Office of Planning and Research
Resource Allocation and District Action Reports (RADAR)
Spend smarter and meet your district goals
Download RADAR Benchmarking — Version 1/25/2019
Join the growing number of districts using RADAR—a suite of innovative Excel-based reports for a new approach to resource decisions. Access RADAR materials here and get started.
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Compare your spending and staffing to other districts
- Select your own list of districts for comparisons
- Consider other districts' student outcomes in your resources analysis
- Include comparative community wealth and per pupil spending as comparison factors
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Visualize district trends over 5 years
- Help your staff and community understand how the district has been changing
- See enrollment and demographics, performance, staffing and spending side-by-side
- View staffing trends for teachers, paraprofessionals, and district and school leaders
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Investigate staffing levels, per pupil spending, special education, and more
- Visualize your staffing levels benchmarked against similar districts
- Assess your per pupil expenditures and see how other districts compare
- Understand key patterns in your special education enrollment
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Getting Started in Four Easy Steps
- Download the RADAR Benchmarking Excel file
- Select your district
- Select up to 10 comparison districts
- Look at each report:
Home
State Context
Change Over 5 Years
Per Pupil Expenditures
Staffing per 100 Students
SPED Enrollment
SPED Staff
Help and Information
Introduction to RADAR
RADAR in One Page
RADAR Benchmarking: Change Over Five Years with Guiding Questions
RADAR Reports Tutorial
Overview of RADAR
Quick Views of Reports
RADAR in Practice: Exploring a Resources Question
Selecting Comparison Districts
Recent Updates
12/06/2018 Change Over Five Years: One change amount was wrong and has been fixed.
10/01/2018 Home has 2018 state assessment results for both Next Generation and Legacy MCAS. Report displays have been edited for easier reading.
07/23/2018 FY2017 finance data reflect final amendments from districts.
Related Tools and Data
DARTs
School Finance Reports
Profiles
Planning for Success
Additional RADAR Tools
District personnel can access RADAR Special Education and RADAR Class Size in the Department's Security Portal, and also Edwin Analytics reports on finance and staffing.
Contact the RADAR team with comments or requests: radar@doe.mass.edu
Last Updated: January 29, 2019
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