The district's fiscal year is July 1st to June 30th. The district's financial records are audited at the close of each fiscal year and the reports are provided below. 

• Year Ended June 30, 2024        2023-2024 Summary Budget Data
• Year Ended June 30, 2023        2022-2023 Summary Budget Data
• Year Ended June 30, 2022        2021-2022 Summary Budget Data
• Year Ended June 30, 2021        2020-2021 Summary Budget Data
• Year Ended June 30, 2020        2019-2020 Summary Budget Data

Fund balance is the difference between the district's revenues and expenditures each fiscal year. Fund Balance can be either a positive (revenues exceed expenditures) or negative (expenditures exceed revenues) amount.

When fund balance is positive at the end of a fiscal year, the remaining funds may be retained by the district in a variety of reserve accounts. The specific reserves and target funding amounts are set by Policy. In addition, a Reserve Plan is prepared each year to assist with managing the district's reserves.

Cumulatively, the sum of all the district's reserve accounts may also be referred to as Fund Balance. 

• List of all available reserves
• Reserve Plan as of June 2024
• Fund Balance and Reserve Balances as of June 30, 2024

In December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law as the successor to the No Child Left Behind Act enacted in the early 2000s, as amended by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Among a multitude of changes to the education landscape resulting from this federal legislation was the creation of a new financial transparency reporting requirement, whereby all local education agencies (LEAs)1 would annually provide information about: “[t]he per-pupil expenditures of Federal, State, and local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and actual nonpersonnel expenditures of Federal, State, and local funds, disaggregated by source of funds, for each local education agency and each school in the State for the preceding fiscal year.” (Public Law 114-95, 129 STAT. 1802) 

Source: NYSED

The above requirement mandates the district to report its funding information to NYS and the federal government. The data reported is for the latest completed fiscal year, meaning the report includes actual expenditures.  

Please note that in accordance with changes from NYS, the data included in the report, and the manner in which costs are allocated across buildings, has changed entirely from prior years. 

• Wantagh UFSD ESSA Funding Transparency Reporting for 2023-24 Actual Expenditures (Reported November 2024)

• Moody's Press Release - Rating Action for Wantagh UFSD - Rating Upgrade from Aa3 to Aa2 – Issued July 18, 2024
• Moody's Credit Opinion for Wantagh UFSD - Issued July 18, 2024