Government directory/Kentucky/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 188272

Nelson County.

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

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.

4,412students in the finance record
13operating schools connected
$15,226current 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

Amanda Deaton

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

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

David Norman

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

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Joedy Gilliland

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

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Karen Lee

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

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Tracy Bowling

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

Annual source snapshot
School councils published9
Named council participants60
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.

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

State school ID 0904510136 published members

Bloomfield Elementary School

  • Anne Cox
  • Ashley Simpson
  • Jackie Chesser
  • Jessica Holt
  • Kara Kays
  • Lora Michaels
State school ID 0904510106 published members

Bloomfield Middle School

  • Chasity Devine
  • Jessica Vasquez
  • Lauren Dodge
  • Lisa Primm
  • Meagan Dirr
  • Nick Patterson
State school ID 0904510306 published members

Boston School

  • Amber Bowman
  • Andi Abshear
  • Chasity Gregory
  • Deandrea Fain
  • Ginny Lee
  • Niki King
State school ID 0904510508 published members

Coxs Creek Elementary School

  • Amanda Hoskins
  • Amber Brashear
  • Ann Driskell
  • Audrey Cundiff
  • Haley Victery
  • Robyn Thompson
  • Sarah Mills
  • Tara Jakob
State school ID 0904510709 published members

Foster Heights Elementary School

  • Alan Thomas
  • Diana Gagne
  • Jeremy Hill
  • Kaitlyn Jaggers
  • Kaylen Runner
  • Megan Williams
  • Rachal Boone
  • Ricky Primus
  • Sheryl Woods
State school ID 0904511006 published members

Nelson County High School

  • Christina Taylor
  • Jessica Sekulski
  • Kate Kirzinger
  • Meagan Bishop
  • Richard Argueta
  • Tara Jakobs
State school ID 0904510117 published members

NEW HAVEN SCHOOL

  • Amanda Boone
  • Casey Ayers
  • Hope Dougherty
  • Kristy Dadisman
  • Marsha Wilkerson
  • Shelley Newton
  • Tiffanie Clark
State school ID 0904510901 published vacancy

Old Kentucky Home Middle School

  • Adam Gossom
  • Christiane Reinle
  • Jessica Leake
  • Kate Essex
  • Sean Smith
  • Tanner Goodlett

Snapshot2024–25 school year

Source checked2026-08-30

Kentucky district ID451

Exact Election.org identity188272

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 ↗
Enrollment4,4124.7% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$15,22620.2% higher than 2019 after inflation · 47.5% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$71.6M41.1% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$50.9M6.6% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 4,630; 2020: 4,734; 2021: 4,498; 2022: 4,524; 2023: 4,511; 2024: 4,4124,7794,5734,367201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $12,667; 2020: $12,911; 2021: $13,608; 2022: $13,618; 2023: $14,877; 2024: $15,226$15,584$13,947$12,309201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20198.1% F50.3% S41.5% L
20206.8% F48.3% S44.8% L
202111.6% F44.9% S43.5% L
202214.7% F41.6% S43.7% L
202310.9% F48.8% S40.4% L
202415.9% F34.8% S49.3% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20194,630$10,324$57,506,000$50,775,000$54,468,000
20204,734$10,652$56,398,000$52,881,000$49,463,000
20214,498$11,755$61,618,000$56,952,000$46,194,000
20224,524$12,705$67,626,000$60,790,000$41,919,000
20234,511$14,451$84,463,000$69,263,000$36,544,000
20244,412$15,226$78,127,000$71,631,000$50,873,000

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

$78.1M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal15.9%$12.4M
State34.8%$27.2M
Local49.3%$38.5M
Total expenditures$71.6M
Current spending$67.6M
Instruction$38.4M
Support services$24.0M
Capital outlay$2.83M
Debt outstanding$50.9M

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

Nelson County

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

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address288 Wildcat Ln, Bardstown, KY, 40004
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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
188272
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address1200 CARDINAL · BARDSTOWN, KY · 40004
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaNelson
Reported websiteNot published

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 enrollment4,5112023

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.