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FY2027 budgets out-of-district tuition at $700,142, $591,151 below FY2026, a 46% cut.
1 · The facts
$1,291,293
tuition budgeted, FY2026, the highest
$700,142
tuition budgeted, FY2027
$591,151
less between the two budgets
46%
the same cut, as a share
$489,918
lowest of 11 budgets, FY2023
6
that rose on the year before
4
that fell on the year before
3.98%
FY2027 level-service rise (our arithmetic)
6.23%
the same rise, tuition held at FY2026
our estimate
2 · What it shows
1
Tuition is budgeted at $700,142 for FY2027, $591,151 below FY2026.
2
Across 11 budgets it ran from $489,918 to $1,291,293, rising in 6 and falling in 4.
3
Hold tuition at FY2026 and the FY2027 level-service rise is 6.23%, not 3.98%.
Out-of-district tuition, as budgeted
Year
Private schoolsdistrict sheet
Collaborativesdistrict sheet
Bothdistrict sheet
Which budgetdistrict sheet
FY2027
$536,400
$163,742
$700,142
proposed
FY2026
$988,630
$302,663
$1,291,293
settled
FY2025
$703,872
$460,952
$1,164,824
proposed
FY2024
$310,260
$190,979
$501,239
proposed
FY2023
$303,364
$186,554
$489,918
settled
FY2022
$639,156
$179,560
$818,716
settled
FY2021
$589,156
$130,113
$719,269
settled
FY2020
$600,016
$265,730
$865,746
settled
FY2019
$694,480
$60,000
$754,480
settled
FY2018
$700,270
$60,000
$760,270
settled
FY2017
$581,345
$74,189
$655,534
proposed
Functions 9300 and 9400 in the district’s budgets: a settled figure where a later document reports one, otherwise the proposal. Never what was spent.
What was said
“The administration reported that 19 out-of-district placements were then anticipated.”