API reference

Get districts with anomaly flags

Statewide per-year medians — the 'what's normal?' context that district numbers are meaningless without.

Simplified Texas school-district boundaries (Census TIGER/Line 2025, public domain) joined to TEA district numbers, with the headline measures merged in. Charter districts are absent — they have no geographic boundary.

Every bond this district ever put on a ballot, and how the vote went.

Function-level spending breakdown (MECE categories from TEA function codes) for every year — where the money actually goes.

Every campus in one district with its own STAAR scores, by subject.

Every rated campus in one district, worst first, against the district's own rating.

What one district still owes, and the year it clears.

Where one dollar goes, as 100 pennies — for this district, for its structural peers, and for Texas as a whole, with the dollar amount at stake in each category if the district spent at the peer rate.

What you pay, where it goes, what it buys, and who does better.

How this district does for the students it actually serves.

One district's E-Rate history as its own applicant.

The four money questions Texas reports in four incompatible places.

Actionable intelligence: where this district materially differs from its similarity-graph peers, each finding quantified in dollars and ranked by magnitude. Peers come from the exogenous k-NN graph so the comparison is apples-to-apples.

Why is this number this number?

One district against every other district in the country.

What the money buys: student population, teaching workforce, and results, each against this district's structural peers and the state.

Peer comparison, plus this district's statewide percentile. The #1 demand in admin usage simulation (docs/UX_RESEARCH.md).

One district's STAAR results by student group and by subject.

One district's operating dollar, split sixteen ways, against the state.

Two more spending dimensions the summarized data already carries: OBJECT (what was bought — payroll/contracted/supplies/other, sums to operating) and PROGRAM (who it served — regular/special-ed/bilingual/ career-tech/gifted/compensatory/athletics), every year.

Get financial summary for a specific district

One district's rate since 2009, and why a bill moved.

Seventeen fiscal years of this district, against the state's own line.

Walk the similarity graph and find structural peers that reversed a sustained deficit (>=2 deficit years then >=2 surplus years) or a sustained enrollment decline (>=3 down years then >=2 up years). See docs/GRAPH_INSIGHTS.md.

List all districts with optional search

Precomputed 2D similarity-map coordinates (PCA of the exogenous feature space; see scripts/graph_insights.py).

API information and endpoint directory

The whole state's dollar, pooled: every category summed across every district and divided by total spending. Unlike the per-district peer bars this needs no rescaling — it is one real dollar made of real dollars.

The district picker and statewide figures, with no database involved.

Health check endpoint.

Where every number came from, and how to check it yourself.

Get database statistics

Has the scheduled work actually been running?

The most recent daily ISD intelligence briefing.

Process natural language query about Texas school finances

Get sample natural language queries

66 years of Texas school bond elections, without the per-district detail.

What the district rating hides.

What Texas school districts still OWE — the stock, not the yearly payment.

The statewide series behind every district page.

Statewide results by student group, and who does best for poor students.

Federal E-Rate money for school connectivity — the dollars TEA's books never see.

Forensic-accounting tests on the filings themselves.

Statewide totals, the ranked tables, and one compact row per district.

The working behind the statewide headline itself.

Texas against the other 49 states, on the federal government's ruler.

STAAR by student group, statewide, at the Meets bar.

Where the operating dollar actually goes — all sixteen PEIMS functions.

Did the June 2023 state takeover of Houston ISD change results?

What school tax rates have actually done since 2009.

The seventeen-year statewide series and the six findings in it.