How much more are Wyandotte schools collecting in property taxes this year?
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- Wyandotte County school districts will collect $10M more in property taxes in 2025.
- KCKPS leads increases, adding $5M in collections despite some funds going to state.
- Higher home valuations and service costs drive increased tax burdens for residents.
School districts across Wyandotte County recently adopted budgets that call on residents to pay more in property taxes in the 2025-26 budget year than they did last time around.
Those budgets show that county taxpayers will contribute about $10 million more in property tax dollars to school districts in Wyandotte County compared to last year. Many are likely to see increases on their property tax bills.
All four public school districts in the county, including Kansas City Kansas Public Schools; Turner Unified School District; Piper Unified School District and Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Unified School District, issued notices of their intent earlier this summer that stated they planned to collect more in property tax dollars in the current school year.
And after hosting public hearings on those plans, each district followed through as promised.
Among them, people who pay taxes to KCKPS, the county’s largest school district, will hand over the most in additional property tax dollars. Residents across KCKPS will contribute $5 million more in 2026 property taxes than they did in 2025, according to the budget.
Although tax bills will reflect taxpayers contributing $5 million more in total school district property taxes, not all of those funds will go directly to the school district, said Brad Isnard, interim executive director of business and finance.
Of the nearly $80 million in property tax revenues that KCKPS residents are likely to contribute to the school system, about $58 million of that will go directly to the school district, Isnard said. Remaining funds will go to the state, he said.
The district’s school board unanimously adopted a net budget of about $470 million and to increase its property tax collections during a meeting earlier this month. With transfers across funds, the total budgeted expenditures were about *$595 million, according to the district’s business and finance department.
Someone with a $200,000 home that lives in KCKPS would see a roughly $56 increase on the district’s portion of their annual property tax bill.*
Meanwhile, Turner USD plans to collect $1.8 million more in property tax revenues this year; Piper will collect $1.8 million more; and Bonner Springs-Edwardsville is looking at $1.5 million in increased property tax revenues.
Wyandotte County school districts
Piper Unified School District is looking at a $35 million operating budget in the 2025-26 year that will be used to run the school district on the day-to-day. Despite reducing their tax rate, the district will still be able to collect more in tax revenues due to an increase in the overall assessed valuation of properties within the district’s boundaries.
The district expects to collect about $24 million in property tax revenues this year, which is about $1.8 million more than last year.
Turner Unified School District adopted a roughly $50 million operations budget for 2025-26 and is on track to collect about $14 million in property tax revenues this year. That amount is $1.8 million more than last year’s collections.
Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Unified School District will collect $18 million in property tax revenues during the 2025-26 year, which is $1.5 million more than it did last year. The district’s board adopted a budget that includes $64.5 million in budgeted expenditures.
Wyandotte County taxes
Several taxing entities in the county, including the Unified Government, public schools, area drainage districts, libraries and more announced earlier this summer that they planned to exceed their revenue neutral rates, meaning they planned to collect more money from property taxes than last year because of the increase in home values.
This means residents can expect to see higher tax bills because of increases from various local institutions, not just their local schools.
Higher costs for goods and services can affect local governments’ regular operations, meaning they need more money to pay increasingly high bills and rates for the services they provide.
This, combined with a recent boom in the housing market has homes across the country rising in value, which means local governments are able to collect more in property taxes from home and business owners without increasing their tax rates.
In Wyandotte County, taxing entities would have to actively decrease their property tax rates to a certain point and decide to not collect new property tax revenues if they wanted residents to see lower bills. This is locally referred to as going “revenue neutral.”
The median value of a single family residential property in Wyandotte County was $181,600 for the 2025 tax year, according to the Wyandotte County Appraiser’s Office. The median value of a single family home was $74,100 in 2017.
Note: This story was corrected at 4 p.m. on Sept. 19 to reflect that people would see a change on their KCKPS property tax bills if their home value changed. It was also updated to clarify the full amount of the budget
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This story was originally published September 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM.
