Fast Facts
Discover more about the work of IU13 here! These “fast facts” provide an overview of IU13 facts and figures from the prior school year.
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- Facilities/Staff/Funding
- Serving Young Learners
- Serving School-Age Learners
- Serving Adult Learners
- Serving Educators & Administrators
- Serving School Districts
- Serving Community, Region & State
- IU13 Offices & Classrooms
IU13 Facilities, Staff, and Funding
Staff: 1,638` including:
- Teachers/Professionals: 540 • Classroom Support: 487 • Community Education: 42 • Non-Instructional: 257 • Substitutes: 330+ • PaTTAN: 80
Total 2025-26 Budget: $256,117,922<
Budget Breakdown by Strategic Business Unit (SBU)/Service Support Unit (SSU):<
- Admin./Management Services $ 4,279,559
- Community Education $ 5,130,486
- Teaching and Learning Collaborative $ 2,245,891
- Early Learners $ 12,396,150
- Early Intervention $ 34,667,840
- Student Services $ 12,229,046
- Special Education Classroom Services $ 61,488,841
- Itinerant Solutions $ 34,990,637
- Pass-thru Funds Administration $ 19,702,434
- Regional Technology Solutions $ 24,278,686
- PaTTAN $ 32,243,616
- Statewide Projects $ 5,076,695
- Educational Technology $ 7,388,041
- Operations and Infrastructure (SSU) $ 27,033,097
- Internal Service Funds-Benefits (SSU) $ 32,369,453
(Programs and services are organized into 13 Strategic Business Units (SBU) and 2 Service Support Units (SSU). SSUs support the work of SBUs; as a result, SSU expenditures are also reflected within each SBU’s expenditures.)
Funding Sources:<
Local Sources 24% | State Sources 27% | Federal Sources 26% | Special Education Consortia 23%
`As of September 25, bulleted breakdown does not include daily substitutes & Extended School Year (ESY) staff | <as of 9/25
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Serving Young Learners
- Preschool Early Intervention: 3,826 children served (ages 3-5); 172,350 hours of service provided
- Head Start/PA Pre-K Counts: 370 children served (ages 3-5)
- Early Head Start: 207 children (ages birth-3)
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Serving School-Age Learners
- Pregnant/Parenting Student Program (ELECT): 40 students served
- Nonpublic School Services: 47 different schools served
- 954* students served in Reading • 803* in Math • 435* in Speech & Language
- 24,421 times students served by Nonpublic School Counselors
- Special Education Classrooms: 95, serving 915 students
- Including Autistic Support, Emotional Support, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Support, Diagnostic Kindergarten, Life Skills Support, Multiple Disabilities Support, and School-to-Work
- Itinerant Services: 4,092 students*
- Job Training Services: 2,009* students served (through internships, job placements, and work readiness)
- Student Enrichment Experience (SEE) Seminars: 1,300 students* participated
- Online and Blended Learning Courses/Services: students from 20 schools/districts; 31,854 course enrollments*
- Partial Hospitalization Program: 45 students served
- IU13 STEM for All Program: 40 classrooms served
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Serving Adult Learners
- Students Served: 1,142
- Employment, Job Retention, High School Equivalency (HSE) Attainment, and Transition to Post-secondary Education
- Family Literacy: 44 families supported
- Micro-Credentials: 86 completed programs including Administrative Support Professional, Direct Care Provider, and Teacher Assistant
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Serving Educators & Administrators
- Events: 1,802 events for 55,676 attendees
- Instructional Media Services (IMS): Served 6,000 educators and 90,000 students
- STEELS Institute: 52 districts, 104 teachers, and 2,600 students served
- Regional Technical Assistance through PaTTAN: 1,266 events and 29,969 teachers served
- Special Professional Development Supported by PaTTAN: 56% Customized Support, 18% Critical, 16% Emergent, and 10% Systemic
- Comprehensive School Improvement: 7 schools served
- Education Conference: 250+ educators, practitioners, and parents participated
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Serving School Districts
- Extended School Year (ESY): 502 students referred to IU13 for ESY services
- High-Speed Internet: 34 public school districts, nonpublic, parochial, and charter schools served
- IDEA: Administered $14.1M in pass-thru IDEA special education funds for local districts
- Job-alike & Professional Learning Communities: 20 different groups focused on supporting school districts and their staff
- Legislative Breakfast: Hosted event for 300+ education leaders and lawmakers
- Single Audit: “No findings” in single audit of $60.8M
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Serving Community, Region, and State
- Bridging Knowledge to Know-How: Empowering Educators and Partners Conference:
1,100 participants (educators, parents, and students) - CAFCO Food Service Program: 90 participating districts in 23 counties
- Community Clothing Closet: Supported 216 Northern Lebanon County families
- Continuous School Improvement (CSI) Team: 163 schools and 152,000 students served
- Fingerprinting: 866 served to meet hiring requirements for school employment
- Flight Team Support: provided 26 days of onsite crisis support to local districts, 101 flight team members deployed
- Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness (OTDA): Administered statewide program for PDE, resulting in 14,000+ students served and $238,000 in grant funding for 14 schools
- Refugee Center: 617 clients served, 23 languages spoken
- Statewide Projects Team (for PDE): 782 Local Education Agengies (LEAs) supported in Data/PVAAS
Professional Learning Services with 6,847 attendees; 11 education research projects for PDE; 759 LEAs
supported through the PIMS-PVAAS Data Collection and Forums for 18,966 participants - Statewide Software Sales: $20.7M+ in sales
- Tech Talk Live: Conference for tech administrators working in an educational setting, 660 attendees from 180+ different education institutions
- Workforce Summit 2030: Co-hosted event with Lancaster County STEM Alliance, 250+ community leaders
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IU13 Offices & Classrooms
IU13 serves the Lancaster & Lebanon county region and beyond. In addition to three main offices (Lancaster, Lebanon, and PaTTAN-Harrisburg), IU13 operates classrooms in its center-based locations to provide direct services to students of all ages. IU13 classrooms are also hosted in schools within local school districts or community-based locations. Beyond classrooms, IU13 staff serve students in many other local settings, including nonpublic schools, agencies, preschools, child-care centers, and even homes
IU13 Main Offices:
- IU13 Lancaster County Office
- IU13 Lebanon County Office
- PaTTAN-Harrisburg
IU13 Centers:
- Central Education Center (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Northern Education Center (Early Childhood and School-age)
- White Oak Early Learning Center (Early Childhood)
- School-based Partial Hospitalization Program (School-age)
- Center for Community Education at Burle (Adult Classes/Services)
- Community Education at Chestnut Street (Adult Classes/Services)
IU13 Classrooms within School Districts: 95 classes
- Annville-Cleona (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Cocalico (School-age)
- Conestoga Valley (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Cornwall-Lebanon (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Donegal (School-age)
- Eastern Lebanon County (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Elizabethtown Area (School-age)
- Ephrata Area (School-age)
- Hempfield (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Lampeter-Strasburg (School-age)
- Lancaster (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Lebanon (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Manheim Central (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Manheim Township (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Northern Lebanon (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Palmyra Area (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Penn Manor (School-age)
- Pequea Valley (School-age)
- Solanco (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Warwick (Early Childhood and School-age)
- Lancaster County CTC (Itinerant school-age support)
- Lebanon County CTC (Itinerant school-age support)
- Nonpublic Schools (47 schools receiving IU13 services)
Community-Based Locations & Programs:
- Early Head Start and Head Start (Varied locations and homes)
- Juniper Village Work Immersion (School-age)
- Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital (School-age)
- Lancaster Intensive Day Treatment (School-age)
- Lancaster-Lebanon Virtual Solutions (LLVS) (19 school district partners)
- Lebanon Correctional Facility (School-age)
- Masonic Village Work Immersion (School-age)
- Moravian Manor Work Immersion (School-age)
- Preschool Early Intervention (Varied child care centers/preschools/homes)
- Project SEARCH (Lancaster) (School-age)
- Refugee Center (Lancaster) (Varied services for students & adults)
- School-to-Work at Burle (Lancaster) (School-age)
- School-to-Work at Lebanon Valley College (School-age)
- Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology (School-age)
- Willow Valley Work Immersion (School-age)