And despite 52,000 per student/year … every summer teachers still have Amazon wishlists of basic things they need for the classroom: chalk, Kleenex, wet wipes, etc
This is the per-pupil funding for the elementary school Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to.
If you subscribe to the funding theory of education, how much would have been enough? It's already crossed the average per capita annual income threshold. Maybe $100k? $200k?