State Basic Education Funding
For 2010-11 the Mount Union Area School District received a 5.20% increase in state Basic Education Funding resulting in a $9,042,407 payment. Huntingdon Area School District received a 5.49% increase which was the highest increase, in BEF, in Huntingdon County. Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County received the highest increase in the state at 23.65% increase in funding for the 2010-11 school year. One hundred fifty school districts received the base 2% increase in 2010-11. The amount of increase each school district receives is determined by the Governor and the Secretary of Education through the allocation set in the state budget proposal made in February each year.
In the 2009-2010 budget year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided a 3.79% increase in Basic Education funding for a total of $8,595,494. The state Basic Education funding to the district in 2008-09 was $8,281,537.60. The district also received supplemental funding for English language learners, Title 1 federal funding for low income students, for district size, a poverty supplement from the commonwealth and more. Ninety school district received the base 2% increase. Huntingdon Area School District received the highest increase in Huntingdon County for the 2009-10 school year at 5.59%. Among the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg School District in Berks County received the highest with a 22.31% increase in funding.
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 758 district students received free or reduced lunches due to low family income in the 2007-2008 school year.
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