California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 2 - Financial Operations › Chapter 3 - Department of General Services › Subchapter 4 - Office of Public School Construction › Group 1 - State Allocation Board › Subgroup 5.5 - Regulations Relating to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998: (School Facility Program) › Article 5 - ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS › Section 1859.40 - Enrollment Projections Used to Determine a District's Eligibility for New Construction Grants

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The district shall provide an enrollment
							 Certification and report enrollment data, on the Form SAB 50-01. The
							 information provided on this Form shall serve as the basis for determining a
							 district's eligibility for New Construction funding. The enrollment projections
							 generated by completing the Form SAB 50-01 shall be known as Cohort Projections
							 for purposes of this section.
(a) In
						  addition, a School District that meets the eligibility criteria as specified in
						  Education Code Section
						  17071.75(a)(1)
						  and has applied for determination of eligibility pursuant to Section
						  1859.20, may submit a request for
						  review of an Alternative Enrollment Projection to the OPSC and the
						  DRU.
(b) The request must contain
						  all of the following to substantiate the Alternative Enrollment Projection
						  methodology:
(1) provide a description to the
						  OPSC on how the district cannot adequately meet its housing needs at the
						  impacted school sites, after considering all existing eligibility mechanisms
						  available from the Cohort Projections;
(2) a written explanation of the methodology
						  for calculating the enrollment projections;
(3) an electronic copy of the calculations
						  used in determining the enrollment projections;
(4) a disclosure of any assumptions that
						  support the calculations of enrollment projections;
(5) a minimum of three years or more, as
						  determined necessary by the DRU, of historical data used in calculating the
						  enrollment projections. The data must be verifiable, annually based, and
						  geographically organized if the school district's boundaries have changed since
						  the 2000 Census conducted by the United States Census Bureau.
(6) a list of source(s) used to collect all
						  applicable data with contact information for each data source;
(7) a separate enrollment projection for each
						  grade level;
(8) a district-wide
						  enrollment projection for any district that reports district-wide enrollment on
						  the Form SAB 50-01; or HSAA enrollment projection(s) for any district that
						  reports enrollment for one or more HSAA(s) on the Form SAB 50-01; or Super HSAA
						  enrollment projection(s) for any district that reports enrollment for one or
						  more Super HSAA(s) on the Form SAB 50-01.
The eligibility generated by an Alternative
							 Enrollment Projection shall be made available to eligible school districts
							 pursuant to Education Code Section
							 17071.75(a)(1),
							 that received the OPSC's and the DRU's approval of the Alternative Enrollment
							 Projection, until the combined Apportionments for all funding requests
							 utilizing eligibility available from the Alternative Enrollment Projection
							 reaches $500 million or the Board has no funds to apportion from the
							 Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of
							 2004.