Budget > Highlights

Expenditure Highlights

• Expenditures include a reduction of 17 education teaching positions through retirements and attrition.

• Instructional technology initiatives and enhancements impact the budget by $1,323,684.

• The expenditure total includes payment of $2,331,407 to charter and cyber charter schools for the cost of tuition for district residents enrolled in these State approved schools.  This is a requirement as a result of Act 22 of 1997.

• Salary and employee benefits represent over 64% of the district’s total expenditure budget.

• Over 58% of the district’s budget is budgeted for direct instruction and instructional support.

Revenue Highlights

• The millage rate for 2010/11 was established at 27.19 mills.  This represents a 4.87% increase over the 2010/11 rate of 25.9274, or an increase of $189.39 for the average home assessed at $150,000.  The Act 1 property tax reduction amounted to $186.96 per approved homestead/farmstead.

• 78.4% of the district’s revenue comes from local sources, State sources represent

• 20.5%, and Federal sources represents1.1%.                  

• State instructional subsidy for 2010/11 represents approximately $1,280 per student.