East Aurora school board approves $39.7 million tax levy

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The East Aurora District 131 school board recently approved a $39.7 million tax levy for the district, for taxes payable in 2026.

Including its roughly $6.6 million debt service levy, a portion of which the school board opted to use operating funds to abate, the district’s total levy amount comes to just under $46 million.

At a school board meeting last month, Associate Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Michael Engel explained that property values within the district are 80% residential property, 14% commercial, 5% industrial and 1% from the state railroad.

But property taxes aren’t the district’s main source of funding. State funding is, Engel explained.

In the district’s 2025-26 budget, for example, state funding accounted for