Financial and Business Services
School Business manages approximately $11 billion in state and federal funds and provides various technical support services to School Districts/Local Education Agencies (LEAs), Independent Public Schools (IPS - charters, lab schools, and regional schools), their employees, and other public school stakeholders.
Keep up to date with us through our Newsletters, the What's New section below, and our topic pages in the navigation bar to the right.
School Business Systems Information for New Finance Officers and Staff - Please follow this link to our Finance Office Guides heading to find our summary of key operating systems.
What's New
Missed Days 2022-2023 Survey
- Review of survey questions
- Survey link: https://ncdpi.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78v5MfH9e2vvs0u
ESSER III (PRC 181) FY 2022 Learning Loss Expenditure Survey
- Report providing the PRC 181 allotment amount for each unit
- Example of survey questions
- Survey link: https://ncdpi.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eDp5yuMub5DbAai
Teacher Compensation Requirements for Read to Achieve Summer Reading Camps
Professional Certification for NC School Finance Officers - SBE Policy
Low Wealth Supplemental Funding - FY23-24 Planning Allotment vs. FY22-23 Initial Allotment - updated April 27, 2023
Calculating Low Wealth Supplemental Funding
2023 Highlights of the NC Public School Budget
COVID Funds - Expenditure and Allotments Data spreadsheet as of April 30, 2023, and the Allotment and Expenditure Data Visualization is through April 30, 2023.
Contact Information
School Business Senior Director: Jennifer Bennett
Public School Budget Manager: John Keefer
School Allotments: Kristie Weber, Section Chief
School Reporting: Gwendolyn Tucker, Section Chief
Monitoring & Compliance: Shirley McFadden, Section Chief
School Business manages state and federal funds that are allotted to LEAs and IPSs. We collect, compile and analyze public school financial, student and personnel data. We provide support to LEA and ISP financial offices and monitor compliance with state and federal laws.
Who We Are - School Business April 2021
Phone Number: 984-236-2440
Mailing Address:
School Business
Department of Public Instruction
6336 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-6336
2022-2023 List of NC LEAs (school systems) including Independent Public Schools and other Educational Entities
LEA contact information, including Superintendents, Finance Officers, Personnel Administrators, & Principals can be found in EDDIE. Use the LEA Personnel Report (located under the Reports Menu) to obtain all LEAs, or use the Search or Selection boxes to navigate to an individual LEA or school. For help with LEA or school information and creating mailing labels or reports, please go to the EDDIE Information page.
Independent Public Schools (Charter, Laboratory, Regional) contact information is in EDDIE. Charter schools can also be found on the Office of Charter Schools website: Charter School Contacts.