RURAL EDUCATION FUNDING IN B.C.

District Number	School District	2006-07 Projected Enrolment	Estimated Geographic Funding Supplements
5	Southeast Kootenay	5,470.0	$4,124,869
6	Rocky Mountain	3,341.0	$3,759,030
8	Kootenay Lake	5,103.0	$5,791,804
10	Arrow Lakes	616.5	$2,088,828
19	Revelstoke	1,145.0	$1,195,089
20	Kootenay-Columbia	4,384.2	$2,214,097
22	Vernon	8,985.6	$1,987,351
23	Central Okanagan	21,093.8	$3,224,094
27	Cariboo-Chilcotin	6,131.9	$5,173,822
28	Quesnel	4,071.3	$2,591,669
33	Chilliwack	12,092.1	$1,022,623
34	Abbotsford	18,922.0	$311,417
35	Langley	18,709.0	$110,600
36	Surrey	63,870.3	$222,533
37	Delta	16,158.5	$92,304
38	Richmond	22,075.5	$66,659
39	Vancouver	57,049.8	$0
40	New Westminster	6,802.6	$1,920,893
41	Burnaby	23,843.0	$164,519
42	Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows	14,558.0	$183,574
43	Coquitlam	30,400.0	$282,145
44	North Vancouver	16,700.0	$443,843
45	West Vancouver	6,131.0	$1,227,286
46	Sunshine Coast	3,690.8	$2,350,323
47	Powell River	2,430.0	$1,782,379
48	Howe Sound	4,112.5	$2,167,271
49	Central Coast	275.4	$2,297,796
50	Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte	745.0	$2,759,765
51	Boundary	1,650.8	$2,730,619
52	Prince Rupert	2,635.0	$2,907,603
53	Okanagan Similkameen	2,791.5	$2,307,124
54	Bulkley Valley	2,549.5	$2,486,357
57	Prince George	15,237.0	$5,588,991
58	Nicola-Similkameen	2,785.1	$2,068,214
59	Peace River South	4,398.0	$4,607,312
60	Peace River North	6,013.0	$5,716,414
61	Greater Victoria	19,257.1	$816,249
62	Sooke	8,459.0	$1,774,624
63	Saanich	7,990.1	$1,122,991
64	Gulf Islands	1,536.0	$2,517,194
67	Okanagan Skaha	6,942.8	$1,714,670
68	Nanaimo-Ladysmith	14,659.0	$887,707
69	Qualicum	4,825.0	$1,916,112
70	Alberni	4,433.5	$2,303,175
71	Comox Valley	8,910.0	$1,960,869
72	Campbell River	5,964.6	$2,099,930
73	Kamloops/Thompson	14,659.5	$4,451,157
74	Gold Trail	1,773.0	$3,917,437
75	Mission	6,910.0	$1,377,674
78	Fraser-Cascade	2,186.5	$2,335,099
79	Cowichan Valley	9,104.0	$1,961,043
81	Fort Nelson	1,016.5	$1,757,682
82	Coast Mountains	5,561.5	$4,305,570
83	North Okanagan-Shuswap	7,349.2	$3,216,964
84	Vancouver Island West	450.4	$2,474,099
85	Vancouver Island North	1,720.0	$3,142,091
87	Stikine	288.4	$2,521,299
91	Nechako Lakes	5,594.6	$5,607,709
92	Nisga'a	459.5	$1,913,807
93	Conseil Scolaire Francophone	3,723.6	$9,606,883
	Provincial Total	560,741.4	$143,671,252

There are several different funding supplements available to school districts to account for unique geographic factors.

Small Community Supplement - This additional funding is provided to school districts when there is a student population of fewer than 250 elementary students within a five-kilometre road distance of the nearest elementary school or fewer than 635 secondary students within a 25- kilometre road distance of the nearest secondary school.

Funding Protection Supplement - This helps prevent districts from experiencing a decline in funding of more than one per cent from the previous year.

Supplement for Enrolment Decline - This supplement helps offset the effects of loss of funding due to declining enrolment.

Rural Factor Supplement - This supplement is to offset costs for districts outside the major urban centres. It takes into account that it costs more to provide goods and services to Fort St. John than it does to Langley, for example.

Climate Factor Supplement - This supplement is to assist districts that have added energy costs due to extreme heat or cold outside temperatures.

Low Enrolment Factor Supplement - This supplement recognizes that smaller districts have proportionately higher operating costs because of the small student populations.

Sparseness Index Factor Supplement - This supplement addresses the fact that certain districts have a greater financial burden to provide educational services than others resulting from a great distance between the board office and schools. For example, some districts have a great deal of travel time for itinerant and specialist teachers and board personnel to travel from the school board office to a school.

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