The entire district serves around 1,000 students, about the same amount that Shane McDonough's single high school serves in Green Bay.

Over the past four years, I want to say our enrollment trends have been declining to the point of we've lost about 100 students, a little over that, over that course of time, which, as you're aware, in school funding, when you're losing students to declining enrollment, as go the funds that go with that.

Even still, he understands that they may be asking for something voters just can't give.

We're an aging community, so we have fixed incomes.

Sure, your property value goes up, but your paycheck didn't change.

And that is that's a terrible spot to be in because I think so many of them want to give to the school.

But they also have to make a means to their ends here on a month to month and Unfortunately, there's just not enough to go around.

And so it is a struggle.