Scottsdale Schools' 2026 Budget Missing From Public Website | The Locally Times
Seven months into the school year, the district’s finance page lacks the 2025-2026 budget, repeating a prior-year delay of more than 12 months in posting public records.
## Current Budget Absent as Operations Continue As of February 24, 2026, the Scottsdale Unified School District’s (SUSD) official budget webpage does not include financial documents for the current 2025-2026 school year. The page, last updated on that date, provides public access to budget records for seven prior fiscal years, from 2018-2019 through 2024-2025. The absence of a current budget comes more than seven months into the fiscal calendar, while district operations and expenditures are ongoing. According to the SUSD athletics blog, winter sports are concluding their seasons and tryouts for spring sports began on February 9, 2026. These activities incur operational costs for which no corresponding budget is publicly available on the district’s designated site. ## Pattern of Delays Impedes Public Oversight The failure to post current financial documents follows a previously reported delay. A Locally Times report found that SUSD posted its 2024-2025 budget documents online more than a year after that fiscal year had started. The missing 2025-2026 budget repeats this pattern. Publicly accessible budgets are the primary tool for residents to scrutinize how taxpayer funds are allocated for staffing, programs, and operations. Without timely access to these documents, oversight of the district’s financial management is impeded. The district website does not provide an explanation for the missing documents or a schedule for their release. ## Approval Status of Budget Unclear Publicly available records do not clarify the status of the 2025-2026 budget. The records do not state whether the SUSD Governing Board has formally approved a budget that has not been uploaded, or if the budget itself has not yet been finalized. The SUSD site also does not specify which department or official is responsible for maintaining the public budget website. Until the documents are posted, residents have no official, centralized source to review the financial plan that governs the district’s current operations.