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Chicago Public Schools FY2026 approved budget

FY2026, July 2025 through June 2026. Published snapshot root amount: $10,253,327,463.68. Browse the interactive tree.

School boxes do not contain all centrally budgeted services. These are three separate governments, not one official consolidated City budget. The City and Park District use 2026 budgets, while CPS FY2026 runs July 2025 through June 2026. Transfers across governments may overlap.

Coverage and provenance

Geography: Chicago Public Schools, Illinois
Period and basis: FY2026, July 2025 through June 2026; budget.
Published snapshot export: 2026-10-03, according to the download snapshot's site manifest. This is a data-build date, not the source publication date. The interactive site's export may be newer.
Source/export revision: cac392292e4a9a4e114ffa08a86198ec212522c8 (earlier commit recorded in the published manifest; it does not contain the complete published snapshot).
Immutable publication revision: d95e4d265c982938b4b4a85cd61c8e1a37e6ac8c (contains the complete release and anchors these download links).
Units and schema: Amounts are integer cents (amount_cents). Stable id and parent_id describe hierarchy. basis, period_label, note and source indices describe evidence. Tree lookup links IDs to complete records and citations in site chunks.

Explore top-level categories

Selected category rows from the current interactive site export (2026-10-07), amounts in dollars; these may differ from the published download snapshot
Category	Amount
Schools	$5,275,481,723.32
Citywide programs	$1,811,758,301.37
Teacher pensions and insurance	$1,102,703,360.47
Paying back loans	$1,063,342,455.26
Building projects	$555,945,321.00
Central and network offices	$444,096,302.26

Download and verify

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SHA-256 file checksums and original paths

The catalog checksum for tree/manifest.json is d67bff0b5c05d87e68f414fbeb3723c1b64da65b08f4c0de49ad0aa800adf493. Use the catalog for checksums of other files. Schema and download guide.

Official source and terms

These citations come from the current interactive export; consult the pinned snapshot's site chunks and tree lookup for the exact published download's source indices.

CPS FY2026 Budget Book

This is a transformed independent dataset, not an official government publication. Original source terms are retained and not broadly relicensed. See source terms and all citations. Read explanatory guides.