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Show Alpine District at bottom of state instructional costs for the 1981-82 school year was 26,977. The average expenditure perpupil for all 40 school districts this past year was $1,181.73. Another major financial category contained in the report was expenditures ex-penditures for the administration of school" districts; including operational costs for boards of education, district executive Financial data released this week from the State Office of Education place the Alpine School District at the very bottom in expenditures for instruction and for costs associated with the administration of the district. The information is contained in the State Office's 1981-82 Annual Report to the legislature and makes financial comparisons among Utah's forty school districts. With respect to instructional costs, Alpine spent the least last year at $1,019.80 perpupil. Daggett School District, headquartered in Manila spent the most perpupil with a . figure of $2,088.07. Part of the reason for the increased costs to Daggett is " the remoteness of the area along with the limited number of students in the district. Other districts with similar populations to Alpine are Salt Lake City District and Weber District. Salt Lake expended $1,556.16 perpupil and had an average daily attendance of 23,044. Weber District spent $1,104.34 on the instructional needs of each student and had an average attendance of 20,438. - Alpine's average daily attendance salaries, and special area services. Here again, Alpine School District boasted the lowest expenditure perpupil in the state. For this last year, Alpine spent $15.78 perpupil on administration. This compares to the state average of $39.63 in administrative ad-ministrative costs perpupil and to the high of $316.89 perpupil spent by Daggett District. Salt Lake District spent $59.71; Provo District expended $58.35; Murray District came in at $73.97; while Weber District spent $26.79 perpupil in administrative overhead. . There were two other categories included in the financial report. The first was for expenditures related to social work, guidance, health and psychological services. Here, Alpine District was below the state average with a perpupil expenditure of $49.99 - the state average was $57.85. The district ranked 18th of the 40 districts in Utah. The other area was costs for the improvement of instruction and media services. With this category, Alpine was below the state average with $74.06 spent perpupil - the state average was $76.32. It was ranked 21st in comparison with other districts. "We are extremely pleased with these figures," concluded Alpine District Superintendent Dr. Max Welcker. "Our efficiency in the areas of instruction and administration are especially gratifying in light of the fact that our students have scored significantly higher than both the state and national averages in both the SRA and ACT testing programs. It should be noted that if our district spent the state average per student in the category of instruction alone it would raise our annual operating budget by nearly $5 -million. |