Warren County Schools is receiving less in federal funding this upcoming school year as the number of economically disadvantaged students is on the decline. During the April Warren County School Board meeting, Dr. Grant Swallows, director of schools, shared with the board that the school system will be losing $264,662 in federal allocations for the upcoming school year. 

“That is primarily because our numbers for students who are economically disadvantaged are lowering,” stated Swallows. “Understand that is causing issues in several places, but the line for students who are economically disadvantaged has not moved. As you are aware, we have a lot inflation and different things are taking place, so we have more people moving ahead of that line,” Swallows said.

The amount of money lost, according to Swallows, is perhaps one of the biggest losses that Warren County has encountered and the system is working on a plan to overcome the loss of funds. “Our biggest hit is in Title 1, $221,000 down from a year ago, and in Title 1C, we are only $1,400 less. Title 2, we are about $18,000 less. Title 3 we are $1,800 down. Title 4 we are almost $10,000 down. Lo and behold, in Title 5 we are $13,000 up from a year ago. I’m not exactly sure why that is the case, but nevertheless, that gets us to our $264,662.50 less in title allocations or federal allocations.”

The board voted on acceptance of the funds, undisputed and unanimously, as they are federally generated numbers.