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Enrollment Trends
Declining Enrollment and Average
Daily Attendance (ADA)
Approximately 80% of the District’s revenue is
generated from the Local Control Funding Formu-
la. The funding is based on the average number of
students in daily attendance (ADA). Enrollment is
very important; it is even more important that stu-
dents enrolled also attend school on a daily basis.
OUSD has an outstanding daily attendance rate of
96.2%, approximately 1 point higher than the state-
wide average.
The ADA projection for 2017-18 included in
the Budget is 24,780, not including charter schools.
Compared to 2016-17 this reflects a decline of 526.
Declining enrollment is anticipated to reduce ADA
by 520 in each of the next two years. District char-
ter schools have a projected ADA of 2,163 that
generates separate revenue for those schools.
ADA projections are revised after the October
census day and each attendance reporting period.
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Impact of Declining Enrollment
The revenue generated by one student pays
for a portion of the classroom teacher and supplies
as well as a small portion of each support service
provided by the district. For example, if a district
experienced a decline of 30 students and they all
came from the same classroom, the district could
operate with one less teacher, but a support service
like Transportation would not realize any reduced
cost.
Furthermore, if a decline of 30 students oc-
curred, but each student was from a different class-
room, the district would most likely still need the
same number of teachers and therefore, expendi-
tures would remain the same (except for savings
on instructional supplies), but the revenues would
be reduced by approximately $250K. It is very
difficult to reduce expenditures to compensate for
revenue losses without making significant program
reductions. A conservative staffing approach and
reserves have helped the district weather declining
enrollment.
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