

Net Current Education Expenditures, Enrollment and Consumer Prices, Indexed

Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil, Nominal and Adjusted for Consumer Prices

Education Cost Sharing Entitlement as a Share of Net Current Expenditures

The data behind these charts

Who Bethany is compared with

Education spending and enrollment by fiscal year

Net current expenditures per pupil by school year

Where Bethany sits among all 169 Connecticut towns, FY 2022-23