Education Savings Accounts. By the Numbers.

Where: Arizona

Who studied the numbers? The Goldwater Institute, the impetus for the ESA program

What numbers are the Arizona Education Savings Account reaching?

• 6,423 participating students in 2019,
  • up from 5,042 in 2018
  • 3,360 in 2017
  • 144 in its first year, 2012
• award amount averages $6,148 per pupil in 2019 for non-special needs participants
  • $10,120 average cost for an equivalent student in public schools
• over $4.2 million per year in education dollars back will be redirected to other public school pupils

SB 1431 (2017 | AZ) , 2017 statewide expansion of ESAs

Proposition 305 (2018 | AZ) to overturn SN 1431, which failed to pass

KPVI | Study measures success of Arizona’s education savings accounts