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Oshkosh board hears early budget variance, ERP rollout and enrollment decline; district flags 2026-27 adjustments
Summary
Oshkosh Area School District administrators on Oct. 8 told the School Board that the September budget variance was slightly above trend, the district's new enterprise resource planning system is changing how payroll data posts, Chartwells' menu changes will be delayed until November, and the official third-Friday enrollment count dropped to 8,923 — 185 fewer students than the prior year.
Oshkosh Area School District administrators on Oct. 8 told the School Board that the September budget variance was slightly above trend, the district's new enterprise resource planning system is changing how payroll data posts, Chartwells' menu changes will be delayed until November, and the official third-Friday enrollment count dropped to 8,923 — 185 fewer students than the prior year.
Those items matter because state funding and the district's revenue limit are tied to enrollment and membership. District staff said the decline will be covered by the state's declining-enrollment exemption this year but will lower the base used for next year's revenue-limit calculation and could require program and staffing adjustments for 2026–27.
John Andrew Neehans, the district's executive director of…
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