Historical Data for Special Education Aid through FY2026
Aid Payment Worksheets for School Districts, CESAs, CCDEBs and Independent Charter Schools
To view information for a specific Local Education Agency (LEA), select it from the pull-down list on a worksheet page.
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2025-2026 Categorical Aid Payment File
November 2025 State Categorical Special Education Aid Payment File Link
Guidance on how to create your own aid estimate/record of costs (instructions included)
Prorated Aid Rate for November-March Aid Payments
STAR Aid Register to verify aid payments information
2024-2025 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
Final 2025 Aid Payment Annual Summary for 2023-24 Expenses (June 2025) Guidance on how to create your own aid estimate/record of costs (instructions included)
State Categorical Special Education Aid Computation Workbook Download the file first and then save as an Excel file to enable pivot functionality (March 2025)
State Categorical Special Education Aid Payment Workbook Download the file first and then save as an Excel file to enable pivot functionality (March 2025)
- LEAs update together on worksheet tabs. "Elig. This Pmt." is the total annual aid eligibility based on the proration rate used for this payment. This amount in the November through March payments will be slightly lower than the June payment, which will use the full and final proration rate. Any other differences are the result of audit changes, adjustments and rounding.(updated 3/17/25)
2023-2024 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs "Elig. This Pmt." is the total annual aid eligibility based on the proration rate used for this payment. This amount in the November through March payments will be slightly lower than the June payment, which will use the full and final proration rate. Any other differences are the result of audit changes and adjustments.(updated 6/10/2024)
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab (updated 6/10/2024)
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually (updated 6/10/2024)
2022-2023 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- FY23 Summary Of SPED-SAP Payments (6/12/2023)
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs (6/12/2023) "Elig. This Pmt." is the total annual aid eligibility based on the proration rate used for this payment. This amount in the November through March payments will be slightly lower than the June payment, which will use the full and final proration rate. Any other differences are the result of audit changes and adjustments.
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab (6/12/2023)
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually (6/12/2023)
2021-2022 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs (6/2/2022)
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab (6/2/2022)
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually (6/2/2022)
2020-2021 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually
2019-2020 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually
2018-2019 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually
2017-2018 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually
2016-2017 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
- Raw data (.xlsx) - No Pivot Tables or other advanced functionality--must be filtered manually
2015-2016 Categorical Aid Computation and Eligibility
- Macro-enabled format (.xlsm) - LEAs update together on worksheet tabs
- Standard format (.xlsx) - LEA selected separately on each worksheet tab
There are numerous compatibility problems with Excel 2011/2016 for Mac reading certain types of data executable files created with Windows versions of Excel. Until an alternative workbook format can be developed, we will provide raw data files for Mac users to access their aid computation information.