The ESSER Funding Status Report is available on the PDE website. Local Education Agencies (LEAs)—including school districts, charter schools, intermediate units, career and technical education centers, approved private schools, private residential rehabilitative institutions, and chartered schools for the deaf and blind, that receive Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding must access and complete the report for LEAs.

Non-LEA entities, such as entities providing educational programs to neglected, delinquent, and at-risk youth, that receive ESSER funding must access and complete the report for non-PIMS reporting entities.

Access the ESSER Funding Status Report.

PDE has prepared instructions for completion of the ESSER Funding Status Report for both LEAs and non-LEA entities. The instructions outline the details of the federal reporting requirement, including the time period of expenditures to be reported, what entities must complete each section of the report, and how to categorize expenditures pursuant to federal recommendations.

Access the instructions for LEAs and non-LEA entities.

​PDE must submit the reported information to the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) later this spring. To facilitate that submission, LEAs and non-LEA entities receiving ESSER funds must submit the ESSER Funding Status Report to PDE no later than April 29, 2022. All grantees are encouraged to submit their completed reports as soon as possible.

​The federal ESSER Report is a condition of continued receipt of ESSER funds, and this requirement is built into every ESSER grant agreement. LEAs and non-LEA entities that do not complete and submit the ESSER Funding Status Report will jeopardize their ESSER funding.

​All LEAs and non-LEA entities receiving ESSER funds (under the CARES Act (ESSER I), the CRRSA Act (ESSER II) and/or the ARP Act (ARP ESSER)) must complete and submit the ESSER Funding Status Report to PDE. This includes all school districts, charter schools, IUs, CTCs, approved private schools, PRRIs, chartered schools for the deaf and blind, and entities providing educational programs to neglected, delinquent, and at-risk youth that received ESSER funding.

The reporting period for the ESSER Funding Status Report due to PDE by April 29 is generally the 2020-21 fiscal year, with the exception of school districts and charter schools that must report information on ESSER I, which includes a modified reporting period (see below).

LEAs and non-LEA entities should complete the ESSER Funding Status Report based on activities and expenditures in the 2020-21 fiscal year for ESSER I, ESSER II and ARP ESSER, respectively. LEAs whose fiscal year starts on January 1 should use the method of converting their financial information to July 1 to June 30 as they do for the reporting on the Annual Financial Report.

The ESSER Funding Status Report will be an annual report. Information regarding activities and expenditures for the 2021-22 fiscal year will be reported in the fall of 2022.

​The ESSER Funding Status Report is for LEAs and Non-LEA entities receiving any type of ESSER funds (ESSER I, ESSER II, and APR ESSER) to report their use or planned use of those funds. 

​Do not include receipt or use of other COVID-relief funds, such as Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Funds, Emergency Assistance to Nonpublic Schools (EANS) Funds, ARP IDEA Funds, ARP Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) Funds, and/or any other federal, state, or local COVID-related relief funds.

​The ESSER Funding Status Report defines two broad categories of information: Mandatory Subgrants to LEAs and SEA Reserve Allocations. The CARES Act, the CRRSA Act, and the ARP Act defined these two categories of ESSER funding. 

Mandatory Subgrants to LEAs: At least 90% of each state's total ESSER allocation is dedicated to Mandatory Subgrant Awards to LEAs, which are the funds that had to be distributed to school districts and charter schools via Title I-A shares. See the table below.

SEA Reserve Allocation: The remainder of a state's ESSER allocation under each Act (up to 10%) is defined as the ESSER SEA Reserve Allocation.

The Pennsylvania General Assembly determined how the ESSER SEA Reserve Allocations for ESSER I and ARP ESSER were distributed. See the table below for the ESSER SEA Reserve Allocations to LEAs for ESSER I and ARP ESSER. There were no ESSER SEA Reserve Allocations to LEAs for ESSER II.

ESSER I SEA Reserve

Total Allocation: $49.8 million
Agency, process: PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD), eGrants
Eligible LEAs: School districts and charter schools
Link to LEA Allocations: LEA Allocations
Timeline for Use of Funds: March 13, 2020 through September 30, 2022

ARP ESSER SEA Reserve

​Questions about the ESSER Funding Status Report should be sent to ra-edarpesser@pa.gov.

​Yes, all LEAs must submit a reporting template to PDE by April 29, 2022. 

​LEAs should report on activities and interventions implemented with ESSER funds in the applicable reporting period.

​Please complete the report, save it, and return it to ra-edarpesser@pa.gov by April 29, 2022.

​No, input a zero for the areas your LEAs is reporting to indicate you have responded to the question.