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Watkins Glen Central School District: budget and spending

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Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Instruction$14M$14.3M▼ 2%
Insurance and benefits$4.1M$4M▲ 3%
Debt payments$3.4M$3.6M▼ 7%
Other operations$2.7M$2.3M▲ 17%
Staff and payroll$2.2M$2M▲ 11%
Buildings and construction$1.9M$1.8M▲ 4%
Technology and telecom$1.6M$1.5M▲ 10%
Vehicles and transportation$1.1M$1.1M▲ 1%
Food$628K$619K▲ 2%
Professional services$73K$66K▲ 10%
Line by line

Instruction $14M

  • Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries 7-12: $2.3M
  • Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries, full day kindergarten - 6: $2.1M
  • Teaching - Regular School: boces: $1.6M
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: instructional salaries: $1.6M
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: boces: $936K
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: noninstructional salaries: $484K
  • Teaching - Regular School: employee benefits: $373K
  • Occupational Education (Grades 9-12): instructional salaries: $306K
  • Curriculum Development and Supervision: instructional salaries: $279K
  • Interscholastic Athletics - Regular School: instructional salaries: $278K

Insurance and benefits $4.1M

  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $4M
  • Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $107K
  • Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $42K
  • Unemployment Insurance: employee benefits: $3,562
  • Life Insurance: employee benefits: $3,054

Debt payments $3.4M

  • Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt principal: $2.2M
  • Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt interest: $631K
  • Leases: debt principal: $554K

Other operations $2.7M

  • Civic Activities: noninstructional salaries: $652K
  • BOCES Administrative Costs: boces: $378K
  • Library: contractual: $326K
  • Other Custodial Activities: contractual: $183K
  • Chief School Administrator: instructional salaries: $156K
  • Civic Activities: employee benefits: $153K
  • Library: personal services: $146K
  • Director of Finance: instructional salaries: $133K
  • Director of Finance: boces: $130K
  • Boces Capital Expenses: boces: $122K

Staff and payroll $2.2M

  • Social Security: employee benefits: $835K
  • Teacher Retirement: employee benefits: $810K
  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $319K
  • Employee Benefits, Other (Specify): employee benefits: $224K
  • Union Welfare Benefits: employee benefits: $57K

Buildings and construction $1.9M

  • Operation of Plant: noninstructional salaries: $499K
  • Maintenance of Plant: noninstructional salaries: $391K
  • Operation of Plant: contractual: $296K
  • Operation of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $241K
  • Maintenance of Plant: materials and supplies: $151K
  • Maintenance of Plant: contractual: $130K
  • Operation of Plant: materials and supplies: $110K
  • Maintenance of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $53K

Technology and telecom $1.6M

  • Computer Assisted Instruction: boces: $969K
  • Central Data Processing: boces: $538K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: noninstructional salaries: $47K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: state-aided computer hardware - purchase: $37K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: materials and supplies: $36K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: school library a/v loan program: $13K

Vehicles and transportation $1.1M

  • District Transportation Services: noninstructional salaries: $831K
  • District Transportation Services: materials and supplies: $150K
  • District Transportation Services: contractual: $126K
  • Garage Building: contractual: $17K
  • Summer Transportation Services Students with Disabilities: noninstructional salaries: $17K
  • District Transportation Services: boces: $5,409
  • Summer Transportation Services Students with Disabilities: employee benefits: $2,864

Food $628K

  • School Food Services: merchandise for resale: $293K
  • School Food Services: noninstructional salaries: $182K
  • School Food Services: boces: $65K
  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $32K
  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $22K
  • School Food Services: materials and supplies: $16K
  • Social Security: employee benefits: $14K
  • School Food Services: contractual: $5,060

Professional services $73K

  • Personnel: boces: $29K
  • Auditor: contractual: $28K
  • Law: contractual: $13K
  • Auditor: noninstructional salaries: $3,550

From Watkins Glen Central School District’s annual financial report to the Office of the New York State Comptroller (2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30), all funds. Categories group the state’s account codes: technology is data processing, phones, 911 and radio and computer instruction; transfers between the body’s own funds are left out. The Comptroller’s data ↗

Figures are public records: the body’s own reports (marked by year) and other agencies’ records of what it bought or received. They aren’t added together. Something wrong? Tell us.