WINTHROP — Voters cast 799 ballots Tuesday in favor of validating the $10.3 million school budget for the 2008-09 school year.

Some 227 people voted against it.

The amount is $400,000 higher than the current year and calls for a little more than $5 million to be raised through local taxes.

The budget reflects a part-time superintendent's post rather than a full-time one, one fewer school administrator, one less teacher and one less educational technician than the current year’s budget.