The budget will increase $597,090, to $10,995,699.

The tax levy will rise by an estimated 2.85 percent, down from the previous year’s increase of 3.1 percent.

At a meeting March 15, superintendent Nicholas Savin said the district was working to improve overall efficiency in the school and was evolving several staff positions in order to provide additional help for struggling students without having to hire additional staff.

He said four teaching positions will see retirements at the end of this year.

Two of those positions will be filled with new teachers and two new positions will be created, one in the library and one as a teaching assistant for a new seventh and eighth grade alternative education program.

The net change in staff will be zero, the superintendent said.

Two candidates, Paul Mendelsohn and Peter Freehafer, are running unopposed for two open seats on the school board.