The Warren County School District has two problems on its hands.

One can be solved by the state if state legislators would finalize a state budget that tells local school districts how much state aid they will receive and how federal stimulus money for education will be spent. The district expects to see about $14 million in federal stimulus dollars over the next two years, but it’s impossible to prepare a budget without knowing how that money can be spent.

In the grand scheme of things, this coming year’s budget is the smaller of the district’s two problems. After all, there is an $18 million fund balance to smooth out this year’s budget in a worst-case scenario.

The bigger problem is the continued declining enrollment in the Warren County School District — and that’s a problem that local school board members and district administrators will have to deal with. That $18 million fund balance is projected to run out by 2024-25 at its current rate of use.

At the same time, enrollment is decreasing. In 10 years, Warren Area High School is projected to be graduating fewer than 100 students a year.

Even the world’s worst student can do the math — a district that spends more money to educate fewer students each year is eventually going to go broke.