New York Laws
Part 1 - General Provisions
3614 - Statement of the Total Funding Allocation.

(1) "school type" for any school shall mean elementary, middle, high,
pre-k only, or K-12, as defined by the commissioner, provided that for
purposes of this subdivision, a "middle" school shall include any school
with the grade organization of either a middle school or a junior high
school, and a "high" school shall include any school with the grade
organization of either a senior high school or a junior-senior high
school;
(2) "underfunded high-need school" shall mean a school within a school
district that has been deemed both a significantly high-need school and
a significantly low funded school;
(3) "student need index" for any school shall mean the quotient
arrived at when dividing the weighted student enrollment as defined
herein by the K-12 enrollment for the base year as reported on the
statement required pursuant to this section;
(4) "average student need index by school type" shall mean the
quotient arrived at when dividing the sum of weighted student enrollment
as defined herein for all schools within a school district of the same
school type by the K-12 enrollment for the base year for all schools in

a school district of the same school type as reported on the statement
required pursuant to this section;
(5) "weighted student enrollment" for any school shall mean the sum
of: (A) K-12 enrollment plus (B) the product of the number of students
eligible to receive free and reduced price lunch multiplied by
sixty-five one-hundredths (0.65) plus (C) the product of the number of
English language learners multiplied by one-half (0.5), plus (D) the
product of the number of students with disabilities multiplied by one
and forty-one one-hundredths (1.41), for the base year as reported on
the statement required pursuant to this section;
(6) "significantly high-need school" shall mean a school with a
student need index greater than the product of the average student need
index by school type within the school district multiplied by one and
five one-hundredths (1.05);
(7) "per pupil expenditures" for any school shall mean the quotient
arrived at when dividing the expenditure amount as reported for the base
year in the statement required pursuant to this section, excluding
expenditures for prekindergarten and preschool special education
programs and central district costs by the weighted student enrollment
of the school;
(8) "average per pupil expenditures by school type" shall mean the
quotient arrived at when dividing (A) the sum of the expenditure amounts
reported for the base year in the statement required pursuant to this
section, excluding expenditures for prekindergarten and preschool
special education programs and central district costs, for all schools
within a school district of the same school type by (B) the weighted
student enrollment for the base year for all schools in a school
district of the same school type as reported on the statement required
pursuant to this section;
(9) "significantly low funded school" shall mean a school within a
school district that has per pupil expenditures less than the product of
the average per pupil expenditures by school type within the school
district multiplied by ninety-five one-hundredths (0.95).
(10) "base year" shall mean the base year as defined in paragraph b of
subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this part.
(11) "current year" shall mean the current year as defined in
paragraph a of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this
part.
* NB Repealed June 30, 2023