When Pennsylvania finally passed its state budget this month, Lehighton Area School District Superintendent Jason Moser was ready with the math.

Presenting a line-by-line comparison of what the district projected versus what the state actually delivered, Moser told the school board Monday night that the district came within roughly $30,000 of the state’s total funding on a budget of nearly $17 million; a margin he described as something to be proud of.

“While I’m not happy that we didn’t get more, I am incredibly proud to say that we were about 99.82% accurate on the state budget,” Moser said. “Quite frankly, that’s pretty impressive.”

According to figures presented at the meeting, the district budgeted $17,016,745 in state revenue across four funding streams — Basic Education Funding, Special Education Funding, Ready to Learn Foundation and Ready to Learn Adequacy. The state ultimately delivered $16,986,782.47, leaving a total shortfall of $29,962.53.

The largest single miss was in Basic Education Funding, where the district projected $11,636,600 but received $11,600,609 — a difference of nearly $36,000.

On Special Education Funding, the district came in slightly under its projection, receiving $6,335 more than expected. The Ready to Learn Foundation figure was the closest call of all.

“We missed the mark by 43 cents on that one,” Moser said. “Not a bad projection.”

The presentation appeared aimed in part at answering criticism that had been raised previously at the board table. Moser said he wanted to set the record straight.

“It has previously been suggested at this table in this room that the administration was under projecting revenue sources,” he said. “Well, that’s inherently untrue with this budget. Just flat out inherently untrue. We overprojected by almost $30,000. We take it very, very seriously to get as accurate as possible.”

The district passed its final budget before the state passed its own. Moser said that timing is unlikely to change soon.

“We should probably kind of get used to that, as long as we have a divided Senate and House at the state level,” he said.

Last year the state budget came through in November or December, Moser noted. This year it arrived in July, giving the district “somewhat more concrete information” to work with ahead of the school year.