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Highline CFO outlines budget outlook as governor signs K‑12 operating budget
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Jackie Bridal told the board the district finished the year with higher enrollment and tentative numbers showing revenues roughly matching expenditures, but new state accounting rules and modest legislative increases shift funding pressures into next year.
Chief Financial Officer Jackie Bridal told the Highline School District board the district is ending the year with enrollment above projections and provisional year‑to‑date figures that leave the district roughly balanced for 2024–25, but signaled fiscal pressure for 2025–26 as state accounting changes reallocate how special education is funded.
Bridal said May enrollment came in about 547 full‑time‑equivalent students over the district’s original projection and that the district had collected about 59% of its revenue and expended about 64% of its budget as of April, numbers she called “what we would expect to see at this time of year.” She said the district’s unassigned fund…
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