A school district that has only 1000 students should consider consolidating with another school district. You don’t need a “superintendent” at big bucks for such a small number of students.
1000 students might be all there is in a large geographical area, in some parts of Kansas. Also, the superintendent doesn’t get paid big bucks out there in podunk, most likely.
My cousin was on the school board in Ness County, in the western part of the state. They had a few hundred students in the whole district, but it included a large area.