Division Budget
2024–25 BUDGET
At the May 24, 2024, Special Board Meeting, Trustees formally approved the 2024–25 Budget.
This budget is based on the Government of Alberta’s funding model, which uses a weighted moving average. The Division receives provincial funding based on the average student enrolment over three years, instead of based on an annual student enrolment.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Our total Division budget for 2024–25 is approximately $1.35 billion.
- Approximately 74.4 per cent of the budget supports students in the classroom, and the rest covers other costs such as maintaining and running schools and providing student busing.
- The Division expects 120,224 students will be enrolled in 2024–25 (about 5.2 per cent more than September 2023).
- Under the Government of Alberta’s funding model, we expect to receive provincial funding for 116,134 students in 2024–25.
- The Division expects to employ a total of 9,949 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff positions, most of whom will work in schools.
- The Division is experiencing inflationary pressure resulting in increased fixed costs such as rising utilities, increased maintenance and insurance costs.
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Review the 2022–23 Audited Financial Statements.
PAST YEARS BUDGETS, PLANS AND RESULTS
Find previous years' budgets, plans and results:
MORE ABOUT PLANS, BUDGETS AND RESULTS REVIEWS
Plans
Each school and central department develop a plan that aligns with District plans and strategies.
School plans include initiatives that address the Division’s priorities in support of student learning.
Central department plans include initiatives that address the Division’s priorities through the support they provide to schools.
For more information, please contact your school principal or a department administrator.
Budgets
We prepare a budget and submit it to Alberta Education each spring for the upcoming school year. This budget includes projected staff and student enrolment counts.
In the fall, we submit an enrolment count update that reflects the number of registered students as of the end of September. Schools and central departments also prepare revised budgets that reflect their fall staff count and actual student enrolment.
Results Reviews
Results reviews highlight achievement results, the implications of those results for the next school year and a financial summary of each school or central department as of August 31. These documents are part of the Division's obligation to publicly report on the successes and challenges we face when providing quality education for students, our use of public funds and our schools’ and central departments’ yearly achievement results.
The Division is responsible for interpreting and reporting results to parents, students, Alberta Education and the public and using the results to improve the quality and effectiveness of programming. For more information please contact your school principal or a department administrator.
