State comptroller: All 5 school districts in Orleans not in fiscal stress

Albion and Lyndonville have perfect “0” scores with no indicators of fiscal stress

The state comptroller’s office report has put out a report of the nearly 700 school districts in the state, assessing their fiscal stress.

In Orleans County, the five districts Orleans – Albion, Holley, Kendall, Lyndonville and Medina – all have no designation for fiscal stress.

The comptroller has a ranking system where points are assigned to financial indicators showing fiscal stress. The more points for a district, the more signs of fiscal stress.

The comptroller rates the districts by four levels: no designation (fiscal stress points from 0-24.9), susceptible (25 to 44.9 points), moderate (45 to 64.9) and significant (65 to 100).

Statewide there are two districts rated in “significant stress” with Mount Vernon in Westchester County at 85.0 points and Harrisville in Lewis County at 73.3.

Four others are in moderate stress: West Canada Valley in Herkimer County, Fulton in Oswego County, South Country in Suffolk County and Marathon in Cortland County.

There are 25 others, including Newfane in Niagara County, that are considered to be “susceptible.”

• Albion had a perfect score of 0, showing no signs of fiscal stress. Albion had $35,023,445 in gross expenditures in 2025, and a total fund balance of $52,566,362 with no operating deficits, according to the comptroller’s report.

• Holley is in “no designation” but its fiscal stress score has risen from 13.3 in 2023 to 20.0 in both 2024 and 2025.

Holley scored some fiscal stress points for cash ratio (cash and investments as percentage of current liabilities) and cash as a percentage of monthly gross expenditures.

Holley had $26,692,070 in gross expenditures for 2025 and a total fund balance of $12,385,393.

• Kendall in 2025 had gross expenditures of $21,077,261 and total fund balance of $15,068,835.

The district’s fiscal stress points have dropped from 13.3 in 2023 to 10.0 in 2024 to 6.7 in 2025. Kendall had 6.7 points in 2025 for “operating deficits.”

• Lyndonville also had a perfect score of 0 points. The district had $15,877,658 in expenditures and total fund balance of $11,275,775 in 2025.

• Medina had 0 fiscal stress points in 2023 and 2024, but has 10 for 2025 with 3.33 for cash as a percentage of monthly gross expenditure and 6.67 for operating deficits.

Medina totaled $44,922,233 in expenditures and $6,863,209 in total fund balance for 2025.

Click here to see the full comptroller’s report on fiscal stress for school districts.