The money covers the cost of 13 full-time teachers. Despite falling enrollment, neither the school nor the town appears to be withering away. From the center of town, giant Attica Bulldog paws painted on Main Street lead north past tidy homes and yards. At the long, one-story school on the edge of town, elementary students are taught in one end, junior and senior high students in the other. There's a lot of pride.
People are here because they want to be here.
The state's finance formula affords the school some luxuries that many larger schools envy. Students don't have to wait to use a modern, Internet-connected computer. On a recent afternoon, three of the 16 units in the high school computer lab were in use. And small class sizes allow a lot of individual attention. But all this has not boosted Attica to the top in test scores.