Dysart Budget Review
Where Dysart spends its money
What Dysart Unified School District budgets and spends, where its funding comes from, and the published numbers behind enrollment, teacher pay and property taxes.
Districtwide snapshot assembled October 4, 2026. Actual expenditures run through FY2025; planning measures include FY2027.
Budget compared with actual spending
Adopted spending authority and reported expenditures for three headline funds. These figures are not cash balances, and their sum is not total district spending. Choose a fund to see what it was spent on.
| Fund | Budget | Actual | Spent | Unspent authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintenance and operationsBudget source · Actual source | $213,793,349 | $195,132,127 | 91.3% | $18,661,222 |
| Classroom Site FundBudget source · Actual source | $43,396,675 | $21,298,556 | 49.1% | $22,098,119 |
| Unrestricted capital outlayBudget source · Actual source | $19,716,853 | $9,367,800 | 47.5% | $10,349,053 |
Where funding comes from
Dysart's published funding mix. Restricted dollars cannot necessarily be moved to another purpose.
- State49%
- Federal16%
- Local35%
Enrollment, salaries and taxes
| Budgeted enrollment | 21,900 |
|---|---|
| Actual enrollment | 21,758.7 |
| Auditor General salary measure | $68,186 |
| Secondary tax rate | 2.0170 |
The Auditor General measure includes additional eligible compensation. Tax rates are per $100 of assessed value, not market value.
Sources and definitions
- FY2025 adopted expenditure budget
Adopted budget, average daily membership and fund-level appropriations.
- FY2025 annual financial report
Actual expenditures by fund, function and object, actual average daily membership and tax rates.
- Dysart district budget overview
Current funding mix and published teacher-salary measures.
- Dysart Proposition 421 information
District estimate of the proposed bond's tax rate and example household impact.
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This districtwide snapshot is not a transaction ledger. It does not include individual invoices, purchase orders or vendor payments. “Budget” means legal spending authority; “actual” means reported expenditures.