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Intermediate School District

Kent ISD

Intermediate school districtKent County

Kent ISD is an intermediate school district in Kent County, Michigan. It levied property tax in 82 tax areas in 2025.

Levies, 2025

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in 82 tax areas

What Kent ISD levies, 2025

Only its own millages, part of the totals above, and how many tax areas each is levied in.

Levy Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills Tax areas
ISD Voted Special Education 4.3364 $706 4.3364 82
ISD Voted Vocational Education 0.9310 $151 0.9310 82
ISD Allocated Operating 0.0841 $14 0.0841 82

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

Transparency checks

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  • Found: Audit for the latest fiscal year filed (posted on its website)

    Posts its audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025: "2024 - 2025 Audited Financial Report". Posted on the district's site, which the publisher's rule of 2026-09-27 counts as filed: MDE's receipt dates are not public.

    MCL 388.1618 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Audit for the latest fiscal year filed (posted on its website)

  • Found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

    The FOIA Information page links "Michigan FOIA Procedures and Guidelines" (3501-AG). Opened in the browser: its section A is the "Written Public Summary" (how to submit requests, responses, deposits, fees and appeals), and the rest is the procedures.

    MCL 15.234(4) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

  • Found: Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions

    2026-27 June Board Approved Budget, with the 2025-26 budget and its December, April and June amendments.

    MCL 388.1618(2)(a) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: operating budget and budget revisions

  • Found: Transparency page: personnel cost and spending-by-function charts

    2024-25 Personnel Expenditures (the ISD owes the personnel chart only).

    MCL 388.1618(2)(b) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: personnel cost and spending-by-function charts

  • Not found: Transparency page: labor agreements, health plans, audit, benefit bids, policies and check register

    Posts nine bargaining agreements (2024-2027), MESSA, WMHIP and BCBS plans, the 2024-2025 audited financial report, "2024- 25 Benefit Plan Bids", and procurement and expense reimbursement policies, but no check register or reimbursed-expense statement: the link titled "2024 - 25 Statement of Reimbursed Expenses" opens the 2023-2024 personnel expenditures chart (opened 2026-09-27).

    MCL 388.1618(2)(c) · 2026-09 · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Transparency page: labor agreements, health plans, audit, benefit bids, policies and check register

  • Not found: Annual report posted by December 31

    The Accountability Report page (MCL 380.620) posts eight of the report's ten parts for 2024-2025, the school year due December 31, 2025, but "1099s from 2024" (file 1099_fy24) and "Certain ISD Expenditures for 2023-2024" are for the year before. A web search of the site found no 2024-2025 versions.

    MCL 380.620 · 2024-25 · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Annual report posted by December 31

Good practice

0 found · 0 not found · 11 not read yet

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  • Current budget posted

  • Budgets for the past three years posted

  • Latest audit posted

  • Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

  • Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

  • Agendas posted for the past 12 months

  • Minutes posted for the past 12 months

  • Members' names and a way to contact them posted

  • Check register (payments) posted

  • Employee pay or salary schedule posted

  • Current contracts posted

About

Type
Intermediate School District

Codes

Michigan CEPI code
41000
NCES district ID
2680620

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

  • Educational Entity Master public data set: ISD, LEA and PSA districts and colleges

    Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) · 2026-09-24 export

  • School district audits posted (L6), Kent County

    Open Government Project · read 2026-09-27

  • FOIA documents (W1) and retirement report information (W7), Kent County bodies other than general-purpose governments

    Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03

  • School transparency pages (W2), Kent County

    Open Government Project · read 2026-09-27

  • ISD annual report (W4), road commission website (W6) and retirement system summary annual reports (W8), Kent County

    Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03

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Every figure comes from a public record, cited on its page.