District overview
Jessamine County Schools
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
What the reviewed public record shows
The Board governs districtwide budget, staffing, curriculum, policy and facilities decisions. The FY2027 working budget provides exact fund-level appropriations, while the meeting record shows tax, renovation and policy actions.
The FY2027 General Fund is balanced at $107.4 million
The working budget matches General Fund resources and expenditures at $107,400,950.43, including a $5,107,901.43 beginning balance and $3.5 million contingency. Its summary separately reports an $82.2 million General Fund excluding state on-behalf benefit costs and a 2.92% contingency, but does not specify or reconcile the percentage denominator.
The Board lowered the real-property rate and kept other levies
The adopted levy is 66.5 cents per $100 on real property and 67.8 cents on personal property; the Board continued 54.7 cents on motor vehicles and a 3% utility tax. The August proposal estimated $48,067,173.99 from real and personal property.
August results show an early-year General Fund gap
The treasurer report records $6,637,679 in year-to-date revenue and $6,693,075 in expenditures, a $55,395 net loss. A separate monthly dashboard reports $6,705,899 in expenses; the collected publications do not reconcile that $12,824 difference.
A same-period enrollment denominator is unavailable
The reviewed budget and financial publications do not provide a same-period district enrollment count, so no district spending-per-pupil figure is calculated.
Current policies cover phones and AI
Phone policy generally bars device use during instructional time with emergency and teacher exceptions. Electronic-media policy requires AI procedures covering safety, privacy, ethics and inspiration versus cheating.
School councils document local staffing, budgets, policy and instruction
Ten official SBDM repositories provide 59 in-window school-council occurrences plus historical records. Examples include enrollment-driven staffing reductions at East Jessamine Middle and Wilmore, school policy revisions, ESS and Section VI budgets, and school-level improvement and safety actions.
Wilmore adopted a school-level AI use framework
The July 2026 staff resource allows examples such as grammar checking and research summarization, requires human review for conditional uses such as AI-assisted drafting, and prohibits AI-generated student work, AI-only grading and entering student personally identifiable information. August 12 council minutes document adoption and say the school is sharing the same ideas and practices with students.
The official finance page links an FY2025 audit that currently redirects to Google sign-in, so it is disclosed as an inaccessible child and is not counted as reviewed. October 12 agendas establish proposed topics but not outcomes.
Where the district stands
Major projects
East Jessamine High School 30-year renovation
Design team approved; budget and construction schedule not establishedThe Board selected Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects on August 24 and approved the owner-architect agreement September 28. The reviewed sources do not state an approved BG-1 total, funding package or construction date.
- Board selected Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects.
- Board approved the owner-architect agreement.
Funding
Not established in the collected records.
The Providence School structural work
Emergency response and initial project approval recordedThe Board granted a May 27 emergency-day waiver because of structural damage and approved an initial BG-1 June 22. The records do not state the repair scope, total cost, funding source or completion.
- Board approved an emergency-day waiver because of structural damage.
- Board approved the initial BG-1.
Funding
Not established in the collected records.
Recent news
All 153 stored official originals were restored, hash-verified and substantively reviewed. The corpus includes district Board minutes, agendas, finance publications and current policies plus the official SBDM repositories and every linked publication for ten schools.
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