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K-12 Education

We help education leaders inside states and districts design systems where delivery models, governance, and funding are aligned around student success.

What We Do

Higher stakes, harder decisions, fewer dollars.

School systems are navigating enrollment declines, rising student needs, state budget squeezes, and federal policy shifts. Resources are tightening while achievement gaps persist.

Afton helps state and district leaders design systems where delivery models, governance structures, and funding are aligned around student success. As national experts in education funding policy and strategic resource allocation, we help you weigh the options and land on decisions your community will support and you can make happen. And, we help education systems move with intention across traditional, choice-based, and emerging delivery models toward effective and sustainable impact for students.

How We Do It

Rigorous analysis. Real community insight. Solutions that hold up.

The decisions that shape a school system have to work on paper and in practice. We build the financial models, data analyses, and decision tools that show the impact of a policy or budget choice. We work alongside families, educators, and system leaders to develop and refine solutions together. The result is resource allocation strategies that are aligned around student success, fiscally sound, and ready to implement.

Examples of our services include:

  • Funding policy design and implementation, for states and school districts
  • District and school growth, merger, and consolidation decisions
  • School choice system design and oversight
  • Special education funding and delivery models
  • Career and technical education funding and delivery
  • Budget process design and resource allocation decision support

Related Case Studies

Afton has designed and implemented funding policy for states and for some of the country’s largest school districts. We’ve also led fiscal transparency initiatives, redesigned special education delivery, and guided school growth & consolidation decisions around the country.




North Chicago Community Unit School District 187

“Afton Partners has worked closely with our school district for over a decade. They have taken the time to build relationships and truly understand our local context. This deep and long standing engagement with the community has made them our most trusted partners and advisors. Recently, with a complex decision around school utilization and grade level alignment facing the district, there was no question about who to turn to to lead our decision making process with data, community input, and their own insights – it was Afton. During that process they came to the district multiple times to meet with community members, hand out surveys, and to get proximate to the challenges that we were facing. For an organization that works nationally to invest so much time locally is unique.”

Dr. John Price, Superintendent

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