Nassau’s School Tax Renewal Leads by 12,029 Votes. Here’s What One Mill Costs.
Unofficial November 3 results favor continuing the existing school operating levy for four years. The rate would stay at one mill; certification and provisional ballots remain ahead.
The measure would keep an existing school operating tax on Nassau property bills for four more years. It is not a higher millage rate. A home with $300,000 in taxable value would owe $300 a year from this one mill, though its total property tax bill can change for other reasons.
Nassau County's unofficial election-night count shows 30,634 votes, or 62.21%, for renewing the school district's one-mill operating property tax, compared with 18,605 votes, or 37.79%, against it. The margin is 12,029 votes. All 18 precincts, early votes and vote-by-mail ballots are marked completely reported on the results page, last updated November 3 at 8:26 p.m. But the elections office calls the results preliminary and says provisional ballots are not included. Final certification is still pending.
Renewal, not a new tax rate
The Nassau County School District's September 24 explanation says this is an existing one-mill operating levy already paid by property owners. If the yes result holds after canvassing, the measure continues that one-mill rate for four years rather than increasing it. One mill means $1 in tax for each $1,000 of taxable value.
The district's September 30 examples put the annual one-mill amount at $100 for $100,000 in taxable value, $250 for $250,000, $300 for $300,000 and $500 for $500,000. Taxable value is the relevant figure, not a home's sale price. Keeping the millage rate flat does not guarantee that every owner's total bill will be flat: taxable values and other levies may change.
Where the district says the money goes
In its published one-mill explanation, the district says revenue is dedicated 70% to employee compensation, 12% to safety, 9% to athletics and 9% to arts. Those are the district's stated allocations, not an audit of expenditures. We have not yet independently checked a year-by-year accounting of the levy.
What remains open
Canvassing and certification have not been completed in the election-night report. We will update the vote totals and the status of the measure when the Nassau County Supervisor of Elections posts certified results. A useful next check is how much the one mill raised in the last fiscal year and how actual spending compares with the district's stated allocation.
Primary sources
- Nassau County Supervisor of Elections, 2026 general election preliminary results, updated November 3 at 8:26 p.m.; checked November 4.
- Nassau County School District, one-mill renewal explanation, September 24; checked November 4.
- Nassau County School District, one-mill taxable-value examples, September 30; checked November 4.
- Nassau County School District, one-mill allocation statement in live feed; checked November 4.
This report uses unofficial election-night totals. It will be updated after certification. Send a correction.