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Low-enrollment weighting: purpose, court history and modeling trade-offs
Summary
Nick Myers and KLRD reviewed the low-enrollment weighting (an economies-of-scale adjustment enacted in 1992) and presented models showing effects of removing it, lowering its threshold, or rolling dollars into the base. Staff warned that eliminating it without offsets would sharply reduce funding for the smallest districts.
Nick Myers briefed the task force on the low-enrollment weighting, its statutory mechanics, historical rationale and modeling results.
What the rule does: Myers explained that low-enrollment weightings are scale factors applied to districts below a statutory threshold; the weighting increases per-student funding for very small districts to reflect higher per-student fixed costs. He said the weighting "was enacted in 1992 as part of the SDF QPA" and that the Kansas Supreme Court reviewed challenges to the low-enrollment structure (USD 229 v. State) and upheld a rational-basis…
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