State Aid Amounts for Local School Districts
Saturday, October 14th, 2017 -- 7:13 AM
-As required by state statute on or by Oct. 15 of each year, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has provided the certified amount each public school district will receive from the $4.584 billion appropriated for general state aid for the 2017-18 school year.This is the same amount of general state aid as the prior year’s budget appropriation. Overall, 55 percent of the state’s public school districts (230 of 422) will receive less general state aid this school year than they did in 2016-17. General aid is made up of equalization aid also known as the school aid formula, integration aid also known as Chapter 220 aid, and special adjustment aid also known as hold harmless aid. Fifty-five districts met the aid formula’s hold harmless provision, meaning their aid reduction is generally limited to 15 percent of the prior year’s amount.
For local districts, Neillsville will receive $5,192,764, Granton will receive $1,734,615, Loyal will receive $3,832,365, Greenwood will receive $2,641,438, Owen-Withee will receive $3,121,181, Thorp will receive $3,693,750, Abbotsford will receive $5,696,831 and Colby will receive $6,741,857. It’s about even for county schools seeing an increase or decrease.
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