Elementary school we gor I think pretty much everything... pencils (the big fat ones) erasers paper provided we just needed maybe a set of crayons and markers and folder or binder (I had very cool trapper keepers
) Then middle school we needed binders, dividers, paper, pencils pens etc... but we never had to donate anything to the classroom that I remember and our stuff could be any color we wanted (well the outside the ink in our pens had to be blue or black) In high school the most expensive thing I had to buy was a graphing calculator for any math class above Algebra 2 which was about 100 dollars. I still have it though (not that I remember how to use it or anything).