The School District Finance Survey consists of data submitted annually to NCES by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary (prekindergarten through grade 12) education in the United States.
The FY 23 School District Finance Survey data file contains 19,570 records representing the public elementary and secondary education agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The file includes variables for revenues by source, expenditures by function and object, indebtedness, assets, student membership counts, as well as identification variables. For a complete list of variables, see appendix A.
To view the First Look Report, please visit https://nces.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/first-look-ed-tab/revenues-and-expenditures-public-elementary-and-secondary-school-districts-school-year-2022-23.
Under law, public use data collected and distributed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) may be used only for statistical purposes. Any effort to determine the identity of any reported case by public-use data users is prohibited by law. Violations are subject to Class E felony charges of a fine up to $250,000 and/or a prison term up to 5 years. NCES does all it can to assure that the identity of data subjects cannot be disclosed. All direct identifiers, as well as any characteristics that might lead to identification, are omitted or modified in the dataset to protect the true characteristics of individual cases. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or institution violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Therefore, users shall:
- Use the data in any dataset for statistical purposes only.
- Make no use of the identity of any person or institution discovered inadvertently, and advise NCES of any such discovery.
- Not link any dataset with individually identifiable data from other NCES or non-NCES datasets.
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| Data part of a series |
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| Data access | Public-use |