District Comparisons

The Syracuse Post-Standard reports that Interactive map shows your school's aid from New York state

The Citizens Budget Commission, a non-partisan budget watchdog group, produced this interactive map with 2012-13 budget data in July. Just click on your district to get a peek at the amount of aid your district is getting, along with related statistics including district property values, free and reduced lunch percentages and enrollment.

They link to School Districts Map

State School Aid by District, School Year 2012-13
The map showcases the distribution of the main components of school aid in addition to the districts' financial and educational need measures.

The data for Hamilton Central School and Morrisville, shown together (update: with Scarsdale and Syracuse for comparison):

Category	HCS	M-E	Scarsdale	Syracuse
Total General Aid Per Student	$7,231	$13,445	$1,212	$13,013
Foundation Aid Per Student	$4,154	$8,133	$499	$9,603
Categorical Aid Per Student	$3,077	$5,312	$713	$3,410
Property Value Per Student	$180,897	$109,050	$787,352	$77,957
Students Eligible For Free or Reduced Price Lunch	20%	56%	0%	82%
District Need Resource Capacity Index	0.48	1.88	0.01	4.89
Public School Enrollment	558	732	4,743	21,327

The "District Need Resource Capacity Index" is defined by NYSED at Need/Resource Capacity Categories (PDF) as:

The need/resource capacity index, a measure of a district's ability to meet the needs of its students with local resources, is the ratio of the estimated poverty percentage (expressed in standard score form) to the Combined Wealth Ratio (expressed in standard score form). A district with both estimated poverty and Combined Wealth Ratio equal to the State average would have a need/resource capacity index of 1.0.

It is possible that there have been successful mergers of schools with such disparate need indices.
Or then again, maybe not.