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The money questions Texas answers in four different files

None of this is secret. All of it is hard to see, because the numbers that belong side by side are published apart — and two of the biggest are published in a form that makes them look smaller than they are. This puts them together, for every district, and shows its work.

Look up a district

Type a name. Everything below is that district's own file — the same four questions, answered with its own numbers and ranked against every other district.

What stands out

Each line below states a published number against a published threshold. It is a description, not a finding of wrongdoing.

Seventeen years, and which way it is moving

One year tells a board where it stands. It cannot tell them which way they are going — and that is the part still open to a decision. Every figure below is in constant 2024 dollars, from fiscal 2009 to 2025.

The six measures, statewide

Pick a district above and its own line is drawn against the state's.

What is still owed, and until when

Every other figure on this site is what a district paid in one year. This is the balance. Texas school districts have borrowed to build, and the bill runs for decades — so the question a taxpayer actually asks about a mortgage is how much is left, how much of it is interest, and when it ends.

The bonds where nothing is paid until the end

What the district rating hides

Every other figure on this page is measured at the district, because that is where money is reported. It is the wrong unit for the question a family asks: a district rating is an average over campuses, and an average hides its own tails. A child goes to a campus, not to an average.

Where every district ranks

There is deliberately no combined score. Debt, recapture, borrowing and results measure four unrelated things, and adding them would invent a league table the data cannot support. Each list is ranked on one measure, on its own terms.

How this was built, and where it stops

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Data disclaimer: An independent transparency tool presenting Texas Education Agency and Comptroller data for informational purposes only. Not an official TEA product, not an audit, and not financial, legal, or investment advice. District-level aggregates only. Nothing here is an allegation about any person. Every number is traceable to the State of Texas.

Artificial intelligence was used to build and operate this service, orchestrated across the entire system. Figures derive from official public records, carry a margin of error, and are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind; verify independently before acting — use is at your own risk. How this was made, and the full terms →