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North Colonie CSD

School district · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 010618700700 · NYSED BEDS 010623 · OSC name “North Colonie Central School District”

Enrollment 6,189 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

No indicator flags.

Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorNorth Colonie CSDPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$24,284$31,7332nd73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$15,508$14,11760th73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$13,909$15,26739th71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending5.1%6.9%29th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue31.5%45.9%20th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.4%5.5%32nd73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years29.7%21.3%76th73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth14.4%11.8%73rd732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$26,161$33,7272nd73NYSED PTRC 2026-27
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)0028th73OSC FSMS FY2025

Percentile = share of same-class peers in the region with a lower value. A high or low percentile is context, not a judgment. Sales tax for towns and villages is county distribution revenue.

Five-year picture

Operating funds: revenue vs. spending RevenueSpending
$0k$40.1M$80.2M$120M$160M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $116MRevenue 2020: $118MRevenue 2021: $120MRevenue 2022: $135MRevenue 2023: $144MRevenue 2024: $154MRevenue 2025: $160MSpending 2019: $113MSpending 2020: $115MSpending 2021: $116MSpending 2022: $128MSpending 2023: $137MSpending 2024: $143MSpending 2025: $150M

Our calculation from OSC AFR account data: all funds except custodial (T*), capital projects (H), fixed-asset (K) and long-term debt (W) groups, excluding interfund transfers and debt proceeds.

General fund surplus / deficit General fund result (incl. transfers)
$0k$2.8M$5.5M$8.3M$11.0M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $2.2MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $4.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $3.8MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $6.1MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $11.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $10.8MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $3.6M

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Debt Debt outstandingDebt service
$0k$26.5M$53.0M$79.5M$106M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $62.9MDebt outstanding 2020: $87.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $106MDebt outstanding 2022: $105MDebt outstanding 2023: $95.0MDebt outstanding 2024: $91.3MDebt outstanding 2025: $86.1MDebt service 2019: $2.9MDebt service 2020: $5.2MDebt service 2021: $5.2MDebt service 2022: $6.3MDebt service 2023: $9.4MDebt service 2024: $7.7MDebt service 2025: $7.7M

Year-end debt outstanding (OSC AFR debt detail) and debt service expenditures (OSC AFR).

School tax levy vs. levy limit (NYSED PTRC) Proposed levyLevy limit
$0k$25.6M$51.2M$76.7M$102M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $89.4MProposed levy 2022-23: $90.7MProposed levy 2023-24: $93.3MProposed levy 2024-25: $95.6MProposed levy 2025-26: $98.5MProposed levy 2026-27: $102MLevy limit 2021-22: $88.8MLevy limit 2022-23: $91.7MLevy limit 2023-24: $93.7MLevy limit 2024-25: $95.2MLevy limit 2025-26: $97.2MLevy limit 2026-27: $98.8M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$7k$13k$20k$26k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $21kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $22kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $24kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $25kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $25kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $26k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20235.9%FY20244.6%FY20254.4%

Unassigned fund balance ÷ adjusted expenditures, as computed by OSC.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 No DesignationFY20250 No Designation

OSC's own scores and designations. 'Not filed' rows mean the AFR was not filed in time to be scored.

Annual Financial Report series

YearOperating revenueOperating spendingGF revenue (incl. transfers)GF spending (incl. transfers)Property taxSales taxState aidDebt serviceDebt outstandingSource
2019 (FYE 2019-06-30)$115,922,336$112,571,053$110,953,356$108,713,116$85,236,559$0$21,420,533$2,897,563$62,875,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$118,279,126$114,639,193$114,020,020$109,989,068$88,049,204$0$22,341,909$5,247,096$87,210,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$119,862,448$115,915,114$114,482,790$110,711,652$88,542,139$0$22,617,144$5,180,288$106,050,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$134,536,565$128,455,002$123,210,640$117,141,318$89,578,076$0$28,409,812$6,331,644$104,574,039afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$144,294,290$136,891,176$138,006,869$126,997,383$91,006,730$0$38,128,211$9,395,295$94,955,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$154,092,993$143,427,548$146,391,127$135,570,057$93,551,469$0$47,546,714$7,720,675$91,280,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$160,339,085$150,290,782$151,441,355$147,869,299$95,976,713$0$50,573,629$7,699,413$86,080,000afr-2025 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30

Operating and property-tax figures are our sums of OSC account-level data (independent calculation, not OSC's own totals); GF = general fund (A).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$82,446,594$85,002,438$85,027,238$24,8003.1%No
2020$85,002,438$87,799,018$87,952,932$153,9143.3%No
2021$87,799,018$88,215,013$88,215,013$00.5%No
2022$88,215,013$89,438,564$89,438,564$01.4%No
2023$89,438,564$90,727,887$92,646,537$1,918,6501.4%No
2024$90,727,887$93,268,268$94,893,251$1,624,9832.8%No
2025$93,268,268$95,599,975$96,638,456$1,038,4812.5%No
2026$95,599,975$98,467,974$99,469,707$1,001,7333%No
2027$98,467,974$102,308,225$103,181,536$873,3113.9%No

Source: taxcap ⓘ, snapshot 10/09/2026. Highlighted rows: proposed levy above the computed limit. Filings are as submitted to OSC before budget adoption; a later fiscal year that has not been filed yet does not appear.

OSC Fiscal Stress Monitoring System

FYStress designationFiscal scoreEnvironmental ratingEnv. scoreSource
2019No Designation0No Designation20fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation20fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation20fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation25fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation20fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 5.9% ($7,494,821 of $126,997,383) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 4.6% ($6,177,906 of $135,570,057) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.4% ($6,209,220 of $147,869,299) fsms-ind1-school-2025 ⓘ

OSC has no school FSMS summary file for FY2021 online; that year is blank.

NYSED Property Tax Report Cards

School yearProposed budgetBudget changeProposed levyLevy changeLevy limit (excl. exemptions)Limit minus levyEnrollmentPer pupilUnrestricted FB % of budgetSource
2021-22$124,977,0675.9%$89,438,5641.4%$88,794,165$06,010$20,7953.8%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$134,775,2377.8%$90,727,8871.4%$91,694,080$1,918,6506,046$22,2924%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$146,986,8709%$93,268,2682.8%$93,740,803$1,624,9836,065$24,2354%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$154,092,4144.8%$95,599,9752.5%$95,179,235$1,038,4816,189$24,8986.2%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$155,230,5020.7%$98,467,9743%$97,176,058$1,001,7336,162$25,1924%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$164,581,3546%$102,308,2253.9%$98,764,377$776,8736,291$26,1614%ptrc-2026-27 ⓘ

Figures are the district's proposed budget as reported on its Property Tax Report Card before the May vote. Per pupil = proposed budget ÷ PTRC enrollment (our calculation; NYSED Fiscal Profiles were not reachable from our servers, so audited per-pupil spending is not shown).

Budget votes (NYSED)

Share voting yes
2022-2375.1%2023-2472.5%2024-2578.7%2025-2677.8%2026-2775.7%

Majority approval is needed unless the levy exceeds the limit (60%).

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote2,03867675.1%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote79830272.5%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote1,59443178.7%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote93726777.8%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote1,10335575.7%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/albany-county/north-colonie-csd.json