Arizona Laws 15-943. Base support level
The base support level for each school district shall be computed as follows:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-943
- Average daily membership: means the total enrollment of fractional students and full-time students, minus withdrawals, of each school day through the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Base: means the revenue level per student count specified by the legislature. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Base level: means the following amounts plus the percentage increase to the base level as provided in Section 15-902. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Base support level: means the base support level as provided in section 15-943. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Current year: means the fiscal year in which a school district is operating. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Group A: means educational programs for career exploration, a specific learning disability, an emotional disability, a mild intellectual disability, remedial education, a speech/language impairment, developmental delay, homebound pupils, bilingual pupils and pupils with other health impairments. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- School district: means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Student count: means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the fiscal year before the current year, except that for the purpose of budget preparation student count means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Subject: means a division or field of organized knowledge, such as English or mathematics, or a selection from an organized body of knowledge for a course or teaching unit, such as the English novel or elementary algebra. See Arizona Laws 15-101
1. The following support level weights shall be used in paragraph 2, subdivision (a) of this section for the following school districts:
(a) For school districts whose student count in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight is classified in column 1 of this subdivision, the support level weight for kindergarten programs and grades one through eight is the corresponding support level weight prescribed in column 2 or 3 of this subdivision, whichever is appropriate:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Support Level Weight Support Level Weight
For Small Isolated For Small
Student Count School Districts School Districts
1-99 1.559 1.399
100-499 1.358 + [0.0005 x (500 1.278 + [0.0003 x (500
– student count)] – student count)]
500-599 1.158 + [0.002 x (600 1.158 + [0.0012 x (600
– student count)] – student count)]
(b) For school districts whose student count in grades nine through twelve is classified in column 1 of this subdivision, the support level weight for grades nine through twelve is the corresponding support level weight prescribed in column 2 or 3 of this subdivision, whichever is appropriate:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Support Level Weight Support Level Weight
For Small Isolated For Small
Student Count School Districts School Districts
1-99 1.669 1.559
100-499 1.468 + [0.0005 x (500 1.398 + [0.0004 x (500
– student count)] – student count)]
500-599 1.268 + [0.002 x (600 1.268 + [0.0013 x (600
– student count)] – student count)]
2. Subject to paragraph 1 of this section, determine the weighted student count as follows:
(a)
Support Weighted
Level Student Student
Grade Base Group A Weight Count Count
PSD 1.000 + 0.450 = 1.450 x =
K-8 1.000 + 0.158 = 1.158 x =
9-12 1.163 + 0.105 = 1.268 x =
Subtotal A
(b)
Support Weighted
Funding Level Student Student
Category Weight Count Count
HI 4.771 x =
K-3 0.060 x =
K-3 reading 0.040 x =
ELL 0.115 x =
MD-R, A-R and
SID-R 6.024 x =
MD-SC, A-SC and
SID-SC 5.988 x =
MD-SSI 7.947 x =
OI-R 3.158 x =
OI-SC 6.773 x =
P-SD 3.595 x = ________
DD, ED, MIID, SLD,
SLI and OHI 0.292 x =
ED-P 4.822 x =
MOID 4.421 x = ________
VI 4.806 x =
G 0.007 x =
FRPL 0.022 x = ________
Subtotal B
(c) Total of subtotals A and B:
3. Multiply the total determined in paragraph 2 of this section by the base level.
4. Multiply the teacher experience index of the district or 1.00, whichever is greater, by the product obtained in paragraph 3 of this section.
5. For the purposes of this section, the student count is the average daily membership as prescribed in section 15-901 for the current year, except that for the purposes of computing the base support level used in determining school district rollover allocations and school district budget override amounts, the student count is the average daily membership as prescribed in section 15-901 for the prior year.