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Whitehall CSD

School district · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530690700100 · NYSED BEDS 641701 · OSC name “Whitehall Central School District”

Enrollment 712 (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 12.43% of the budget; Real Property Tax Law §1318 limits it to 4%.

Source: ptrc-2026-27 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region school districts

IndicatorWhitehall CSDPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per pupil$29,999$31,73336th73AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per pupil$8,117$14,1179th73AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per pupil$15,267$15,26750th71AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending6%6.9%41st73AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue62.6%45.9%90th73AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)15.1%5.5%80th73OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years30.5%21.3%80th73AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth4.3%11.8%12th732021-22–2026-27 NYSED PTRC
Budget per pupil (NYSED PTRC)$33,370$33,72749th73NYSED PTRC 2026-27
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)6.7073rd73OSC 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$5.3M$10.7M$16.0M$21.4M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $17.3MRevenue 2020: $17.7MRevenue 2021: $17.8MRevenue 2022: $20.1MRevenue 2023: $20.9MRevenue 2024: $21.2MRevenue 2025: $20.6MSpending 2019: $16.3MSpending 2020: $16.2MSpending 2021: $16.4MSpending 2022: $18.7MSpending 2023: $20.4MSpending 2024: $20.4MSpending 2025: $21.4M

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)
$-3.8M$-2.4M$-1.1M$246k$1.6M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-3.8MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $1.6MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $1.3MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $1.3MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $581kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $701kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-730k

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$6.4M$12.8M$19.2M$25.7M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2020: $1.0MDebt outstanding 2021: $14.5MDebt outstanding 2022: $25.7MDebt outstanding 2023: $12.5MDebt outstanding 2024: $11.7MDebt outstanding 2025: $10.9MDebt service 2019: $218kDebt service 2020: $220kDebt service 2021: $379kDebt service 2022: $1.5MDebt service 2023: $1.4MDebt service 2024: $1.4MDebt service 2025: $1.3M

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$1.5M$3.0M$4.6M$6.1M2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Proposed levy 2021-22: $5.7MProposed levy 2022-23: $5.7MProposed levy 2023-24: $5.7MProposed levy 2024-25: $5.7MProposed levy 2025-26: $5.8MProposed levy 2026-27: $5.9MLevy limit 2021-22: $5.8MLevy limit 2022-23: $6.1MLevy limit 2023-24: $5.7MLevy limit 2024-25: $5.9MLevy limit 2025-26: $6.0MLevy limit 2026-27: $6.0M
Proposed budget per pupil (PTRC budget ÷ enrollment) Budget per pupil
$0k$8k$17k$25k$33k2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Budget per pupil 2021-22: $26kBudget per pupil 2022-23: $26kBudget per pupil 2023-24: $28kBudget per pupil 2024-25: $30kBudget per pupil 2025-26: $31kBudget per pupil 2026-27: $33k
OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202319.1%FY202419.3%FY202515.1%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 No DesignationFY20256.7 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)$17,336,639$16,298,640$16,076,622$19,874,602$5,574,466$0$10,021,639$217,550$1,200,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-06-30)$17,748,143$16,180,688$16,552,435$14,958,431$5,624,259$0$10,378,969$219,850$1,015,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-06-30)$17,773,578$16,373,226$16,617,899$15,309,645$5,688,375$0$10,305,645$379,300$14,470,097afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-06-30)$20,085,454$18,708,182$17,134,928$15,792,594$5,727,060$0$11,213,163$1,477,098$25,665,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-06-30)$20,858,878$20,371,046$18,183,334$17,602,518$5,721,064$0$12,322,850$1,417,948$12,480,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-06-30)$21,183,447$20,404,298$18,377,753$17,677,043$5,746,545$0$12,320,747$1,353,750$11,665,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-06-30)$20,632,164$21,359,014$19,031,466$19,761,752$5,778,956$0$12,905,519$1,279,150$10,870,000afr-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$5,448,221$5,597,135$5,597,135$02.7%No
2020$5,546,289$5,729,659$5,729,659$03.3%No
2021$5,574,629$5,683,334$5,816,257$132,9232%No
2022$5,683,334$5,683,334$5,862,301$178,9670%No
2023$5,683,334$6,090,373$6,090,373$07.2%No
2024$5,683,334$5,743,317$5,743,317$01.1%No
2025$5,711,750$5,888,199$5,888,199$03.1%No
2026$5,740,309$5,812,063$5,961,439$149,3761.3%No
2027$5,812,063$5,928,304$6,049,457$121,1532%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 Designation18.3fsms-school-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress31.7fsms-school-2020 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation13.3fsms-school-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-school-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-school-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation6.7No Designation18.3fsms-school-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 19.1% ($3,366,340 of $17,602,518) fsms-ind1-school-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 19.3% ($3,412,222 of $17,677,043) fsms-ind1-school-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 15.1% ($2,989,230 of $19,761,752) 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$17,806,9034.2%$5,683,3340%$5,847,719$164,385691$25,77014%ptrc-2021-22 ⓘ
2022-23$19,360,4858.7%$5,683,3340%$6,090,372$407,038735$26,3413.7%ptrc-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24$20,097,5013.8%$5,711,7500.5%$5,741,998$30,248714$28,14814.3%ptrc-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25$21,481,3836.9%$5,740,3090.5%$5,885,257$144,948712$30,17016.1%ptrc-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26$22,334,9474%$5,812,0631.3%$5,961,438$149,375731$30,55415%ptrc-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27$22,558,2961%$5,928,3042%$6,048,835$120,531676$33,37012.4%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
2022-2384.4%2023-2483.8%2024-2569.1%2025-2671.1%2026-2775.4%

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

School yearRoundYesNo% yesResultSource
2022-23Vote921784.4%Passedvote-2022-23 ⓘ
2023-24Vote1402783.8%Passedvote-2023-24 ⓘ
2024-25Vote1546969.1%Passedvote-2024-25 ⓘ
2025-26Vote25110271.1%Passedvote-2025-26 ⓘ
2026-27Vote2698875.4%Passedvote-2026-27 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/washington-county/whitehall-csd.json