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General Education Programs
Sparsity Revenue
Districts with
one or more sparsely populated school attendance areas receive additional funds to meet the higher
costs of operating
schools.
Eligibility:
To be
eligible for secondary sparsity high schools within a district must have 400 ADMs or less and an Isolation
Index at a certain
level.
Comprised of an
“Elementary” Sparsity formula and a “Secondary” Sparsity formula.
To be eligible for elementary sparsity
elementary schools within a
district must be located 19 more miles from the next nearest elementary school and have 20 or fewer pupils per
grade.
$16.2 million in FY 03.
Like compensatory, elementary and secondary sparsity are keyed to formula allowance.
