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administration expenditures —Expenditures for school and school district administration (the school principal’s office, the superintendent and board of education and their immediate staff, and other local education agency (LEA) staff and services except those listed in other categories). Expenditures include salaries and benefits for LEA planners/researchers, personnel, fiscal services, warehousing, and other activities of LEAs, along with supplies and purchased services of these activities.
capital outlay —Direct expenditure for construction of buildings, roads, and other improvements and for purchases of equipment, land, and existing structures. Includes amounts for additions, replacements, and major alterations to fixed works and structures. However, expenditure for repairs to fixed works and structures is classified as current expenditures for operations.
charter school —A school providing free public elementary and/or secondary education to eligible students under a specific charter granted by the state legislature or other appropriate authority, and designated by such authority to be a charter school.
construction —Production of fixed works and structures and additions, replacements, and major alterations thereto, including planning and design of specific projects, site improvements, and provision of equipment and facilities that are integral parts of a structure. Includes both construction undertaken on a contractual basis by private contractors or through a government’s own staff (i.e., force account).
current expenditures —Current expenditures are comprised of expenditures for the day-to-day operation of schools and school districts for public elementary and secondary education, including expenditures for staff salaries and benefits, supplies, and purchased services. Expenditures associated with repaying debts and capital outlays (e.g., purchases of land, school construction and repair, and equipment) are excluded from current expenditures. Programs outside the scope of public prekindergarten through grade 12 education, such as community services and adult education are not included in current expenditures. Payments to private schools and payments to public charter schools are also excluded.
debt —Long-term credit obligations of the school system or its parent government and all interest-bearing short-term (repayable within 1 year) credit obligations. Excludes non-interest-bearing short-term obligations, interfund obligations, amounts owed in a trust agency capacity, advances and contingent loans from other governments, and obligations to individuals from school system employee-retirement funds.
education service agency —An LEA whose only function is to collect and allocate funds or to provide certain administrative services for a group of LEAs.
elementary/secondary education —Programs providing instruction, or assisting in providing instruction, for students in prekindergarten, kindergarten, grades 1 through 12, and ungraded programs.
expenditures —All amounts of money paid out by a school system, net of recoveries and other correcting transactions, other than for retirement of debt, purchase of securities, extension of loans, and agency transactions. Expenditures include only external transactions of a school system and exclude noncash transactions such as the provision of perquisites or other in-kind payments.
federal revenues —Include direct grant-in-aid to schools or agencies, funds distributed through a state or intermediate agency, and revenues in lieu of taxes to compensate a school district for nontaxable federal institutions within a district’s boundary.
fiscal year —The 12-month period to which the annual operating budget applies. At the end of the fiscal year, the agency determines its financial condition and the results of its operations.
function —A category of expenditure defining the activity supported by the service or commodity bought.
independent charter school district —A school district that includes only charter schools.
instruction and instruction-related expenditures —Include expenditures for instruction and instructional staff support services. These are expenditures that are directly related to providing instruction and for activities that assist with classroom instruction. Instruction and instruction-related expenditures are more expansive than instruction expenditures in that all instruction related expenditures are accounted for, including salaries and benefits for teachers, teaching assistants, librarians and library aides, in-service teacher trainers, curriculum development, student assessment, technology (for students but outside the classroom), supplies, and purchased services related to these activities.
instruction expenditures —Expenditures for activities related to the interaction between teachers and students. Current instruction expenditures include expenditures for activities related to the interaction between teachers and students, including salaries and benefits for teachers and teacher aides, textbooks, supplies, and purchased services. These expenditures also include expenditures relating to extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
instructional staff support services —Activities that include instructional staff training, educational media (library and audiovisual), and other instructional staff support services.
interest on debt expenditures —Interest expenditures on long-term debt.
local education agency (LEA) —The government agency at the local level whose primary responsibility is to operate public schools or to contract for public school services.
local revenues —Includes revenues from such sources as local property and nonproperty taxes, investments, and student activities such as textbook sales, transportation and tuition fees, and food service revenues.
long-term debt —Debt payable more than 1 year after the date of issue.
magnet school —A special school or program designed to attract students of different racial/ethnic backgrounds for the purpose of reducing, preventing, or eliminating racial isolation (50 percent or more minority enrollment); and/or to provide an academic or social focus on a particular theme (e.g., science/math, performing arts, gifted/talented, or foreign language).
noncharter school district —A school district or LEA for which all schools associated with the district are not charter schools.
operations expenditures —Expenditures for the operation and maintenance of schools and school district facilities, and expenditures related to student transportation, food services, and enterprise operations.
other elementary/secondary education current expenditures —Current expenditures for food services and enterprise operations.
other program expenditures —Expenditures for community services, adult education, community colleges, private schools, and other programs that are not part of public elementary and secondary education.
payments to other school districts and private schools —Payments made to private schools and other school districts, including payments for tuition, transportation, and computer and purchasing services.
payments to state and local governments —Payments to state and local governments (except LEAs), including debt service payments to agencies that incur debt instead of the LEA.
public school —An institution that provides education services and: 1) has one or more grade groups (prekindergarten through grade 12) or is ungraded; 2) has one or more teachers to give instruction; 3) is located in one or more buildings or sites; 4) has an assigned administrator; 5) receives public funds as primary support; and 6) is operated by an education agency.
regular school district —all elementary and secondary school districts reporting membership, matching the CCD nonfiscal LEA Universe Survey, and excluding independent charter school districts. Elementary and secondary school districts are defined by the F-33 school level code "01" (elementary school system only), "02" (secondary system only), and "03" (elementary/secondary school system). Please note that this definition is different from the definition of "regular school district" in the nonfiscal LEA Universe Survey. See http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pdf/pau102agen.pdf for the definition of "regular school district" in the LEA Universe Survey.
revenues —Additions to assets that do not incur an obligation that must be met at some future date, do not represent exchanges of fixed assets, and are available for expenditure by the LEAs in the state. Revenues include funds from local, intermediate, state, and federal sources.
special education school —A public elementary/secondary school that focuses primarily on special education—including instruction for any of the following students with: autism, deaf-blindness, developmental delay, hearing impairment, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, serious emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment, and other health impairments—and that adapts curriculum, materials, or instruction for students served.
state revenues —Includes both direct funds from state governments and funds in lieu of taxation. Revenues in lieu of taxes are paid to compensate a school district for nontaxable state institutions or facilities within the district’s boundary.
student membership —Annual headcount of students enrolled in school on October 1 or the school day closest to that date. In any given year, some small schools will not have any students.
student support services —Includes attendance and social work, guidance, health, psychological services, speech pathology, audiology, and other student support services.
support services —An expenditure function divided into seven subfunctions: student support services, instructional staff support, general administration, school administration, operations and maintenance, student transportation, and other support services.
Title I program —This federal program provides financial assistance through state education agencies to LEAs and schools with high numbers or high percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Funds are currently allocated based primarily on census poverty estimates and the state per pupil expenditure from the National Public Education Financial Survey.
total expenditures —The sum of current expenditure, non-elementary/secondary expenditure, capital outlay, and interest payments on debts.
total revenues —The sum of revenue contributions emerging from local, state, and federal sources. Revenue received from bond sales or the sale of property or equipment is not included.
ungraded —A class that is not organized on the basis of grade grouping and has no standard grade designation. This includes regular classes that have no grade designations and special classes for exceptional students that have no grade designations. Such a class is likely to contain students of different ages who, frequently, are identified according to level of performance in one or more areas of instruction rather than according to grade level or age level.
unified school district —A regular school district or independent charter school district that provides both elementary and secondary education services and instruction.
vocational education school —A public elementary/secondary school that focuses primarily on providing formal preparation for semiskilled, skilled, technical, or professional occupations for high school-age students who have opted to develop or expand their employment opportunities, often in lieu of preparing for college entry.