Section 511IAC1-3-2. Attendance and membership reporting requirements

  (a) School corporations shall annually submit all reports for state support in accordance with the schedule established by the department. These reports shall be certified to the department by the superintendent or chief administrative official of the school corporation.

  (b) Adjustments of ADA, ADM, APC, eligible regular bus students, or other reports for state support may be requested if the school corporation determines that the reports as defined in 511 IAC 1-3 are unrepresentative. Requests and reasons for the adjustment shall be submitted to the department. The school corporation may appeal a decision of the department to the board.

(1) If unusual circumstances affect attendance, the department may substitute the following method for determining ADA:

(A) School officials shall choose any three (3) of the past five (5) years' reported ADA, and compute an average.

(B) The current ADA shall be adjusted to the average computed above.

(2) If unusual circumstances occur on or about the ADM reporting date, the school corporation may petition the department to set an alternate date and may appeal the decision to the board.

  (c) Post-graduate students shall not be counted for ADA or ADM reports.

  (d) All pupils shall be counted once by the corporation in which they have legal settlement. Pupils attending cooperative, joint, or area schools shall be counted by the sending corporation only.

  (e) The following students shall be counted by the receiving school corporation:

(1) students placed in the school corporation by the Indiana welfare department;

(2) wards of the court;

(3) cash (private) transfers from another school corporation;

(4) state employees' children under IC 20-26-11-10;

(5) students placed in an institution operated by the Indiana department of mental health; and

(6) foreign exchange students under IC 20-26-11-10.

  (f) School corporations shall initially report APC and eligible regular bus pupils at the same time as ADM is reported and the count shall be taken on the same day as ADM.

  (g) For purposes of calculating ADA for the ADA flat grant, school corporations shall count only those students in grades 1 through 12. A student in attendance during any part of a full student instructional day shall be counted as one (1). A student in attendance during any part of a partial student instructional day shall be counted as one-half (1/2). A full student instructional day shall be counted as one (1) in determining the number of student instructional days in the reporting period. A partial student instructional day shall be counted as one-half (1/2). (Indiana State Board of Education; Rule A-1,Sec 2; filed May 8, 1978, 3:21 pm: Rules and Regs. 1979, p. 79; filed Mar 15, 1988, 10:45 am: 11 IR 2858; readopted filed Oct 12, 2001, 12:55 p.m.: 25 IR 937; errata filed Jul 11, 2005, 10:00 a.m.: 28 IR 3306; readopted filed Nov 28, 2011, 3:20 p.m.: 20111228-IR-511110558RFA) NOTE: Transferred from the Commission on General Education (510 IAC 2-1-2) to the Indiana State Board of Education (511 IAC 1-3-2) by P.L.20-1984, SECTION 206. Effective July 1, 1984.