Government directory/Kansas/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 179617

Paradise.

Independent school district in Kansas · Census county area: Russell.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

97students in the finance record
2operating schools connected
$26,351current spending per pupil
Who governs this Kansas school system

Kristin Lyle is the latest state-published board president.

Kansas law establishes a seven-member elected board. The latest statewide directory publishes this district's 2025–26 president, clerk, superintendent, and public district contact—but not the other six board members. Election.org shows the useful names first and the gap plainly instead of presenting a thin entity shell as complete.

7authorized elected board positions
4 yearsstatutory board-member term
2027next regular election cycle under current law
People to know

Board leadership and district administration

Latest annual snapshot · not a live full roster
Board president

Kristin Lyle

Elected each year by the seven-member board from among its members.

Superintendent

Bill Bagshaw

Runs district administration under the board's governance.

Board clerk

Cambria Ellis

District officer responsible for board records and election certifications.

What voters control

Seven seats, four-year terms, local voting plans.

Kansas voters elect school-board members. Regular elections are currently held in November of odd-numbered years. A district can use an authorized combination of member districts, at-large positions, and voting plans, so Election.org does not invent this district's seat map when the statewide directory does not publish it.

DistrictUSD 399 · Russell County
District phone785-885-4843
Source year2025-2026
What is still missing

This is statewide leadership coverage—not a complete local board record yet.

  • The other six board-member names, positions, term expirations, and vacancies
  • The district's exact voting plan, member districts, and address-level seat map
  • 2027 filings, candidates, campaign information, and prior certified results
  • Normalized agendas, minutes, recorded votes, policies, contracts, vendors, and decision history

Source: Kansas State Department of Education, 2025–26 statewide directory, checked 2026-08-30. To protect residents, Election.org intentionally omits board-president street addresses and all person-level email addresses from the source, including personal webmail accounts. A dated directory name is not proof of continued service after the snapshot.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment9720.5% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$26,35123.9% higher than 2019 after inflation · 52.1% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$2.8M26.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2019 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 122; 2020: 114; 2021: 106; 2022: 128; 2023: 113; 2024: 9713211393201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $21,261; 2020: $23,539; 2021: $26,058; 2022: $19,353; 2023: $24,617; 2024: $26,351$27,331$22,852$18,373201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20193.5% F61.5% S35.0% L
20203.8% F62.4% S33.8% L
20215.8% F63.0% S31.2% L
20226.8% F58.7% S34.5% L
202317.5% F53.3% S29.2% L
20247.6% F61.8% S30.6% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019122$17,328$2,237,000$2,198,000$0
2020114$19,421$2,415,000$2,265,000$0
2021106$22,509$2,458,000$2,427,000$0
2022128$18,055$2,509,000$2,495,000$0
2023113$23,912$3,113,000$3,189,000$0
202497$26,351$2,665,000$2,773,000$0

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Where the money comes from

$2.67M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal7.6%$203,000
State61.8%$1.65M
Local30.6%$816,000
Total expenditures$2.77M
Current spending$2.56M
Instruction$1.66M
Support services$786,000
Capital outlay$212,000
Debt outstanding$0

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Paradise

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address710 5th Street, Natoma, KS, 67651
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • The other six board-member names, numbered positions, term expirations, present vacancies, and appointment history
  • The exact local voting plan, 2027 filings and candidates, prior certified results, and campaign disclosures
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
179617
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 100 · NATOMA, KS · 67651-0010
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaRussell

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment1132023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The KSDE 2025–26 directory reports the board president, superintendent, board clerk, district phone, and exact USD identity shown above; Kansas law establishes the seven-member board and term framework.

Not established by these records

  • That the 2025–26 board president or administrators remain in those roles after the dated annual directory.
  • The other six board-member names, local voting plan, seat boundaries, term expirations, vacancies, candidates, results, meeting votes, contracts, or vendors.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.