Lottery Aid to Education: Beginning 2002 tracks financial aid provided by the New York Lottery to school districts across the state. The dataset likely contains annual disbursements by county and school district for fiscal years starting in 2002. Its cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov indicates it is an official state dataset.
Use Cases
- Analyzing annual lottery aid distribution across counties using County and Amount of Aid columns.
- Comparing funding received by specific school districts over time using School District and Beginning Fiscal Year columns.
- Tracking total state lottery contributions to education by aggregating Amount of Aid across Ending Fiscal Year.
- Mapping funding disparities between districts within the same county using County and School District columns.
Strengths
- Provides a multi-year time series, with fiscal year data beginning in 2002.
- Contains granular breakdowns by both county and individual school district.
- Is published by the authoritative State of New York organization.
Limitations
- Key metadata such as exact row count, file size, and license are missing across all sources.
- The dataset's last update date is inconsistently reported, with entries for both 2026-04-08 and 2026-04-11.
- Column information is incomplete; Data.gov source lists columns as unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- State of New York
- Time Range
- Beginning 2002
- Freshness
- 2026-04-11 23:04:37.100255
- Geography
- New York State counties and school districts