Actual Excess Capacity - Actual excess capacity is based upon the excess capacity definition (Excess Capacity below) but includes the enrollment for the entire school year. Actual excess capacity is based upon the enrollment data used to compile the Enrollment Certification Form SAB 50-01 for the year the operational grant is claimed.
Cost Avoided Per Pupil - The term is used in Education Code Section 42263(d) to reflect the average cost-per-pupil savings when a district operates a multitrack year-round school. "Cost avoided" is calculated every two years by the SAB based upon school facility cost components specified in the statute. The SAB calculation is reported to the State Legislature and the "statewide average cost avoided per pupil" is established by the statute that appropriates funding for the operational grants for that fiscal year. The current cost avoided figure is $1,353 per pupil.
Enrollment - Enrollment is a count of unduplicated students appearing in the class of every California school and district on a given day each October. For many purposes, districts must compute their average daily attendance (ADA), which averages the number of students in school over the course of a year. The number of pupils enrolled in the school is usually larger than the ADA.
Excess Capacity - The number of students enrolled over and above school site facility capacity. (See School District Capacity below).
Multitrack Year-Round School - A school in which the students are divided into three or more groups of tracks. Throughout the year the groups rotate in and out of school, with one group always on vacation while the remaining groups are attending school. A multitrack year-round education program is designed to increase the enrollment capacity of the school. ( Education Code sections 17017.7(d)(1)(2) and 42260(d)(1)(2)).
School District Capacity - School district capacity includes all teaching stations included in the area of adequate school construction, as per Office of Public School Construction (OPSC) or court-mandated pupil loading standards. In practice this means that when determining excess capacity, rented, leased, or lease purchased portable classrooms shall be excluded. School district capacity is calculated by completing SAB 50-02, Option A.
School Site Capacity - School site capacity includes all teaching stations, including those created through class size reduction, minus portable exclusions allowed by sections 1859.32 and 1859.51 of the State Allocation Board Regulations relating to the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998, approved and filed with the Secretary of State on December 3, 1998, and updated by the State Allocation Board on January 26, 2000. Excess capacity shall reflect only the additional capacity that has been generated as a result of using a multitrack year-round calendar and shall not reflect increased capacity generated by any other means. ( Education Code Section 42263(b)). Portables purchased or acquired through special funding processes, e.g. child care ( Education Code Section 17071.25(4)(b)), latchkey, and migrant education, and used for those purposes, would not be loaded.
Substantial Enrollment - For an elementary school district or a unified school district, substantial enrollment means at least 30% of district pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6 inclusive, or 40% of K-12 pupils in the high school attendance area for which the unified school district is applying for new facilities are enrolled in MTYRE schools. ( Education Code Section 17017.7) Additionally, for a unified school district, substantial enrollment can be met when the number of students in grades K-12, equal to 30% of the K-6 enrollment, are on year-round multitrack schedules. (SAB policy dated May 27, 1992). For a high school district, substantial enrollment means at least 30% of district pupils, or 40% of K-12 pupils in high school attendance area for which the district is applying for new facilities are enrolled in MTYRE schools. In addition, a high school district shall be deemed to have substantial enrollment in multitrack year-round schools for purposes of Education Code Section 17017.6 if, at the option of the district, the entire high school to be constructed will operate on a multitrack year-round basis. ( Education Code Section 17017.6)
Substantial Overcrowding - Refers to the entire school district or its high school attendance areas. Minimum substantial overcrowding is 5% over facility capacity using OPSC loading standards. Form IMP-04 and/or OP-04, or equivalent and acceptable documentation can be used to establish substantial overcrowding.
