The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 16 : Education
Chapter 133 : State Funding of Public Education
Subchapter 002 : GENERAL STATE FUNDING OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 4019)-
§ 4019. Small schools; sparse schools; support grants [Effective July 1, 2028 if contingency met]
(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) “Enrollment” means the number of students who are enrolled in a school operated by the school district on October 1. A student shall be counted as one whether the student is enrolled as a full-time or part-time student.
(2) “Small school” means a school that:
(A) has fewer than 100 pupils in two-year average enrollment; and
(B) has been determined by the State Board of Education, on an annual basis, to be “small by necessity” under standards consistent with those submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73, Sec. 8(b).
(3) “Sparse area” means a city, town, or incorporated village where the number of persons per square mile residing within the land area of the geographic boundaries of the city, town, or incorporated village as of July 1 of the year of determination is fewer than 55 persons.
(4) “Sparse school” means a school that:
(A) is within a sparse area; and
(B) has been determined by the State Board of Education, on an annual basis, to be “sparse by necessity” under standards consistent with those submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to 2025 Acts and Resolves No. 73, Sec. 8(b).
(5) “Two-year average enrollment” means the average enrollment of the two most recently completed school years.
(b) Small schools support grant. Annually, the Secretary shall pay a small schools support grant to each school district for each small school within the school district in an amount determined by multiplying the two-year average enrollment in the small school by $3,157.00.
(c) Sparse schools support grant. Annually, the Secretary shall pay a sparse schools support grant to each school district for each sparse school within the school district in an amount determined by multiplying the two-year average enrollment in the sparse school by $1,954.00.
(d) Inflationary adjustment. Each dollar amount under subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be adjusted for inflation annually on or before November 15 by the Secretary. As used in this subsection, “adjusted for inflation” means adjusting the dollar amount by the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) implicit price deflator for state and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, from fiscal year 2025 through the fiscal year for which the amount is being determined, and rounding upward to the nearest whole dollar amount. (Added 2025, No. 73, § 37, contingently eff. July 1, 2028.)
