School Finance
June 03, 2025

Fact Sheet 25-9: 96.5% Passage Rate for School Budgets

Source: NYSUT Research and Educational Services

Voters across the state approved 96.5% of school budgets - 654 passed and just 24 were defeated. Of the twenty-four districts that experienced a budget defeat, seventeen were attempting to pierce their Tax Levy Limit and therefore needed a super-majority (60 percent) for approval. Twenty-five districts were successful in their Tax Levy Limit override attempt.

The twenty-four districts that had their budget defeated may choose to have a revote. All revotes will occur on the third Tuesday in June (June 17, 2025).

If a district chooses to not have a revote and therefore moves directly to contingency budget or has their budget revote defeated, the district must then adopt a contingency budget. The respective district may not increase their tax levy above the previous year's levy—a zero percent cap on the tax levy.

 

The following chart provides a listing of those districts that had their budget defeated.

 

2025 Budget Defeats (by County) 

DISTRICT COUNTY
BRUNSWICK CSD* (58.3%) Rensselaer
CALEDONIA-MUMFORD CSD Livingston
CAZENOVA CSD* (52.7%) Madison
CENTRAL SQUARE CSD Oswego
CORNING-PAINTED POST AREA SD* (40.2%) Steuben
CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT* (45.7%)  Cortland
ELWOOD UFSD* (54.2%) Suffolk
FREDONIA CSD
Chautauqua
GANANDA CSD* (40.7%)
Wayne
GERMANTOWN CSD* (57.8%)
Columbia
HORESHEADS CSD* (50.9%)
Chemung
INDIAN LAKE CSD* (46.7%)
Hamilton
JEFFERSON CSD
Schoharie
JORDAN-ELBRIDGE CSD
Onondaga
KEENE CSD* (53.8%)
Essex
MAHOPAC CSD
Putnam
NEW LEBANON CSD* (56.5%)
Columbia
NORTHVILLE CSD* (41.6%)
Fulton
OAKFIELD-ALABAMA CSD* (46.3%)
Genesee
PRATTSBURGH CSD* (50.0%)
Steuben
SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CSD* (55.1%)
Schenectady
SHELTER ISALND UFSD* (54.9%)
Suffolk
SHERRILL CITY SD (VERNON VERONA SHERRILL)* (51.6%)
Oneida
TUXEDO UFSD
Orange

* District needed a super-majority 60% for approval. The number in parenthesis is the percentage of YES votes

 

 

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