How Winterset is run
Winterset spent $48,000 in the year to December 31, 2022, about $706 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Winterset is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
Russell County Unified School District 407
Winterset’s K–12 school district, shared with Big Creek, Bunker Hill, Center, Fairfield, Gorham and more. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $16,753 per pupil, $9,278 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Kansas districts overall: 28% local, 61% state, 11% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Winterset
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Winterset yet. Neighbors can add them.
About $706 per resident a year, or $1.93 a day
The biggest line: administration & buildings, at 100% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Winterset didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
0 full-time staff
On the payroll in March 2022 (a Census Bureau estimate).
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
How Winterset’s budget compares
Winterset ranks 3rd lowest of 3 for spending per resident. Towns that run their own schools spend more. Tap a town to see its Town Hall.
The town government’s own spending in its newest year (often a Census Bureau estimate). — = no figures.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Winterset.
- 1Your townTown governmentLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Kansas HouseState representatives
- 3Kansas SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Kansas
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Winterset’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Winterset is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Winterset, mostly the Bureau’s estimates). School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.