Texas Independent School District

Texas school districts borrow money by issuing bonds to pay for buildings, renovations, and equipment. This dataset shows how much debt each district still owes, broken down by the type of bond and whether they're paying interest as they go or paying it all at the end. You can see which districts have the heaviest debt loads and track how that changes year to year.

Texas school districts set their own property tax rates each year within state limits. This data shows exactly what rate each of the state's roughly 1,200 school districts adopted, broken down by the different purposes they tax for (running schools, building maintenance, bond payments). You can see how much property is taxed and at what rate in each district, which directly affects your school property taxes if you own land in that district.

Texas has multiple ways of identifying the same school district. The state's education agency uses one system, the Census Bureau uses another, and bond rating agencies use yet another. This table is the Rosetta Stone that translates between them. If you're trying to match school district data from different sources, you'd use this to find the common ID that connects them.

Texas school districts are required by law to publish their annual financial audits online. This dataset is a map showing where you can actually find those documents. About three-quarters of districts have a clear financials page you can link to, and about half have a direct download link to the latest audit PDF. For the rest, either their websites weren't reachable when we checked, they don't have a dedicated financials page, or the site uses technology that blocked automated searching. If you're tracking school district spending, analyzing bond disclosures, or doing public records research, this saves you from hunting through hundreds of district websites one by one.

School districts file annual financial audits that show where their money comes from and where it goes. This dataset pulls out the key numbers from those reports: how much cash districts have on hand, how much they collect in property taxes, how much the state sends them, and how much they spend on classrooms, administrative staff, buses, and buildings. If you want to know whether a district is running a surplus or deficit, how dependent it is on state funding, or how its spending compares to neighboring districts, you'll find those answers here.

Texas school districts borrow money by issuing bonds to pay for buildings, buses, technology, and other long-term needs. This data shows how much debt each school district carries, broken down by type. You can see what they owed at the start of a year, what new debt they took on, what they paid down, and what they still owe. It's the actual debt information pulled straight from the audits that school districts file every year.