English Learner Category Multiples

They descend, and what they descend with is time and proficiency. Category 1 is a pupil enrolled in schools in the United States for 180 school days or less. Category 2 is a pupil past that threshold and not yet proficient on the spring English language proficiency assessment. Category 3 is the two school years after the pupil scores proficient. So the schedule is a taper: a pupil funded at 0.2104 in their first year is funded at half that two years after they stop needing the service, and then at nothing. verified the section

That is a different object from the other two schedules. Special education’s six ascend with severity and career-technical’s five sort program types; both price a standing condition. These three price a trajectory, and the number falling is the intended behavior rather than a ranking of need. A table that lists all fourteen of the plan’s multiples together makes this one look like the cheapest category of something, which it is not. inference

The multiplicand is the general statewide average base cost per pupil, $8,241.61 — the same one special education uses and not the career-technical figure. verified

What this repository computed # ↑ Contents

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

Category 3 is the one that needs the definition to be read # ↑ Contents

A pupil in category 3 has already achieved a proficient score. The money continues for two school years afterwards, which is a policy about consolidation rather than about need, and it is invisible in the number: 0.1053 beside 0.2104 reads as “less English learner”, not as “still funded after the pupil stopped being one”. verified the definition inference the reading

The counts are the current year’s, and they turn over fast # ↑ Contents

The EL sheet heads these columns Category 1 EL ADM-FY21 and this corpus read a vintage off the suffix. The department’s own table of where each variable is drawn from says otherwise, and so do the counts — see FSFP English Learner Weights. What is true is the thing the mistaken reading was reaching for: between the department’s two published models the category one count falls by more than a fifth while the headcount barely moves. verified crates/project

They are the 2015 dollars over a new denominator, and nothing else changed # ↑ Contents

Before FY2022 the three categories carried per-pupil amounts rather than weights: $1,500, $1,125 and $750 in FY2014, raised once to $1,515, $1,136 and $758 in FY2015 and then held — H.B. 64 says the amounts “remain unchanged from those used in FY 2015”, H.B. 49 says the same of FY2017, and the Bridge formula computed no categoricals at all. The plan divided those amounts by the FY2022 statewide average base cost per pupil of $7,202 and called the quotients weights: 1515 ÷ 7202 is 0.2104, 1136 ÷ 7202 is 0.1577, 758 ÷ 7202 is 0.1053. Every one lands inside forty cents of the amount it replaced. verified crates/project

So English learner funding was carried across the regime change at exactly its 2015 value. The conversion to weights is what made it move afterwards: a dollar amount stays where it is put, and a weight rises whenever base cost does. The plan gave this schedule no increase and gave it an escalator, which are different gifts and only the second is visible in the numbers. The companion arithmetic on special education — the same conversion, but with a scalar attached — shows what an increase looks like when one is given. verified the arithmetic inference the reading

And the definitions stop at FY2027 # ↑ Contents

Divisions (B) and (C) each state their criterion “for fiscal years 2026 and 2027” and then say that for FY2028 and thereafter the pupil is one who “satisfies criteria specified by the general assembly”. The multiples themselves are stated without a year — but two of the three categories they price cease to be defined, which is the same expiry arriving by a different route. verified the section

(A)  0.2104  identified as an English learner, enrolled in United States schools 180 school
             days or less
(B)  0.1577  past 180 days and not yet proficient on the spring English language proficiency
             assessment  [FY2026-27 definition only]
(C)  0.1053  the two school years following a proficient score  [FY2026-27 definition only]