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| Tax type | Proposed (annual) | Existing (annual) | Total 2027–28 |
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Bond
Prop 436 is added to existing
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Prop 436 | Estimated | annual |
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Override
Prop 435 replaces existing
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Prop 435 | 2026–27replaced by Prop 435: |
annual |
| Property detail | 2026 | 2027 |
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Assessed LPV
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District Share
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Bond and Override estimates utilize 2027 assessed values sourced from the
Maricopa County Assessor’s website. The existing-bond amount applies the 2026–27
existing-bond tax rate to the 2027 assessed value, since the 2027–28 rate has not been set.
The existing override shown is this property’s 2026–27 amount.
Property Details utilize assessed values, the district's net assessed value, and the assessment
ratio from 2026.
To verify your property’s assessed value, visit the
Maricopa County Assessor’s website.
To verify the district's net assessed valuations, visit the Assessed Valuations page on the
Maricopa County School Superintendent website.
To verify the estimated bond and override rates, visit the SMUSD90 Voter Information page on the
Maricopa County School Superintendent website.
Keep asking questions
Pick the reaction closest to yours.
For this property, here is how the 2026–27 school-district portion breaks down. These existing-year amounts provide context for the proposed 2027–28 estimates shown above.
Worth knowing: your full county tax bill is larger than this. It also funds the county, community college, fire, library and other districts. Those are outside of the Saddle Mountain School District and are not estimated here.
This property’s estimated 2026–27 school primary levy is $0 per year. It is the largest school charge on most bills in this district.
Supports day-to-day school operations, including:
Students and staff
Materials, facilities, and services
Important distinction: the district’s base operating budget authority is not calculated by adding up the actual cost of these items. Arizona’s school finance formula determines the authorized amount primarily from student counts, statutory weights, and other formula components.
The levy counts toward that formula funding rather than adding to it, so a higher local levy generally means less state aid, not a larger operating budget.
The district's state-authorized funding calculation does not account for the actual costs of running the district.
Set by a state calculation
A few examples. None of these costs are inputs to the state formula.
Driven by actual expenses
Real costs can change without the budget amount changing the same way.
The answer
An override lets local voters choose to fund more than the formula provides.
The state formula sets how much the district may budget based on student counts and weights. It does not look at what it costs to hire and keep teachers in this area, or at the staffing levels the community wants. If the formula amount won’t support the teacher pay needed to compete with nearby districts, or the number of teachers, aides, counselors or programs the district believes students need, the district has two options: work within the formula amount, or ask voters to approve an override.
An override is a time-limited local property tax, approved by voters, that lets the district budget above the formula amount, up to a limit set in state law. Whether that is worth the cost is up to voters. Your estimate above shows what it would cost you, and the District Funding page shows what the formula provides and how the district spends it, so you can judge for yourself.
That question has a real answer, and it is worth checking rather than assuming.
There is not one automatic replacement fund for a bond. Eligible building and equipment costs would have to fit within other capital sources, be put off or scaled back, or wait for another funding source.
The key distinction: the district’s day-to-day operating budget can’t simply absorb a large construction program. Arizona accounts for building costs separately, and each source above has its own limits and eligible uses.
Arizona’s funding formula starts with student counts and applies statutory weights and other formula components to determine the district’s authorized base funding (see A.R.S. § 15-943, “Base support level”). The District Funding tool lets you build a student and see how those factors affect the amount.
Build the student
Your school tax is your share of the total the district collects. So it can go up if your share gets bigger, if the total gets bigger, or both.
Try it: move a slider and watch your school tax change.
These are the actual 2026–27 figures.
From 2020–21 to 2026–27:
Pick one to see what drove it:
Lever 1 of 2
Your slice is your home’s taxable value compared with all the taxable value in the district. It grows when your value grows faster than the district’s total.
You vs. the whole district
Growth since 2020–21. When your line climbs faster than the district’s, your slice of the district is getting bigger.
| School year | Your taxable value | District total | Your slice (% of district) | District school taxes | Your school tax |
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An estimate. Earlier years assume this property’s taxable value grew the full 5% each year. That holds only while taxable value is below market value, and not for homes built after 2020.
Lever 2 of 2
What the district collects is set mostly by the state’s per-student formula, plus what voters approve. Divide it by all the taxable property in the district and you get the tax rate. When collections grow faster than property values, the rate goes up for everyone.
School tax rates (per $100 of taxable value)
All taxable value in the district
When total value dips (2025–26), the rate rises to collect the same levy. When value grows faster than the levy (2026–27), the rate falls. The jump in 2022–23 was the levy itself growing as enrollment rose.
2015–16 to 2026–27:
After adjusting for inflation, the district spends about the same per student as it did in 2019–20: $13,367 then, $13,316 in 2024–25 (in today’s dollars). Total spending grew mainly because there are more students and prices went up.
Where the added spending went (2019–20 to 2024–25):
Worth knowing: the district doesn’t set its basic budget by adding up its costs. The state formula sets it from student counts, and the local tax pays part of that amount.
Agreed — those are two different questions, and this site keeps them separate on purpose. One is about how much reaches the district. The other is about what happened to it.
Two questions, two places to look. Start with how the funding is built, then use the bond project records to judge how those dollars were actually used.
Important Estimate Notice
The property values and tax amounts shown by this tool are estimates provided for general informational purposes only. They are not an official tax bill or assessment and do not guarantee future tax amounts.
The proposed bond and override estimates use the property's 2027 assessed value and the estimated tax rates published by the district. The existing-bond estimate assumes the 2026–27 existing-bond tax rate continues in 2027–28. The Property Details and existing-tax drill-down use 2026 values to show your historical share of the district's net assessed value, which is not yet published for 2027. Actual taxes may differ from these estimates.
