{
  "definition": "Certified total expenditures per Average Daily Membership (ADM) from PDE AFR Exp per ADM collection.",
  "limitations": [
    "AFR is the Annual Financial Report each district files with PDE. Average daily membership is an average over the school year, not an enrollment count on one day.",
    "A district or agency with no value for this exact measure and period is listed as unavailable with an empty value. It is not zero, and no other year or measure is substituted.",
    "Do not compare this figure with a per-pupil figure from another state or another source: the definitions and the pupil counts differ.",
    "A per-pupil figure depends on what the agency counts and on the pupil count it divides by. This table is not a ranking and is not evidence of waste or of educational quality."
  ],
  "columns": {
    "id": "NCES LEA identity, or explicit ny-beds- state-only identity where no NCES LEAID exists",
    "name": "Published district/agency name",
    "page_url": "DistrictFacts profile",
    "value": "Reported amount in the stated unit; empty when unavailable",
    "unit": "cents",
    "period": "Exact source reporting period",
    "scope": "Original district measure definition; do not blend scopes",
    "status": "published or unavailable",
    "reason": "Explanation when unavailable",
    "source_id": "Registered source identifier",
    "source_url": "Official source URL",
    "source_sha256": "SHA-256 of pinned source bytes",
    "locator": "Workbook/table/row locator"
  },
  "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "citation": "DistrictFacts, Pennsylvania 2024-2025 expenditures per average daily membership: the source table, version c41fc12f0538457a; compiled from sources identified per row."
}