Certified Enrollment Date is October 1st

Benton Community will participate in the annual "student count day" on Thursday, October 1st. Certified Enrollment is an annual report of enrolled resident students used for the Iowa School Finance Formula calculation. The certified enrollment count is taken on the first day of October every year, or the following Monday if the first falls on a weekend. The data collection due date for the certified enrollment in Iowa is October 15.

For public school districts the certified enrollment includes, in addition to resident student counts, supplementary weighting for shared programs, Limited English Proficient weighting, nonpublic shared time, open enrollment, home school assistance, and dual enrollment. All of the student counts are collected within the Project EASIER student records data collection through the Iowa Department of Education.

This is a very important day for school districts across Iowa as funding levels for the following year are calculated based on the enrollment count and the state cost per pupil allocation.