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SPS Budget and Purple Books

Seattle Public Schools' own budget documents — adopted budgets, budget books, and the supporting “purple books” — going back to 2002. Statewide machine-readable financial data lives in the SAFS Financial Databases section, and the scanned state fiscal-report PDFs in Fiscal Reports (OSPI PDFs).

Budget documents by school year

(46 files)

Every file in raw/sps/budget/, grouped by school year: adopted/operating/capital budgets, budget books, the supporting “purple books”, WSS models, and one-off supporting documents. Older years were scraped from archive.org; see notes at the bottom of this section for the URLs used.

How these were sourced
  • 2019–present: seattleschools.org/departments/finance/budget/
  • 2016–2018: seattleschools.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=627&pageId=4236325
  • 2015: sps.ss8.sharpschool.com/cms/one.aspx?portalId=627&pageId=14984
  • 2014–2015 has a broken-link patch; checking different months will find it
  • 2007–2014: seattleschools.org/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=&pageid=225568
  • 2004–2005: blue book era — one PDF per school via archive.org
  • 2002–2003: seattleschools.org/area/finance/budget/index.html