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Coatesville Area SD previews $255.9M preliminary budget; salaries, benefits and debt service drive $13.9M increase
Summary
District finance staff presented a preliminary 2026–27 expenditure budget of $255.9 million, a $13.9 million (5.77%) increase driven largely by salaries/benefits, higher special‑education and charter tuition costs, and rising debt service tied to new school construction.
Coatesville Area School District finance staff on March 10 presented a preliminary expenditure budget for 2026–27 totaling $255.9 million, an increase of $13.9 million, or about 5.77%, over the prior‑year budget of $242 million. The presentation, given by Lori Deenderfer and Dr. Barek, focused on object‑code drivers and school‑level worksheets and did not include revenue assumptions beyond a general outline of state and local funding sources.
Administrators said the largest upward pressures are contract‑driven salary and benefit increases (object codes 100 and 200), higher professional and technical service costs tied to…
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