For the 2015-16 school year, Governor Tom Wolf released a partial Basic Education Funding of $5,828,186 to Shamokin Area School District, in January 2016. This was part of $10.3 billion in school funding withheld from the public school, by the Governor since the summer of 2015. The dispersment did not follow the new Basic Education Funding formula which had been established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 2015. The district also received $440,583 in Ready To Learn funds from the Commonwealth.