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Sheet: Functions

FUNCTION CODES
The function describes the activity for which a service or material object is acquired. The functions of a school district are classified into five broad areas: Instruction, Support Services, Operation of Non-Instructional Services, Facilities Acquisition and Construction, and Debt Service. Functions are further classified into subfunctions.
NCES Brief code descriptions (see bottom section for subcategories and detail descriptions):
1000 | Instruction
2000 | Support Services
2100 | Support Services - Student
2200 | Support Services - Instruction
2300 | Support Services - General Administration
2400 | Support Services - School Administration
2500 | Central Services
2600 | Operation and Maintenance of Plant
2700 | Student Transportation
2900 | Other Support Services
3000 | Operation of Noninstructional Services
3100 | Food Services Operations
3200 | Enterprise Operations
3300 | Community Services Operations
4000 | Facilities Acquisition & Construction Services
4100 | Land Acquisition Services
4200 | Land Improvement
4300 | Architectural & Engineering Services
4400 | Education Specifications Development Services
4500 | Building Acquisition and Construction
4600 | Site Improvements
4700 | Building Improvements
4900 | Other Facilities & Acquisition & Construction
5000 | Debt Service
6000 | Miscellaneous
8000 | Ending Fund Balance
 | NCES Code Details:
XXXX | Items marked with a yellow box are required for federal reporting purposes.
Code |  | Function Code Description
Code | Function Code Description
1000 |  | Instruction. Instruction includes the activities dealing directly with the interaction between teachers and students. Teaching may be provided for students in a school classroom, in another location such as a home or hospital, and in other learning situations such as those involving cocurricular activities. It may also be provided through some other approved medium, such as television, radio, computer, Internet, multimedia telephone, and correspondence, that is delivered inside or outside the classroom or in other teacher-student settings. Included here are the activities of aides or classroom assistants of any type (clerks, graders, teaching machines, etc.) who assist in the instructional process. Use 2720 for transportation aides. If proration of expenditures is not possible for department chairpersons who also teach, include department chairpersons who also teach in instruction. Full-time department chairpersons expenditures should be included only in 2490.
2000 |  | Support Services. Support services provide administrative, technical (such as guidance and health), and logistical support to facilitate and enhance instruction. These services exist as adjuncts for fulfilling the objectives of instruction, community services, and enterprise programs, rather than as entities within themselves.
 | 2100 | Support Services-Students. Activities designed to assess and improve the well-being of students and to supplement the teaching process.
 | 2110 | Attendance and Social Work Services. Activities designed to improve student attendance at school that attempt to prevent or solve student problems involving the home, the school, and the community. Registration activities for adult education programs are included here. Some examples of other services to be reported within this function code are supervision services, attendance services, and student accounting services.
 | 2120 | Guidance Services. Activities involving counseling with students and parents; consulting with other staff members on learning problems; evaluating the abilities of students; assisting students as they make their own educational and career plans and choices; assisting students in personal and social development; providing referral assistance; and working with other staff members in planning and conducting guidance programs for students. Guidance services may include supervision services, counseling services, appraisal services, student record services, and placement services.
 | 2130 | Health Services. Physical and mental health services that are not direct instruction. Included are activities that provide students with appropriate medical, dental, and nursing services.
 | 2140 | Psychological Services. Activities concerned with administering psychological tests and interpreting the results; gathering and interpreting information about student behavior; working with other staff members in planning school programs to meet the special needs of students as indicated by psychological tests and behavioral evaluation; and planning and managing a program of psychological services, including psychological counseling for students, staff, and parents. This function includes the supervision of psychological services, related testing and counseling services, and psychotherapy services.
 | 2150 | Speech Pathology and Audiology Services. Activities that identify, assess, and treat children with speech, hearing, and language impairments. (Usually used with program 200)
 | 2160 | [NAME]. Activities that assess, diagnose, or treat students for all conditions requiring the services of an occupational therapist. (Usually used with program 200)
 | 2190 | Other Support Services-Student. Other support services to students not classified elsewhere in the 2100 series.
 | 2200 | Support Services-Instruction. Activities associated with assisting the instructional staff with the content and process of providing learning experiences for students.
 | 2210 | Improvement of Instruction. Activities primarily for assisting instructional staff in planning, developing, and evaluating the process of providing learning experiences for students. These activities include curriculum development, techniques of instruction, child development and understanding, and staff training.
 | 2212 | Instruction and Curriculum Development. Activities that aid teachers in developing the curriculum, preparing and using special curriculum materials, and understanding and appreciating the various techniques that stimulate and motivate students.
 | 2213 | Instructional Staff Training. Activities associated with the professional development and training of instructional personnel. These include such activities as in-service training (including mentor teachers), workshops, conferences, demonstrations, and courses for college credit (tuition reimbursement), and other activities related to the ongoing growth and development of instructional personnel. Training that supports the use of technology for instruction should be included in this code (states may establish a subobject code for specific tracking of technology-related training costs). The incremental costs associated with providing substitute teachers in the classroom (while regular teachers attend training) should be captured in this function code. All costs should be charged to this code regardless of whether training services are provided internally or purchased from external vendors.
 | 2219 | Other Improvement of Instruction Services. Activities for improving instruction other than those classified above.
 | 2220 | Library/Media Services. Activities concerned with directing, managing, and supervising educational media services (e.g., supervisory personnel) as well as such activities as selecting, acquiring, preparing, cataloging, and circulating books and other printed materials; planning for the use of the library by students, teachers, and other members of the instructional staff; and guiding individuals in their use of library books, reference guides and materials, catalog materials, special collections, and other materials, whether maintained separately or as a part of an instructional materials center. These activities include developing and acquiring library materials and operating library facilities. Textbooks are not charged to this function but rather to the instruction function. (Used in combination with Object 640 to report Library Books/Publications)
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 | 2230 | Instruction-Related Technology. This functional category encompasses ALL technology activities and services for the purpose of supporting instruction. These activities include expenditures for internal technology support as well as support provided by external vendors using operating funds. These activities include costs associated with the administration and supervision of technology personnel, systems planning and analysis, systems application development, systems operations, network support services, hardware maintenance and support services, and other technology-related costs that relate to the support of instructional activities. Specifically, costs associated with the operation and support of computer learning labs, media center computer labs, instructional technology centers, instructional networks, and similar operations should be captured in this code.  Technology used by students in the classroom or that have a student instruction focus should be coded to 1000. (used with all programs) | Updated 10/5/2011
 | 2231 | Student Learning Centers. Activities concerned with supporting and maintaining labs and centers (outside the classroom) that are established to support the instructional environment. These labs and centers may be located in the library or in other locations but are not primarily dedicated to student-teacher learning. Labs or learning centers that are primarily dedicated to instruction should be coded to Instruction.
 | 2232 | Technology Service Supervision and Administration. Activities concerned with directing, managing, and supervising data-processing services.
 | 2233 | Systems Analysis and Planning. Activities concerned with searching for and evaluating alternatives for achieving defined objectives, based on judgment and, wherever possible, on quantitative methods. Where applicable, these activities pertain to the development of data processing procedures or application to electronic data-processing equipment.
 | 2234 | Systems Application Development. Activities concerned with the preparation of a logical sequence of operations to be performed, either manually or electronically, in solving problems or processing data. These activities also involve preparing coded instructions and data for such sequences.
 | 2235 | Systems Operations. Activities concerned with scheduling, maintaining, and producing data. These activities include operating business machines, data preparation devices, and data-processing machines.
 | 2236 | Network Support. Services that support the networks used for instruction-related activities.
 | 2237 | Hardware Maintenance and Support
 | 2238 | Professional Development for Instruction-Focused Technology Personnel. Costs that are incurred as a result of acquiring knowledge and skills to support instructional technologies.
 |  | Note: Technology training for instructional staff should be reported in 2213 (Instructional Staff Training).
 | 2239 | Other Support Services - Instruction-Related Technology. Includes other Instruction-Related Technology support services which cannot be recorded under the preceding categories.
 | 2240 | Academic Student Assessment. This function is inclusive of those services rendered for the academic assessment of the student. (Typically used with programs 100-400, 600, 700)
 | 2290 | Other Support Services-Instructional Staff. Services supporting the instructional staff not properly classified elsewhere in the 2200 series.
 | 2300 | Support Services-General Administration. Activities concerned with establishing and administering policy for operating the school district.
 | 2310 | Board of Education. Activities of the elected body that has been created according to state law and vested with responsibilities for educational activities in a given administrative unit. Some examples of services to be included here are board secretary and clerk service.
 | 2311 | Supervision of Board of Education Services. Activities concerned with directing and managing the general operation of the Board of Education. These include the activities of the members of the Board of Education, but do not include any special activities defined in the other areas of responsibility described below. They also include any activities of the district performed in support of the school district meeting. Legal activities to interpret the laws and statutes and general liability situations are charged here, as are the activities of external auditors.
 | 2312 | Board Secretary/Clerk Services. The activities required to perform the duties of the Secretary or [NAME] of the Board of Education.
 | 2313 | Board Treasurer Services. The activities required to perform the duties of the Treasurer of the Board of Education.
 | 2314 | Election Services. Services rendered in connection with any school system election, including elections of officers and bond elections.
 | 2315 | Tax Assessment and Collection Services. Services rendered in connection with tax assessment and collection.
 | 2316 | Staff Relations and Negotiations . Activities concerned with staff relations system wide and the responsibilities for contractual negotiations with both instructional and non-instructional personnel.
 | 2317 | Other Board of Education Services. Board of Education services that cannot be classified under the preceding areas of responsibility.
 | 2318 | Legal Services.
 | 2319 | Other Support Services - General Administration. Includes General Administration - other support services which cannot be recorded under the preceding categories.  Charter School sponsorship fees are paid under this function code.
 | 2320 | Executive Administration. Activities associated with the overall general administration of or executive responsibility for the entire school district.  Some typical services included in this function code follow:
 | 2321 | Office of the Superintendent. Activities performed by the superintendent and such assistants as deputy, associate, and assistant superintendents in generally directing and managing all affairs of the school district. These include all personnel and materials in the office of the chief executive officer. Activities of the offices of the deputy superintendents should be charged here, unless the activities can be placed properly into a service area. In this case, they would be charged to service area direction in that service area.
 | 2322 | Community Relations. Activities and programs developed and operated system wide for bettering school-community relations.
 | 2323 | State and Federal Relations. Activities associated with developing and maintaining good relationships with state and federal officials.
 | 2329 | Other Executive Administration. Other general administrative services that cannot be recorded under the preceding categories.
 | 2400 | Support Services-School Administration. Activities concerned with overall administrative responsibility for a school.
 | 2410 | Office of the Principal. Activities concerned with directing and managing the operation of a particular school. They include the activities performed by the principal, assistant principals, and other assistants while they supervise all operations of the school, evaluate the staff members of the school, assign duties to staff members, supervise and maintain the records of the school, and coordinate school instructional activities with those of the school district. These activities also include the work of clerical staff in support of the teaching and administrative duties.
 | 2490 | Other Support Services-School Administration. Other school administration services. This function includes graduation expenditure and expenses and full-time department chairpersons.
 | 2500 | Central Services. Activities that support other administrative and instructional functions including fiscal services, human resources, planning, and administrative information technology.
 |  | Note: Central and business services used to be separated into functions 2500 and 2800.  They were combined by NCES in 2003.
 | 2510 | Fiscal Services. Activities concerned with the fiscal operations of the school district. This function includes budgeting, receiving and disbursing, financial and property accounting, payroll, inventory control, internal auditing, and funds managing. Fiscal services are inclusive of supervision of fiscal services, budgeting services, and payroll, internal audit, and general accounting functions. This includes investment activities. | Updated 10/5/2011
 | 2513 | Interest on Short-term notes or loans (repayable within one year of receiving the obligation).  This is debt that is reported in the governmental funds and not debt group (5000) of accounts.
 | 2515 | Grant Services.  Activities concerned with obtaining and servicing grants.  Includes grant writer expenditures.
 | 2520 | Purchasing, Warehousing, and Distributing Services. Activities concerned with purchasing, receiving, storing, and distributing supplies, furniture, equipment, and materials used in schools or school system operations.
 | 2530 | Printing, Publishing, and Duplicating Services. The activities of printing and publishing administrative publications such as annual reports, school directories, and manuals. Activities here also include centralized services for duplicating school materials and instruments such as school bulletins, newsletters, and notices.
 | 2540 | Planning, Research, Development, and Evaluation Services. Activities associated with conducting and managing system wide programs of planning, research, development, and evaluation for a school system.
 | 2541 | Planning services include activities concerned with selecting or identifying the overall, long-range goals and priorities of the organization or program. They also involve formulating various courses of action needed to achieve these goals by identifying needs and the relative costs and benefits of each course of action.
 | 2542 | Research services include activities concerned with the systematic study and investigation of the various aspects of education, undertaken to establish facts and principles.
 | 2543 | Development services include activities in the deliberate, evolving process of improving educational programs.
 | 2544 | Evaluation services include activities concerned with ascertaining or judging the value or amount of an action or an outcome. This is done through careful appraisal of previously specified data in light of the particular situation and the goals previously established.
 | 2560 | Public Information Services. Activities concerned with writing, editing, and other preparation necessary to disseminate educational and administrative information to students, staff, managers, and the general public through direct mailing, the various news media, e-mail, the Internet and web sites, and personal contact. The Public Information Services function code includes related supervision and internal and public information services. This includes the costs of PR (Public Relations) personnel.  Technology that supports this code is included in 2580.
 | 2570 | Personnel Services. Activities concerned with maintaining efficient personnel for the school system. It includes such activities as recruitment and placement, non-instructional staff training, staff transfers, in-service training, health services, and staff accounting.
 | 2571 | Supervision of Personnel Services. The activities of directing, managing, and supervising staff services.
 | 2572 | Recruitment and Placement. Activities concerned with employing and assigning personnel for the school district.
 | 2573 | Personnel Information. Services rendered in connection with the systematic recording and summarizing of information relating to staff members employed by the school district.
 | 2574 | Non-Instructional Personnel Training. Activities associated with the professional development and training of non-instructional personnel. These include such activities as in-service training, seminars and conferences, continuing professional education, courses for college credit (tuition reimbursement), and other activities related to the ongoing growth and development of non-instructional personnel. The incremental costs associated with providing temporary employees to perform job duties while regular employees attend training should be captured in this function code. All costs should be charged to this code regardless of whether training services are provided internally or purchased from external vendors.
 | 2575 | Health Services. Activities concerned with medical, dental, and nursing services provided for school district employees. Included are physical examinations, referrals, and emergency care.
 | 2576 | Other Personnel Services. Personnel services that cannot be classified under the preceding functions.
 | 2577 | Supervision of Personnel Services. The activities of directing, managing, and supervising staff services.
 | 2580 | Administrative Technology Services. Activities concerned with supporting the school district's information technology systems, including supporting administrative networks, maintaining administrative information systems, and processing data for administrative and managerial purposes. These activities include expenditures for internal technology support, as well as support provided by external vendors using operating funds. These activities include costs associated with the administration and supervision of technology personnel, systems planning and analysis, systems application development, systems operations, network support services, hardware maintenance and support services, and other technology-related administrative costs.
 | 2581 | Technology Service Supervision and Administration. Activities concerned with directing, managing, and supervising data processing services.
 | 2582 | Systems Analysis and Planning. Activities concerned with searching for and evaluating alternatives for achieving defined objectives, based on judgment and, wherever possible, on quantitative methods. Where applicable, these activities pertain to the development of data processing procedures or application to electronic data-processing equipment.
 | 2583 | Systems Application Development. Activities concerned with the preparation of a logical sequence of operations to be performed, either manually or electronically, in solving problems or processing data. These activities also involve preparing coded instructions and data for such sequences.
 | 2584 | Systems Operations. Activities concerned with scheduling, maintaining, and producing data. These activities include operating business machines, data preparation devices, and data-processing machines.
 | 2585 | Network Support
 | 2586 | Hardware Maintenance and Support
 | 2587 | Professional Development Costs for Administrative Technology Personnel
 | 2589 | Other Technology Services. Activities concerned with data processing not described above.
 | 2590 | Other Support Services-Central Services. Other support services to business not classified elsewhere in the 2500 series.
 | 2600 | Operation and Maintenance of Plant. Activities concerned with keeping the physical plant open, comfortable, and safe for use and with keeping the grounds, buildings, and equipment in effective working condition and state of repair. These include the activities of maintaining safety in buildings, on the grounds, and in the vicinity of schools.
 | 2610 | Operation of Buildings. Activities concerned with keeping the physical plant clean and ready for daily use. They include operating lighting and HVAC systems and doing minor repairs. Also included are the costs of building rental and property insurance.
 | 2620 | Maintenance of Buildings. Activities associated with keeping buildings at an acceptable level of efficiency through repairs and preventative maintenance.
 | 2630 | Care and Upkeep of Grounds. Activities involved in maintaining and improving the land (but not the buildings). These include snow removal, landscaping, grounds maintenance, and the like.
 | 2640 | Care and Upkeep of Equipment. Activities involved in maintaining equipment owned or used by the school district. They include such activities as servicing and repairing furniture, machines, and movable equipment.
 | 2650 | Vehicle Operation and Maintenance (Other Than Student Transportation Vehicles). Activities involved in maintaining general purpose vehicles such as trucks, tractors, graders, and staff vehicles. These include such activities as repairing vehicles; replacing vehicle parts; and cleaning, painting, greasing, fueling, and inspecting vehicles for safety (i.e., preventive maintenance).
 | 2660 | Security. Activities concerned with maintaining a secure environment for students and staff, whether they are in transit to or from school, on a campus or administrative facility, or participating in school-sponsored events. These include costs associated with security plan development and implementation, installation of security monitoring devices (e.g., cameras, metal detectors), security personnel (e.g., campus police, security guards), purchase of security vehicles and communication equipment, and related costs. Costs associated with in-service training related to school safety, drug and violence prevention training, and alternative schools should not be accounted for under this function code.
 | 2670 | Safety. Activities concerned with maintaining a safe environment for students and staff, whether they are in transit to or from school, on a campus or administrative facility, or participating in school-sponsored events. These include costs associated with installing and monitoring school fire alarm systems and providing school crossing guards, as well as other costs incurred in an effort to ensure the basic safety of students and staff. Costs associated with in-service training related to school safety, drug and violence prevention training, and alternative schools should not be accounted for under this function code.
 | 2690 | Other Operation and Maintenance of Plant. Operations and maintenance of plant services that cannot be classified elsewhere in the 2600 series. | new number - was 2680
 | 2700 | Student Transportation. Activities concerned with conveying students to and from school, as provided by state and federal law. This includes trips between home and school and trips to school activities.
 | 2710 | Vehicle Operation. Activities involved in operating vehicles for student transportation, from the time the vehicles leave the point of storage until they return to the point of storage. These include driving buses or other student transportation vehicles.
 | 2720 | Monitoring Services. Activities concerned with supervising students in the process of being transported between home and school and between school and school activities. Such supervision can occur while students are in transit and while they are being loaded and unloaded and it includes directing traffic at the loading stations.
 | 2730 | Vehicle Servicing and [NAME]. Activities involved in maintaining student transportation vehicles. These include repairing vehicle parts; replacing vehicle parts; and cleaning, painting, fueling, and inspecting vehicles for safety. (Used with programs 100-400, 900).  This includes field trips, athletic events, etc.
 | 2790 | Other Student Transportation Services. Student transportation services that cannot be classified elsewhere in the 2700 series. (Used with programs 100-400, 900)
 | 2900 | Other Support Services. All other support services not classified elsewhere in the 2000 series.
3000 |  | Operation of Noninstructional Services. Activities concerned with providing noninstructional services to students, staff, or the community.
 | 3100 | Food Services Operations. Activities concerned with providing food to students and staff in a school or school district. This service area includes preparing and serving regular and incidental meals, lunches, or snacks in connection with school activities and food delivery.
 | 3200 | Enterprise Operations. Activities that are financed and operated in a manner similar to private business enterprises where the stated intent is to finance or recover the costs primarily through user charges. Food services should not be charged here but rather to function 3100. One example could be the school district bookstore.
 | 3300 | Community Services Operations. Activities concerned with providing community services to students, staff, or other community participants. Examples of this function would be offering parental training or operating a community swimming pool, a recreation program for the elderly, or a childcare center for working mothers. (Used only with program 800)  Example: Parent Literacy night
 |  | FUNCTION 4000 - 5000:  PRIMARILY CAPITALIZABLE ITEMS
4000 |  | Facilities Acquisition and Construction. Activities concerned with acquiring land and buildings; remodeling buildings; constructing buildings and additions to buildings; initially installing or extending service systems and other built-in equipment; and improving sites.
 | 4100 | Land Acquisition. Activities concerned with initially acquiring and improving land.
 | 4200 | Land Improvement. Activities concerned with making permanent improvements to land, such as grading, fill, and environmental remediation.
 | 4300 | Architecture and Engineering. The activities of architects and engineers related to acquiring and improving sites and improving buildings. Charges are made to this function only for those preliminary activities that may or may not result in additions to the school district's property. Otherwise, charge these services to 4100, 4200, 4500, or 4600, as appropriate.
 | 4400 | Educational Specifications Development. Activities concerned with preparing and interpreting descriptions of specific space requirements to be accommodated in a building. These specifications are interpreted to the architects and engineers in the early stages of blueprint development.
 | 4500 | Building Acquisition and Construction. Activities concerned with buying or constructing buildings.
 | 4600 | Site Improvement. Activities concerned with making nonpermanent improvements or enhancements to building sites. These improvements include fencing, walkways, tunnels, and temporary landscaping.
 | 4700 | Building Improvements. Activities concerned with building additions and with installing or extending service systems and other built-in equipment.
 | 4900 | Other Facilities Acquisition and Construction. Facilities acquisition and construction activities that cannot be classified above.
5000 |  | Debt Service. Activities related to servicing the long-term debt of the school district, including payments of both principal and interest. This function should be used to account for bond interest payments, retirement of bonded debt (including current and advance refundings), capital lease payments, and other long-term notes. Interest on short-term notes or loans (repayable within one year of receiving the obligation) is charged to function 2513. The receipt and payment of principal on those loans are treated as adjustments to the balance sheet account 451.
6000 |  | Miscellaneous
 | 6100 | Interdistrict Payments. Funds transferred to another school district, charter school, or other educational entity such as private schools.  Match to the revenue code.
 | 6200 | Fund transfers. Funds transferred out of a fund, generally transferred from or to the general fund.
 | 6300 | Contingency Funds. Funds set aside for something that may occur in the future, particularly an unforeseen event or emergency.
8000 |  | Ending fund balance. Use with program code 000 and object codes 997-999.