East Greenwich School Appropriation History

School Appropriation History Detail1

  • The school appropriation history covers 27 school years from 1997-1998 to 2023-2024.
School YearSchool AppropriationChange from Previous Year
1997-1998$15,125,000 
1998-1999$16,038,000$913,000
1999-2000$17,233,000$1,195,000
2000-2001$19,511,000$2,278,000
2001-2002$20,424,000$913,000
2002-2003$21,622,000$1,198,000
2003-2004$23,818,000$2,196,000
2004-2005$25,256,000$1,438,000
2005-2006$25,727,000$471,000
2006-2007$27,339,000$1,612,000
2007-20082$30,890,000$3,551,000
2008-2009$31,805,000$915,000
2009-20103$29,812,000-$1,993,000
2010-2011$30,073,000$260,172
2011-2012$30,501,000$428,560
2012-2013$31,150,000$649,000
2013-2014$31,776,000$626,000
2014-2015$32,472,000$695,000
2015-2016$33,267,000$795,000
2016-2017$34,019,000$751,000
2017-20184$34,019,000$0
2018-2019$35,341,000$1,321,000
2019-2020$36,358,000$1,017,000
2020-2021$37,441,000$1,084,000
2021-2022$38,126,000$685,000
2022-2023$38,770,000$644,000
2023-2024$39,723,000$953,000

References and Footnotes

1The School Appropriation was obtained from town financial records for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, from RI Dept of Education Uniform Chart of Accounts data for 2010-2011 through 2012-2022, and from the National Center for Education Statistics Elementary/Secondary Information System for 1997-1998 through 2009-2010.
2State Aid for the 2007-2008 school year was cut in half for all districts. East Greenwich made up the difference from local property taxes.
3The Maintenance of Effort requirement, which states that the school appropriation cannot be lower than the previous years, was relaxed for the 2009-2010 school year. East Greenwich was one of four districts who actually did have a lower appropriation, and East Greenwich alone made the largest possible reduction.
4Motivated by a combination of deeply flawed analytics and confirmation bias, the Town Council level-funded the school department for the 2017-2018 school year. These unsustainable cuts threatened our accreditation until the present Town Council provided a $385,000 supplemental appropriation that allowed us to hire a high school librarian.