Does anyone have information on cost per student per school year for McHenry County School Districts? How does this compare with cost per student in other States which have much less administrators and school districts AND have better student outcomes?

Even more helpful would be to compare school districts in taxes levied per $100 of assessed valuation per property.

LS: it would be helpful if commentators would learn to look up this data themselves, and share it with fellow voters in their neighborhood.

Last school board election: 15% voter turnout.

Here are the sources you need to look at to glean the amount per pupil charged per taxed household:

https://www.isbe.net/Pages/School-Finance-Historical-Reports.aspx

click on “Annual Financial Reports” and “Annual Statements of Affairs”

then click on tax year in question.

this will lead to a list of school districts

McHenry County districts begin with prefix number 44

scroll down to your school in question

click blue link to xl sheet

there are many tabs

at about 28 you’ll find PCTC and OEPP.

these are per capita tuition charge and operating expense per pupil

PCTC: Notably, at Woodstock CUSD 200, the school Board has refused to consider that the many many tuition students (undercharged as a function of Illinois Law) are costing local taxpayers millions. Millions. And the Board of CUSD 200 actively has resisted scrutiny to remedy this inequity.

We taxpayers can only assume they are protecting the jobs of the many teachers, administrators, and staff who are compensated so much more than Peers nationwide and Statewide.

OEPP: Compare Wodstock CUSD 200 to Huntley Unit District, the neighboring District, which manages to educate its students with similar or better readiness results than Woodstock CUSD 200.

Woodstock spends at an OEPP which is 30% higher than its neighboring peer. (Note: spending is not revenue.

Woodstock is a poorer district, spending 30% more than its richer neighbor, to acheive poorer readiness-for-next-level results.

This seems to indicate more concern for the recipients of the expenditures than either the students in their care or the taxpayers forced by law to fund the District’s whims).

LS:example of calculation of cost-per-$100,000 of household value-per-student

In Woodstock D200:

Tax levy $57 million

enrollment 6300

$57,000,000/6300= $9047 per pupil billed to local taxpayers.

Tax rate per property value is found at the County Clerk website, or on your tax bill, or at ISBE filings, or at Bond Statements posted on emma.msrb.org

Tax Rate in Woodstock is around 4% (trending downward as national inflation raises values of even the most undesirable (obscenely taxed) property locations. Property Tax Rate= Total levy/(divided by)/Total Taxable Property Value .

Woodstock D200 School tax rate has been above 8% of EAV (which equals 2.66% of total home value since EAV = 1/3 of home value) for many years, and is now above 7% (above 2.33% of total home value).

BY COMPARISON, TOTAL PROPERTY TAX RATES IN CHICAGO COOK COUNTY ARE LESS THAN THE TAX RATE CHARGED BY WOODSTOCK D200 ALONE.

So, In Woodstock, each $100,000 of fairly assessed home value pays over $4000 total property tax
(compared to Chicago, where each $100,000 of home value pays less than $2300)

If the cost billed per student by D200 is $9000 (it is more, but lets use scenario most beneficial to schoiol admin arguments).
then:

$9000/.04=$225,000

which means it costs the property tax on a higher than $225,000 home to pay for Woodstock property taxes, including school taxes.

(in case you wonder about homestead exemption, that is equal to the tax rate multiplied by $18,000, or $720 on a $200,000 home at 4%).

BTW, Woodstock is said to be nearly 50% rental properties now…HEY ASSESSOR ROSS: ARE MORE THAN 50% of residential properties claiming homestead exemptions???