Department

Dept of Education Continued

$491.4M
total checkbook spend · FY18–present
9Fiscal years
13Programs
15+Top vendors

Budget vs. actual

Appropriated budget (state budget dataset, converted from thousands) against actual checkbook payments. Differences reflect fund types, timing, and spending outside the checkbook — a lead, not a verdict.

Fiscal yearBudgetedCheckbook actualActual / budget
FY18 $1,423,459,400 $38,648,086 3%
FY19 $1,487,427,800 $45,518,421 3%
FY20 $1,577,199,900 $43,600,052 3%
FY21 $1,649,691,800 $45,580,851 3%
FY22 $1,715,600,400 $54,026,758 3%
FY23 $1,837,913,300 $59,110,078 3%
FY24 $1,991,044,900 $66,245,101 3%
FY25 $2,163,067,400 $68,508,932 3%
FY26 $2,395,424,300 $70,125,063 3%

Budget source: “Education” in the appropriated budgets dataset. Open source dataset ↗

Money anatomy

From 14,371,805 expenditure line items — how this department's spending breaks down by fund and account.

By fund

Academia Antonia Alonso Genera (General)
$44.5M
1ststate Montessori Acad Gener (General)
$42.5M
1st State Military Acad Gf (General)
$30.0M
Early College High General (General)
$27.2M
Freire Charter School General (General)
$25.9M
Sussex Montessori Schl General (General)
$23.4M
General Fund (General)
$22.1M
Freire Charter School Local (Special)
$16.6M
Great Oaks Charter Schl Genera (General)
$13.4M
Academia Antonia Alonso Local (Special)
$12.2M

Top spending accounts

Teachers
$67.5M
Pensions/Employer'S Share
$28.5M
Health Ins/Employers' Sh
$24.3M
Transportation Services
$19.2M
Paraeducators
$12.4M
Buildings - Office Space
$10.9M
Central Admin Services
$8.7M
Emplyr Sh/Social Security
$7.7M
Salaries/Wages-Employees
$7.6M
Instructional Services
$6.7M
Interest Payment
$6.6M
Construction/Building Services
$6.0M

Source: checkbook expenditure details. Open source dataset ↗

Programs

ProgramTotalVendorsYears
Academia Antonia Alonso $109,361,030 587 FY18–FY26
First State Montessori Academy $82,362,467 604 FY18–FY26
Freire Charter School $81,769,666 518 FY18–FY26
First State Military Academy $60,094,354 1,106 FY18–FY26
Early College High School $53,223,265 501 FY18–FY26
Great Oaks Charter School $53,172,090 365 FY18–FY26
Sussex Montessori School $32,445,068 244 FY20–FY26
Bryan Allen Stevenson Sch of E $8,611,920 115 FY23–FY26
Design Thinking Academy $5,652,272 199 FY19–FY20
Delaware Design-Lab Hs $4,034,413 401 FY18–FY18
Aspira Georgetown $631,016 2 FY26–FY26
E the Delaware Met $5,000 1 FY18–FY18
E Delaware Stem Academy $780 1 FY18–FY18

Spending by fiscal year

Fiscal yearTotalPaymentsVendors
FY18 $38,648,086 12,2221,048
FY19 $45,518,421 14,106912
FY20 $43,600,052 14,470811
FY21 $45,580,851 16,371745
FY22 $54,026,758 19,043760
FY23 $59,110,078 19,934877
FY24 $66,245,101 21,884838
FY25 $68,508,932 20,842816
FY26 $70,125,063 21,944818