Pennsylvania School District Spending & Outcomes — 500 Districts

Explore certified Pennsylvania school finances, property taxes and cohort graduation rates with original PDE, STEB and NCES sources. Directory identities and agency status are from NCES 2023–24, not a current operating-status certification. Expenditures and ADM figures are certified actuals from official PDE Annual Financial Reports (AFR 2024–25); PDE AFR detail gives ten-year trends for revenue by source, spending by object, general fund balance and debt outstanding from 2015–16 to 2024–25. Property tax context is PDE real estate tax rates in mills for 2025–26 with each tax county shown separately, the PDE Act 1 index for 2026–27, PDE State Property Tax Reduction Allocations for 2025–26, and the State Tax Equalization Board certified 2025 Common Level Ratio, which is a county figure from which no district value is derived. The economic measure is PDE's "Percent of Enrollments from Low-Income Families" for 2025–26, reported as of October 1; it is not a poverty rate and not a lunch-eligibility rate. Staffing is the PDE Professional Personnel collection for 2025–26, published only as district aggregates — PDE names every professional employee and their salary, and no individual record is published here. Funding detail is the PDE 2025–26 Basic Education, Special Education and Secondary Career and Technical Education subsidies with their formula inputs, and the Ready to Learn Block Grant back to 2014–15; PDE recalculates aid ratios and average daily membership retroactively, so each figure carries the posting it came from. Programs are PDE career and technical education enrollments and industry certifications for the programmes a district operates itself; a district whose students attend a career and technology centre has those enrollments reported under the centre. School pages carry PDE enrollment and low-income share for 2025–26, 2025 PSSA and Keystone proficiency with the IEP, English-learner and economically-disadvantaged groups, 2024–25 dropouts, Future Ready PA Index regular attendance (the share of students present on at least 90% of their school days; a lagging indicator, so the 2024–25 index describes 2023–24, and not a chronic-absence rate) and 2024–25 PDE Safe Schools discipline counts. PDE publishes no rate for any group of fewer than 11 students scored; a suppressed rate is absent rather than shown as zero. Attendance and discipline come from PDE Safe Schools reports for 2021–22 to 2024–25: suspensions, expulsions, law-enforcement contacts, arrests, weapon possession and security staffing, as each district reported them under its own code of conduct, so they are not comparable as a ranking; out-of-school suspensions per 100 students passed a distribution check, while the truancy rate and incidents per student failed it and are withheld, and a report listing zero for everything is withheld rather than shown as none. Pennsylvania publishes no statewide course catalog, no Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or dual-enrollment file and no statewide climate survey; those are recorded as not collected rather than left blank. Baseline coverage: 500 public school districts and 2,665 open public schools, 2,655 of which carry measures. Each field retains its source period. Withheld figures do not mean zero. Pennsylvania tax grievance and civic audit packs are unavailable.

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