Chart: More than 90% of school funding comes from state and local sources: Revenues for public elementary and secondary schools by source of funds, 2017–2018 | Economic Policy Institute

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More than 90% of school funding comes from state and local sources: Revenues for public elementary and secondary schools by source of funds, 2017–2018

	2017–2018
Federal	7.8%
State	46.8%
Local property taxes	36.6%
Local other public revenue	7.1%
Local private revenue	1.6%

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Source: National Center for Education Statistics’ Digest of Education Statistics (NCES 2020a).

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