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It may vary by state, but the school district only gets funded based on the actual number of students.  The funding basicallly follows the student.

Even if you don't have children, you pay school taxes here. The school taxes are paid directly to the school. The state provides additional funding. The school district I live, the state provides more than 50% of their budget. This is in addition to the high school taxes we already pay. There's a reason NY has such high property, income, and sales tax. Gotta fund everything under the sun and impose ridiculous mandates written by folks in NYC which is drastically different than the rest of the state. 

When I lived in SC, home owners didn't pay school taxes. The second home owners and commercial property owners paid school property taxes which was odd because none of them were using the schools. Even if I had the school taxes added to my property taxes, it would have been less than 1/3 of what I pay here in NY. In SC, home schooled kids were allowed to play sports at the school. It's so wild how different states treat these things.

We moved from CA to SC.  In CA, you couldn't play sports or do extracurriculars at the local school if you were homeschools/charter schooled.  Here in SC, you can, and we love it.

We also pay school taxes - including not only our home property taxes but our personal property taxes (cars, boats, RV's, etc.).  About 90% of the funds go directly to the schools.