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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.

How We Do It

Comprehensive data, community insight, and a people-first approach.

The decisions that shape a school system are more effective and easier to implement, when the people affected have been part of the conversation. We talk with parents and families, teachers and school personnel, board members and district leaders, and pair what we hear with local data & national research to help you design solutions that last.

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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