15.1-27-03.1. Weighted average daily membership - Determination

15.1-27-03.1. Weighted average daily membership - Determination

1. For each school district, the superintendent of public instruction shall multiply by:

a. 1.00 the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in an extended

educational program in accordance with section 15.1-32-17;

b. 0.60 the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in a summer education

program, including a migrant summer education program;

c. 0.40 the number of full-time equivalent students who:

(1) On a test of English language proficiency approved by the superintendent of

public instruction are determined to be least proficient and placed in the first

of six categories of proficiency; and

(2) Are enrolled in a program of instruction for English language learners;

d. 0.28 the number of full-time equivalent students who:

(1) On a test of English language proficiency approved by the superintendent of

public instruction are determined to be more proficient than students placed

in the first of six categories of proficiency and therefore placed in the second

of six categories of proficiency; and

(2) Are enrolled in a program of instruction for English language learners;

e. 0.25 the number of full-time equivalent students under the age of twenty-one

enrolled in grades nine through twelve in an alternative high school;

f. 0.20 the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in a home-based

education program and monitored by the school district under chapter 15.1-23;

g. 0.17 the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in an early childhood

special education program;

h. 0.15 the number of full-time equivalent students in grades six through eight

enrolled in an alternative education program for at least an average of fifteen

hours per week;

i. 0.10 the number of students enrolled in average daily membership, if the district

has fewer than one hundred students enrolled in average daily membership and

the district consists of an area greater than two hundred seventy-five square

miles [19424.9 hectares], provided that any school district consisting of an area

greater than six hundred square miles [155399 hectares] and enrolling fewer than

fifty students in average daily membership must be deemed to have an

enrollment equal to fifty students in average daily membership;

j. 0.088 the number of students enrolled in average daily membership, in order to

support the provision of special education services;

k. 0.07 the number of full-time equivalent students who:

(1) On a test of English language proficiency approved by the superintendent of

public instruction are determined to be more proficient than students placed

in the second of six categories of proficiency and therefore placed in the

third of six categories of proficiency;

(2) Are enrolled in a program of instruction for English language learners; and

umber of full-time equivalent students who:

(1) On a test of English language proficiency approved by the superintendent of

public instruction are determined to be more proficient than students placed

in the second of six categories of proficiency and therefore placed in the

third of six categories of proficiency;

(2) Are enrolled in a program of instruction for English language learners; and

(3) Have not been in the third of six categories of proficiency for more than

three years;

l. 0.025 the number of students representing that percentage of the total number of

students in average daily membership which is equivalent to the three-year

average percentage of students in grades three through eight who are eligible for

free or reduced lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act

[42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.];

m. 0.002 the number of students enrolled in average daily membership in a school

district that is a participating member of a regional education association meeting

the requirements of chapter 15.1-09.1;

n. 1.0 the number of students by which the district's September tenth enrollment

report exceeds the number of students in the prior year's average daily

membership; and

o. For districts paid based on September tenth enrollment in the prior year, 1.00 the

number of students determined by deducting the number of students in the prior

year's September tenth enrollment from the prior year's average daily

membership. If the prior year's September tenth enrollment exceeds the prior

year's average daily membership, then a deduction of 1.00 the number of excess

students.

2. The superintendent of public instruction shall determine each school district's weighted

average daily membership by adding the products derived under subsection 1 to the

district's average daily membership.