Washington Administrative Code › Title 392 - Public Instruction, Superintendent of › Chapter 392-343 - State funding assistance in providing school plant facilities-Basic state support › Section 392-343-025 - State funding assistance percentage - General

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) The state funding assistance percentage
			 for which a school district is eligible, if otherwise qualified under
			 prevailing statutory provisions and rules and regulations of the superintendent
			 of public instruction, shall be determined in accordance with the state funding
			 assistance percentage formula set forth in
			 RCW
			 28A.525.166.
(2) In the event the state funding assistance
			 percentage to any school district computed in accordance with
			 RCW
			 28A.525.166(2) is less than
			 twenty percent and such school district otherwise is eligible for state funding
			 assistance under statutory provisions and the superintendent of public
			 instruction regulations, the percentage for such district shall be twenty
			 percent of the state allowable costs of the project.
(3) In addition to the computed state funding
			 assistance percentage as stated above, a school district as provided in
			 RCW
			 28A.525.166(3), shall be
			 entitled to additional percentage points determined by the average percentage
			 of growth for the past three years. One percent shall be added to the computed
			 state funding assistance percentage for each average percent of student growth
			 for the past three years, with a maximum addition of twenty percent. In no case
			 shall the state funding assistance exceed one hundred percent of the maximum
			 allowable cost of the project.
(4)
			 For the purpose of calculating the state funding assistance percentage, the
			 October student headcount (kindergarten through grade twelve students) shall be
			 based on enrollment reported on the October P-223 form on or before the October
			 due date. The headcount shall exclude alternative learning experience (ALE)
			 students who reside outside the school district, as reported on the office of
			 superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) school apportionment and financial
			 services October alternative learning experience monthly enrollment report on
			 or before the November due date.
In accordance with chapter 28A.525 RCW, as an alternative to
				the above headcount a school district may request the OSPI to increase the
				headcount by the difference in the number of ALE students, residing outside the
				district who physically attend the school for more than one hour per day, three
				days or more per week, compared to the number of ALE students, residing inside
				the district, that did not physically attend the school for more than one hour
				per day, three days or more per week.
Any school district requesting the above alternative
				calculation must do so on an OSPI school facilities and organization
				alternative calculation for alternative learning students form on or before
				December 31st of that year.
For purposes of this section (ALE) students shall be defined as
				in RCW 28A.150.325.
Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.150.290. 12-20-014, §
				  392-343-025, filed 9/24/12, effective 10/25/12. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  28A.525.020. 10-09-008, § 392-343-025,
				  filed 4/8/10, effective 5/9/10; 06-16-032, amended and recodified as §
				  392-343-025, filed 7/25/06, effective 8/25/06. Statutory Authority: 1990 c 33.
				  90-17-009, § 180-27-025, filed 8/6/90, effective 9/6/90. Statutory
				  Authority: RCW 28A.47.830. 83-21-066 (Order 11-83), § 180-27-025, filed
				  10/17/83.