Government directory/Kentucky/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 179672

Lewis County.

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

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.

1,981students in the finance record
7operating schools connected
$13,355current 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

Amber Kielman

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Chad Evans

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Cindy Applegate

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

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Michelle D Skidmore

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Todd Sartin

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

Annual source snapshot
School councils published6
Named council participants36
Source-marked vacancies0
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.

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

State school ID 0683350406 published members

Garrison Elementary School

  • Alyssa Clark
  • Amalee Lime
  • Brittany Stone
  • Lacey Patton
  • Leslia Wilson
  • Sarah Porter
State school ID 0683350906 published members

Laurel Elementary School

  • Amber Justice
  • Angela Williams
  • Ashley Dillow
  • Erica Thurman
  • Summer Clark
  • Wyatt Yates
State school ID 0683350956 published members

Lewis County Central Elementary School

  • Crystal Dyer
  • De Ann Esham
  • James Ryan Evans
  • Shandi Webb
  • Sheina Kegley
  • Stacy Kidwell
State school ID 0683351206 published members

Lewis County High School

  • Beth Arnold
  • Jack Lykins
  • Josh Hughes
  • Rebecca Kamer
  • Ryan Bentley
  • Teresa Stamm
State school ID 0683351006 published members

Lewis County Middle School

  • Chelsea Dyer
  • Julee Howard
  • Karen Jordan
  • Rick Robinette
  • Stephanie Hensley
  • Tony Rizzo
State school ID 0683351406 published members

Tollesboro Elementary School

  • Chelsi Foreman
  • Christy Manning
  • Heather Insko
  • Jessica Thomas
  • Loretta Williams
  • Tammara Madison

Snapshot2024–25 school year

Source checked2026-08-30

Kentucky district ID335

Exact Election.org identity179672

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 ↗
Enrollment1,98111.8% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$13,3555.8% higher than 2019 after inflation · 29.8% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$43.5M30.4% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$45.4M100.9% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 2,247; 2020: 2,259; 2021: 2,159; 2022: 2,046; 2023: 2,036; 2024: 1,9812,2982,1201,942201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $12,627; 2020: $12,655; 2021: $13,409; 2022: $13,643; 2023: $14,351; 2024: $13,355$14,593$13,489$12,386201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201914.2% F68.2% S17.6% L
202015.8% F68.7% S15.5% L
202121.4% F63.6% S15.0% L
202219.1% F66.6% S14.3% L
202324.2% F61.0% S14.8% L
202416.8% F71.1% S12.1% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20192,247$10,291$27,623,000$33,353,000$22,580,000
20202,259$10,441$27,377,000$28,632,000$20,622,000
20212,159$11,583$30,233,000$32,672,000$34,530,000
20222,046$12,728$31,122,000$43,583,000$49,210,000
20232,036$13,940$36,873,000$43,042,000$48,772,000
20241,981$13,355$46,185,000$43,492,000$45,353,000

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

$46.2M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal16.8%$7.75M
State71.1%$32.9M
Local12.1%$5.58M
Total expenditures$43.5M
Current spending$26.7M
Instruction$13.9M
Support services$10.6M
Capital outlay$15.1M
Debt outstanding$45.4M

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

Lewis County

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

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address65 Central Elementary, Vanceburg, KY, 41179
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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
179672
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address520 PLUMMER LN · VANCEBURG, KY · 41179-0159
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaLewis

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 enrollment2,0362023

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.