PLYMOUTH-CANTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

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PLYMOUTH-CANTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

Dear Readers,

We have already looked at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools across ten years. Now, let us narrow the lens to one year 2024-25 and see how the General Fund dollars were spent.

Plymouth-Canton reported $246.23 million in total General Fund expenditures.

Of that:

📚 Instruction: $141.47M — 57.5%
🏫 Operations & Maintenance: $22.53M — 9.2%
👥 Pupil Support: $22.20M — 9.0%
📝 Instructional Staff Support: $19.74M — 8.0%
🏛� School Administration: $14.57M — 5.9%
🚌 Transportation: $12.65M — 5.1%

And when we look at spending another way, by personnel rather than function, we find another important number:

$200.83 million, or 81.6% of all General Fund expenditures, was personnel-related.

That included $117.13M in salaries, $21.67M in employee insurance benefits, and $61.42M for FICA, retirement, unemployment and workers' compensation, plus approximately $604,000 in other personnel expenditures.

None of these numbers, standing alone, tells us whether Plymouth-Canton spends too much or too little.

They simply answer a question every taxpayer should be able to ask:

Where did the money go?

And now we have the receipts.

Source: Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, 2024-25 Operating Expenditures & Personnel Expenditures reports via Munetrix/Wayne RESA.

Receipts aren't very useful if we only keep the convenient ones.

With receipts and respect.

Data compiled and visualized by Lady Budgetdown using publicly available records.

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