Albuquerque Public Schools 2024-2025 budget spends $33,079 per student

In recent years the Rio Grande Foundation has tracked per-pupil spending at New Mexico’s largest school district (APS). In May the District adopted a $2.15 billion budget which was a slight decline from the previous year’s $2.16 billion budget. But, with a continued decline in the student population (see chart below), the District’s per-pupil spend once again rose in the 2024-2025 school year.

While the District (again) pleads poverty and failed to have AC units ready for the unnecessarily early August start of school, the District’s budget continues to grow on a per-student basis.