Welcome to the DCPS Budget Website

For School Year 2025-2026 (Fiscal Year 2026), DC Public Schools continues to distribute resources to align with the academic, social, and emotional needs of our students. Schools will receive funding aligned to their student enrollment and level of need, with additional funds allocated to support students with greater needs. DCPS’ school budget model seeks to resource schools across the district using three factors: enrollment, targeted support, and year-over-year stability. The FY26 initial school budget allocations provided funding to schools for school year 2025-2026 and included resources across many program areas and student-based funds to address inflationary increases and increasing enrollment at many schools.

School leaders built their budgets by utilizing flexible funds and making changes to less flexible allocations. These changes are reflected on schools’ submitted budget worksheets. To increase transparency, DCPS’ submitted budget worksheets include a comprehensive list of submitted budget items with their costs and year-over-year comparison data for personnel and non-personnel funding. As a result, the submitted worksheets are more closely aligned with the DCPS school profiles in the Mayor’s Budget Book typically published every spring. For an in-depth analysis of the differences between these two sources, please see our comparison page here. You can explore the submitted budget worksheets by selecting the button on the right.

Following submissions, school budgets will be amended to include additional changes made by principals as part of the summer reprogramming process.

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