School Leadership Simulator

Budget, staffing and community trust vs. student achievement (illustrative model)

Strategy presets

Budget allocation (shares of total)

Context & leadership

Total budget

Disadvantaged

Instructional focus

Speed (terms/s)

Events

Drag a building up or down to change its budget share. Click a student bar to inspect.

Live readouts

Trends (last 40 terms)

Achievement distribution

Illustrative system-dynamics model: funding has diminishing returns, teaching quality decays with staff turnover, morale depends on workload and trust, and trust grows from engagement and results. Not calibrated to any real school; use it to explore trade-offs.