Assessment - School Choice Sending Tuition
When a Fitchburg kid chooses to attend public school in a different town instead, Fitchburg has to pay that other town tuition. This is that payment going out - the flip side of the tuition Fitchburg receives from other towns' kids.
The size of this charge rose to $2,796,259 this year, about 10% more than the $2,535,793 it was in FY2025. Put another way: back in FY2019 this made up about 38.5% of State Assessments - today it's 31.3%, a smaller slice than before.
Computed from each fiscal year's own revenue recap figures below - see Methodology.
By Fiscal Year
| Fiscal Year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY2026 | $-2,796,259 |
| FY2025 | $-2,535,793 |
| FY2024 | $-2,496,474 |
| FY2023 | $-2,488,559 |
| FY2022 | $-2,325,207 |
| FY2021 | $-2,354,823 |
| FY2020 | $-2,347,224 |
| FY2019 | $-2,435,538 |
| FY2018 | — |
| FY2017 | — |
Governing law: M.G.L. c. 76, § 12B (school choice)