Federal education grants depend on an underlying framework of demographic, geographic, and economic statistics to distribute funding to states. This interactive pathway reveals those direct connections. Trace how Title I relies on SAIPE poverty estimates, how IDEA allocations are linked to population estimates (PEP), and how Perkins V is shaped by BEA per-capita income data. By mapping how administrative data flows into federal formulas, the Atlas highlights the real-world significance of these collections.
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Carl D. PerkinsCharter School GrantsIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)Title I, Part ATitle I, Part DTitle II, Part ATitle III, Part ATitle IV, Part ATitle VFederal grant
Title V provides financial assistance and flexibility to rural school districts that often lack the personnel and resources to compete for other federal grant programs, through two formula grant programs: Rural and Low-Income School (districts with high % of low-income students) and Small Rural School Achievement (districts with very low enrollment).
NCES catalogs districts as rural by first cataloging schools as city/town/suburban/rural and then looking across the "plurality" of locale types across a district's schools.
RLIS grants are based on the share of a state's count of low-income students in rural districts compared to the national count. This calculation uses SAIPE estimated percentages of low income children in a school's region and the Common Core of Data (CCD) provides the total enrollment by school. ACS provides the initial locale type (rural/urban) for the school's region.
SRSA (Small Rural School Achievement) provides a minimum grant to each eligible school, plus an additional grant per student after the first 50 in enrollment. The grant amount per school is capped at $60K and, as a last step, gets adjusted down based on Title II, Part A and Title IV, Part A amounts from two previous years. The calculation uses the CCD for the total enrollment by school, and the ACS for the initial locale type (rural/urban) for the school's region.
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SRSA grant amounts are adjusted down based on Title II, Part A amounts from two previous years.
SRSA grant amounts are adjusted down based on Title IV, Part A amounts from two previous years.
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Federal education grants depend on an underlying framework of demographic, geographic, and economic statistics to distribute funding to states. This interactive pathway reveals those connections, showing how administrative data flow into federal funding formulas and highlighting the real-world significance of these collections.
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