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Louisa, Highland and Surry. “Wealth per child” ratings of neighboring jurisdictions range from 11th in Fauquier to 56th in Prince William with Culpeper 30th, Orange 29th, Madison 34th and Warren 32nd.
Rappahannock’s low ranking of 92nd in local effort to pay for education is determined by deviding the County’s “wealth per child" into the amount of local money spent for school operations. This gives Rappahannock an “equivalent true tax rate” of .44, the third lowest in the state. Only Louisa with .33 and Surry with .37 fall under Rappahannock’s “equivalent true tax rate.”
Rappahannock ranks 84th out of 95 counties on total cost per pupil for regular day school with $1,045 spent per child. In local expenditures per pupil, Rappahannock is 31 st with $615.
Percentage Of Local Funds
Rappahannock climbed close to the top in percentage of total school costs funded with local tax dollars. The county’s total school budget was $1,282,646 in 1977-78. Of this amount, 58 per cent was local money—the tenth
90.4%