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The Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula is the method the State of Connecticut has established to distribute approximately $2 billion annually in state education funding. The ECS formula is used exclusively to provide state funding to local and regional public school districts. In October 2017, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a new ECS formula, which began being implemented in fiscal year 2019. Additional revisions to the ECS formula were made as part of Connecticut’s biennial state budget for FYs 2022 and 2023, and the budget adjustments for FY 2023. This one-pager compares the components of the ECS formula that was updated in 2021 and the most recent revisions to the formula.

This model provides the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula phase-in schedule, and estimated grants from FY 2020 to FY 2030, for each Connecticut municipality based on current inputs and variables.

The purpose of this tool is to provide comparisons between Connecticut towns based on the data used in the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula. The ECS formula is the method the State of Connecticut has established to distribute approximately $2 billion annually in state education funding to local and regional public school districts.

This model of the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula details the grants and phase-in schedule, from FY 2023 to FY 2030, for each Connecticut local school district. Additionally, this model allows users to edit formula inputs to model different, hypothetical variations of the ECS formula.

This spreadsheet contains a town-by-town list of estimated Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grants for the fiscal year 2023 adjusted state budget. Included are comparisons to FY 2022 ECS funding levels as well as FY 2023 ECS grants in the originally passed state budget.