Amphitheater Public Schools has done some great work using their Gifted program evaluation to positively impact their gifted program and students in general. Vanessa Hill, the Gifted Education Coordinator, and team has re-imagined the gifted program to be more responsive to the gifted learners...

AZ Compass Prep Schools have been nominated for the Copper Apple because of the work of Principal Dr. Pamela Chandler and her team. School leadership at AZ Compass schools worked quickly to implement the state Navvy assessment system into their teaching and learning cycle and to incorporate the...

Special Education Directors,

ADE/ESS is pleased to announce the launch of the state October 1 Special Education Count Dashboard (Federal - Child Count and Educational Environments), the first publicly available ESS dashboard for featuring federally reported IDEA Section 618 data. It provides...

Data in AzEDS will be used to calculate ADM for Payment 3.

Payment 3 will be based on data captured that is passing integrity and generating ADM in AzEDS. There is no option for districts to be paid on prior year data, or for charters to be paid on estimated counts.

Please ensure data is...

The FY 2026 Open Enrollment Participation Report is now available on the School Finance webpage under the Data Collection & Reporting for School and Student Membership Data section. This report provides open enrollment participation rates by school district, school, county, and specific related data...

The FY 2027 K-3 Reading Budget and FY 2026 K-3 Reading AFR zip files have been posted to the LEA Budget Resources page of the School Finance website.

The completed files must be uploaded via the Budget System by October 1, 2026. 

If you have any questions, please email School Finance...