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Gates Chili Central School District

School district · Monroe County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 260631600100 · NYSED BEDS 260401

Enrollment 3,573 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Compared with Rochester school districts

IndicatorThis entityPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$38,644$31,59291st60AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$18,036$11,48594th60AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$25,434$17,73482nd58AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending9.1%7.1%73rd61AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue40.8%52.6%22nd61AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.4%4.4%46th60OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years25.6%22.7%70th61AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth18.6%12.6%96th602021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$41,217$33,96689th60NYSED 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$35.8M$71.6M$107M$143M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $113MRevenue 2020: $114MRevenue 2021: $115MRevenue 2022: $121MRevenue 2023: $133MRevenue 2024: $139MRevenue 2025: $143MSpending 2019: $106MSpending 2020: $110MSpending 2021: $110MSpending 2022: $117MSpending 2023: $125MSpending 2024: $129MSpending 2025: $138M

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)
$-12.4M$-6.7M$-1.0M$4.6M$10.3M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $5.8MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $8.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $7.5MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-12.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $7.7MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $10.3MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $4.8M

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$23.4M$46.8M$70.1M$93.5M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $53.1MDebt outstanding 2020: $77.6MDebt outstanding 2021: $93.5MDebt outstanding 2022: $87.0MDebt outstanding 2023: $77.9MDebt outstanding 2024: $69.0MDebt outstanding 2025: $90.9MDebt service 2019: $8.4MDebt service 2020: $14.4MDebt service 2021: $11.2MDebt service 2022: $12.6MDebt service 2023: $13.4MDebt service 2024: $13.1MDebt service 2025: $12.5M

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$16.9M$33.8M$50.7M$67.5M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $57.0MProposed levy 2022-23: $58.2MProposed levy 2023-24: $60.0MProposed levy 2024-25: $62.9MProposed levy 2025-26: $64.5MProposed levy 2026-27: $67.5MLevy limit 2021-22: $53.5MLevy limit 2022-23: $54.7MLevy limit 2023-24: $56.2MLevy limit 2024-25: $59.0MLevy limit 2025-26: $60.5MLevy limit 2026-27: $63.6M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$10k$21k$31k$41k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $32kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $34kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $36kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $37kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $39kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $41k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20234.5%FY20244.5%FY20254.4%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201913.3 No DesignationFY202020 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY202320 No DesignationFY202410 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)$112,530,527$105,754,118$105,203,241$99,390,949$55,609,584$4,265,916$42,315,236$8,391,737$53,114,902afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$114,206,264$110,314,941$106,603,888$98,607,273$57,166,395$4,185,154$43,408,119$14,396,403$77,577,074afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$114,545,199$109,894,055$111,964,009$104,480,670$58,390,971$4,497,559$42,910,536$11,154,758$93,519,535afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$121,057,640$117,177,894$113,824,871$126,209,911$59,712,915$4,909,658$45,864,640$12,615,816$86,991,130afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$132,597,277$125,101,840$122,665,389$114,962,288$61,092,293$5,048,386$50,341,910$13,432,609$77,903,038afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$139,470,384$128,928,813$129,445,060$119,120,281$62,962,623$5,110,682$56,827,301$13,091,064$68,982,877afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$143,129,825$138,074,193$133,145,431$128,378,908$64,443,717$5,229,010$58,368,600$12,542,733$90,873,952afr-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$51,636,492$52,733,230$52,933,230$200,0002.1%No
2020$52,933,230$54,521,227$55,076,691$555,4643%No
2021$54,521,227$55,821,084$55,821,084$02.4%No
2022$55,821,084$56,958,890$56,958,890$02%No
2023$56,958,890$58,213,112$58,213,112$02.2%No
2024$58,213,112$59,954,918$59,954,918$03%No
2025$59,954,918$62,930,900$62,930,900$05%No
2026$62,930,900$64,453,048$64,453,048$02.4%No
2027$64,453,048$67,544,420$67,544,420$04.8%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 Designation10fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation20No Designation25fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation20No Designation15fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation10No Designation23.3fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation10No Designation28.3fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 4.5% ($5,142,097 of $114,962,288) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 4.5% ($5,332,201 of $119,120,281) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.4% ($5,591,050 of $128,378,908) 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$117,882,0453.9%$56,958,8902%$53,468,544$03,684$31,9984%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$122,337,4093.8%$58,213,1122.2%$54,715,780$03,650$33,5174%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$128,552,4155.1%$59,954,9183%$56,226,617$03,613$35,5814%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$133,305,0233.7%$62,930,9005%$58,975,472$03,573$37,3094%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$139,776,2524.9%$64,453,0482.4%$60,513,774$03,600$38,8274%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$146,485,5124.8%$67,544,4204.8%$63,585,169$03,554$41,2174%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
2022-2368.3%2023-2471.5%2024-2568.4%2025-2666.9%2026-2770.3%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote86940368.3%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote61324471.5%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote45721168.4%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote45822766.9%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote58524770.3%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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 (1)

All documents for this entity

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