Some commenters on a recent post to the Listserv and article in the Lyme Gazette about the School budget have suggested that the increase in the SAU budget is because various positions have been transferred to the SAU from the School administrative lines.

The graph below shows the changes in budgets for the different components of the administrative total. If a position is transferred from the School to the SAU, one would expect to see the increase in the SAU budget matched by a similar decrease in the School budget. This has not occurred.

The bottom line is that since 2022, the total administrative budget has increased by almost 70%, is more than $3500 per student, and represents more than 10% of the total School budget.

David Avery
david.l.avery@dartmouth.edu