1. Actual enrollment.
a. Actual enrollment is determined annually on October 1, or the first Monday in October
if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, and includes all of the following:
(1)Resident pupils who were enrolled in public schools within the district in grades
kindergarten through twelve and including prekindergarten pupils enrolled in special
education programs.
(2)Full-time equivalent resident pupils of high school age for which the district pays
tuition to attend an Iowa community college.
(3)Shared-time and part-time pupils of school age enrolled in public schools within the
district, irrespective of the districts in which the pupils reside, in the proportion that the
time for which they are enrolled or receive instruction for the school year is to the time that
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1. Actual enrollment.
a. Actual enrollment is determined annually on October 1, or the first Monday in October
if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, and includes all of the following:
(1) Resident pupils who were enrolled in public schools within the district in grades
kindergarten through twelve and including prekindergarten pupils enrolled in special
education programs.
(2) Full-time equivalent resident pupils of high school age for which the district pays
tuition to attend an Iowa community college.
(3) Shared-time and part-time pupils of school age enrolled in public schools within the
district, irrespective of the districts in which the pupils reside, in the proportion that the
time for which they are enrolled or receive instruction for the school year is to the time that
full-timepupilscarryinganormalcourseschedule,atthesamegradelevel,inthesameschool
district, for the same school year, are enrolled and receive instruction. Tuition charges to
the parent or guardian of a shared-time or part-time nonresident pupil shall be reduced by
the amount of any increased state aid received by the district by the counting of the pupil.
This subparagraph applies to pupils enrolled in grades nine through twelve under section
299A.8 and to pupils from accredited nonpublic schools accessing classes or services on the
accredited nonpublic school premises under section 256.12 or on the school district site, but
excludes accredited nonpublic school pupils receiving classes or services funded entirely by
federal grants or allocations.
(4) Eleventh and twelfth grade nonresident pupils who were residents of the district
during the preceding school year and are enrolled in the district until the pupils graduate.
Tuition for those pupils shall not be charged by the district in which the pupils are enrolled
and the requirements of section 282.18 do not apply.
(5) Resident pupils receiving competent private instruction from a licensed practitioner
provided through a public school district pursuant to chapter 299A shall be counted as
three-tenths of one pupil. Revenues received by a school district attributed to a school
district’s weighted enrollment pursuant to this subparagraph shall be expended for the
purpose for which the weighting was assigned under this subparagraph. If the school
district determines that the expenditures associated with providing competent private
instruction pursuant to chapter 299A are in excess of the revenue attributed to the school
district’s weighted enrollment for such instruction in accordance with this subparagraph,
the school district may submit a request to the school budget review committee for a
modified supplemental amount in accordance with section 257.31, subsection 5, paragraph
“n”. A home school assistance program shall not provide moneys received pursuant to this
subparagraph, nor resources paid for with moneys received pursuant to this subparagraph,
to parents or students utilizing the program. Moneys received by a school district pursuant
to this subparagraph shall be used as provided in section 299A.12.
(6) Resident pupils receiving competent private instruction under dual enrollment
pursuant to chapter 299A shall be counted as one-tenth of one pupil.
(7) A student attending an accredited nonpublic school or receiving competent private
instruction under chapter 299A, who is assigned to a therapeutic classroom in accordance
with section 256.25A or is participating in a program under chapter 261E, shall be counted
as a shared-time student in the school district in which the nonpublic school of attendance is
located for state foundation aid purposes.
(8) Pupils who are enrolled in public schools within the district under section 282.1,
subsection 3, in grades kindergarten through twelve and including prekindergarten pupils
enrolled in special education programs.
(9) Resident pupils enrolled in a charter school under chapter 256E or 256F.
b. A school district shall certify its actual enrollment to the department of education by
October 15 of each year, and the department shall promptly forward the information to the
department of management.
c. Thedepartmentofmanagementshalladjusttheenrollmentoftheschooldistrictforthe
audit year based upon reports filed under section 11.6, and shall further adjust the budget of
the second year succeeding the audit year for the property tax and state aid portions of the
reported differences in enrollments for the year succeeding the audit year.
2. Basic enrollment. Basic enrollment for a budget year is a district’s actual enrollment
for the base year. Basic enrollment for the base year is a district’s actual enrollment for the
year preceding the base year.
3. Additional enrollment because of special education.
a. A school district shall determine its additional enrollment because of special education,
as defined in this section, by November 1 of each year and shall certify its additional
enrollment because of special education to the department of education by November 15 of
each year, and the department shall promptly forward the information to the department of
management.
b. Forthepurposesofthischapter, “additionalenrollmentbecauseofspecialeducation”is
determinedbymultiplyingtheweightingofeachcategoryofchildundersection256B.9times
the number of children in each category totaled for all categories minus the total number of
children in all categories.
4. Budget enrollment. Budget enrollment for the budget year is the basic enrollment for
the budget year.
5. Weighted enrollment.
a. Weighted enrollment is the budget enrollment plus the district’s additional enrollment
becauseofspecialeducationcalculatedbyNovember1ofthebaseyearplusadditionalpupils
added due to the application of the supplementary weighting.
b. Weighted enrollment for special education support services costs is equal to the
weighted enrollment minus the additional pupils added due to the application of the
supplementary weighting.
6. Students excluded. For the school year beginning July 1, 2008, and each succeeding
school year, a student shall not be included in a district’s enrollment for purposes of this
chapter or considered an eligible pupil under section 261E.6 if the student meets all of the
following:
a. Was eligible to receive a diploma with the class in which they were enrolled and that
class graduated in the previous school year.
b. Continues enrollment in the district to take courses either provided by the district or
offered by community colleges under the provisions of section 257.11, or to take courses
under the provisions of section 261E.6.