Vermont school budgets, in the open
Every Vermont supervisory union has its budgets here, put in one clear form with every number tied back to where it came from. There is also a tool that lets you try out what merging or closing schools would do to your town's school spending and home tax rate, with every step of the math shown and linked to the law.
The master list of who exists is complete: 52 supervisory unions, 61 unified districts, 294 schools, and 267 towns, pulled from the Agency of Education's public data feed with every raw response saved.
No budget documents have been collected yet, 3 of 312 district-years. The what-we-have page shows exactly which are missing, and it is public on purpose, so the gaps are easy to see.
No legal number has been checked yet, 32 of 101. Until a person reads a pupil weight or yield straight from the current law, the engine won't do math with it and returns nothing instead of a good-looking guess. You will see it stop, with the reason, anywhere a number would otherwise show up.
Why it is built this way
Every number can be traced
Every number on this site has to come from a public source you can check. We store the raw budget documents exactly as they were released, never edited, each with a record of where it came from, when, who got it, and a fingerprint of the file. When someone asks where a number came from and when it changed, the answer is a link to the exact saved change.
You can check the math
The math engine runs in your browser, and its code is open. What it gives back is not just a number but a tree of steps: each step shows its inputs, what it did, the result, a plain-language note, and the source for every legal number it used. Checking the state's work only means something if you can check the checking too.
We show what's missing, we don't make it up
A blank in this site's data means one of two specific things, and it always tells you which. Either the district did not publish that number — noted with who confirmed it and when — or a legal number has not been checked against the current law yet. Neither is ever quietly swapped for a guess, and the two are never shown as the same thing.
Where to start
The what-if tool
Build a merger or closure what-if and see the math step by step.
Supervisory unions
52 pages: their districts, schools, towns, and the budgets we have.
How it works
How we store budgets, how the engine works, and every number with its source and whether it has been checked.
What we have
Which budgets we have, which are missing, and how to send one in.
We stay neutral
This site is independent. It is not made by, for, or against the Agency of Education, any supervisory union, or any advocacy group. It does the math and explains it; it does not score, rank, or recommend, and it never spins a result as a "saving." A what-if that costs more is shown just as prominently as one that costs less, because which one you are hoping for is not this site's business.