District overview

Golden Plains USD 316

How Golden Plains is governed, funded, and changing.

What shapes the district?

Kansas formula-funded district

Golden Plains USD 316 is governed by its local Board of Education and funded through Kansas school-finance aid and local property taxes. Enrollment and the local-option budget percentage help shape the resources available each year.

Local board decisions

The Board of Education adopts the budget, sets policy, hires district leaders, and approves curriculum and facilities work.

State and local funding

Kansas formula aid is combined with local taxes and a local-option budget adopted by the board.

Small enrollment

September 2025 minutes reported 149 K-12 students, making enrollment changes especially important to staffing and revenue.

The collected board records identify the budget process and enrollment, but do not provide a complete district spending-per-student figure.

Where the district stands

K-12 enrollment reported in September 2025verified

149 students

K-5 chronic absenteeism in quarter threeverified

44 percent

District spending per studentcontext

Not stated in collected records

The reviewed meeting records do not provide a complete comparable per-pupil spending measure.

Major projects

Gym roof coating

Work began April 13, 2026

The board sought proposals in December, reviewed coating options in January, and later reported that Aqua Shield was planning the job. April minutes say work began that day.

Next: The district has not published a completion date in the collected minutes; the next useful update is completion and final cost.

Dec 8, 2025The board approved issuing a request for proposals for the gym roof.
Jan 12, 2026The board reviewed roof-coating options.
Apr 13, 2026Minutes reported that roof work began.

Funding

Not stated in the collected minutes

The public record reviewed here does not give a contract amount or completion date.

Elementary attendance response

Third-quarter chronic absence reached 44%

K-5 chronic absenteeism rose from 10% in the first quarter to 16% in the second and 44% in the third.

Next: Look for a district attendance plan and a later-quarter rate showing whether the increase reversed.

Mar 9, 2026The board received the quarter-by-quarter K-5 chronic-absence figures.

Funding

Not stated

The collected minutes report the trend but do not identify a funded response plan.

All 34 unique official agenda and minutes files in the trailing-year archive were reviewed chronologically. Reports combine alternate representations of the same meeting.

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