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Osage City USD 420

How Osage City schools are governed, funded, and changing.

What shapes the district?

Kansas formula-funded 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

2025-26 local-option budget capverified
31 percent
Cafeteria heating and cooling replacementverified
64,892.80 dollars
District spending per studentcontext
Not stated in collected records

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, 2026

The 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.

Next: A public board decision on a preferred scope, estimated cost, funding plan, and whether to place a bond question on the ballot.
  1. The superintendent reported a possible November 2026 bond vote.
  2. 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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