2025 Census government inventory

Dawson Springs Independent

Independent school district in Kentucky. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 116680 · Census county field: Hopkins · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
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.

583students in the finance record
3operating schools connected
$13,563current 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

Christy Winfrey

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Mary Beth Drennan

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Meredith Hyde

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Michael W. Ausenbaugh

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Vicki F Allen

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

Annual source snapshot
School councils published2
Named council participants13
Source-marked vacancies0
Source-marked exempt schools0
School-level public governance

Find the council attached to a specific school.

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.

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

State school ID 0541460177 published members

Dawson Springs Elementary

  • Bethany Littlepage
  • Jennifer Ward
  • Lauren Hibbs
  • Mary Grace Chappel
  • Michelle Abbott
  • Rebecca Oliver
  • Shelby Johnson
State school ID 0541460186 published members

Dawson Springs Jr/Sr High School

  • Amie Thomas
  • Emilee Seeger
  • Mark Taylor
  • Mary Beth Drennan
  • Melissa Larimore
  • Todd Marshall

Snapshot2024–25 school year

Source checked2026-08-30

Kentucky district ID146

Exact Election.org identity116680

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

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 ↗
Enrollment5836.9% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$13,5631.7% higher than 2019 after inflation · 24.8% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$11.1M55.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$3.1M1.1% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 626; 2020: 605; 2021: 580; 2022: 557; 2023: 534; 2024: 583639580521201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $13,340; 2020: $14,161; 2021: $13,768; 2022: $13,627; 2023: $14,939; 2024: $13,563$15,163$14,139$13,116201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201914.1% F76.3% S9.7% L
202016.5% F71.4% S12.0% L
202116.7% F71.7% S11.6% L
202214.2% F68.5% S17.3% L
202321.6% F65.0% S13.4% L
202428.6% F60.7% S10.7% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019626$10,872$7,439,000$7,130,000$3,085,000
2020605$11,684$7,731,000$7,503,000$2,634,000
2021580$11,893$7,490,000$7,187,000$2,490,000
2022557$12,713$8,315,000$7,590,000$2,490,000
2023534$14,511$9,996,000$10,609,000$3,589,000
2024583$13,563$11,000,000$11,063,000$3,052,000

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.

Where the money comes from

$11.0M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal28.6%$3.15M
State60.7%$6.67M
Local10.7%$1.18M
Total expenditures$11.1M
Current spending$8.15M
Instruction$4.34M
Support services$2.99M
Capital outlay$2.77M
Debt outstanding$3.05M

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

Dawson Springs Independent

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

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address118 E Arcadia Ave, Dawson Springs, KY, 42408
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About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
116680
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing address118 E ARCADIA AVE · DAWSON SPRINGS, KY · 42408-1608
Reported contact roleSupt

A role label, not a verified person’s name.

Census county fieldHopkins

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment5342023

About these sources and their limits
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.