Built for a school business official
Budget vs actual
Every function and object against the adopted budget, down to the month.
Year-end outlook
Where the year will close against budget, by category and function, and what that leaves in fund balance.
Levy limit
Your state's limit on the levy or tax rate, from its own formula, and the room under it.
Budget adoption
The proposed budget against your state's calendar and hearings and, where voters decide, what it takes to pass.
Reserves and fund balance
Fund balance by class and by reserve, against your state's limit or minimum.
Fiscal health
The indicators your state's monitoring program watches, scored from your own figures before the state does.
State aid
Your state's aid formula, year by year, against what the budget assumed.
Multi-year plan
Five years of revenue, expense and fund balance, with the levy, state aid, pension and health costs you choose.
Contract costing
The cost of a proposal by bargaining unit over the life of the contract: schedule increases, steps, one-time payments.
Ask the Analyst
Questions in plain English, answered from your ledger, and the board deck or memo built for you.
Your state's rules, built in
Every state limits the levy, sets a budget calendar and watches fund balance its own way. Pick your state to see the rules Astra FP&A K-12 applies for you.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
You say what you want. It does the work.
Ask the way you would ask your best analyst. It pulls the figures, runs the scenario and builds the slides, the workbook or the memo for the school board.
Every number is traced to the query that produced it. If a figure can't be traced, it isn't shown.
- Will we stay inside our state's fund balance limit?
- How much room do we have under the levy limit next year?
- What if state aid stays flat?
- Build a budget presentation for the school board.
- Cost a 3% settlement with steps for the teachers' unit.
Built for the reports your business office already runs
Start today on a sample district
Every page works now on Lakeview, a sample district of about 3,400 students in your own state: named the way your state names its districts, on your state's fiscal year, with its rules, pensions and state aid. Try the levy limit, the reserves and the analyst before you send anything. The sample is free for as long as you like.
Your own finance system's exports
The budget, ledger and payroll summaries your office already exports from Tyler Munis, Skyward, PowerSchool, nVision or your state's system, plus enrollment, the levy and state aid. Drop in the reports you already run, as CSV or Excel: Astra reads each one's layout, shows you how it read it, and checks that everything ties out before anything loads. Your first import starts a 60-day free trial, with no card needed.
No implementation project
No consultants, no data warehouse, no new system to learn. Every file is checked and tied out before anything changes, and your models update when the data does.
Totals only. Nothing about a student or an employee.
No student-level data
Enrollment arrives as counts by grade. No names, IDs or records about any student, ever.
No employee-level data
Payroll arrives summarized by bargaining unit. Files with personal information are turned away before anything loads.
Your district's data stays yours
Every district's data is kept apart from every other's, and the AI only reads your own figures.
Sign-in you control
Passkeys and two-step verification, with roles that decide who sees personnel and salary figures.