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What is this tool?

The complexity of traditional school funding formulas makes it difficult to compare budget allocations among schools in a district. In urban districts, especially, the diversity of programs, student populations, and funding streams can result in very different per pupil dollars for different schools.

Assessing Patterns of Resource Distribution (APRD) is a free online tool that allows district officials and other stakeholders to compare district spending for schools with different students and programs, pinpointing possible inequities. All you need to do is enter public data on spending and enrollment, and the tool does all the calculations.

New

A new supplement to the online tool, A User’s Guide to Getting School-Level Budget and Enrollment Data, features:

• an explanation of the basics of school budgets
• information on how to get the data you will need about expenditures and enrollment to use the online tool
• embedded Excel spreadsheets with detailed, step-by-step instructions that help you generate all the figures on expenditures you will need to enter in the online tool
• Download User’s Guide [9 pages]

What would you like to do next?

» Learn more about the APRD tool and what it can do.

» See the list of what you will need to get started before using the APRD tool.

» If you have all the data you need, or are a returning or experienced user,
   log in and start using the tool.

» This tool stores and analyzes your data on our server. To analyze data on your
   own computer, see text version of tool.