Gainers and losers in the 2024–2025 BPS school budget
Skipper says she’ll say more about how these numbers were calculated at the February 15 budget hearing
The BPS budget office has posted school-by-school information for their proposed 2024–2025 budget. Their charts describe both funding and the number of full-time equivalent staff members for each school.
We used their numbers to make the charts below, which show schools listed in order of percentage loss or gain between the current amounts and the administration proposal for next year. The first chart shows dollars. The second shows staff.
The administration’s School Committee presentation last week focused on what schools get from the city’s general fund, which is going up. But counting all budget funds, most schools are taking a loss. That’s because the federal pandemic ESSER program (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is ending.
How were the proposed school budgets arrived at?
The administration started explaining how decisions were made at the February 7 School Committee meeting. Superintendent Mary Skipper promised to say more at the February 15 budget hearing. The Zoom link is here.
One note:
We’ve left out three schools that will be merged or closed next year: The Shaw and the Taylor are due to merge. The budget shows the Shaw losing 100 percent of its budget and the Taylor gaining 53 percent.
UP Academy Boston is closing so its budget is listed as down 100 percent. The budget office expects UP Academy Dorchester to pick up many of its students.
Gainers and losers by funding
Gainers and losers by full-time equivalent staff members
