Keller ISD will head into fiscal year 2026-27 with a 1% raise for staff and net more than $321,000 for the general fund, following the board of trustees' budget approval at a June 25 school board meeting.
By the numbers
Projections from the district show KISD expects to collect nearly $346.41 million in revenue and incur a little more than $346.08 million in expenditures, leaving the district with a $321,485 surplus.
KISD’s revenue comes from local, state and federal sources, with local revenue sources, like property taxes, contributing about 57% of the district’s revenue. State revenue makes up about 42% and federal funding contributes the remaining 1%.
Across the general fund, the district cut about $11.7 million in expenditures, with reductions to the school leadership, instructional leadership and community education. The child nutrition fund was also reduced by about $1.3 million.
KISD saved about $7.4 million in staffing and administrative positions due to some positions remaining unfilled, KISD Chief Financial Officer Pamela Stranathan said at a June 11 board meeting. The $7.4 million in savings from unfilled positions, combined with a 1% staff raise, $25 monthly increase in the district’s contribution to employee health insurance and additional payroll costs like state-mandated teacher raises, caused a total payroll reduction of about $3.08 million in FY 2026-27, Stranathan said.
After factoring in all budget cuts and staff raises, FY 2026-27 general fund expenditures are about $6 million lower than they were in FY 2025-26.
Some background
The amended FY 2025-26 budget ended with a roughly $6.5 million shortfall. After the savings from staffing and administrative positions, as well as other expenditure cuts, the district reduced the budget by about $13 million from the general and child nutrition funds, compensating for the previous shortfall.
Looking ahead
The Texas Education Agency can still affect KISD’s revenue, assistant superintendent John Allison said at the June 11 meeting.
“There are still aspects of funding from the last legislative session that TEA doesn’t have answers for,” Allison said.
Stranathan said Keller ISD will receive its certified property values and get its final revenue calculations in July, and the school board will adopt the tax rate in August.
