I can't speak to all schools, but "security" is a tiny line item in our school budget. In a high school of about 2,300 students there is one local policeman posted "on duty" in an office. I don't think the school even pays for this, I think it is is just part of the local police duties. There is no other security, apart from faculty and administration. At my children's primary school, there is no security at all, apart from locks on the doors and a buzzer to let you in at off hours. To my knowledge, that is true just about everywhere except places that are extraordinary.
As an absolute number, the amount we spend on sports and sport facilities is quite large, but as a proportion of the total high school budget, the number is not significant. It is tough to tease out the cost of facilities maintenance but athletics instruction for extracurricular, intramural and intervarsity athletics is about $1.6M from a total budget of $55M. We are a big school, with a large sports program, we field football, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, lacrosse, wrestling, swim, gymnastics, volleyball, tennis, track, field hockey, hockey, sailing, surfing and archery. I'm not a huge fan of intervarsity sports, but it is hard for me to argue that we, at least, spend too much money on it. If the per student cost is about $18K, athletics amounts to about $700.
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Date: 3/1/17 14:38 (UTC)As an absolute number, the amount we spend on sports and sport facilities is quite large, but as a proportion of the total high school budget, the number is not significant. It is tough to tease out the cost of facilities maintenance but athletics instruction for extracurricular, intramural and intervarsity athletics is about $1.6M from a total budget of $55M. We are a big school, with a large sports program, we field football, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, lacrosse, wrestling, swim, gymnastics, volleyball, tennis, track, field hockey, hockey, sailing, surfing and archery. I'm not a huge fan of intervarsity sports, but it is hard for me to argue that we, at least, spend too much money on it. If the per student cost is about $18K, athletics amounts to about $700.