Free Texas school-money tool by Gus Sanchez and TAG AI Solutions
100-square view · Each square is about 1%.
Classroom teaching accounted for $1.09B ($1,092,607,589), or 32.9% of recorded spending.
Total recorded spending: $3,319,208,715. Classroom: $1,092,607,589. Construction: $766,316,261. Debt: $500,174,938. Other combined: $960,109,927, calculated as the remaining all-funds recorded spending after those three categories. Enrollment: 139,776. Classroom combines TEA 11, 12, and 13: teaching, libraries, and training. Construction is TEA 6600, including land, buildings, renovations, and equipment. Debt is TEA 6500.
TEA PEIMS actual finance · fiscal 2025 · all fundsCheck the source record
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Official Texas school-finance records, made readable and source-linked.
Built with AI; figures come from official records. Independent historical information. AI can err; check important figures. How this was made and how we check it.
Historical Texas public records: TEA finance records cover FY 2009–2025; this landing example is FY 2025, all funds, with a snapshot dated Aug. 12, 2026. It is not a live budget or savings estimate. Open the source register.
Why it matters: your school taxes are the largest line on most Texas property bills. This shows what yours buys, and the finding that surprised us: spending $2,000 more per student changed results by 0.15 points — too small to tell apart from zero. What does move them is in here too.
Compared with structural peers matched on size, growth and funding, never spending. Each gap shows annual dollars. Review questions, not verdicts.
Object means what was bought across departments. Shares use operating spending; contracted services is the comparison signal.
Program means whom spending serves. Object and program views overlap; blank means none reported separately.
A flag is a review question, not an accusation. The timeline and cards show the years and exact before-and-after values.
Found by scanning the 17-year history of your structurally similar districts for sustained problems that later reversed. Worth a phone call — they solved a problem shaped like yours.
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Open the source register for government downloads and field links, or the machine-readable provenance record. Dollar figures are loaded without estimates, modeling, or adjustment.
Per student = the dollar total ÷ fall survey enrollment. Very small districts can show extreme per-student values — that's arithmetic, not scandal.
Total spending includes debt payments and construction. That is why it runs higher than the "current per-pupil spending" figure often quoted nationally, which counts day-to-day operating costs only. Both are shown here so you can use the right one.
Spending categories group TEA function codes: classroom instruction (11, 95, 12, 13), leadership & administration (21, 23, 41, 92), student support (31–33), transportation (34), food (35), extracurricular (36), facilities (51), safety & technology (52, 53), community services (61).
The 100-penny dollar splits total spending into whole cents by the largest-remainder method, so the squares always sum to exactly 100 — no penny is invented or lost. The "similar districts" and "all Texas" bars show the median share in each category across those districts, rescaled to a whole dollar (medians of separate categories do not add to $1 on their own). The dollars-at-stake figures do not use those rescaled shares — they use median dollars per student multiplied by this district's enrollment, so they are real money.
Peer districts are the most structurally similar districts statewide, matched on size, enrollment trajectory, and funding profile — deliberately not on spending, so that comparing spending stays meaningful.
Flags and peer gaps are automatic statistical checks (a >20% and >$100,000/year difference from the peer median). They identify questions worth asking — never wrongdoing.
• The data cannot isolate specific purchases such as HVAC systems or total technology spending; the state's summary reports don't break out that detail.
• Figures may differ from a district's own books because of timing and fund-reporting rules.
• Categories can overlap: a special-education teacher's salary counts as both "payroll" and "special education."
• Automated summaries and AI answers on this site can contain errors — verify before publishing.
Source: TEA's "Summarized PEIMS Actual Financial Data" — the state's official roll-up of district financial reports, fiscal 2009–2025, downloaded from tea.texas.gov.
Flags are math, not judgment. "Revenue drop" = revenue fell >15% vs the prior year. Districts get flagged for good reasons all the time — a bond ending, one-time federal funds expiring, a boundary change.
Per-student math: totals ÷ fall enrollment. Small districts can show extreme per-student values — that's arithmetic, not scandal.
Spending categories group TEA function codes: classroom instruction (functions 11, 95, 12, 13), leadership & administration (21, 23, 41, 92), student support (31–33), transportation (34), food (35), extracurricular (36), facilities (51), safety & technology (52, 53), community services (61).
Not: an audit, an official TEA product, a rating, or advice.