By Tom Latek

Kentucky Today

Kentucky residents can now see how much schools spend per student and other financial expenditures with a new update of the Kentucky Department of Education’s School Report Card , which was released on Thursday.

The information contained in the financial transparency section of the School Report Card is from the 2023-2024 school year. It includes data on funding, grants, spending and taxes for each school district, as well as school-level spending per student. The financial data is released later than the rest of the School Report Card domains to allow districts to use audited financial information in their calculations, which promotes greater accuracy of the district financial data.

School-level spending per student data is calculated by district staff; s

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