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Fort Plain CSD

School district · Montgomery County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 270753600100 · NYSED BEDS 270701 · OSC name “Fort Plain Central School District”

Enrollment 687 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorFort Plain CSDPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$36,422$31,73373rd73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$8,762$14,11712th73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$15,439$15,26751st71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending7.9%6.9%66th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue65.7%45.9%91st73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.2%5.5%19th73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years19.5%21.3%43rd73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth4.9%11.8%14th732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$35,595$33,72765th73NYSED PTRC 2026-27
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.3061st73OSC 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$6.8M$13.6M$20.3M$27.1M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $22.4MRevenue 2020: $22.4MRevenue 2021: $22.2MRevenue 2022: $25.7MRevenue 2023: $27.1MRevenue 2024: $26.7MRevenue 2025: $25.8MSpending 2019: $20.8MSpending 2020: $21.4MSpending 2021: $20.9MSpending 2022: $22.7MSpending 2023: $23.9MSpending 2024: $24.6MSpending 2025: $25.0M

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)
$-409k$448k$1.3M$2.2M$3.0M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $322kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $961kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $1.2MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $3.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $2.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $2.2MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-409k

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$3.7M$7.4M$11.0M$14.7M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $9.2MDebt outstanding 2020: $8.3MDebt outstanding 2021: $14.7MDebt outstanding 2022: $13.6MDebt outstanding 2023: $12.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $12.1MDebt outstanding 2025: $10.6MDebt service 2019: $1.2MDebt service 2020: $1.2MDebt service 2021: $1.3MDebt service 2022: $1.9MDebt service 2023: $1.9MDebt service 2024: $1.9MDebt service 2025: $2.0M

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$1.6M$3.1M$4.7M$6.2M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $5.9MProposed levy 2022-23: $5.9MProposed levy 2023-24: $6.0MProposed levy 2024-25: $6.0MProposed levy 2025-26: $6.1MProposed levy 2026-27: $6.1MLevy limit 2021-22: $5.9MLevy limit 2022-23: $5.9MLevy limit 2023-24: $6.1MLevy limit 2024-25: $6.1MLevy limit 2025-26: $6.2MLevy limit 2026-27: $6.2M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$9k$18k$27k$36k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $27kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $27kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $29kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $35kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $35kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $36k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20234.8%FY20244.5%FY20254.2%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20236.7 No DesignationFY202413.3 No DesignationFY20253.3 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)$22,421,335$20,760,690$20,551,846$20,229,742$5,595,062$0$14,822,567$1,228,094$9,160,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$22,389,179$21,420,911$20,535,906$19,574,890$5,676,446$0$14,623,286$1,238,594$8,275,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$22,245,252$20,934,635$20,309,157$19,124,299$5,774,631$0$13,882,688$1,261,972$14,725,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$25,674,236$22,679,115$21,214,280$18,196,888$5,783,945$0$15,157,344$1,896,227$13,555,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$27,129,026$23,876,511$22,721,603$20,315,479$5,855,618$0$16,550,095$1,882,025$12,255,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$26,728,200$24,552,467$23,149,304$20,986,695$5,930,731$0$16,547,735$1,916,060$12,068,436afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$25,752,964$25,021,797$23,657,870$24,066,481$6,019,199$0$16,917,154$1,965,187$10,606,843afr-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$5,580,146$5,580,146$5,810,747$230,6010%No
2020$5,580,146$5,663,412$5,838,809$175,3971.5%No
2021$5,663,412$5,765,920$5,855,928$90,0081.8%No
2022$5,765,920$5,765,920$5,900,944$135,0240%No
2023$5,765,920$5,848,949$5,910,681$61,7321.4%No
2024$5,848,949$5,919,143$6,142,054$222,9111.2%No
2025$5,919,143$6,004,077$6,122,462$118,3851.4%No
2026$6,004,077$6,064,405$6,313,279$248,8741%No
2027$6,064,405$6,140,210$6,222,573$82,3631.3%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 Designation16.7fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation8.3fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation6.7No Designation18.3fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation13.3No Designation23.3fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation21.7fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 4.8% ($932,800 of $20,315,479) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 4.5% ($953,760 of $20,986,695) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.2% ($960,000 of $24,066,481) 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$21,875,0002.3%$5,850,9200%$5,880,111$135,024819$26,7094%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$22,520,0003%$5,933,9491.4%$5,895,504$61,732819$27,4974%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$23,320,0003.6%$6,004,1431.2%$6,095,488$222,911816$28,5784%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$23,844,0002.3%$6,004,0771.4%$6,120,101$118,385687$34,7074%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$24,000,0000.7%$6,064,4051%$6,242,907$248,874680$35,2944%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$24,240,0001%$6,140,2101.3%$6,222,573$82,363681$35,5954%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
2022-2378.4%2023-2480.7%2024-2578.6%2025-2685.0%2026-2781.4%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote1093078.4%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote882180.7%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote2396578.6%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote1362485%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote2285281.4%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/montgomery-county/fort-plain-csd.json