SWANSEA — State Senator Christopher Belt announced that 25 school districts across the area will receive over $12 million in additional funding to help address the financial challenges of recent years.
From state evidence-based funding, Belleville Township High School District 201 will receive $3,044,940, while the Belleville School District 118 will receive $630,379, and the Cahokia Community Unit School District 187 will receive $182,264. Dupo Community Unit School District will receive $138,373 and East St. Louis School District will receive $4,450.
In this evidence-based funding, the O’Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90 nets $1,888,753 in this funding while O’Fallon Township High School District 203 receives a total of $1,438,918. Shiloh Village School District 85 will get $144,022 and the St. Clair Regional Office of Education Safe School will receive $111,027.
“Evidence-based funding makes a world of difference in school districts that are in more disadvantaged areas,” said Belt (D-Swansea). “When we take into account data-driven strategies, we are able to provide adequate funding to the schools that need it most, giving all students, regardless of their background, a fair shot at quality education.”
The funding comes from the 2017 Illinois Senate Democrat-backed evidence-based funding formula — an overhaul of the way the state funds K-12 education. The law made school funding more equitable by calculating the needs of individual school districts and basing its state revenue on those needs. The formula takes into account a district’s total enrollment, poverty rate and number of special education or English language learners, among other factors.
Local schools set to receive funding through the formula:
- Belle Valley School District 119 – $385,725
- Belleville School District 118 – $630,379
- Belleville Township High School District 201 – $3,044,940
- Brooklyn Unit School District 188 – $2,569
- Cahokia Community Unit School District 187 – $182,264
- Dupo Community Unit School District 196 – $138,373
- East St. Louis School District 189 – $4,450
- Freeburg Community Consolidated District 70 – $143,874
- Freeburg Community High School District 77 – $274,881
- Grant Community Consolidated School District 110 – $154,993
- Harmony-Emge School District 175 – $198,369
- High Mount School District 116 – $24,101
- Lebanon Community Unit School District 9 – $12,260
- Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19 – $2,707,876
- Millstadt Community Consolidated School District 160 – $11,833
- New Athens Community Unit School District 60 – $167,195
- O’Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90 – $1,888,753
- O’Fallon Township High School District 203 – $1,438,918
- Shiloh Village School District 85 – $144,022
- Signal Hill School District 181 – $31,029
- Smithton Community Consolidated School District 130 – $149,779
- St. Clair Regional Office of Education Safe School – $111,027
- Venice Community Unit School District 3 – $77
- Whiteside School District 115 – $272,077
- Wolf Branch School District 113 – $165,955
The Fiscal Year 2025 budget invested $350 million in new funding into students’ success through the evidence-based funding model.
For more information on the FY 25 evidence-based funding distribution, visit the Illinois State Board of Education’s website.
