Bill > HB4633

This bill establishes an "enrollment stabilizer" for the Public School Support Program, which is the system used to distribute state funding to West Virginia's public schools. The main goal is to make county school budgets and staffing more predictable by reducing the sharp swings in funding that can occur due to year-to-year changes in student enrollment. Specifically, when calculating state aid for a county, the bill mandates that the number of students used (referred to as "net enrollment") will be the highest of three figures: the actual number of students enrolled in the most recent school year, 98% of the previous year's enrollment, or a three-year average of student enrollment. This mechanism aims to prevent drastic funding cuts or increases based on temporary enrollment fluctuations, thereby providing greater budget stability for local school districts.