KANKAKEE — State Senator Patrick Joyce announced that 20 school districts across the 40th District will receive over $11 million in funding to help address the financial challenges of recent years.
“Evidence-based funding continues to show our state’s testament to provide quality education to our students,” said Joyce (D-Essex). “This funding helps provide schools with the best resources possible to ensure we are giving all students a chance to succeed.”
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:
- Alternative School (Iroquois-Kankakee Regional Office of Education) - $15,996
- Bloom Township High School District 206 - $1,856,896
- Bourbonnais School District 53 - $733,179
- Braceville School District 75 - $40,454
- Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School District 307 - $667,024
- Bradley School District 61 - $95,176
- Chicago Heights School District 170 - $501,884
- Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U - $2,045,967
- Flossmoor School District 161 - $255,029
- Herscher Community Unit School District 2 - $1,409
- Kankakee School District 111 - $1,703,404
- Manhattan School District 114 - $1,012,469
- Park Forest School District 163 - $97,501
- Reed-Custer Community Unit School District 255-U - $1,260
- Region 07 South Cook Intermediate Service Center 4 - $798,213
- Safe School - Intermediate Service Center - $159,717
- Safe School (Iroquois-Kankakee Regional Office of Education) - $36,835
- South Wilmington Consolidated School District 74 - $2,074
- Steger School District 194 - $715,733
- Wilmington Community Unit School District 209U - $277,191
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.
