Pennsylvania Data Desk

Find the records behind a local education story. Start with a jurisdiction, inspect the reporting period and definitions, and download evidence you can check and cite. Coverage is source-specific. Missing or suppressed values are not zero, and similarly named measures are not necessarily comparable across states.

District / agency profiles
500
School profiles
2665
Coverage snapshot generated (not government release date)
2026-09-22T12:00:00.000Z
District experience
Does every district have a page built on the shared design, with its sources disclosed? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Finance detail
What did the district spend, broken down by function and line item? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Trends
How has a figure moved across years, on one consistent definition? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Comparisons
Can a district be put beside its peers on the same measure, year and scope? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Funding and taxes
Where does the money come from, and what does it cost a taxpayer? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Staffing
How many staff, in which roles, and what are they paid in aggregate? 499 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Outcomes
Graduation, assessments and classroom measures. 499 of 499 applicable districts covered; complete.
Students
Enrollment, demographics and student groups. 499 of 499 applicable districts covered; complete.
Programs
What courses and pathways are taken, and by how many students? 129 of 130 applicable districts covered; partial.
Climate
Attendance and discipline. 499 of 499 applicable districts covered; complete.
Schools
Does each school have its own sourced profile, joined to its district? 499 of 499 applicable districts covered; partial.
Fiscal transparency
Fiscal health, reserves, budgets and the source documents themselves. 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Distribution
Is every district and school page crawlable, linked and in the sitemap? 500 of 500 applicable districts covered; complete.
Limitation
PDE publishes no bulk special education child-count file by district. Special education students appear in the state funding formula only as weighted cost categories, which is a funding weight rather than a count.
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PDE publishes no public Advanced Placement participation or results file at district or school level. The College Board reports Pennsylvania only at state level.
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Pennsylvania has no statewide course catalog. PDE collects course enrollments in PIMS for federal reporting but publishes no public course-level file, so no Pennsylvania district can show what courses it offers here.
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PDE's CTE enrollment by programme file (2015–16 to 2024–25) and its industry certification file (2016–17 to 2024–25) have no row with this district as the educating AUN in any year, and PDE's 2025–26 secondary CTE subsidy workbook has no row for it on either sheet, for a programme of its own or for students at a career and technology centre. No programme measure exists to show. This is not a claim that the district's students take no career and technical education: its 2024–25 Annual Financial Report, shown on this page, reports $720,811 of vocational education spending (function 1300), which can include tuition paid to a programme PDE reports under another AUN.
Limitation
Pennsylvania ended its Dual Enrollment Grant reporting and PDE publishes no current public dual-enrollment or college-credit file by district.
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PDE publishes no public International Baccalaureate participation file at district or school level.
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Pennsylvania runs no statewide school climate survey whose results are published by district.

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