Two-year averaging for declining enrollment. One-hundred and five districts will benefit from the new two-year averaging provision for counting students. That’s a $3.8 million benefit statewide. The change was designed to soften the impact of declining enrollment – essentially allowing districts to count students that are no longer enrolled.

Growing enrollment. Twenty-six districts with growing enrollments this current school year will benefit from the new growing enrollment provision in the funding formula. Those districts will receive an additional $3.5 million.

No more ADM. The move to a fall enrollment count for state aid purposes, as opposed to average daily membership, will result in an additional $2.5 million for schools for FY 08. In the long run, this change is expected to benefit districts, since many of them have their highest enrollments in the fall.

Small school adjustment. One-hundred and twenty-four districts will receive more than the basic per-student allocation in FY 08, thanks to the small school adjustment. The change from small school factor to small school adjustment benefited some districts this year and hurt others. Last year’s law effectively limited the amount of small school adjustment a district can receive by freezing the dollar amount on which the adjustment is based.

TCAP makes an impact. Beyond the additional dollars in the formula, 151 school districts will receive a total of nearly $3.9 million through the Teacher Compensation Assistance Program this year. All districts were eligible to apply for the funds.

Assistance for sparse districts. Twenty-three districts will receive a total of nearly $2 million through a sparsity provision that provides additional dollars to districts that are geographically isolated. Sparsity dollars are outside of the formula.