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Supervisors hear deep dive on school funding formula and impact of out‑of‑state students
Summary
Board members spent an extended session reviewing how Virginia's local composite index is calculated and how removing roughly 400–500 Tennessee students from Scott County's average daily membership could change the county's share of school funding and per‑pupil calculations; no formal action was taken.
A county presentation to the Scott County Board of Supervisors on the local composite index, school enrollment and cross‑border students prompted a lengthy discussion about potential budgetary effects but produced no immediate policy change.
The presenter walked the board through how the Virginia Department of Education calculates a locality’s ability‑to‑pay—weighting true property value (50%), adjusted gross income (40%) and taxable retail sales (10%)—and showed the county’s current computed local share at about 18.78 percent. The analysis modeled the effect of excluding roughly 400–500 Tennessee students from the local average daily membership (ADM)…
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