SY 20-21 Quality Community School Support Fund – Criteria (B)(2)

House Bill 166 (the FY20-FY21 state budget bill) established a quality community schools support grant to provide additional funding to community schools designated as a Community School of Quality. Qualified community schools under the program are eligible to receive  up to $1,750 in each fiscal year for each pupil identified as economically disadvantaged and up to $1,000 in each fiscal year for all others. Payments for the current fiscal year are calculated using the final adjusted full-time equivalent number of students enrolled in the community school for the prior fiscal year, except if the school is in its first year of operation. For schools in the first year of operation, the payment is calculated using the adjusted full-time equivalent number of students enrolled in the school for the current fiscal year as of the date the payment is made, as reported by the school pursuant to section 3314.08 of the Ohio Revised Code. By Jan. 31 of each fiscal year, the Ohio Department of Education will make payments to each community school designated as a Community School of Quality.

Community schools must satisfy at least one of the following criteria to receive funding.

Criteria 1:

The community school meets all of the following criteria:

(a) The school’s sponsor was rated “Exemplary” or “Effective” on the sponsor’s most recent evaluation conducted under section 3314.06 of the Revised Code.

(b) The school received a higher Performance Index score than the school district in which the school is located on the two most recent Ohio School Report Cards issued for the school under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code.

(c) The school received an overall grade of "A" or "B" for the Value-Added progress dimension on the most recent report card issued for the school under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code or is a school described under division (A)(4) of section 3314.35 of the Revised Code and did not receive a grade for the Value-Added progress dimension on the most recent report card.

(d) At least 50 percent of the students enrolled in the school are economically disadvantaged, as determined by the Ohio Department of Education.

Criteria 2:

The community school meets all of the following criteria:

(a) The school's sponsor was rated "Exemplary" or "Effective" on the sponsor's most recent evaluation conducted under section 3314.016 of the Revised Code.

(b) The school is in its first year of operation or the school opened as a kindergarten school and has added one grade per year and has been in operation for fewer than four school years.

(c) The school is replicating an operational and instructional model used by a community school described in division (B)(1) of this section.

A school that is designated as a Community School of Quality under division (B) shall maintain that designation for the two fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the school was initially designated as a Community School of Quality.

In order to determine eligibility under Criteria 2, community school Superintendent/Principals must complete the questions identified below: