Wichita Public Schools · USD 259 Estimate · not a tax bill

Where your school property tax goes

This covers only the USD 259 school district’s share of your property tax. City, county and state property taxes are not included.

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Where it goes

What your tax pays for

Every school district service funded by your bill is listed from largest to smallest. Bar colors show which levy supports each service. Hover over a row for the dollar breakdown.

      Where it comes from

      Your bill by levy

      The school district’s tax is five separate levies, each set in mills: dollars per $1,000 of assessed value.

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      For context

      The district’s budget at a glance

      District settings — mill rates, assessment ratio, exemption

      These are the adopted 2026–27 figures. Change any of them and the whole receipt recalculates — useful for modeling a mill-rate decision before a hearing.

      About this tool. Built by the Kansas Public Finance Center (KPFC), directed by Dr. David Guo, from the district’s published budget documents. It is not an official product of Wichita Public Schools (USD 259).

      Sources. Mill rates and fund totals come from the USD 259 2026–27 budget documents (Notice of Hearing 9/14/2026). The service categories, and the share of each levy assigned to each service, were prepared for this receipt.

      How the split works. Each levy’s tax is computed exactly — the exemption is applied to the first 20 mills only — then divided among services by a fixed share for that levy. A service paid by more than one levy is shown once, with those levies added together. Because the exemption shrinks the General Fund’s weight on lower-valued homes, the mix changes with the home value.

      What this is not. An estimate for residential property, not a tax bill. It ignores delinquency, special assessments, protests and any exemption other than the residential property exemption from the statewide school mill levy, and it covers only the school district’s levies — not the county, city or state. Tax dollars are not earmarked to particular services inside a fund; the split here is pro rata, not a tracing.

      Figures from the USD 259 2026–27 budget. School district levies only.

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