Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 6 - FOUNDATION SCHOOL FUND BUDGET COMMITTEE › Chapter 203 - COST OF EDUCATION INDEX › Section 203.5 - Definition of Terms and Data Elements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a)
				Average daily attendance. The average daily attendance (ADA) for the
				diseconomies of scale component shall be that reported on the "Principal's
				Semester Report of Student Attendance and Contact Hours" for the relevant
				school year, either 1991-1992 or 1992-1993. The commissioner of education shall
				adjust the ADA of those districts which do not offer all grades to reflect the
				number of students transferred out of the district to attend other
				districts.
(b) Competitive
				beginning average annual salary. The competitive beginning average annual
				salary for a district was the average annual salary of beginning instructional
				personnel in other districts with which the district competes. Instructional
				staff was defined as teachers, nurses, and librarians. The role identification
				reported on the Public Information Management System (PEIMS) data submission
				for the 1989-1990 school year was used to determine if an individual was
				assigned as instructional staff. The assignment must have been the major
				assignment of the individual as determined by days employed and percent of day
				assigned. If the role identification was equal to 25, 29, 13, or 22 then the
				individual was categorized as instructional staff. To compute the competitive
				beginning average annual salary, the salaries and full-time equivalencies of
				instructional staff with zero years of experience was aggregated for all the
				districts in counties contiguous to the district's county and the other
				districts in the district's county. The average salary was then computed as the
				aggregate salaries divided by the aggregate full-time equivalencies. The source
				was the fall PEIMS data submission for the 1989-1990 school year.
(c) County population. The estimate of 1990
				county population from the Texas Department of Health, dated May 1987, was
				used.
(d) District type. The
				district types were those determined by the Texas Education Agency for the
				1989-1990 school year. An adjustment is made for districts which are
				categorized as independent towns or rural. All other districts do not receive a
				district type adjustment. A district categorized as an independent town was the
				largest school district in a county with a population between 25,000 to
				100,000, or any other district in that county with an average daily attendance
				at least 75% of the largest district's. Furthermore, the district must not have
				qualified for categorization as a major suburban district or an other central
				city suburban district as defined by the Texas Education Agency. Districts
				categorized as rural are those school districts which either had a student
				count of between 300 and 743 and a growth rate of less than 20%, or that had a
				student count of less than 300.
(e)
				Percent low income. This value was derived by dividing the best six-months
				average of students claiming free and reduced lunches under the National School
				Lunch Program (NSL) for the 1988-1989 school year by the average daily
				attendance in the district for the 1989-1990 school year, and multiplying the
				result by 100.
(f) Size of
				district. This value for the cost component is the average daily attendance in
				the district for the 1989-1990 school year as reported on the "Superintendent's
				Report of Pupil Attendance and Contact Hours."