North Andover superintendent recommends $73.7M FY27 budget, proposes using $1.5M in circuit-breaker funds

Superintendent Lathrop presented the North Andover School Committee with a fiscal year 2027 recommended budget that she said "will preserve services. It will maintain all current essential services and programs for students." The proposal maintains class sizes overall, prioritizes special-education programming and early-learning initiatives, and includes targeted staff additions.

The superintendent said the full recommended package totals $73,705,289, with salaries of $59,763,211 and expense lines that bring the total to $73,705,289 before the districts planned use of reserves. "I'm recommending that we use circuit breaker to offset the $1,500,000 roughly, which would lead me to a... superintendent's recommended budget of $72,200,000," she said during the presentation. The recommendation is that the town ask for $72,200,000 at Town Meeting and that the district apply $1.5 million of anticipated state…