SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. -- Students in Sun Prairie are preparing to enter a new state-of-the-art high school this year, but some residents of the city are upset with the amount their taxes could go up.

There's no doubt Sun Prairie has been growing. School district enrollment has gone from nearly 4,800 to almost 6,800 in 10 years, WISC-TV reported.

Now, the district has a high school to fit those students, but the taxpayers will be footing the bill.

Teacher Scott Kloehn's chemistry room just got a lot more high-tech with one of the many interactive whiteboards that are now in every Sun Prairie High School classroom.

"My job is to educate my kids the best way possible with the best means possible, and if that means using the technology in my room that I'll have easy access to, it's certainly what, as a good teacher, I'm going to go ahead and do," said Kloehn.

The new high school offers all that technology and more, with 425,000 square feet that includes a complete indoor track in the field house, a saltwater pool and an auditorium. That location will also play host Wednesday night to taxpayers wondering how much they're going to be on the hook for this year, WISC-TV reported.

"It's an unusual budget because we're opening up the new high school, so we had to shift a lot of dollars for the opening of that new high school for staffing," said Phil Frei, deputy district administrator.

Twenty-two new staff positions are just part of a 7 percent proposed increase in the tax levy, or about $150 on the average home. That's after about the same increase in taxes last year, WISC-TV reported.

"Those of us who are on this limited income, we're not going to get an 8 percent increase like the government wants," said resident Bo Fergerson. "They say we got to have 8 percent. Well, how many times can you go to a well before the well is dry?"

Fergerson said that after 33 years, he's considering leaving town.

"It's just more people living on our pocket than we can support out of our pocket," said Fergerson.

The district said that in the long run, the expense will be worth it.

"Hopefully the kids will go home and tell their parents about all this neat stuff they are using and they will understand, 'Oh, so that's where all my tax dollars went,'" said Kloehn.

Residents got a chance to sound off at the final public hearing Wednesday night in the new Sun Prairie High School auditorium.

"The quality of the education is really what's important. We needed a new building. We got the community to support the new building, and I guess in my opinion if you build a new facility you build it to today's standards or the best standards," said one Sun Prairie resident at the meeting.

The board will approve the budget in August, and city residents will have a chance to actually make changes to the levy, as they did last year, at the district's annual meeting in October.

Should the levy go up as proposed in Sun Prairie, it will have risen 28 percent in five years, WISC-TV reported.