Data on Enrollment Growth and Decline

The Chancellor’s Office reports that 36 districts reported growth and qualify for Growth Funding in 2005-06 in the amount of $71.5 million. Six districts are growing by restoring FTES lost in prior years, but not enough to qualify for growth funding. Twenty-seven districts are experiencing current year FTES decline that totals more than $70 million. Nine districts that experienced a prior-year decline were able to partially—or, in the case of four of these districts, totally—restore previously lost FTES.
 
The Chancellor’s Office is proposing that any unspent growth funds in the current year be used to fund other system priorities. The total estimated unspent growth funds are approximately $69 million.