BUFFALO GROVE – State Senator Adriane Johnson announced that 12 school districts across the 30th District will receive over $8 million in evidence-based funding, in addition to the base funding that the state provides.
“We have to make investments into our schools to ensure our students have the best educational opportunities available,” said Johnson (D-Buffalo Grove). “With evidence-based funding, we can identify the school districts that need more funding and direct resources toward educators and institutions that need and deserve assistance.”
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 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.
School districts across the 30th Senate District set to receive funding through the formula include:
- Regional Safe Schools (Lake County Regional Office of Education): $9,740
- Gurnee School District 56: $95,697
- Waukegan Community Unit School District 60: $6,194,625
- Oak Grove School District 68: $856
- Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73: $70,431
- Mundelein Elementary School District 75: $166,533
- Kildeer Countryside School District 96: $3,313
- Aptakisic-Tripp School District 102: $48,511
- Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103: $1,760
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125: $5,043
- Community High School District 128: $3,430
- North Chicago School District 187: $1,674,497
The Fiscal Year 2026 budget invested $300 million in new funding into students’ success through the evidence-based funding model.
For more information on the FY evidence-based funding distribution, visit the Illinois State Board of Education’s website.
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