I visualized the school budget with tableau to reveal the main components of budget and their annual changes, which brought up many surprise.

1. Data Visualization
of Great Neck Public School Budget Allocation 2016-2017
Ding Li 2016.04

2. 2
:
$5M In Deficit. Programs Cut. Want To Read School Budget For The First Time
School Budget
in Scanned PDF File
Data
in Excel
Visualization
in Tableau
113 Pages, Hard to Figure Out
http://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/gnps/pages/budget
/PrelimWorkBudget2016-17.pdf
Converted PDF to Excel
http://www.investintech.com/
Interactive Visualization
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ding.li#!/vizhome
/great_neck_school_budget_2016/BudgetOverview

3. 3
:
The Education Fund For Each Student in Great Neck Is High
Students
6,399
Teachers
585
Budget
$218.9M
Budget
/Student
$34K
*Students and teachers are from 2015-2016 data at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Neck_School_District

4. 4
 Programs for Handicapped Children
 $29.8M, 13.6% of Budget
 How many students in the program?
 Employee Benefits
 $54.1M, 24.7% of Budget
 Contract Transportation
 $10.7M, 4.9% of Budget

5. 5
 Instructional Salaries
Programs for Handicapped Children
 $22.6M, 10.3% of Budget
 Healthcare Insurance
 $23.8M, 10.9% of Budget
 Social Security
 $9.3M, 4.3% of Budget

6. 6
 Programs for Handicapped Children
 $2.85M
 Employee Benefits
 $598K
 Other Debt
 $420k
 New this year

7. 7
 Healthcare Insurance
 $1.81M
 Instructional Salaries
Programs for Handicapped Children
 $1.35M
 Contractual and Other
Programs for Handicapped Children
 $825K

8. 8
Question:
• Can we handle such increasing costs in the future?
• Do we need to cut more instramural programs in the future?
Programs for Handicapped Children
Budget: $29.8M
Increases: $2.85M
Healthcare Insurance
Budget: $23.8M
Increases: $1.35M