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