FOR MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
The analysis your team would do, if it had the time.
Michigan Benchmark assembles, benchmarks and explains your district's finances, with every number sourced so your staff can check it. You own the work and decide how it's used.
Most engagements range from $3,000 to $10,000, with a fixed fee agreed before any work begins.
Where we help
Pre-Ballot Financial Review
For when you're asking voters for a millage. What a critic is likely to say about your district's finances and what the data actually shows, plus factual exhibits you can publish: who pays, what's at stake and how you compare. Delivered in three weeks, before ballot language is due.
Community Finance Briefings
For when your community has questions. Plain-language, sourced explainers on your budget, audit, enrollment and taxes, with graphics ready for your website, newsletter and social channels. Published under your name, on your schedule.
Budget Navigator
For a clearer view of your own numbers. How your revenue, spending, staffing and fund balance compare with similar districts, and how they trend against your own history. Ready when you need it, for budget development and forecasting.
How it works
1. A 15-minute call
Tell us what's coming up and what you need.
2. A fixed scope and price
In writing, before any work starts.
3. Finished work, with sources
Ready to use, and every figure checkable.
What we don't do.
We don't advocate, spin or campaign. We report what the data shows, favorable or not, so the people you serve can trust it.
Every number sourced
Each figure traces to state data your staff can verify in minutes.
Benchmarked statewide
Your district alongside similar districts, the state and its own history, back to the 2000s.
Your work, your call
You own every deliverable and decide how it's used.
See the work
