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In California funding is based upon attendance. The main place wealthy neighborhoods get extra money here is through PTAs rather than property taxes.

This is in addition to what the other commenter said. I'm not very well informed about how other states fund their schools, but even if this blanket generalization is true in some places, there's enough evidence out there that funding isn't the only or maybe even the main problem.

US ranks very high in the world in gov spending on education at 6% of GDP. Higher than Canada, France, Germany, UK, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_...

The EU as a whole for example is around 4.7% https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...