With the month of October, School Boards around the area are finding out about the numbers that help decide their funding for the following school year.

The certified enrollment is what the state uses, with its formula based on the number of students with a school district, to determine how much funding that district will receive for next school year. Panorama School District Superintendent Kasey Huebner explains to Raccoon Valley Radio what went into identifying that data this year.

“Our certified enrollment is actually up. It’s going to be up about one student, but our butts in seats students that were out actually educating is down about 20 students. So what that means is we had a big senior class that graduated that were open enrolled in. So that’s not really affecting our certified enrollment, but it is affecting our students that we educate. So we’re down about 20 students, but our certified enrollment is going to be up one.”

Huebner mentions that their information is submitted to the state through the Iowa Department of Education’s Student Reporting in Iowa program, which the Iowa Department of Education says involves the transfer of individual student records.