{
  "definition": "RIDE Report Card per-pupil expenditure for fiscal 2023-2024 (published in the 2024-25 Report Card, which reports the prior fiscal year). Per pupil = expenditure ÷ the LEA's average daily membership, as RIDE computes it for its ESSA per-pupil report.",
  "limitations": [
    "The table lists school districts, charter schools and state-operated schools together. They differ in size and in what they do.",
    "A district or agency with no value for this exact measure and period is listed as unavailable with an empty value. It is not zero, and no other year or measure is substituted.",
    "Do not compare this figure with a per-pupil figure from another state or another source: the definitions and the pupil counts differ.",
    "A per-pupil figure depends on what the agency counts and on the pupil count it divides by. This table is not a ranking and is not evidence of waste or of educational quality."
  ],
  "columns": {
    "id": "NCES LEA identity, or explicit ny-beds- state-only identity where no NCES LEAID exists",
    "name": "Published district/agency name",
    "page_url": "DistrictFacts profile",
    "value": "Reported amount in the stated unit; empty when unavailable",
    "unit": "cents",
    "period": "Exact source reporting period",
    "scope": "Original district measure definition; do not blend scopes",
    "status": "published or unavailable",
    "reason": "Explanation when unavailable",
    "source_id": "Registered source identifier",
    "source_url": "Official source URL",
    "source_sha256": "SHA-256 of pinned source bytes",
    "locator": "Workbook/table/row locator"
  },
  "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "citation": "DistrictFacts, Rhode Island 2023-2024 per-pupil expenditure: the source table, version 3b64aa29b5b6355a; compiled from sources identified per row."
}