Article 4. Funding For Small School Districts of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 4.
(a) For each school district that meets, in the current or
prior fiscal year, the conditions specified in Section 42282 or 42284
the Superintendent shall compute, for each qualifying school in the
school district, an amount pursuant to this article.
(b) The amount of funding for each qualified school district shall
equal the greater of either of the following:
(1) The sum of necessary small elementary school allowances
determined pursuant to Section 42282 for the prior year average daily
attendance and the number of full-time teachers, and necessary small
high school allowances determined pursuant to Section 42284 for the
prior year average daily attendance and the number of certificated
employees.
(2) The sum of necessary small elementary school allowances
determined pursuant to Section 42282 for the current year average
daily attendance and the number of full-time teachers, and necessary
small high school allowances determined pursuant to Section 42284 for
the current year average daily attendance and the number of
certificated employees.
For each district with fewer than 2,501 units of second
principal apportionment average daily attendance, on account of each
necessary small school, the Superintendent shall make the following
computations:
(a) For each necessary small school which has an average daily
attendance during the fiscal year of less than 25, exclusive of
pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, and
for which school at least one teacher was hired full time, the
Superintendent shall compute for the school district fifty-two
thousand nine hundred twenty-five dollars ($52,925).
(b) For each necessary small school which has an average daily
attendance during the fiscal year of 25 or more and less than 49,
exclusive of pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high
school, and for which school at least two teachers were hired full
time for more than one-half of the days schools were maintained, the
Superintendent shall compute for the school district one hundred five
thousand eight hundred fifty dollars ($105,850).
(c) For each necessary small school which has an average daily
attendance during the fiscal year of 49 or more, but less than 73,
exclusive of pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high
school, and for which school three teachers were hired full time for
more than one-half of the days schools were maintained, the
Superintendent shall compute for the school district one hundred
fifty-eight thousand seven hundred seventy-five dollars ($158,775).
(d) For each necessary small school which has an average daily
attendance during the fiscal year of 73 or more and less than 97,
exclusive of pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high
school, and for which school four teachers were hired full time for
more than one-half of the days schools were maintained, the
Superintendent shall compute for the school district two hundred
eleven thousand seven hundred dollars ($211,700).
(e) A school district that continues to satisfy the criteria
specified in Section 42283 may use this funding calculation until the
local control funding formula grade span adjusted base grant
calculated pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 42238.02 produces
state aid equal to the small school funding formula.
(a) For purposes of Section 42282, a "necessary small school"
is an elementary school with an average daily attendance of less
than 97 pupils, excluding pupils attending the seventh and eighth
grades of a junior high school, maintained by a school district to
which any of the following conditions apply:
(1) If as many as five pupils residing in the school district and
attending kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, excluding pupils
attending the seventh and eighth grades of a junior high school, in
the elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than
97 pupils would be required to travel more than 10 miles one way from
a point on a well-traveled road nearest their home to the nearest
other public elementary school.
(2) If as many as 15 pupils residing in the school district and
attending kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, excluding pupils
attending the seventh and eighth grades of a junior high school, in
the elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than
97 pupils would be required to travel more than five miles one way
from a point on a well-traveled road nearest their home to the
nearest other public elementary school.
(3) If topographical or other conditions exist in a school
district that would impose unusual hardships if the number of miles
specified in paragraph (1) or (2) were required to be traveled, or if
during the fiscal year the roads that would be traveled have been
impassable for more than an average of two weeks per year for the
preceding five years, the governing board of the school district may,
on or before April 1, request the Superintendent, in writing, for an
exemption from these requirements or for a reduction in the miles
required. The request shall be accompanied by a statement of the
conditions upon which the request is based, giving the information in
a form required by the Superintendent. The Superintendent shall
cause an investigation to be made, and shall either grant the request
to the extent he or she deems necessary, or deny the request.
(b) For purposes of this section, "other public elementary school"
is a public school, including a charter school, that serves
kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, excluding grades 7
and 8 of a junior high school.
(a) For each school district with fewer than 2,501 units of
average daily attendance, on account of each necessary small high
school, the Superintendent shall make one of the following
computations selected with regard only to the number of certificated
employees employed or average daily attendance, whichever provides
the lesser amount:
Minimum
number Amount
Average of to
daily certificated be
attendance employees computed
1-19 ................ less than 3 $42,980
per
teacher
1-19 ................ 3 191,340
20-38 ............... 4 234,320
39-57 ............... 5 277,300
58-71 ............... 6 320,280
72-86 ............... 7 363,260
87-100 .............. 8 406,240
101-114 ............. 9 449,220
115-129 ............. 10 492,200
130-143 ............. 11 535,180
144-171 ............. 12 578,160
172-210 ............. 13 621,140
211-248 ............. 14 664,120
249-286 ............. 15 707,100
(b) For purposes of this section, a "certificated employee" means
an equivalent full-time position of an individual holding a
credential authorizing service and providing service in any of grades
9 to 12, inclusive, in any secondary school. Any fraction of an
equivalent full-time position remaining after all equivalent
full-time positions for certificated employees within the school
district have been calculated shall be deemed to be a full-time
position.
(c) A school district that continues to satisfy the criteria
specified in Section 42285 may use the funding calculation as
provided in this section until the local control funding formula
grade span adjusted base grant calculated pursuant to subdivision (d)
of Section 42238.02 produces state aid equal to the funding provided
under this section.
(a) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high
school is a high school with an average daily attendance of less than
287 pupils that comes within any of the following conditions:
(1) The projection of its future enrollment on the basis of the
enrollment of the elementary schools in the school district shows
that within eight years the enrollment in high school in grades 9 to
12, inclusive, will exceed 286 pupils.
(2) Any one of the following combinations of distance and units of
average daily attendance applies:
(A) The high school had an average daily attendance of less than
96 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal
year and is more than 15 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest
other public high school and either 90 percent of the pupils would
be required to travel 20 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 30 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled
road nearest their homes to the nearest other public high school.
(B) The high school had an average daily attendance of 96 pupils
or more and less than 144 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during
the preceding fiscal year and is more than 10 miles by well-traveled
road from the nearest other public high school and either 90 percent
of the pupils would be required to travel 18 miles or 25 percent of
the pupils would be required to travel 25 miles one way from a point
on a well-traveled road nearest their homes to the nearest other
public high school.
(C) The high school had an average daily attendance of 144 pupils
or more and less than 192 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during
the preceding fiscal year and is more than 7 1/2 miles by
well-traveled road from the nearest other public high school and
either 90 percent of the pupils would be required to travel 15 miles
or 25 percent of the pupils would be required to travel 20 miles one
way from a point on a well-traveled road nearest their homes to the
nearest other public high school.
(D) The high school had an average daily attendance of 192 pupils
or more and less than 287 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during
the preceding fiscal year and is more than 5 miles by well-traveled
road from the nearest other public high school and either 90 percent
of the pupils would be required to travel 10 miles or 25 percent of
the pupils would be required to travel 15 miles to the nearest other
public high school.
(3) Topographical or other conditions exist in the school district
which would impose unusual hardships on the pupils if the number of
miles specified in paragraph (2) were required to be traveled. In
these cases, the Superintendent may, when requested, and after
investigation, grant exceptions from the distance requirements.
(4) The Superintendent has approved the recommendation of a county
committee on school district organization designating one of two or
more schools as necessary isolated schools in a situation where the
schools are operated by two or more school districts and the average
daily attendance of each of the schools is less than 287 pupils in
grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
(b) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
also includes any of the following:
(1) A high school maintained by a school district for the
exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall pupils or pupils with
exceptional needs.
(2) A high school maintained by a county office of education for
the exclusive purpose of educating foster youth if the high school
provided instruction in the 2012-13 fiscal year and the high school
is the only one maintained by the county office of education that
exclusively educates foster youth. Notwithstanding Section 42286,
this paragraph shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017.
(3) A high school maintained by a unified school district as the
only comprehensive high school if the high school has an average
daily attendance of less than 287 pupils and the school district has
50 or fewer pupils per square mile of school district territory, as
measured by the number of pupils residing in the school district.
Notwithstanding Section 42286, this paragraph shall become
inoperative on July 1, 2017.
(c) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
does not include a continuation school.
(d) For purposes of this section, "other public high school" is a
public school, including a charter school, that serves any of grades
9 to 12, inclusive.
Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 42280 or any
other provision of law, a unified school district that is the only
school district in a county, that has received more than two million
seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) in federal Forest Reserve
funds in the 1992-93 school year and less than one million three
hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds
in the 1996-97 school year, and that has fewer than 4,501 units of
average daily attendance in the 1997-98 school year or in subsequent
school years shall be eligible to receive apportionments pursuant to
the schedules for a "necessary small school" and a "necessary small
high school," as set forth in this article, for up to the total
number of schools in the district that would have met the criteria
for classification as a necessary small school or a necessary small
high school in the 1996-97 fiscal year, if the district had fewer
than 2,501 units of average daily attendance in the 1996-97 fiscal
year, except that this section does not apply in a school year in
which an otherwise eligible school district receives more than two
million dollars ($2,000,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds.
(a) If a high school is determined to be a necessary small
high school pursuant to Section 42285, that status shall not be
changed except as a review of the determinative factors made every
two years following the date of the determination indicates that the
determination should be changed.
(b) A high school that has not been determined to be a necessary
small high school under Section 42285, may be determined to be a
necessary small high school at the beginning of a fiscal year if it
meets the criteria specified in Section 42285.
(a) For the 1984-85 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year,
inclusive, the Superintendent shall increase the funding amounts
specified in Sections 42282 and 42284 by an amount proportionate to
the increase applied to the statewide average revenue limit for
unified school districts for the then current fiscal year.
(b) Commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, the Superintendent
shall increase the funding amounts specified in Sections 42282 and
42284, as previously increased pursuant to subdivision (a) and
Sections 42289 to 42289.5, inclusive, by the percentage calculated
pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.02,
subject to the criteria specified in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b)
of Section 42238.03, for the then current fiscal year.
Notwithstanding any other law, for each fiscal year through
the 2012-13 fiscal year, before calculating the increase in funding
amount specified in Section 42287, the Superintendent shall increase
the funding amounts specified in Sections 42281, 42282, and 42284, by
the product of subdivisions (a) and (b):
(a) The amount per unit of average daily attendance received by
the school district pursuant to Section 46201 in the prior fiscal
year.
(b) The average daily attendance for each necessary small school
and necessary small high school for which the school district
received funding in the prior fiscal year pursuant to Section 42281,
42282, or 42284, as appropriate.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 1988-89 fiscal
year to the 2012-13 fiscal year, inclusive, after calculating the
increase in funding amounts specified in Section 42287, the
Superintendent shall increase the funding amounts specified in
Sections 42281, 42282, and 42284, by the sum of paragraphs (1) and
(2):
(1) Compute the product of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
(A) The amount per unit of average daily attendance computed
pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 42240.
(B) The average daily attendance for each necessary small school
and necessary small high school for which the district receives
funding in the current fiscal year pursuant to Section 42281, 42282,
or 42284, as appropriate.
(2) From the 1990-91 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year,
inclusive, the amount computed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
increased by the percentage cost-of-living increase given to school
district revenue limits for the then current fiscal year.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 1989-90 fiscal
year to the 2012-13 fiscal year, inclusive, after calculating the
increase in funding amounts specified in Section 42287, the
Superintendent shall increase the funding amounts specified in
Sections 42281, 42282, and 42284, by the sum of paragraphs (1) and
(2):
(1) Compute the product of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
(A) The amount per unit of average daily attendance computed
pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 54060.5.
(B) The average daily attendance for each necessary small school
and necessary small high school for which the school district
receives funding in the current fiscal year pursuant to Section
42281, 42282, or 42284, as appropriate.
(2) From the 1990-91 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year,
inclusive, the amount computed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
increased by the percentage cost-of-living increase given to school
district revenue limits for the then current fiscal year.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 1989-90 fiscal
year to the 2012-13 fiscal year, inclusive, after calculating the
increase in funding amounts specified in Section 42287, the
Superintendent shall increase the funding amounts specified in
Sections 42281, 42282, and 42284, by the sum of paragraphs (1) and
(2):
(1) Compute the product of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
(A) The amount per unit of average daily attendance computed
pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 54060.6.
(B) The average daily attendance for each necessary small school
and necessary small high school for which the school district
receives funding in the current fiscal year pursuant to Section
42281, 42282, or 42284, as appropriate.
(2) From the 1990-91 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year,
inclusive, the amount computed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
increased by the percentage cost-of-living increase given to school
district revenue limits for the then current fiscal year.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 1989-90 fiscal
year to the 2012-13 fiscal year, inclusive, after calculating the
increase in funding amounts specified in Section 42287, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall increase the funding
amounts specified in Sections 42281, 42282, and 42284, by the sum of
paragraphs (1) and (2):
(1) Compute the product of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
(A) The amount per unit of average daily attendance computed
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 54060.7.
(B) The average daily attendance for each necessary small school
and necessary small high school for which the school district
receives funding in the current fiscal year pursuant to Section
42281, 42282, or 42284, as appropriate.
(2) From the 1990-91 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year,
inclusive, the amount computed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
increased by the percentage cost-of-living increase given to school
district revenue limits for the then current fiscal year.
Notwithstanding any other law, the increases determined
pursuant to Sections 42289, 42289.1, 42289.3, and 42289.4 shall be
permanently increased for the 1998-99 fiscal year by the quotient,
for each school district eligible for an increase, of the amount
determined pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of
subdivision (a) of Section 42238.8, as that section read on January
1, 2013, divided by the amount determined pursuant to subparagraph
(C) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 42238.8, as that
section read on January 1, 2013.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Quality
Education Commission review the eligibility provisions for the
establishment of necessary small schools as specified in Sections
42280, 42282, 42283, 42284, and 42285, including the following:
(1) The appropriate size for a necessary small elementary school,
a necessary small middle school, and a necessary small high school.
(2) Whether mileage and other eligibility requirements are
appropriate or need to be modified.
(b) It is further the intent of the Legislature that by January 1,
2006, the Quality Education Commission recommend to the Legislature
modifications regarding the size, eligibility requirements, and
funding of necessary small schools.