WESTVILLE — The school board voted Wednesday to make about $650,000 in cuts to personnel, programs and supplies for the upcoming school year due to anticipated reductions in payments from the state.

The cuts made Wednesday include four teaching positions, one kitchen position, the wrestling program, the 5th- and 6th-grade basketball and cheerleading programs and any textbook purchases.

Last year, school officials prepared an $11.23 million budget for the current school year in which about half the income — about $5.77 million — would come from the state.

While the state has paid more than $3.5 million to the district this fiscal year, Superintendent Jim Owens said the state is late with more than $300,000 in payments, and he is not optimistic that the district will ever see that money.

On top of that, Owens said the foundation level that the state uses to determine the amount of general aid it sends to districts is expected to drop by $450 or more per student next year. That could mean a decrease of $400,000 or more, he said.

“This has been a very difficult process for all of us,” Owens said. “These are drastic reductions for this district.”

The board voted to eliminate one elementary-school-level teaching position, two special-education teaching positions, the pre-school teaching position, one kitchen position and three educational support positions. Also eliminated are the entire Children At Risk Educationally pre-school program, the wrestling program at Westville High School, the 5th- and 6th-grade basketball and cheerleading programs at Judith Giacoma Elementary School. In addition, travel for games and extracurricular events will be reduced and no textbooks will be purchased next year.

Owens said he hoped the state finds a way to restore funding to schools so the cut programs and staff can be reinstated. He said the district’s pre-school program has 40 students this year.

School board members spent three months studying the budget and looking at ways to reduce expenses with as little impact as possible on academics.

“We tried to be as fiscally responsible as possible without overly affecting academics in the district,” said board President Janet Ragle.

Owens said just getting through this year without the expected payments from the state has been a struggle. For example, the district spends about $658,000 a year on transportation. Owens said he had expected to receive about $324,000 in reimbursements from the state already this fiscal year, but has received $98,000 so far.

“We have to pay those costs,” Owens said. “That money has to come from somewhere.”