Chapter 3: Suburban taxpayers' heavy share
Your annual property taxes pay for most of the public services associated with suburban living.
They pay for police and firefighters. They pay for parks, libraries, a community college, city or village services, township activities, county roads and courts.
Then comes the big cost: your public school districts.
Two-thirds of the typical suburban tax bill goes to schools. All the other services split the remainder.
That's largely because suburban schools are funded mostly by property taxes.
Over the past decade, suburban schools typically collected 84 percent of their revenue from local sources.
State and federal funds made up the balance.
SCHOOL FINANCE 101 Chapter 3
Suburban taxpayers' heavy share
The numbers: A decade of local funding
Here are the total amounts of local revenue area school districts collected in the 1996-97 school year, the average daily attendance that year, and the local revenue on a per pupil basis; then the same data for the 2005-06 school year; and finally, the total amount of local revenue received over the 10-year period. View report
Also available is a downloadable look at the amount of local revenue area school districts collected in each of the school years from 1996-97 through 2005-06. With each year's local revenue total is that year's average daily attendance (ADA) and the local revenue shown on a per pupil basis (pp). At the end of each row is the total amount of local funding each district received over the 10-year period, and how much the revenue, attendance and per pupil revenue changed over those 10 school years.
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Big difference: funding varies between districts
The numbers: Revenue and attendence
Here are the total amounts of state revenue area school districts collected in the 1996-97 school year, the average daily attendance (ADA), and the state revenue on a per pupil (pp) basis; then the same data for 2005-06; and finally, the total amount of state revenue received over the 10-year period. View report
Also available is a downloadable look at year-by-year state revenue for area school districts, also with average daily attendance (ADA) and per pupil (figures), and more.
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