Government directory/Kentucky/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 116696

Bowling Green Independent.

Independent school district in Kentucky · Census county area: Warren.

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.

4,526students in the finance record
10operating schools connected
$14,367current spending per pupil
Latest official Kentucky governance snapshot

5 district board members—and the school councils below them.

Kentucky’s 2024–25 School Report Card names the district board members and school-based decision-making council participants published for this system. Election.org joined the record by exact three-digit district ID—not by name.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Cierra Waller

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Deborah Williams

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Hamp Moore

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Lisa Allen

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Michael K. Bishop

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
School councils published7
Named council participants43
Source-marked vacancies1
Source-marked exempt schools0
School-level public governance

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The source calls every named participant a “School Based Decision Making Council Member.” It does not identify whether each person serves as a parent, teacher, principal, or another capacity, so Election.org does not infer one.

7 school-level governance records in the 2024–25 snapshot

State school ID 1140420706 published members

Bowling Green High School

  • Byron Lowe
  • James Graves
  • Joe Morel
  • Kyle Mcgraw
  • Melanie Morrision
  • Sam Booth
State school ID 1140420656 published members

Bowling Green Junior High

  • Ben Lyne
  • Caroline Graff
  • Jenni Aryee
  • Jennifer Costellow
  • Joe Tolbert
  • Robert Lightning
State school ID 1140420108 published members

Dishman McGinnis Elementary School

  • Alex Pulliam
  • Kayla Rogers
  • Michelle Greer
  • Patricia Renfrow
  • Patty Mcdougal
  • Shawn Perkins
  • Vacancy Vacancy
  • Yolanda Duncan
State school ID 1140420571 published vacancy

Parker-Bennett-Curry School

  • Chasity Rodgers
  • Delaney Metz
  • Delvagus Jackson
  • Kelley Otto
  • Terri Cleaver
State school ID 1140420606 published members

Potter Gray Elementary

  • Christi Morel
  • Demont Franklin
  • Jennifer Hamilton
  • Kelly Maresca
  • Stephen Dotson
  • William Brown
State school ID 1140420806 published members

T C Cherry Elementary School

  • Ann Bolin
  • Carrie Payne
  • Jenny Huskey
  • Shalana Page
  • Sheryl Anderson
  • Wendy Mcclure
State school ID 1140420906 published members

W R McNeill Elementary School

  • Dylan White
  • Emily Lehman
  • Emily Mills
  • Hannah Elliott
  • Olivia Mitchell
  • Will Jones

Snapshot2024–25 school year

Source checked2026-08-30

Kentucky district ID042

Exact Election.org identity116696

This is an annual historical snapshot, not a claim that every named person remains in office today. The connected file does not establish seats, terms, election method, election results, officer roles, contacts, meeting votes, or exact seat boundaries. “Vacant,” “TBD,” and “Exempt” source values are statuses—not people.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

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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 ↗
Enrollment4,5266.0% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$14,3673.8% higher than 2019 after inflation · 27.4% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$87.6M45.3% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$55.5M13.6% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 4,268; 2020: 4,416; 2021: 4,151; 2022: 4,177; 2023: 4,424; 2024: 4,5264,5794,3394,099201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $13,839; 2020: $14,157; 2021: $14,971; 2022: $14,440; 2023: $14,571; 2024: $14,367$15,129$14,405$13,681201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201910.8% F58.0% S31.2% L
202013.3% F56.6% S30.1% L
202119.1% F51.3% S29.6% L
202221.0% F50.1% S28.8% L
202317.8% F56.4% S25.8% L
202423.3% F48.1% S28.6% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20194,268$11,279$55,546,000$60,301,000$48,879,000
20204,416$11,680$57,400,000$70,100,000$46,335,000
20214,151$12,932$63,194,000$74,184,000$61,710,000
20224,177$13,472$69,834,000$75,126,000$58,959,000
20234,424$14,154$83,049,000$88,309,000$55,519,000
20244,526$14,367$78,851,000$87,631,000$55,519,000

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.

Schools this system operates

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Where the money comes from

$78.9M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal23.3%$18.4M
State48.1%$37.9M
Local28.6%$22.6M
Total expenditures$87.6M
Current spending$65.6M
Instruction$35.9M
Support services$22.7M
Capital outlay$22.0M
Debt outstanding$55.5M

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

Bowling Green Independent

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

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address1211 Center St, Bowling Green, KY, 42101
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Still needed for a complete civic record

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

  • Current-service confirmation, board officer roles, exact seats, terms, and present vacancies
  • Election method, next election, candidates, filing rules, and official result history
  • 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
116696
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address1211 CENTER ST · BOWLING GREEN, KY · 42101-6801
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaWarren

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 enrollment4,4242023

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 Kentucky Department of Education’s annual 2024–25 file reports the district-board names, school-council names, source-marked vacancies, and exempt school rows shown above.

Not established by these records

  • That every person named in the 2024–25 annual snapshot remains in office today, or that every authorized district-board or school-council seat appears.
  • Board officer roles, council participant capacities, election method, terms, exact seat boundaries, candidates, results, contacts, or meeting votes.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.