{
  "definition": "NHED cost per pupil: current K-12 operating expenditures from all sources, less tuition and transportation, divided by average daily membership in attendance.",
  "limitations": [
    "NHED says only totals are comparable between districts with the same grade range.",
    "Tuition and transportation are left out of this measure, so it is not a district’s total spending.",
    "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, New Hampshire 2024-2025 cost per pupil: the source table, version ecd1fe5c78fa8a81; compiled from sources identified per row."
}