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Board narrows FY26 ADM projection to 50 students as staff warns overestimates drove FY25 shortfall
Summary
District finance staff said overestimated student growth was a primary cause of the FY25 shortfall; after discussion the board signaled consensus to use a conservative 50-student growth estimate for FY26 budget planning.
District finance staff told the board that a principal cause of the FY25 budget gap was optimism in student-count projections. Ken Hicks explained that the district's base support calculations and the revenue limit are driven largely by average daily membership (ADM). He said the administration built draft FY26 numbers on an ADM of roughly 4,370 and noted recent official ADM counts for the current year had fallen to about 4,267.
"Any time the board is approving a budget,…
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