I have been digging around out of curiousity, and came across the budget for Gwinnett County Public Schools.  GCPS spends $8,156/student.  Their total budget proposed for FY2010 is $1.859Billion…  That is a lot of coin.

Just to put it in perspective, GCPS is estimated to be one of the 15 largest school systems in the US.

For comparison, Atlanta Public Schools has just under 50,000 students, and a budget of about $662M.  That works out to about $13,419/student.

GreatSchools.net ranks the Atlanta Public Schools as a 5 on a 1-10 scale.  By contrast, Gwinnett County Public Schools ranks an 8.

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