Southwestern, Falconer and Frewsburg See More than 7 Percent increase in School Funding

In addition to Jamestown Public Schools, all other districts in Chautauqua county also received state aid information on Tuesday.

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Southwestern is the district receiving the highest increase – percentage-wise – of all districts in the county. Southwestern will get $9.36 million of non-building aid money from the state – an increase of $827,710, or 9.7 percent, over the current year’s total.

Falconer will receive a 7.52 percent increase in non-building aid, while Frewsburg will get a 7.11 percent increase, Bemus Point will see a 6.69 percent increase and Cassdaga Valley will get a 4.08 percent increase.

The Chautauqua County school district seeing the lowest increase in aid compared to the previous year is Forestville, which is getting just under 1 percent of an increase in non-building aid.