Reports and data
School District Financial ReportsTen years of federal filings, built into answers
Every district page on this site is free and always will be. This is the other half: the same record turned into rankings, peer comparisons, and multi-year trends across every district at once, for people whose work needs more than one district at a time.
- Districts
- 14,581
- States
- 51
- Years on file
- 10 FY2015 to FY2024
- Annual filings
- 141,928 One per district, per year
What we can run
Each of these runs against the whole record, over any window you pick, filtered to a state, a county, an enrollment band, or a list of districts you supply.
| Report | What it returns | Why it is worth running |
|---|---|---|
| Spending against enrollment | Districts where revenue rose while enrollment fell, ranked by the size of the gap, over any window in the record. | The divergence most often raises a budget question, and it is invisible in any single year. |
| Per-pupil rankings | Revenue and expenditure per pupil ranked nationally, within a state, or within an enrollment band. | Ranking within a peer group rather than against the whole country is what makes the number mean something. |
| Ten-year growth | Largest and smallest changes in revenue, spending, per-pupil funding, and enrollment across the full record. | Compound change over a decade separates a durable trend from one unusual year. |
| Distance from the state average | How far each district sits above or below its own state, by year, with the gap tracked over time. | State funding formulas differ enough that a national comparison alone can mislead. |
| Peer group comparison | Any district set against districts of similar enrollment in the same state, across every measure held. | Size drives cost structure, so a peer set is the fairest comparison the data allows. |
| Bulk data extract | The full finance record as CSV or a scheduled feed, with the rubric scores and source document links attached. | For teams that would rather run their own analysis than read ours. |
What it costs
Scope varies enough between a single-state newsroom and a multi-state research team that a published rate card would be wrong for most people who read it. Tell us the work and we will quote it.
Newsroom
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For reporters working a single state or region.
- Every report above, one state
- CSV export of any result
- Charts cleared for republication
- Named-source citation for each figure
Research
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For analysts working across state lines.
- Every report above, all 51 states
- Full 10-year history in bulk
- Peer group and percentile tooling
- Scheduled refresh when new filings land
Custom
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For a question the standard reports do not answer.
- Analysis built to a defined brief
- Direct data feed or API access
- Methodology documented for publication
- Right of reply handled the same way
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Where the numbers come from
Finance figures are the Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33), filed by districts and published by the U.S. Census Bureau, currently loaded for FY2015 through FY2024. District names, locations, and websites come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory. Both are aggregate by construction: no employee names, no student records, no individual payees. Reports inherit that limit, and no report will be built that needs data we do not publish.
Figures are nominal dollars as filed and are not adjusted for inflation unless a report says otherwise. Where a district did not file, the record is reported as missing rather than as zero. The methodology page covers how transparency scores are produced, which is a separate exercise from the finance data described here.