Salaries from grants and fees
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Grants and fee funds paid $7,268,170 of school salaries in four years; no account names the job.
| Revolving funds and lunch | Grants | Capital and other | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $610,140 | $1,467,361 | $8,087 |
| FY2024 | $826,042 | $1,778,017 | $8,900 |
| FY2025 | $677,398 | $730,209 | $9,443 |
| FY2026 | $760,133 | $383,477 | $8,963 |
Wages posted to grants and other funds, with pay moved in or out by journal entry. Benefits are left out.
| Administrators | Support staff | Instructional staff | Stipends | Other pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $76,218 | $590,791 | $741,223 | $59,129 | $0 |
| FY2024 | $61,388 | $582,616 | $1,086,631 | $47,382 | $0 |
| FY2025 | $10,700 | $486,688 | $232,822 | $0 | $0 |
| FY2026 | -$35,400 | $87,260 | $57,869 | $0 | $273,748 |
The kind is the account’s own name. No account names a job.
| Revolving funds and lunch | Grants | Capital and other | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2300 Teaching (heading only) | $0 | $2,729,839 | $0 |
| 2000 Instruction (heading only) | $1,419,375 | $600,325 | $0 |
| 3400 Food Services | $1,223,530 | $0 | $0 |
| 0000 No function code | $954 | $769,792 | $35,393 |
| 3510 Athletics | $224,349 | $0 | $0 |
| 3200 Medical/Health Services | $0 | $151,202 | $0 |
| 1000 Administration (heading only) | $0 | $107,907 | $0 |
| 4000 Operations (heading only) | $5,504 | $0 | $0 |
Four years, FY2023 to FY2026, by the function code each salary account carries. Highlighted: the voted budget lines.
What it means: Of $7,268,170 in grant and fee salaries over four years, $375,551 sat on a line the budget votes; the rest is booked to a heading, no code, or food services, so no voted line shows it.
1 · The facts
$7,268,170
salaries outside the general fund, FY2023 to FY2026
6.4%
of all school salaries, FY2026
$4,359,065
from grants, four years
$2,873,713
from fee funds and lunch, four years
$1,372,498
from the IDEA special education grant
$1,747,355
grant pay booked as support salaries
$112,907
on grant accounts named for administrators, net
$1,467,361
grant pay, FY2023
$383,477
grant pay, FY2026
$684,134
of it from the pandemic grants, FY2023
—
which jobs each grant pays
not published
2 · What it shows
- 1
Grants and fee funds paid $7,268,170 of school salaries in four years, and 6.4% of all of them in FY2026.
- 2
IDEA paid the most grant pay, $1,372,498; grants booked $1,747,355 of their pay as support salaries.
- 3
Grant accounts named for administrators’ pay held $112,907 net over four years; the name is a label.
- 4
Grant pay fell from $1,467,361 in FY2023 to $383,477 in FY2026; pandemic grants paid $684,134 of the first.
| FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | Four years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA (special education) | $383,940 | $484,101 | $403,855 | $100,601 | $1,372,498 |
| School Lunch Revolving | $273,471 | $295,402 | $313,233 | $341,424 | $1,223,530 |
| ESSER III (pandemic) | $349,273 | $702,496 | $1,051,770 | ||
| Extended Day Revolving Fund | $186,113 | $232,940 | $279,448 | $313,537 | $1,012,037 |
| Title I | $181,885 | $216,664 | $174,386 | $191,985 | $764,919 |
| ESSER II (pandemic) | $334,860 | $9,636 | $344,497 | ||
| Student Opportunity Act | $9,136 | $136,429 | $95,000 | $63,240 | $303,805 |
| After School Activities Fund | $74,143 | $77,186 | $71,454 | $64,364 | $287,148 |
| Athletic fee fund (Chapter 658) | $70,634 | $118,353 | $4,849 | $30,514 | $224,349 |
| Comprehensive school health | $72,464 | $65,907 | $18,597 | $8,331 | $165,299 |
| Title IIA | $33,849 | $38,370 | $26,410 | $15,643 | $114,272 |
| School Choice Revolving Fund | $95,246 | $1,366 | $4,754 | $101,365 | |
| Family and community engagement | $56,553 | $62,611 | -$8,412 | -$17,282 | $93,469 |
| After-school (ASOST) | $18,680 | $25,000 | $43,680 | ||
| IDEA (preschool) | $13,083 | $13,325 | $13,373 | $39,781 | |
| Custodian Special Details | $8,087 | $8,900 | $9,443 | $8,963 | $35,393 |
| Adult Education Revolving Fund | $5,780 | $4,960 | $4,560 | $4,480 | $19,780 |
| Title IV | $13,639 | $5,000 | $18,639 | ||
| MyCAP grant | $17,120 | $17,120 | |||
| Special education program improvement | $13,477 | $13,477 | |||
| Arts and culture | $5,000 | $7,000 | $12,000 | ||
| School Facilities Use Revolv | $1,955 | $2,489 | $1,060 | $5,504 | |
| Fair Share grant | $3,840 | $3,840 |
Grants by their DESE program, every award year together; other funds by name. Program names are ours.
| On the voted budget | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | Four years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Instruction (heading only) | a heading, no one line | $266,036 | $594,569 | $570,765 | $588,330 | $2,019,700 |
| 3400 Food Services | a code with no voted line | $273,471 | $295,402 | $313,233 | $341,424 | $1,223,530 |
| 0000 No function code | no function code | $56,497 | $175,329 | $391,966 | $182,347 | $806,139 |
| 2300 Teaching (heading only) | a heading, no one line | $1,270,269 | $1,305,054 | $118,547 | $35,968 | $2,729,839 |
| 3510 Athletics | a voted line | $70,634 | $118,353 | $4,849 | $30,514 | $224,349 |
| 3200 Medical/Health Services | a voted line | $72,464 | $65,907 | $4,500 | $8,331 | $151,202 |
| 4000 Operations (heading only) | a heading, no one line | $1,955 | $2,489 | $1,060 | $5,504 | |
| 1000 Administration (heading only) | a heading, no one line | $76,218 | $56,388 | $10,700 | -$35,400 | $107,907 |
The line is the grant or fee account’s own function code, mostly a heading. Pay re-charged off a school line lands here under that code. Stipends included; no account names a position.
* Not from the books: a figure somebody assembled, not a printout from the accounting system.
| FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | Four years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extended Day Revolving Fund — Salaries Revolving Funds | $186,113 | $232,940 | $279,448 | $313,537 | $1,012,037 |
| Title I — Grant Prof Salaries - Mtrs | $191,985 | $191,985 | |||
| After School Activities Fund — Salaries Revolving Funds | $74,143 | $77,186 | $71,454 | $64,364 | $287,148 |
| IDEA (special education) — Grant Instr Staff Salaries | $11,418 | $11,418 | |||
| School Choice Revolving Fund — Salaries Revolving Funds | $95,246 | $411 | $4,754 | $100,411 | |
| Adult Education Revolving Fund — Salaries Revolving Funds | $5,780 | $4,960 | $4,560 | $4,480 | $19,780 |
| Title I — Grant Instr Staff Salaries | $165,760 | $143,447 | $309,207 | ||
| Title I — Grnt Non Instr/Supprt Salaries | $30,939 | $30,939 | |||
| Comprehensive school health — Grnt Non Instr/Supprt Salaries | $14,097 | $14,097 | |||
| Special education program improvement — Grnt Non Instr/Supprt Salaries | $13,477 | $13,477 | |||
| Title IV — Grant Administrators Salaries | $5,000 | $5,000 | |||
| Title IIA — Grnt Non Instr/Supprt Salaries | $26,410 | -$2,208 | $24,202 |
Each row is a fund and the account’s own name for the kind of work. The ledger posts one line per account per pay run, so it cannot name the positions behind a row.
| Re-charged off the line | Onto | |
|---|---|---|
| P.S. Sped Paraprofessionals | $13,083 | IDEA (preschool) |
| Instr Serv Director Salary · Instr Serv Director Salaries | $4,269 | Title I |
| Social Workers Salaries · H.S. Guidance/Social Workers | $2,158 | ESSER II (pandemic) |
| M.S. Spec Ed Paraprofessionals · M.S. Sped Paraprofessionals | $2,095 | IDEA (special education) |
| Hs Spec Ed Paraprofessionals · Hs Sped Paraprofessionals | $1,462 | IDEA (special education) |
| Paraprofessionals · Ace Spec Ed Paraprofessionals | $1,255 | IDEA (special education) |
The school-line pages show the same entries as Re-charged to. One entry can move several lines onto several funds; it does not pair each line with one fund.
Sources
- Lunenburg Budget Project — munis-school-journal.csv (every school journal line, FY2023–FY2026, our redacted reading of the Town’s Report 1)
- Lunenburg Budget Project — munis-school-journal-accounts.csv (every school account)
- Lunenburg Budget Project — position-funds-crosswalk.csv (each post’s title, budget line and account, paired by us)
- Lunenburg Public Schools — district staff directory (school-staff-directory.csv)
- Town of Lunenburg — how the journal reached us, and what was redacted