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Tioga Central School District: budget and spending

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Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Instruction$11M$11.3M▼ 3%
Buildings and construction$8.9M$11.2M▼ 21%
Debt payments$4.9M$2.7M▲ 80%
Insurance and benefits$4.2M$3.8M▲ 9%
Staff and payroll$1.8M$1.5M▲ 22%
Vehicles and transportation$1.8M$1.5M▲ 20%
Other operations$1.3M$963K▲ 32%
Food$957K$936K▲ 2%
Technology and telecom$713K$511K▲ 40%
Professional services$42K$64K▼ 34%
Line by line

Instruction $11M

  • Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries 7-12: $2.4M
  • Teaching - Regular School: teacher salaries, full day kindergarten - 6: $2.3M
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: boces: $744K
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: instructional salaries: $696K
  • Teaching - Regular School: equipment and capital outlay: $446K
  • Supervision - Regular School: instructional salaries: $423K
  • Teaching - Regular School: instructional salaries: $373K
  • Program for Students with Disabilities School Age - School Year: noninstructional salaries: $324K
  • Occupational Education (Grades 9-12): boces: $302K
  • Teaching - Regular School: noninstructional salaries: $301K

Buildings and construction $8.9M

  • Operation of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $7.2M
  • Operation of Plant: contractual: $710K
  • Operation of Plant: noninstructional salaries: $589K
  • Maintenance of Plant: materials and supplies: $129K
  • Maintenance of Plant: contractual: $87K
  • Operation of Plant: materials and supplies: $72K
  • Security of Plant: contractual: $65K
  • Operation of Plant: boces: $25K
  • Maintenance of Plant: equipment and capital outlay: $20K

Debt payments $4.9M

  • Bond Anticipation Notes - School Construction: debt principal: $1.9M
  • Bond Anticipation Notes - School Construction: debt interest: $1.6M
  • Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt principal: $670K
  • Serial Bonds - School Construction: debt interest: $457K
  • Bond Anticipation Notes - Bus Purchases: debt principal: $128K
  • Statutory Bonds - Bus Purchases: debt principal: $109K
  • Bond Anticipation Notes - Bus Purchases: debt interest: $29K
  • Leases: debt principal: $29K
  • Statutory Bonds - Bus Purchases: debt interest: $2,995
  • Leases: debt interest: $47

Insurance and benefits $4.2M

  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $4.1M
  • Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $62K
  • Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $9,284

Staff and payroll $1.8M

  • Social Security: employee benefits: $692K
  • Teacher Retirement: employee benefits: $681K
  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $334K
  • Employee Benefits, Other (Specify): employee benefits: $91K

Vehicles and transportation $1.8M

  • District Transportation Services: noninstructional salaries: $761K
  • District Transportation Services: purchase of buses: $526K
  • District Transportation Services: materials and supplies: $168K
  • Garage Building: contractual: $154K
  • District Transportation Services: contractual: $99K
  • Garage Building: noninstructional salaries: $60K
  • Summer Transportation Services Students with Disabilities: noninstructional salaries: $11K
  • Garage Building: materials and supplies: $7,996
  • District Transportation Services: boces: $4,032
  • Summer Transportation Services Students with Disabilities: materials and supplies: $1,780

Other operations $1.3M

  • Fiscal Agents Fees: contractual: $288K
  • Director of Finance: boces: $224K
  • Director of Finance: noninstructional salaries: $223K
  • Chief School Administrator: instructional salaries: $146K
  • Boces Capital Expenses: boces: $88K
  • BOCES Administrative Costs: boces: $78K
  • Other Custodial Activities: contractual: $71K
  • Chief School Administrator: noninstructional salaries: $51K
  • Central Storeroom: materials and supplies: $37K
  • Director of Finance: contractual: $25K

Food $957K

  • School Food Services: merchandise for resale: $419K
  • School Food Services: noninstructional salaries: $264K
  • School Food Services: boces: $94K
  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $74K
  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $28K
  • School Food Services: materials and supplies: $26K
  • School Food Services: equipment and capital outlay: $24K
  • Social Security: employee benefits: $19K
  • Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $7,960
  • School Food Services: contractual: $1,949

Technology and telecom $713K

  • Central Data Processing: boces: $434K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: state-aided computer hardware - purchase: $115K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: equipment and capital outlay: $90K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: instructional salaries: $47K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: school library a/v loan program: $26K
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: contractual: $1,199
  • Computer Assisted Instruction: materials and supplies: $680

Professional services $42K

  • Auditor: contractual: $29K
  • Law: contractual: $13K
  • Personnel: contractual: $791

From Tioga 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)

YearWhatBought fromPriceBids
2025Synergy A (internal connections)
65 Aruba R7J50A access point; 12 Hewlett Packard ROM67A switch; 3 Liebert GXT5LI-1500LVRT2UXLN ups/ battery backup; 2 Aruba S0B85A$ABA router
Synergy Global Solutions, Inc$90K 4
contract to Sep 30, 2026
2025Sp Tioga (data transmission and/or internet access)
1 ethernet
Charter Communications Operating, LLC$5,880 2
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.