North Bend SD proposes $47 million general fund budget; reserves projected to fall to $4.2 million

North Bend School District budget officials presented a proposed 2025–26 general fund budget of $47,014,073 at a budget committee meeting, warning that maintaining current staffing and pay increases would draw down reserves by roughly $3.7 million and leave an estimated ending fund balance of about $4.2 million in June 2026.

The budget presentation, given during the committee’s public meeting, laid out the district’s major revenue assumptions, including a biennial state school fund allocation the presenters described as $11.35 billion statewide and an estimated per‑student allocation of about $11,094 for the coming year. District staff said the proposed budget also incorporates recent grant awards, most notably an Oregon seismic retrofit grant of approximately $2.5 million for retrofitting North Bay Elementary and additional funds from the Student Investment Account (SIA) and Preschool Promise.

District officials and staff said enrollment decline remains the budget’s primary structural challenge. The presentation said the district’s September 2024 ADM (average daily membership) was 1,955, a projection used earlier for 2024–25 budgeting was 2,001, and more recent counts lowered that number to about 1,894. Presenters said every 100 fewer students equals roughly $1.1 million in state funding loss for the district; Evergreen Virtual Academy…