257.6 - ENROLLMENT.
257.6 ENROLLMENT.
1. Actual enrollment.
a. Actual enrollment is determined annually on October 1, or
the first Monday in October if October 1 falls on a Saturday or
Sunday, and includes all of the following:
(1) Resident pupils who were enrolled in public schools within
the district in grades kindergarten through twelve and including
prekindergarten pupils enrolled in special education programs.
(2) Full-time equivalent resident pupils of high school age for
which the district pays tuition to attend an Iowa community college.
(3) Shared-time and part-time pupils of school age enrolled in
public schools within the district, irrespective of the districts in
which the pupils reside, in the proportion that the time for which
they are enrolled or receive instruction for the school year is to
the time that full-time pupils carrying a normal course schedule, at
the same grade level, in the same school district, for the same
school year, are enrolled and receive instruction. Tuition charges
to the parent or guardian of a shared-time or part-time nonresident
pupil shall be reduced by the amount of any increased state aid
received by the district by the counting of the pupil.
(4) Eleventh and twelfth grade nonresident pupils who were
residents of the district during the preceding school year and are
enrolled in the district until the pupils graduate. Tuition for
those pupils shall not be charged by the district in which the pupils
are enrolled and the requirements of section 282.18 do not apply.
(5) Resident pupils receiving competent private instruction from
a licensed practitioner provided through a public school district
pursuant to chapter 299A shall be counted as three-tenths of one
pupil. Revenues received by a school district attributed to a school
district's weighted enrollment pursuant to this paragraph{ shall be
expended for the purpose for which the weighting was assigned under
this paragraph.{ If the school district determines that the
expenditures associated with providing competent private instruction
pursuant to chapter 299A are in excess of the revenue attributed to
the school district's weighted enrollment for such instruction in
accordance with this subparagraph, the school district may submit a
request to the school budget review committee for modified allowable
growth in accordance with section 257.31, subsection 5, paragraph
"n". A home school assistance program shall not provide moneys
received pursuant to this subparagraph, nor resources paid for with
moneys received pursuant to this subparagraph, to parents or students
utilizing the program.
(6) Resident pupils receiving competent private instruction under
dual enrollment pursuant to chapter 299A shall be counted as
one-tenth of one pupil.
(7) A student attending an accredited nonpublic school or
receiving competent private instruction under chapter 299A, who is
participating in a program under chapter 261E, shall be counted as a
shared-time student in the school district in which the nonpublic
school of attendance is located for state foundation aid purposes.
b. Pupils attending a university laboratory school are not
counted in the actual enrollment of a school district, but the
laboratory school shall report their enrollment directly to the
department of education.
c. A school district shall certify its actual enrollment to
the department of education by October 15 of each year, and the
department shall promptly forward the information to the department
of management.
d. The department of management shall adjust the enrollment
of the school district for the audit year based upon reports filed
under section 11.6, and shall further adjust the budget of the second
year succeeding the audit year for the property tax and state aid
portions of the reported differences in enrollments for the year
succeeding the audit year.
2. Basic enrollment. Basic enrollment for a budget year is a
district's actual enrollment for the base year. Basic enrollment for
the base year is a district's actual enrollment for the year
preceding the base year.
3. Additional enrollment because of special education. A
school district shall determine its additional enrollment because of
special education, as defined in this section, by November 1 of each
year and shall certify its additional enrollment because of special
education to the department of education by November 15 of each year,
and the department shall promptly forward the information to the
department of management.
For the purposes of this chapter, "additional enrollment because
of special education" is determined by multiplying the weighting of
each category of child under section 256B.9 times the number of
children in each category totaled for all categories minus the total
number of children in all categories.
4. Budget enrollment. Budget enrollment for the budget year
is the basic enrollment for the budget year.
5. Weighted enrollment. Weighted enrollment is the budget
enrollment plus the district's additional enrollment because of
special education calculated by November 1 of the base year plus
additional pupils added due to the application of the supplementary
weighting.
Weighted enrollment for special education support services costs
is equal to the weighted enrollment minus the additional pupils added
due to the application of the supplementary weighting.
6. Students excluded. For the school year beginning July 1,
2008, and each succeeding school year, a student shall not be
included in a district's enrollment for purposes of this chapter or
considered an eligible pupil under section 261E.6 if the student
meets all of the following:
a. Was eligible to receive a diploma with the class in which
they were enrolled and that class graduated in the previous school
year.
b. Continues enrollment in the district to take courses
either provided by the district or offered by community colleges
under the provisions of section 257.11, or to take courses under the
provisions of section 261E.6. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 135, § 6; 92 Acts, ch 1187, §2; 92 Acts, ch 1230, §1,
2; 92 Acts, ch 1247, §47; 2001 Acts, ch 159, §6--8; 2001 Acts, ch
176, §32, 33; 2006 Acts, ch 1152, §22, 23; 2007 Acts, ch 22, §59;
2008 Acts, ch 1181, §45--47; 2008 Acts, ch 1191, §108, 113; 2009
Acts, ch 41, §100; 2009 Acts, ch 177, §15
Referred to in § 11.6, 256B.8, 256C.4, 257.9, 257.10, 257.11A,
257.13, 257.16, 257.31, 257.37, 261E.7, 273.22, 275.14, 275.33,
279.60, 282.8, 282.12, 282.18, 282.31, 299A.2, 299A.8, 423E.3 Footnotes
{The word "subparagraph" probably intended; corrective legislation
is pending
For future amendment to this section effective July 1, 2010, see
2009 Acts, ch 177, §53, 57