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Brunswick Central School District Brittonkill

School district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 380709900200 · NYSED BEDS 490202 · OSC name “Brunswick Central School District”

Enrollment 1,080 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Rapid debt growth our calculation

Debt outstanding rose from $13,640,000 (2022) to $36,638,660 (2025), +169%.

Source: debt-2022 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ

Proposed levy above tax cap

NYSED Property Tax Report Card: proposed levy (excluding exemptions) exceeded the levy limit in 2025-26 (by $355,305); passing requires 60% voter approval.

Source: ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ

School budget defeated

NYSED vote results: budget defeated in 2025-26.

Source: vote-2025-26 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorThis entityPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$27,787$31,73324th73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$14,015$14,11747th73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$33,925$15,26795th71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending6.7%6.9%48th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue40.3%45.9%40th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.2%5.5%19th73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years16%21.3%30th73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth16.1%11.8%84th732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$30,048$33,72727th73NYSED 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$7.8M$15.6M$23.4M$31.2M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $25.8MRevenue 2020: $27.7MRevenue 2021: $26.4MRevenue 2022: $29.1MRevenue 2023: $31.2MRevenue 2024: $30.0MRevenue 2025: $30.9MSpending 2019: $26.0MSpending 2020: $26.3MSpending 2021: $25.9MSpending 2022: $27.5MSpending 2023: $29.3MSpending 2024: $28.7MSpending 2025: $30.0M

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)
$-1.5M$-618k$219k$1.1M$1.9M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-285kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-112kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $438kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $378kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $1.9MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-1.5MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $788k

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$9.2M$18.3M$27.5M$36.6M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $10.8MDebt outstanding 2020: $10.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $8.4MDebt outstanding 2022: $13.6MDebt outstanding 2023: $15.5MDebt outstanding 2024: $14.7MDebt outstanding 2025: $36.6MDebt service 2019: $1.6MDebt service 2020: $2.0MDebt service 2021: $2.3MDebt service 2022: $2.6MDebt service 2023: $3.4MDebt service 2024: $1.8MDebt 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$4.0M$8.1M$12.1M$16.2M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $13.9MProposed levy 2022-23: $14.2MProposed levy 2023-24: $14.6MProposed levy 2024-25: $15.1MProposed levy 2025-26: $16.0MProposed levy 2026-27: $16.2MLevy limit 2021-22: $13.7MLevy limit 2022-23: $14.1MLevy limit 2023-24: $14.3MLevy limit 2024-25: $14.7MLevy limit 2025-26: $15.0MLevy limit 2026-27: $15.4M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$8k$15k$23k$30k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $23kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $24kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $25kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $27kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $28kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $30k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20236.9%FY20245.3%FY20254.2%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20223.3 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)$25,825,014$25,972,013$24,661,919$24,947,236$12,658,541$0$10,491,362$1,612,438$10,780,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$27,663,569$26,312,784$25,238,955$25,350,988$13,199,837$0$10,892,956$2,037,055$10,180,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$26,414,192$25,876,875$25,446,024$25,008,423$13,604,849$0$10,924,627$2,345,509$8,365,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$29,085,350$27,518,847$26,685,808$26,307,311$13,973,531$0$12,299,582$2,589,563$13,640,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$31,233,643$29,278,941$27,128,261$25,236,379$14,260,108$0$12,099,847$3,441,900$15,525,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$30,007,543$28,725,445$27,626,911$29,080,980$14,635,242$0$12,181,189$1,765,863$14,685,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$30,855,678$30,009,860$28,994,036$28,206,453$15,136,246$0$12,442,045$2,007,164$36,638,660afr-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$12,296,460$12,665,354$12,992,956$327,6023%No
2020$12,643,220$13,180,556$13,450,034$269,4784.3%No
2021$13,180,556$13,574,654$13,982,624$407,9703%No
2022$13,574,654$13,947,957$13,948,234$2772.8%No
2023$13,947,957$14,225,521$14,309,588$84,0672%No
2024$14,225,521$14,592,902$14,592,902$02.6%No
2025$14,592,902$15,103,653$15,169,059$65,4063.5%No
2026$15,103,653$15,639,461$15,639,462$13.6%No
2027$15,639,461$16,194,879$16,194,880$13.6%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 Designation0No Designation0fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation5fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation10fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation25fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 6.9% ($1,728,856 of $25,236,379) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 5.3% ($1,412,518 of $29,080,980) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.2% ($1,189,304 of $28,206,453) 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$26,809,8122.4%$13,947,9572.8%$13,711,268$2771,148$23,3534%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$27,168,4821.3%$14,225,5212%$14,052,077$84,0671,123$24,1934%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$27,776,8082.2%$14,592,9022.6%$14,314,116$01,095$25,3674%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$28,834,4063.8%$15,103,3573.5%$14,670,631$01,080$26,6994%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$31,012,8967.6%$15,994,7675.9%$15,002,351$-355,3051,097$28,2713.9%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$32,632,4485.9%$16,194,8793.6%$15,386,942$01,086$30,0484%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
2022-2371.2%2023-2475.2%2024-2584.1%2025-2658.3% defeated2025-26 re75.5%2026-2767.7%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote29612071.2%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote2889575.2%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote3857384.1%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote54939258.3%Defeatedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2025-26Re-vote82226775.5%Passedrevote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote52925267.7%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/rensselaer-county/brunswick-csd.json