Schools have to spend money on administration, even though none of them have administration as one of the goals of their charter. But, like janitorial work, administration is something that has to be done--for compliance, efficiency, and a consistent vision.
The premise of this post is that the schools that run effectively that spend the least on administration are the most efficient schools.
Using data from schools' Annual Financial Reports and the Superintendent's Annual Report, I analyzed spending on the administrative functions of each charter school on a per student basis. The findings are interesting, if you're a little nerd like me.
The most efficient school in the state? Utah Virtual Academy, which spends $341 per student on administrative services. (Actually Success School spends $0, but since they just outsource to the district, I don't count that as accurate.) The top non-virtual schools are Liberty Academy ($458 per student) and Navigator Pointe ($459). A complete list is below.
The least efficient? As you'd expect, they tend to be small schools. Uintah River ($2,545!) and Moab ($1,818).
High schools typically have a higher administrative burden. They range from Merit ($508) to City Academy ($1,603) to Uintah River, obviously. The complete list is below.
(And the disclaimer: All data comes from 2011 AFRs accessed from USOE's finance website, using enrollment data from the Superintendents Annual Report, accessed also at USOE's website. This post defines Administrative Services as the salaries, benefits, and purchased services in District, School, and Central support functions. If you don't know what those are, you probably haven't read this far in the post.)
| School | Admin Spending |
| 88 Success School | $ - |
| 5F Utah Virtual Academy | $ 341 |
| 6C Liberty Academy | $ 458 |
| 9B Navigator Pointe Academy | $ 459 |
| 5D George Washington Academy | $ 467 |
| 81 Walden School | $ 481 |
| A9 Success Academy | $ 481 |
| 8E Merit College Preparatory Academy | $ 508 |
| 94 Thomas Edison Charter School North | $ 516 |
| 8C Mountainville Academy | $ 519 |
| 7E Gateway Preparatory Academy | $ 542 |
| 2D Channing Hall | $ 550 |
| 5C Legacy Prepatory Academy | $ 556 |
| 7G Summit Academy High School | $ 559 |
| 5G Quail Run Primary School | $ 592 |
| 8D Open Classroom School | $ 596 |
| 7F Excelsior Academy | $ 602 |
| A4 Summit Academy | $ 614 |
| 9E Providence Hall | $ 626 |
| 2G Vista at Entrada | $ 627 |
| 8B American Leadership Academy | $ 651 |
| 82 Freedom Academy | $ 651 |
| 4C Lakeview Academy | $ 660 |
| 6F Early Light Academy at Daybreak | $ 665 |
| 2E Karl G. Maeser | $ 666 |
| 1C Odyssey School | $ 673 |
| 3C Entheos Academy | $ 676 |
| 6D Noah Webster Academy | $ 680 |
| 1D Renaissance Academy | $ 689 |
| 1F Quest Academy | $ 693 |
| 8F Hawthorn | $ 695 |
| 3F Venture Academy | $ 712 |
| 4G Maria Montessori Acacemy | $ 715 |
| A2 The Ranches Academy Inc | $ 716 |
| 4E Dual Immersion Academy | $ 720 |
| 4D Syracuse Arts Academy | $ 735 |
| 7C Monticello Academy | $ 740 |
| 3G Bear River Charter School | $ 740 |
| 7B Ronald Reagan Academy | $ 757 |
| 6G Weilenmann School of Discovery | $ 782 |
| 9D Canyon Rim Academy | $ 783 |
| 1G Oquirrh Mountain Charter School | $ 790 |
| 2B Lincoln Academy | $ 794 |
| 68 Ogden Preparatory Academy | $ 798 |
| 86 Pinnacle Canyon Academy | $ 810 |
| 8G Good Foundation Academy | $ 828 |
| A6 North Davis Preparatory Academy | $ 830 |
| 5B North Star Academy | $ 847 |
| 1B Utah County Academy of Sciences | $ 859 |
| 4B Wasatch Peak Academy | $ 859 |
| 83 AMES | $ 888 |
| 2F Rockwell Charter High School | $ 917 |
| 7D Salt Lake School for Performing Arts | $ 947 |
| 4F Salt Lake Center for Science Education | $ 950 |
| 89 Soldier Hollow | $ 959 |
| 93 John Hancock | $ 964 |
| 3B Beehive Sci. & Tech. Acad. | $ 978 |
| 95 Timpanogos Academy | $ 978 |
| A5 Itineris Early College High | $ 1,008 |
| 3E C.S. Lewis Academy | $ 1,087 |
| 97 Salt Lake Arts Academy | $ 1,101 |
| 90 Tuacahn Hs For Performing Arts | $ 1,115 |
| 9C Paradigm High School | $ 1,132 |
| A8 East Hollywood High | $ 1,135 |
| A3 DaVinci Academy | $ 1,221 |
| 98 Fast Forward Charter High School | $ 1,241 |
| 5E Edith Bowen | $ 1,331 |
| 3D Spectrum Academy | $ 1,336 |
| A1 NUAMES | $ 1,459 |
| 2C Intech Early College High School | $ 1,483 |
| 74 American Preparatory Academy | $ 1,501 |
| 9F Open High School of Utah | $ 1,526 |
| 87 City Academy | $ 1,603 |
| 1E Guadalupe Schools | $ 1,654 |
| A7 Moab Community School | $ 1,818 |
| 92 Uintah River High School | $ 2,545 |
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