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District presents secondary per‑pupil spending, program budget and fee details
Summary
Dr. Sarah Chiaclarity summarized older (2021) per‑pupil spending data, described components of the secondary director budget and noted a $50,000 AVID reduction that reduced the secondary program budget about 6.19% from the prior year.
During the Jan. 27 presentation to the Sun Prairie Area School District Board of Education, Dr. Sarah Chiaclarity reviewed secondary spending practices, per‑pupil allocations, building budgets and the secondary office programming budget.
Chiaclarity cautioned that the most recent spending data available to the business office were from fiscal year 2021 and therefore older than the assessment data she presented. Using those figures as context, the district reported an average secondary spending level of roughly $13,663 to $13,967 per pupil when combining local and district-wide allocations; federal per‑pupil spending for secondary sites averaged about $304 in that dataset. Building budgets are distributed on a per‑pupil basis with a free‑and‑reduced adjustment ranging from 10% to 35% and specific per‑pupil supplements: $164 per middle‑school pupil and $2.71 per high‑school pupil as described in the presentation.
The secondary director’s budget covers items outside curriculum adoption, including textbook purchases between adoption cycles, online subscriptions, equipment, professional development, multilingual-learner supports (translation/interpretation and test coordination), AVID program fees and tutor salaries, Project Lead The Way fees for high‑school engineering courses, early‑college tuition/consortium fees and music/physical‑education equipment replacement. Chiaclarity said the district reduced the AVID travel budget by $50,000 and shifted to local training, contributing to a reported 6.19% reduction in the secondary programming total to about $854,000 from the prior year (figure cited for that line item).
The district also collects student fees: $20 per middle-school student and $40 per high‑school student, with fee waivers available for students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Chiaclarity said last year building budgets totaled $1,049,423 in collected spending for site allocations and the district collected $88,823 in fees; she emphasized these figures referenced 2021 data and the business office intends to provide more recent figures in future updates.
Chiaclarity asked the board to sustain funding and staff compensation as the district implements the instructional framework and new curriculum adoptions; she also raised transportation for off‑site opportunities as a barrier that may require local advocacy or funding.
