District overview
Osage City USD 420
How Osage City schools are governed, funded, and changing.
What shapes the district?
Osage City USD 420 combines Kansas school-finance aid with local property taxes. Its elected Board of Education adopts the budget, sets policy, hires leaders, and decides on curriculum and facilities work.
Local board control
The board adopts budgets and policies and appoints district and school leaders.
State and local revenue
State formula aid and local taxes support district operations; the board adopted a local-option budget of up to 31% for 2025-26.
Facilities planning
The district is studying building alternatives and has discussed a possible November 2026 bond vote.
The collected meeting records do not provide a complete comparable spending-per-student figure or a final bond proposal.
Where the district stands
The reviewed archive does not provide a complete comparable per-pupil figure.
Major projects
District facilities feasibility study
Alternatives presented; no board action as of May 6, 2026The superintendent raised a possible November 2026 bond vote in November. Architects later presented building alternatives at a May special meeting, where the board took no action.
- The superintendent reported a possible November 2026 bond vote.
- Architects presented feasibility alternatives; the board took no action.
Funding
Not yet established
The collected records do not contain a final project scope, bond amount, or financing plan.
All 18 in-window official records were reviewed chronologically. Meeting representations were grouped into 11 occurrence-level reports.
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