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South Glens Falls CSD

School district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 410754900100 · NYSED BEDS 521401 · OSC name “South Glens Falls Central School District”

Enrollment 2,870 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorSouth Glens Falls CSDPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$26,728$31,73316th73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$12,422$14,11738th73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$14,554$15,26743rd71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending5.5%6.9%35th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue46.3%45.9%51st73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.2%5.5%19th73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years28.8%21.3%75th73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth15.1%11.8%76th732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$27,220$33,7273rd73NYSED 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$19.9M$39.8M$59.6M$79.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $61.5MRevenue 2020: $61.4MRevenue 2021: $63.0MRevenue 2022: $71.8MRevenue 2023: $71.9MRevenue 2024: $76.1MRevenue 2025: $79.5MSpending 2019: $56.3MSpending 2020: $57.7MSpending 2021: $59.6MSpending 2022: $63.8MSpending 2023: $70.3MSpending 2024: $73.1MSpending 2025: $76.7M

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)
$-9.1M$-5.7M$-2.4M$998k$4.4M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $4.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $3.3MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $2.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-9.1MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $2.6MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-2.5MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $2.0M

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$15.1M$30.2M$45.4M$60.5M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $46.7MDebt outstanding 2020: $60.5MDebt outstanding 2021: $57.6MDebt outstanding 2022: $53.8MDebt outstanding 2023: $48.5MDebt outstanding 2024: $45.1MDebt outstanding 2025: $41.8MDebt service 2019: $2.2MDebt service 2020: $2.9MDebt service 2021: $2.8MDebt service 2022: $3.0MDebt service 2023: $6.3MDebt service 2024: $4.4MDebt service 2025: $4.2M

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$9.4M$18.7M$28.1M$37.5M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $32.6MProposed levy 2022-23: $33.5MProposed levy 2023-24: $34.4MProposed levy 2024-25: $35.4MProposed levy 2025-26: $36.4MProposed levy 2026-27: $37.5MLevy limit 2021-22: $31.8MLevy limit 2022-23: $32.8MLevy limit 2023-24: $33.7MLevy limit 2024-25: $34.8MLevy limit 2025-26: $35.3MLevy limit 2026-27: $36.1M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$7k$14k$20k$27k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $22kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $22kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $24kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $25kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $26kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $27k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20238.3%FY20242.4%FY20254.2%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20248.3 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)$61,471,529$56,343,821$58,724,475$54,353,069$30,024,555$0$25,386,403$2,204,604$46,702,902afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$61,435,936$57,653,546$58,744,204$55,481,162$31,098,347$0$25,931,942$2,942,003$60,487,511afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$63,005,047$59,564,796$59,887,306$57,923,593$32,048,703$0$26,360,603$2,824,403$57,561,803afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$71,786,232$63,834,929$66,120,108$75,243,612$32,596,926$0$30,587,681$2,952,072$53,755,413afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$71,919,069$70,278,798$66,134,534$63,498,394$33,678,370$0$29,989,713$6,320,551$48,540,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$76,101,376$73,114,912$70,354,942$72,869,055$34,663,710$0$34,678,463$4,447,213$45,075,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$79,509,208$76,709,444$73,170,520$71,215,562$35,652,073$0$36,832,703$4,195,713$41,770,000afr-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$28,957,450$29,884,088$29,895,553$11,4653.2%No
2020$29,884,088$31,076,273$31,336,885$260,6124%No
2021$31,076,273$32,005,454$32,183,259$177,8053%No
2022$32,005,454$32,561,218$32,743,325$182,1071.7%No
2023$32,561,218$33,738,557$33,738,557$03.6%No
2024$33,504,727$34,702,604$34,702,604$03.6%No
2025$34,443,528$36,033,685$36,033,686$14.6%No
2026$35,425,169$36,669,142$36,669,142$03.5%No
2027$36,434,786$37,492,953$37,492,953$02.9%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 Designation3.3No Designation0fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation0fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation5fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation15fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation8.3No Designation15fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation5fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 8.4% ($5,182,086 of $63,498,394) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 2.4% ($1,620,518 of $72,869,055) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.2% ($2,984,000 of $71,215,562) 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$64,311,1777.2%$32,561,2181.7%$31,819,485$182,1062,938$21,8894%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$64,935,7821%$33,504,7272.9%$32,824,774$233,9912,938$22,1024%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$69,871,7977.6%$34,443,5282.8%$33,728,819$354,5832,876$24,2954%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$72,676,0274%$35,425,1692.9%$34,774,440$608,5162,870$25,3234%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$74,647,4422.7%$36,434,7862.9%$35,335,812$234,6262,820$26,4714%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$76,244,3142.1%$37,473,1772.9%$36,104,153$32,9982,801$27,2204%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
2022-2373.5%2023-2475.9%2024-2566.7%2025-2671.4%2026-2770.2%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote79828873.5%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote92529475.9%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote44022066.7%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote59023671.4%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote40817370.2%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/saratoga-county/south-glens-falls-csd.json