The nation’s 100 largest school districts enrolled 22 percent of all public school students—and employed 22 percent of all public school teachers—in the 2008-09 school year, according to an annual report by the National Center for Education Statistics. Per-pupil spending in the districts ranged from a low of $6,363 in Utah’s Granite District to a high of $23,298 in Boston.
A version of this article appeared in the November 10, 2010 edition of Education Week as Large Districts