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Elba Csd

School district · Genesee County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 180725800100 · NYSED BEDS 180901 · OSC name “Elba Central School District”

Enrollment 435 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Rapid debt growth our calculation

Debt outstanding rose from $4,169,784 (2022) to $13,790,000 (2025), +231%.

Source: debt-2022 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $214,142, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester school districts

IndicatorElba CsdPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$28,580$31,59218th60AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$7,496$11,48511th60AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$31,701$17,73492nd58AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending4.3%7.1%14th61AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue60.9%52.6%73rd61AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.4%4.4%46th60OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years34.3%22.7%89th61AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth5.7%12.6%9th602021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$31,828$33,96626th60NYSED PTRC 2026-27
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)103.369th60OSC 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$3.2M$6.4M$9.6M$12.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $9.7MRevenue 2020: $9.7MRevenue 2021: $9.9MRevenue 2022: $11.1MRevenue 2023: $12.5MRevenue 2024: $12.8MRevenue 2025: $12.5MSpending 2019: $9.5MSpending 2020: $9.7MSpending 2021: $9.3MSpending 2022: $10.9MSpending 2023: $11.7MSpending 2024: $12.0MSpending 2025: $12.4M

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)
$-1.3M$-826k$-398k$30k$458k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-1.3MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $34kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $458kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $30kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $112kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-226kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-228k

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$3.4M$6.9M$10.3M$13.8M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $1.4MDebt outstanding 2020: $1.1MDebt outstanding 2021: $857kDebt outstanding 2022: $4.2MDebt outstanding 2023: $3.6MDebt outstanding 2024: $3.2MDebt outstanding 2025: $13.8MDebt service 2019: $299kDebt service 2020: $297kDebt service 2021: $329kDebt service 2022: $723kDebt service 2023: $718kDebt service 2024: $619kDebt service 2025: $536k

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$850k$1.7M$2.6M$3.4M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $3.2MProposed levy 2022-23: $3.3MProposed levy 2023-24: $3.3MProposed levy 2024-25: $3.4MProposed levy 2025-26: $3.2MProposed levy 2026-27: $3.4MLevy limit 2021-22: $2.9MLevy limit 2022-23: $3.0MLevy limit 2023-24: $3.1MLevy limit 2024-25: $3.2MLevy limit 2025-26: $3.2MLevy limit 2026-27: $3.3M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$8k$16k$24k$32k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $26kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $27kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $27kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $27kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $27kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $32k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20234.6%FY20244.7%FY20254.4%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201913.3 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 No DesignationFY202510 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)$9,693,283$9,545,049$9,070,927$10,324,888$3,044,864$0$5,907,231$298,548$1,367,697afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$9,654,125$9,678,651$9,248,785$9,215,163$3,090,816$0$5,982,045$296,949$1,118,275afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$9,872,594$9,256,665$9,324,354$8,866,431$3,167,262$0$5,934,398$329,103$857,314afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$11,062,235$10,909,197$9,999,237$9,969,224$3,230,745$0$6,625,154$722,791$4,169,784afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$12,547,185$11,701,008$10,587,318$10,475,439$3,282,381$0$7,084,477$717,549$3,635,654afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$12,793,297$12,005,693$11,048,236$11,274,084$3,379,502$0$7,626,919$619,200$3,180,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$12,490,412$12,432,279$10,881,869$11,109,598$3,260,894$0$7,607,255$536,000$13,790,000afr-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$2,962,193$3,021,437$3,102,260$80,8232%No
2020$3,021,437$3,081,866$3,069,440$-12,4262%No
2021$3,081,866$3,143,503$3,262,576$119,0732%No
2022$3,143,195$3,204,487$3,207,464$2,9772%No
2023$3,204,487$3,268,256$3,272,648$4,3922%No
2024$3,268,256$3,333,621$3,334,686$1,0652%No
2025$3,333,621$3,400,294$3,186,152$-214,1422%Yes
2026$3,175,895$3,239,413$3,241,033$1,6202%No
2027$3,239,413$3,387,130$3,388,590$1,4604.6%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 Designation13.3No Designation20fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation25fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation25fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation10No Designation15fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 4.6% ($468,335 of $10,276,453) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 4.7% ($478,006 of $11,274,084) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.4% ($484,309 of $11,109,598) 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$10,942,5336.6%$3,204,4872%$2,925,623$2,977415$26,3684%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$11,215,9502.5%$3,268,2562%$3,000,338$4,392416$26,9614%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$11,708,3694.4%$3,333,6212%$3,091,270$1,065440$26,6104%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$11,950,1502.1%$3,400,2942%$3,174,578$7,640435$27,4724%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$12,107,7231.3%$3,239,4132%$3,239,413$1,620445$27,2084%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$14,163,54217%$3,387,1304.6%$3,277,116$1,460445$31,8284%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
2022-2385.5%2023-2490.9%2024-2589.7%2025-2684.7%2026-2778.5%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote1001785.5%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote1101190.9%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote1131389.7%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote941784.7%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote842378.5%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

In meetings

Context only. These links point to meetings where budget, levy, fund balance, debt or audits came up; they are not used in any figure above.

Budget-related meeting documents (2)

All documents for this entity

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