School district Owego
Owego-Apalachin Central School District: budget and spending
- $65.2Mtotal spending, 2025 ▲ 5%
- $2Mtechnology and telecom, 2025
- $416KE-Rate networking budget (5 years)
- $416KE-Rate networking budget left
- $28KSmart Schools bond allocation
- $28KSmart Schools money planned
- $0Smart Schools money not yet planned
Spending by category, 2025
Compared with 2024
| Category | 2025 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruction | $31.2M | $28.8M | ▲ 8% |
| Insurance and benefits | $10M | $9M | ▲ 11% |
| Debt payments | $5.3M | $5.8M | ▼ 8% |
| Staff and payroll | $4.5M | $4.2M | ▲ 9% |
| Buildings and construction | $4.4M | $5.6M | ▼ 22% |
| Vehicles and transportation | $3.4M | $2.8M | ▲ 20% |
| Food | $2.2M | $2.2M | ±0% |
| Technology and telecom | $2M | $1.6M | ▲ 27% |
| Other operations | $1.8M | $1.7M | ▲ 8% |
| Professional services | $341K | $253K | ▲ 35% |
Line by line
Instruction $31.2M
- Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries 7-12: $5.2M
- Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries, full day kindergarten - 6: $5.1M
- Teaching - Regular School: equipment and capital outlay: $3.1M
- Teaching - Regular School: boces: $2.6M
- Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: instructional salaries: $2.5M
- Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: boces: $1.6M
- Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: noninstructional salaries: $1.2M
- Occupational Education (Grades 9-12): boces: $1.1M
- Supervision - Regular School: instructional salaries: $886K
- Interscholastic Athletics - Regular School: instructional salaries: $668K
Insurance and benefits $10M
- Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $9.5M
- Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $315K
- Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $166K
Debt payments $5.3M
- Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt principal: $2.1M
- Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt interest: $1.2M
- Bond Anticipation Notes - Bus Purchases: debt principal: $791K
- Leases: debt principal: $469K
- Bond Anticipation Notes - School Construction: debt interest: $443K
- Bond Anticipation Notes - School Construction: debt principal: $230K
- Bond Anticipation Notes - Bus Purchases: debt interest: $109K
- Installment Purchase Debt: debt principal: $25K
- Leases: debt interest: $16K
- Installment Purchase Debt: debt interest: $4,635
Staff and payroll $4.5M
- Social Security: employee benefits: $1.7M
- Teacher Retirement: employee benefits: $1.7M
- State Retirement System: employee benefits: $686K
- Employee Benefits, Other (Specify): employee benefits: $397K
Buildings and construction $4.4M
- Operation of Plant: contractual: $1.2M
- Operation of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $1.1M
- Operation of Plant: noninstructional salaries: $932K
- Maintenance of Plant: noninstructional salaries: $330K
- Operation of Plant: materials and supplies: $268K
- Security of Plant: contractual: $238K
- Operation of Plant: boces: $170K
- Maintenance of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $91K
- Maintenance of Plant: materials and supplies: $36K
- Maintenance of Plant: contractual: $15K
Vehicles and transportation $3.4M
- District Transportation Services: noninstructional salaries: $1.6M
- District Transportation Services: purchase of buses: $926K
- District Transportation Services: materials and supplies: $332K
- District Transportation Services: contractual: $230K
- Garage Building: noninstructional salaries: $86K
- District Transportation Services: instructional salaries: $80K
- Garage Building: contractual: $51K
- Garage Building: materials and supplies: $23K
- District Transportation Services: equipment and capital outlay: $14K
- Summer Transportation Services Students with Disabilities: noninstructional salaries: $8,568
Food $2.2M
- School Food Services: merchandise for resale: $846K
- School Food Services: noninstructional salaries: $603K
- School Food Services: boces: $215K
- School Food Services: equipment and capital outlay: $162K
- Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $162K
- School Food Services: materials and supplies: $54K
- State Retirement System: employee benefits: $54K
- Social Security: employee benefits: $43K
- School Food Services: contractual: $35K
- Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $18K
Technology and telecom $2M
- Central Data Processing: boces: $848K
- Computer Assisted Instruction: boces: $508K
- Central Data Processing: noninstructional salaries: $490K
- Computer Assisted Instruction: state-aided computer hardware - purchase: $66K
- Central Data Processing: contractual: $35K
- Computer Assisted Instruction: school library a/v loan program: $34K
- Central Data Processing: materials and supplies: $3,262
Other operations $1.8M
- Director of Finance: boces: $535K
- Chief School Administrator: instructional salaries: $229K
- Boces Capital Expenses: boces: $203K
- BOCES Administrative Costs: boces: $178K
- Other Custodial Activities: contractual: $169K
- Director of Finance: contractual: $122K
- Director of Finance: noninstructional salaries: $67K
- Chief School Administrator: noninstructional salaries: $64K
- Playground and Recreation Centers: noninstructional salaries: $61K
- Public Information and Services: boces: $52K
Professional services $341K
- Personnel: boces: $108K
- Personnel: instructional salaries: $66K
- Law: contractual: $54K
- Personnel: noninstructional salaries: $53K
- Auditor: contractual: $42K
- Personnel: contractual: $17K
- Personnel: materials and supplies: $214
From Owego-Apalachin 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 ↗
Technology purchases (E-Rate)
| Year | What | Bought from | Price | Bids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Stn Owego (data transmission and/or internet access) 1 dark fiber (no special construction) |
Southern Tier Network Inc. | $6,000 | 3 contract to Jun 30, 2029 |
| 2025 | Stn Ofa (data transmission and/or internet access) 1 dark fiber (no special construction) |
Southern Tier Network Inc. | $3,000 | 3 contract to Jun 30, 2030 |
Networking, Wi-Fi and internet bought with the federal E-Rate program’s discounts; price before the discount. From the Universal Service Administrative Company ↗.
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.