A budget totaling $165,922,071.50 was passed on Tuesday night by the Sheboygan Area School District Board of Education. Along with passage of the budget came certification of the property tax levy in the amount of $34,327,087.00.
Among the key points of the 2023-24 budget according to advance materials released by the SASD:
- State budget included a $325 per-student revenue increase for 2023-24 and 2024-25
- State general aid increased by 1.9%.
- Increases in state aid go towards local tax levy relief and do not increase the amount of revenue to the District.
- During the school career of a 2023 High School Graduate (4K to 12th Grade), the cumulative amount of per pupil funding from the state is behind inflation $3,235.
- 9,701 students x $3,235 = $31 million in district budget reductions just to keep up with inflation.
- The tax levy is increasing by 2.5% and the mill rate is decreasing by 11.6%
- $6,226,286 of the tax levy is used to fund the State private school voucher program. This amount will be deducted from the state aid received by the District. This is a $1,605,660 (34.8%) increase from the previous year.
- In 2022-23, local private schools that participate in the voucher program had a total enrollment 0f 1,370 students, with 637 students (47%) receiving vouchers.
- In 2023-24, total enrollment for those private schools is 1,405 (+35), with 699 (+62) students receiving vouchers (50%).
- 18% of the district levy goes towards the private voucher program.
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