Small, Rural School Achievement Program (SRSA) 

A district or state charter school is eligible for the SRSA program if it meets the statutory criteria of being both small and rural [ESEA section 5211(b)].

1. To be considered small, a district or state charter school must have a total average daily attendance (ADA) of fewer than six hundred students or exclusively serve schools that are in counties with a population density of fewer than ten persons per square mile.

2. To be considered rural, all schools within the district must have a school locale code of 41, 42, or 43 (assigned by the Department’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)) or be in an area of the state defined as rural by a governmental agency of the state.

The U.S. Department of Education awards SRSA grants each year directly to eligible districts and state charter schools nationwide based on a statutory formula. SRSA funding does not flow through NM PED.

SRSA Allowable Use of Funds

Funds can be used to support initiatives that seek to improve school performance and student achievement under the five federal program areas:

• Title I-A: Improving Basic School Programs Operated by Local Education Agencies
• Title II-A: Supporting Effective Instruction
• Title III: Language Instruction for English Learners and Immigrant Students
• Title IV-A: Student Support and Academic Enrichment
• Title IV-B: 21st Century Community Learning Centers

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