FSFP Community School Equity Supplement

A flat per-pupil payment, outside the phase-in and outside the district formula entirely. It is the one line of the Fair School Funding Plan that no school district receives: its recipients are community schools, which Ohio funds directly rather than through the district they draw from.

H.B. 33 of the 135th General Assembly established it at $650 a pupil in uncodified law. H.B. 96 codified it into R.C. 3317.022 and cut the rate: $500 in FY2026 and $400 in FY2027. verified crates/project/fixtures/enacted-school-funding.txt, item 10 of the act’s own list of school financing system revisions

equity supplement = enrolled ADM  ×  rate,  for a site-based community school
                  = 0,                      otherwise

The department’s FY2027 simulator states the rate in a header cell of its own — Detail SFPR row 2, Equity Suplement per pupil, against 400 — and pays every recipient that rate times its enrolled ADM to the cent, on all 324 of them. verified FY2027, crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs

Two of the schedule’s three rates are read from a department model rather than from the act. The FY2025 simulator, archived whole, writes its own formula out as Equity Supplement [a*$650] and pays 317 site-based schools that rate times enrolled ADM — $54,846,889.80 in all, against 18 e-schools and 8 STEM schools paid nothing. verified crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs, FY2025 vintage FY2026’s $500 has no such model and never will; the finding below says why that is closed rather than pending.

It is paid after the phase-in and before the transition supplement # ↑ Contents

The redbook places it precisely: the supplement is “calculated after the formula’s phase-in, but before the formula transition supplement”. verified lsc-dew-redbook That ordering is what makes it a supplement rather than a weight — it does not enter the base the phase-in scales, and it does enter the sum the transition supplement is measured against.

What this repository computed # ↑ Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

Who is paid is not who the introduced budget would have paid # ↑ Contents

Of the 355 community and STEM schools the department models, 324 receive the supplement and 31 do not. The 31 are exactly the 23 e-schools and 8 STEM schools, paid zero against 35,501 and 4,586 enrolled ADM between them — so they are not unpaid for being small. verified FY2027, crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs

The redbook says the opposite, and it is describing a different bill. Its account of the executive proposal is that it “codifies the equity supplement into permanent law and expands eligibility to STEM schools”, at an estimated $58.0 million in each year. The enacted act did not do the second half. Three enacted sources agree against that one: item 10 pays community schools “that are not internet- or computer-based”, the greenbook says “site-based community schools”, and the department’s own model pays the eight STEM schools nothing. verified crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs

The rule for this was already in the corpus — the greenbook is the as-enacted edition and the redbook is not — and this is the line it had not been applied to. A reader taking the redbook for the law overstates the population by eight schools.

The cut is the rate, not the population # ↑ Contents

Almost all of what separates the enacted supplement from the introduced one is the rate rather than eligibility. Over the same 324 recipients, the $650 H.B. 33 set would pay $56.3 million against the enacted $34,650,906 — a difference of $21.66 million, against the $1.8 million that extending to the eight STEM schools at the enacted rate would have added. The rate term is larger by more than an order of magnitude. verified FY2027, crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs

And the redbook’s own $58.0 million estimate is consistent with that reading: $650 applied to site-based plus STEM enrolled ADM gives $59.3 million on this year’s projections, within 2.2% of the figure LSC published for a different year’s. inference

Two per-pupil lines, one eligibility rule between them # ↑ Contents

The same workbook pays a base funding supplement of $40 a pupil to all 355 schools, e-schools and STEM schools included, and funds STEM schools’ facilities at the brick-and-mortar rate rather than the e-school one. So the file does not treat “not a site-based community school” as a general disqualification; it disqualifies on this line and no other. verified FY2027, crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs A finding that STEM schools are funded differently, stated generally, would be wrong in both directions.

The middle year of the rate schedule is act-only, permanently # ↑ Contents

R.C. 3317.022 runs $650, $500, $400 across FY2025 to FY2027. 2 of the 3 have the department’s own funding model behind them — FY2025’s and FY2027’s. verified crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs FY2026 is the one that does not, and the reason is not that nobody has looked.

The department publishes one community school calculator at a time and replaces it in place, so the FY2026 edition stopped existing at any address the department serves when FY2027’s went up — and unlike the FY2025 edition it was replaced before any crawler kept a copy. Four searches close it rather than one: the Internet Archive holds exactly two of these workbooks across the whole State-Funding-For-Schools tree, FY2019 and FY2025; the archived captures of the community school page itself link no calculator in any month of 2025; the FY2027 workbook, which carries the previous year’s sheet as a hidden leftover, states no $500 anywhere in it; and the department’s FY2026 actuals are published as school totals with no line breakout, so they cannot separate this line out either. verified crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs

So FY2026’s $500 stands on the enacted act and the greenbook and will stay there. That is recorded as data rather than as a footnote — EquityRate::verified_against_a_model is false for that year and true for the other two — because $650, $500 and $400 are otherwise indistinguishable in a list. A reader should not take the gap as a retrieval someone could go and make.

What the supplement is, in scale # ↑ Contents

$34,650,906 is 2.29% of the $1.51 billion of total state support these 355 schools receive. verified FY2027, crates/dispersion/src/community_school_funding.rs It is a small line on a large one, and the reason it is worth its own node is not its size: it is the only line in the plan computed over a population other than the 609-district panel, and it has no district analogue to be compared against.

equity supplement = enrolled ADM  ×  rate,  for a site-based community school
                  = 0,                      for an e-school or a STEM school

rate = $650 (FY2025, H.B. 33)   verified against the department's FY2025 model
       $500 (FY2026, H.B. 96)   act only, and permanently so
       $400 (FY2027, H.B. 96)   verified against the department's FY2027 model