State aid may hike $132,113, Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot said. The sum could change in the state’s budget process and is based on her first look at how Wiscasset fares under next year’s funding formula, she said.

Wilmot is working on a detailed analysis; with dozens of changes to the formula, the projection took about an hour, Wilmot wrote in email responses Feb. 22. “(The formula) is very complicated, especially with the changes.”

Wilmot called the projected $132,113 hike for fiscal year 2017-18 preliminary. If it bears out, it would make a two-year hike of more than $390,000, including $260,000 in 2016-17. Asked what is driving next year’s hike, she said it appears the state will give Wiscasset more funding toward special education and transportation costs.

She’ll use the projection to help plan the next budget. In a phone interview Monday, she said she was still waiting on some other important numbers including tuition revenue, the school department’s contribution to the Maine State Retirement System, and health insurance.

Wilmot hoped to have early numbers on the first two around the time she presents a budget draft to the school committee. The workshop is set for 5 p.m. March 23 in the Wiscasset Middle High School library. Wilmot said she’ll give an overview and other administrators will each discuss their department’s portion of the budget. The committee’s monthly business meeting will follow at 6 p.m.

She expects to know the health insurance premiums in April. In her superintendent’s report to the committee Feb. 16, Wilmot said so far, she is figuring in a nine percent, or $114,440, insurance hike.