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Hudson Falls CSD

School district · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530643900100 · NYSED BEDS 641301 · OSC name “Hudson Falls Central School District”

Enrollment 2,165 (NYSED PTRC) · Meeting coverage: documents

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Unrestricted fund balance above 4% limit

NYSED Property Tax Report Card 2026-27: adjusted unrestricted fund balance reported as 9.98% of the budget; Real Property Tax Law §1318 limits it to 4%.

Source: ptrc-2026-27 ⓘ

Rapid debt growth our calculation

Debt outstanding rose from $12,405,000 (2022) to $32,284,562 (2025), +160%.

Source: debt-2022 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorHudson Falls CSDPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$26,652$31,73314th73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$6,005$14,1173rd73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$14,912$15,26746th71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending5.4%6.9%33rd73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue68.6%45.9%97th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)10.6%5.5%66th73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years20.4%21.3%47th73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth5.8%11.8%17th732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$28,746$33,72713th73NYSED 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$15.1M$30.1M$45.2M$60.3M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $46.8MRevenue 2020: $46.4MRevenue 2021: $45.5MRevenue 2022: $50.4MRevenue 2023: $55.5MRevenue 2024: $60.3MRevenue 2025: $59.3MSpending 2019: $47.2MSpending 2020: $45.7MSpending 2021: $47.9MSpending 2022: $50.3MSpending 2023: $55.9MSpending 2024: $56.7MSpending 2025: $57.7M

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)
$-72k$806k$1.7M$2.6M$3.4M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $190kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $1.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $118kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-7kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-72kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $3.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $95k

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$8.1M$16.1M$24.2M$32.3M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $20.5MDebt outstanding 2020: $16.8MDebt outstanding 2021: $13.1MDebt outstanding 2022: $12.4MDebt outstanding 2023: $20.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $17.1MDebt outstanding 2025: $32.3MDebt service 2019: $4.9MDebt service 2020: $4.9MDebt service 2021: $6.4MDebt service 2022: $4.6MDebt service 2023: $6.7MDebt service 2024: $4.5MDebt service 2025: $3.1M

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$3.4M$6.8M$10.2M$13.6M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $12.7MProposed levy 2022-23: $12.7MProposed levy 2023-24: $12.7MProposed levy 2024-25: $12.9MProposed levy 2025-26: $13.2MProposed levy 2026-27: $13.4MLevy limit 2021-22: $13.1MLevy limit 2022-23: $13.2MLevy limit 2023-24: $13.2MLevy limit 2024-25: $13.2MLevy limit 2025-26: $13.6MLevy limit 2026-27: $13.6M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$7k$14k$22k$29k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $19kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $21kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $23kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $25kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $26kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $29k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20236.1%FY202411.9%FY202510.6%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201925 Susceptible Fiscal StressFY202013.3 No DesignationFY202216.7 No DesignationFY202316.7 No DesignationFY202413.3 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)$46,835,992$47,229,220$43,776,701$43,586,273$12,347,878$0$30,070,227$4,880,421$20,545,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$46,424,829$45,693,685$43,538,585$42,176,110$12,582,456$0$30,217,949$4,863,682$16,795,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$45,465,001$47,907,433$42,984,575$42,866,194$12,829,427$0$29,790,630$6,395,609$13,075,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$50,403,757$50,292,829$44,610,061$44,617,264$12,776,946$0$32,478,328$4,585,121$12,405,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$55,478,957$55,948,522$47,864,649$47,936,928$12,779,541$0$34,813,757$6,682,698$20,317,980afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$60,285,835$56,680,413$53,478,570$50,038,681$12,780,463$0$40,700,071$4,450,614$17,110,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$59,283,026$57,702,571$53,352,238$53,256,781$13,000,835$0$40,690,561$3,088,413$32,284,562afr-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$12,005,984$12,246,104$12,526,045$279,9412%No
2020$12,234,098$12,466,546$12,766,989$300,4431.9%No
2021$12,466,546$12,703,410$12,890,801$187,3911.9%No
2022$12,703,410$12,944,775$13,109,578$164,8031.9%No
2023$12,703,410$12,703,410$13,183,785$480,3750%No
2024$12,703,410$12,703,410$13,231,145$527,7350%No
2025$12,703,410$12,944,775$13,230,270$285,4951.9%No
2026$12,944,775$13,320,173$13,823,076$502,9032.9%No
2027$13,190,726$13,441,350$13,984,786$543,4361.9%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
2019Susceptible Fiscal Stress25No Designation5fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation13.3No Designation5fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation16.7No Designation10fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation16.7No Designation0fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation13.3No Designation10fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation10fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 6.1% ($2,910,181 of $47,936,928) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 11.9% ($5,952,147 of $50,038,681) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 10.6% ($5,598,196 of $53,256,781) 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$46,327,7273.7%$12,703,4100%$13,109,578$406,1682,408$19,2395.9%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$49,274,8026.4%$12,703,4100%$13,183,785$480,3752,330$21,1486.8%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$53,452,8098.5%$12,703,4100%$13,231,145$527,7352,281$23,4346.2%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$54,553,8672.1%$12,944,7751.9%$13,223,914$285,4952,165$25,1985.1%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$57,299,6995%$13,190,7261.9%$13,570,553$379,8272,198$26,0699.5%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$58,555,7152.2%$13,441,3501.9%$13,622,401$543,4362,037$28,74610%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
2022-2384.3%2023-2481.3%2024-2574.2%2025-2668.5%2026-2763.7%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote3175984.3%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote2606081.3%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote2107374.2%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote33515468.5%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote34519763.7%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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