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At Monty Tech’s FY2025 rate a pupil, Lunenburg would have spent $12,993,957 more, by our arithmetic.
Lunenburg’s spending at other rates
Spent, all funds, DESEOurs, a rate times Lunenburg’s pupilsour estimate
Spent, all funds, DESE
Ours, a rate times Lunenburg’s pupils
Spent
$30,031,242
not published
At the all-district median
not published
$39,181,968
At Monty Tech’s rate
not published
$43,025,199
At the vocational median
not published
$44,369,581
FY2025, all funds. The three right-hand bars are our multiplication, not a target or a cost anybody proposed.
1 · The facts
$18,027
Lunenburg a pupil, all funds, FY2025
$25,827
Monty Tech a pupil, the same measure
1,665.9
Lunenburg’s FTE pupils, DESE
$43,025,199
at Monty Tech’s rate (ours)
our estimate
$12,993,957
more than Lunenburg spent (ours)
our estimate
$26,634
median vocational district a pupil
$14,338,339
more, at the vocational median (ours)
our estimate
$23,520
median of all districts a pupil
$9,150,726
more, at the all-district median (ours)
our estimate
$8,087,546
Monty Tech’s total less Lunenburg’s
$11,512,683
Monty Tech’s pupils times the gap a pupil (ours)
our estimate
$3,425,137
its fewer pupils times Lunenburg’s rate (ours)
our estimate
2 · What it shows
1
Monty Tech’s $25,827 for each of Lunenburg’s 1,665.9 pupils comes to $43,025,199, $12,993,957 more than spent.
2
At the vocational median, which Monty Tech spends below, it is $14,338,339 more; all districts’, $9,150,726.
3
Monty Tech is a vocational high school, Lunenburg K-12; the vocational median beat the state’s all 17 years.
4
The totals differ by $8,087,546: $11,512,683 from Monty Tech’s higher rate, less $3,425,137 for fewer pupils.
A pupil, side by side, FY2025
Lunenburg
Monty Tech
Difference
Administration
$547
$1,112
$564
Instructional leadership
$1,045
$1,278
$233
Teachers
$6,134
$8,239
$2,105
Other teaching services
$1,893
$913
-$980
Professional development
$45
$301
$256
Materials, equipment, technology
$212
$1,760
$1,547
Guidance, counselling, testing
$638
$856
$218
Pupil services: buses, meals, sport
$1,797
$3,749
$1,952
Operations and maintenance
$1,180
$3,141
$1,961
Insurance, retirement, other
$3,258
$4,287
$1,029
Tuition to other schools
$1,199
$193
-$1,006
Out-of-district transportation
$78
—
-$78
Total, as DESE prints it
$18,027
$25,827
$7,800
DESE, all funds. Each category over the district’s total FTE pupils, our division, so the rows add to DESE’s totals. A dash: no spending there.