Illinois schools to get $7 billion in federal money. How much for local districts?

Illinois school districts can expect to receive about $7 billion in federal funds as they transition students back to the classroom full time after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bulk of that money comes from the American Rescue Plan, about 90% of which will come in the form of direct payments.

The American Rescue Plan grants school districts a lot of flexibility over how they use the money over the next three-and-a-half years. Efforts to address learning loss need to account for at least 20% of the funding.

School districts in Illinois’ 57th District are set to receive more than $211 million from the funding, according to State Senator Christopher Belt’s office.

Here’s how much each district is set to receive:

• Belle Valley School District 119 - $3,188,119

• Belleville School District 118 - $14,266,160

• Belleville Township High School District 201 - $11,129,782

• Brooklyn Community Unit District 188 - $2,327,659

• Cahokia Community Unit School District 187 - $39,296,338

• East St Louis School District 189 - $78,670,909

• Freeburg Community Consolidated School District 70 - $889,924

• Freeburg Community High School District 77 - $529,716

• Granite City Community School District 9 - $28,344,741

• Grant Community Consolidated School District 110 - $2,102,013

• Harmony Emge School District 175 - $2,464,742

• High Mount School District 116 - $1,656,848

• Lebanon Community Unit School District 9 - $3,299,527

• Madison Community Unit School District 12 - $7,070,958

• Millstadt Community Consolidated School District 160 - $780,127

• O’Fallon Community Consolidated School District 90 - $3,431,645

• O’Fallon Township High School District 203 - $2,340,947

• Pontiac-William Holliday School District 105 - $1,410,137

• Signal Hill School District 181 - $1,217,988

• Shiloh Village School District 85 - $804,356

• Smithton Community Consolidated School District 130 - $498,118

• Venice Community Unit School District 3 - $1,370,088

• Whiteside School District 115 - $3,472,358

• Wolf Branch School District 113 - $768,982