Massachusetts School District Spending & Outcomes — 425 Districts

Explore reported Massachusetts school spending and enrollment with original DESE and NCES sources. Directory identities and agency status are from NCES 2023–24, not a current operating-status certification. DESE enrollment is 2025–26; operating expenditure and average pupil FTEs are FY2024. Baseline coverage: 425 directory records, 395 enrollment records and 395 FY2024 finance records. Extended DESE reports include FY2021–25 trends, FY2025 function detail and schools, student outcomes, programs, attendance and final FY2027 Chapter 70 requirements where available. Staffing is 2025–26 full-time equivalents for all 72 DESE job classifications plus workforce composition; Advanced Placement is 2024–25 and pathways and programme enrolment 2025–26. Massachusetts school districts are departments of a city or town, or regional districts assessed on their member municipalities, with no taxing authority: there is no school tax levy, no school tax rate and no school budget vote, so no school share of a property tax bill exists and none is derived. Municipal certified free cash and the Proposition 2½ levy limit, levy, excess capacity, ceiling, override capacity and assessed valuation come from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue for the municipality, joined through a tested DESE-to-DOR crosswalk; a regional district’s members are listed separately and never added together. The economic measure is DESE’s Economically Disadvantaged count, not free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, which Massachusetts stopped using in 2014–15. Each field retains its source period. Withheld figures do not mean zero, and measures Massachusetts does not collect at all are labelled as such rather than left blank. Massachusetts filing and audit packs are unavailable.

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