Welcome to the California School Finance Center, a free tool to help you understand school finance and academic achievement.

Purpose:

• Transparency - Provide accurate, timely and searchable information on how California's public school districts and charter schools are funded.
• Comparisons - Compare the financial and academic performance of school districts and charter schools with look-a-likes that are getting higher academic achievement from similar resources.
• Improvement - Identify high performing school districts and charter schools based upon their finances and student academic achievement results so that others can replicate their best practices.

Where Do We Get This Data?

All data (except Census data) utilized to create the tables and charts on this site is retrieved from the California Department of Education (CDE) web site. Please report any inaccuracies so that we may bring it to the attention of the appropriate state agency representative.