[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by me4vt

It’s called freedom to do so! It’s their money paying for someone to answer!

? ….
What, who.

[Dlbonivich]

A lot of schools in Sumter County are Federally supported because the majority of students qualify for the federal free lunch programs. Not sure how this effects the county school budget.

[TomPerry]

I believe the real question in the original post is the last question…” For example, does the charter school get more money than Wildwood High School?” The answer is the School Board is responsible for the county school system budget. Each school in the county prepares its budget and submits it to the Board. The Board in turn consolidates all the budgets of all the schools in the county, adding the budget for the County Board. When the budget is finalized and approved, its submits it to the Tax Collector who in turn collects the taxes and turns the collections over to the Treasurer for disbursement. The Tax Collector is not responsible for the preparation of the budget.

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by spinner1001

If you expect a simple answer to a complicated question, there isn’t one.

I don’t think the question is complicated. It is just difficult to find an answer. I was really interested in finding out how much each of the schools got each year. As far as I can tell, we pay taxes for the following schools

1. Bushnell Elementary School
2. Lake Panasoffkee Elementary School
3. Webster Elementary School
4. Wildwood Elementary School
5. South Sumter Middle School
6. Wildwood Middle High School
7. South Sumter High School
8. Sumter P.R.E.P Academy
9. Sumter Career & Adult Education
10. The Villages Charter School

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I don’t think the question is complicated. It is just difficult to find an answer. I was really interested in finding out how much each of the schools got each year. As far as I can tell, we pay taxes for the following schools

1. Bushnell Elementary School
2. Lake Panasoffkee Elementary School
3. Webster Elementary School
4. Wildwood Elementary School
5. South Sumter Middle School
6. Wildwood Middle High School
7. South Sumter High School
8. Sumter P.R.E.P Academy
9. Sumter Career & Adult Education
10. The Villages Charter School

It may be difficult if the County runs the schools as a combined district rather than individual schools. For example, the budget shows an amount spent on teacher salaries for the district. What it doesn't show is how many teachers are in each of the schools. It could be, as a previous poster suggested, that the individual schools send in requests and those are aggregated to the final budget. If that is the case then the information you desire exists but it is a working document of the district budget office and not generally published.

Since the Charter School is run separately from the district schools the appropriations for that are easier to find in the budget. It looks like approximately one third of the students are in the charter school and approximately one third of the instructional funds are sent to the charter school.

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Google is your friend.

Hmmmm............seems to be your answer for everything.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

Hmmmm............seems to be your answer for everything.

That's true.....just takes a little effort.

[Rodneysblue]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I don’t think the question is complicated. It is just difficult to find an answer. I was really interested in finding out how much each of the schools got each year. As far as I can tell, we pay taxes for the following schools

1. Bushnell Elementary School
2. Lake Panasoffkee Elementary School
3. Webster Elementary School
4. Wildwood Elementary School
5. South Sumter Middle School
6. Wildwood Middle High School
7. South Sumter High School
8. Sumter P.R.E.P Academy
9. Sumter Career & Adult Education
10. The Villages Charter School

The Villages Charter School is actually 3 schools, Elementary, Middle and High School. With 3319 students total in TVCS (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education). The County all together including all schools has 8675 students (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education) and as posted previously. So 38% of the students attend TVCS's.

[rogerk]

The Sumter County Schools are funded the same as most schools in the south. The counties not the cities manage and oversee the schools. The elected county school board is the responsible body. The charter school gets it's funding from the County the student resides in. They get no more and no less. The only benefit they have, which is not insignificant, is the physical plant is provided by the Villages, so they have no school bond to pay off. . Maintenance, staff, etc is the responsibility of the Charter School.