According to the most current statistics developed by the CT State Department of Education the Woodstock K-8 school system is in the bottom 3% (2.4%) and likely 4th from the bottom in per pupil spending.
Last spring one of our articles reported that Woodstock was 164th out of 169 towns in per pupil spending, in the bottom 3% of Connecticut towns (See this article ). Others at the Café have quoted this data either from the original source or from the Café article. The source of this information was a pdf document (See the source article http://www.opm.state.ct.us/igp/MUNFINSR/fi95str2.HTM ) from the CT State Office of Policy and Management. This was the only source of this information that we were aware of at that time. This pdf document states that the statistics in the document are not necessarily the finalized statistics. The Café article cited this reference correctly. The key statistic derived from this document was the finding that Woodstock spent $8583 per pupil in the K-8 system for the 2004-2005 school year (the most recent year where these statistics are available even today).
Recently a Café visitor (‘numbers’) began to question rightly the accuracy of these statistics because ‘numbers’ found a document at the CT department of Education that reported a per pupil spending of $8919 for that year and ‘numbers’ provided a step-by-step path to accessing that statistic (see comment 7 in the article entitled “Woodstock Education Funding – “Problem Statementâ€? Under Consideration by the Education Committee of the CT General Assemblyâ€? ). If ‘numbers’ was correct Read the rest of this entry »
