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Guilford County · North Carolina

Greensboro, NC public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Guilford County Schools — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Guilford County Schools is the primary public district for Greensboro, NC. It enrolls 68,894 students in 126 schools with 4,545 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $11,714 per pupil, 32% below the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
68,894NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
126Operating school count
Students per teacher
15.2Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$11,714Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in Greensboro

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
28.3%
$232,412,000
State revenue
57.6%
$471,942,000
Federal revenue
14.1%
$115,526,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Greensboro property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 61 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the Greensboro numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

This is a low-spending district: $11,714 per pupil, 32% under the $17,320 median and near the bottom of the metros tracked here. Instruction absorbs 61 cents of every dollar ($7,197 per student), an unusually classroom-heavy split.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 28.3% local, 57.6% state — so both the local tax base and the NC aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal aid contributes 14.1%, near the typical share for a large urban district.

68,894 students across 126 schools averages 547 students per building, and the district is larger than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). The 15.2:1 student-to-teacher ratio is ordinary for this set of districts (median 15.2:1). It counts all FTE teachers district-wide, so actual class sizes run higher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Guilford County Schools is a county-scale district, so its catchment reaches well past the Greensboro city limits and these figures describe that wider area. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 3701920. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.