This post was originally published by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

As New Hampshire’s K-12 public schools experienced the largest enrollment decline of any state this century, they enjoyed the fourth-highest increase in per-pupil spending, according to a new analysis from the Reason Foundation’s K-12 Education Spending Spotlight .

Per-pupil public education spending in New Hampshire grew by 60.5% from 2002-2023, the fourth-highest growth rate in the nation, Reason’s review of federally reported education data shows.

Only the big, blue states of New York (75.8%), California (78.6%) and Illinois (62.5%) saw their public education expenditures rise at a faster rate, according to the analysis.

Yet over those same two decades, New Hampshire’s K-12 public schools experienc

See Full Page