Lunenburg per-pupil breakdown
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Lunenburg’s $18,027 a pupil in FY2025, by what it paid for: insurance and grants are in it, capital is not.
| General fund | Grants and revolving funds | |
|---|---|---|
| Teachers | $5,771 | $363 |
| Insurance, retirement, other | $3,136 | $122 |
| Other teaching services | $1,605 | $288 |
| Pupil services: buses, meals, sport | $1,244 | $553 |
| Tuition to other schools | $915 | $284 |
| Operations and maintenance | $1,075 | $105 |
| Instructional leadership | $1,043 | $1 |
| Guidance, counselling, testing | $633 | $5 |
| Administration | $518 | $30 |
| Materials, equipment, technology | $160 | $53 |
| Out-of-district transportation | $78 | $0 |
| Professional development | $21 | $24 |
DESE, all funds, FY2025. Each category over all 1,665.9 FTE pupils, our division, so the rows add to DESE’s $18,027.
1 · The facts
$18,027
a pupil, all funds, FY2025, DESE
$30,031,242
spent, all funds, FY2025
1,665.9
FTE pupils DESE divides by
$6,134
teachers, a pupil (our division)
$3,258
insurance, retirement and other, a pupil
$1,316,508
insurance for retired school staff, counted by DESE
$3,044,898
paid by grants and revolving funds
$753,028
food services, paid wholly by them
0
rows coded capital (7000) or debt (8000) in DESE’s file
$26,287,474
the FY2026 school appropriation
$3,701,195
staff health insurance, inside that budget
$1,521,536
school retirees’ insurance, in the town’s budget
2 · What it shows
- 1
Teachers were $6,134 of the $18,027 a pupil; insurance, retirement and other, $3,258, came next.
- 2
Grants and revolving funds paid $3,044,898 of it; their largest line, food services, was $753,028.
- 3
None of it is capital or debt service: 0 rows in DESE’s file carry those codes.
- 4
The FY2026 school budget holds $3,701,195 of staff insurance; $1,521,536 for its retirees is in the town’s.
| A pupil | All funds | General fund | Grants, revolving | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administration | $547 | $911,996 | $862,335 | $49,661 | 3.0% |
| Instructional Leadership | $1,045 | $1,740,057 | $1,738,121 | $1,936 | 5.8% |
| Teachers | $6,134 | $10,218,273 | $9,613,637 | $604,636 | 34.0% |
| Other Teaching Services | $1,893 | $3,154,094 | $2,674,435 | $479,659 | 10.5% |
| Professional Development | $45 | $74,960 | $34,425 | $40,535 | 0.2% |
| Instructional Materials, Equipment and Technology | $212 | $353,794 | $266,249 | $87,545 | 1.2% |
| Guidance, Counseling and Testing | $638 | $1,062,827 | $1,055,236 | $7,591 | 3.5% |
| Pupil Services | $1,797 | $2,993,856 | $2,072,046 | $921,810 | 10.0% |
| Operations and Maintenance | $1,180 | $1,966,363 | $1,791,635 | $174,728 | 6.5% |
| Insurance, Retirement Programs and Other | $3,258 | $5,426,967 | $5,223,821 | $203,146 | 18.1% |
| Payments to Out-of-District Schools | $1,199 | $1,997,369 | $1,523,718 | $473,651 | 6.7% |
| Out-of-district Transportation | $78 | $130,686 | $130,686 | $0 | 0.4% |
| Total, as DESE prints it | $18,027 | $30,031,242 | $26,986,344 | $3,044,898 | 100% |
DESE’s expenditures by function, all funds, after the year closed. A pupil: our division by total FTE pupils, so the rows add to the total. DESE prints each category over in-district pupils, a different figure.