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Database of Indiana School Referenda

Database of Indiana School Referenda

To provide school administrators, policy makers, community members, and researchers with better research tools on Indiana school referenda data, CEPR has redesigned the Database of Indiana School Referenda. The database was last updated in May, 2019.

With the passage of Public Law 146 in 2008, the Indiana General Assembly established referenda for school construction and General Fund levies as a mechanism of school funding. The law abandoned Indiana’s petition and remonstrance process for most school construction projects in favor of voter referenda. In addition, General Fund referenda are required for any school district seeking to raise property taxes beyond established tax caps.

Explore Indiana school referenda outcomes, requested tax increases, and vote shares by interacting with the data visualizations in three tabs:
1) All Indiana School Referenda Outcomes, 2) General Fund Referenda, and 3) Construction Referenda.

Notes: The data visualizations above are based on the information contained in the full Database of Indiana School Referenda. School corporation locales are from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Other school corporation data (Corp. #, City, County) are from the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) Compass website. Referenda data are from the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) with vote results coming from various local news sources and StateImpact Indiana.

Any errors or omissions in the data are the sole responsibility of the developers and should not be attributed to the Center for Evaluation, Policy, & Research, the NCES, the IDOE, the DLGF, or StateImpact Indiana.

More information on Indiana’s school district referenda can be found in three education policy briefs:

For any questions, comments, or suggestions concerning the data provided, please contact schiller@indiana.edu.

Database of Indiana School Referenda

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