2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 22 - EDUCATION (§§ 22-1-101 — 22-108-109) › FINANCING OF SCHOOLS - CONTINUED (§§ 22-53-101 — 22-58-101) › Article 54 - Public School Finance Act of 2025 (§§ 22-54-101 — 22-54-147) › Section 22-54-122 - Small attendance center aid

(1)
(a)
For the 1998-99 budget year through the 2007-08 budget year, a district shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if:
(I)
The district has more than one elementary or secondary school attendance center; and
(II)
The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance centers with a pupil enrollment of less than two hundred and that are located twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center in the same district.
(b)
For the 2008-09 budget year and budget years thereafter, a district shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if:
(I)
The district has more than one elementary or secondary school attendance center;
(II)
The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance centers that have pupil enrollments of less than two hundred and that are located twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center in the same district; and
(III)
The district received aid pursuant to this section prior to the 2008-09 budget year.
(1.5)
(a)
For the 2004-05 budget year through the 2007-08 budget year, an institute charter school shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if the institute charter school has a pupil enrollment of fewer than two hundred and is located twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center.
(b)
For the 2008-09 budget year and budget years thereafter, an institute charter school shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if the institute charter school has a pupil enrollment of fewer than two hundred, is located twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center, and received aid pursuant to this section prior to the 2008-09 budget year.
(2)
(a)
A district meeting the eligibility requirements of subsection (1) of this section is eligible to receive aid for each small attendance center as calculated by: Multiplying the pupil enrollment of the small attendance center by an amount equal to thirty-five percent of the difference between the district per pupil funding and the district per pupil funding, except using the size factor calculated using the funded pupil count of the small attendance center; and then multiplying the amount by the percentage determined by dividing the difference between two hundred and the funded pupil count of the small attendance center by two hundred.
(b)
An institute charter school meeting the eligibility requirements of subsection (1.5) of this section is eligible to receive aid as a small attendance center as calculated by: Multiplying the pupil enrollment of the institute charter school by an amount equal to thirty-five percent of the difference between the district per pupil funding of the institute charter school's accounting district and the district per pupil funding, except using the size factor calculated using the pupil enrollment of the institute charter school, and then multiplying such amount by the percentage determined by dividing the difference between two hundred and the pupil enrollment of the institute charter school by two hundred.
(3)
The general assembly shall appropriate annually an amount for small attendance center aid to be distributed pursuant to the formulas in subsection (2) of this section. In the event the amount of money appropriated by the general assembly is less than the amount of aid authorized by this section to all eligible districts and eligible institute charter schools, the amount to be distributed to each eligible school district and eligible institute charter school shall be in the same proportion as the amount that the appropriation bears to the total amount of aid for all eligible districts and eligible institute charter schools.
(4)
If a school district receives small attendance center aid pursuant to this section for a small attendance center that is a district charter school, the school district shall forward the entire amount of such aid to the district charter school for which it was received. If an institute charter school is eligible for small attendance center aid pursuant to this section, the state charter school institute shall forward the entire amount of such aid to the institute charter school for which it was received.
Amended by 2024 Ch. 236,§ 24, eff. 5/23/2024.
L. 98: Entire section added, p. 970, § 13, effective May 27. L. 2002: (4) added, p. 1737, § 8, effective June 7. L. 2004: (1.5) added and (2), (3), and (4) amended, p. 1642, § 49, effective July 1. L. 2008: (1) and (1.5) amended, p. 1198, § 10, effective May 22.
For the legislative declaration contained in the 2008 act amending subsections (1) and (1.5), see section 1 of chapter 286, Session Laws of Colorado 2008.