Budget 2024-2025

Dear Chappaqua Central School District Community, 

This evening, the Board of Education voted to adopt a revised 2024-2025 School Budget of $140,747,738, which does not exceed the tax cap, and represents a $2,451,452 increase over the current budget. This proposed new budget will increase the tax levy by 1.81%.

Over the past two weeks, we have listened to your concerns and your feedback and have met with many stakeholders. This newly proposed budget maintains all of the District’s excellent academic and extracurricular programming, as well as the smaller elementary and middle school sections outlined in the original proposed budget. As always, the safety of our students and staff remains our priority. While this new proposed budget does not include funding for three additional School Resource Officers (SRO), it would maintain our current SRO program, while adding additional security enhancements throughout the District.  

You can visit our 2024-2025 Budget Webpage to access more information about the adopted proposed budget, view related presentations, or to use our tax calculator to estimate your individual anticipated tax change for next year. The video of tonight’s meeting will be posted tomorrow by early afternoon. The budget book will be available on our website and in printed copy during the week of June 11th at the main office of each school, the front desk at the Education Center, Town Hall, and the Chappaqua Public Library.  

We will also hold a webinar on Wednesday night, June 5th at 6:30pm to answer your budget questions. You may access the webinar here. 

We encourage all community members to participate in the budget vote on June 18, 2024 between 7am and 9pm in the gym at Horace Greeley High School. For voter registration, early voting, and absentee ballot application information, please visit our website here.

Sincerely, 

Christine Ackerman, PhD
Superintendent of Schools 

2024-2025 Budget Book (adopted 6/3/24)

School District Budget Notice

Aviso de presupuesto del distrito escolar

Dear Chappaqua Central School District Community,

We are writing this evening to provide an update on the budget development process for the 24-25 school year following Tuesday's vote. We extend our gratitude to all community members who participated in the voting process. We are confident that we will be able to put forward a revised, tax cap compliant, budget based on your feedback that continues the great work happening in our schools and fully supports our children.

A second budget vote will be held on June 18th. The meeting schedule to facilitate the adoption of the new budget is as follows:

Please consider providing additional feedback before the budget work session on what you would like to see prioritized in our new budget here.    

We thank you for your consideration and we look forward to updating you on our progress. 

Sincerely, 

Hilary Grasso, Board of Education President
Cailee Hwang, Board of Education Vice President
Matthew Auerbach, Member
Alissa Dorfman, Member
Ryan Kelsey, Member