Osmond per-pupil costs are shared with residents

OSMOND — Following the recent community meeting of the Osmond Activity Center Committee, a request for Osmond’s per-pupil costs was made. Superintendent Dave Hamm provided the following information:

2018-19 Per-pupil Costs Based

on Average Daily Membership

Five Schools Above and Below Osmond in Number 

of Students Statewide

Potter-Dix $21,571.00

Wallace $20,713.00

Minatare $17,827.00

Hay Springs $17,501.00

Giltner $17,970.00

Crawford $17,355.00

Clarkson $20,585.00

Scribner-Snyder $20,263.00

Osceola $20,541.00

Leigh $18,855.00

AVERAGE $19,318.10

Conference Schools-Class D

Randolph $17,506.00

Hart-Newc $19,494.00

Laur-Con-Cole $17,585.00

Wynot $16,272.00

Allen $18,405.00

Emer-Hub $19,472.00

Creighton $17,139.00

Wausa $15,259.00

Bloomfield $17,978.00

Plainview $17,656.00

Walthill $18,195.00

Winside $26,072.00

AVERAGE $18,419.42

Osmond $16,535

Osmond + St. Mary’s $13,605

Osmond Community Schools provides all special services (speech, instructional support, Title I, etc.) to eligible St. Mary’s students, Hamm said; however, students at St. Mary’s are not included in per-pupil costs. If they were, Osmond would clearly have the lowest per-pupil costs of any school around, he added.

Osmond has the lowest per-pupil costs of like-sized schools in the state and is $2,783 below the average, Hamm reported. This amounts to $542,685 less per year in expenditures when compared to our peers, he said.

Osmond is $1,884 below the conference average when compared to other Class “D” schools, Hamm continued. This amounts to $367,380 less per year in expenditures when compared to our peers, he concluded.