Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031 (2026)

State aid

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163.031. State aid — amount, how determined — categorical add-on revenue, determination of amount — waiver of rules — deposits to teachers' fund and incidental fund, when — state adequacy target adjustment, when — revenue from certain taxes to be reported to department. — 1. The department of elementary and secondary education shall calculate and distribute to each school district qualified to receive state aid under section 163.021 an amount determined by multiplying the district's weighted average daily attendance by the state adequacy target, multiplying this product by the dollar value modifier for the district, and subtracting from this product the district's local effort and subtracting payments from the classroom trust fund under section 163.043.

2. Other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding:

(1) For districts with an average daily attendance of more than three hundred fifty in the school year preceding the payment year:

(a) For the 2008-09 school year, the state revenue per weighted average daily attendance received by a district from the state aid calculation under subsections 1 and 4 of this section, as applicable, and the classroom trust fund under section 163.043 shall not be less than the state revenue received by a district in the 2005-06 school year from the foundation formula, line 14, gifted, remedial reading, exceptional pupil aid, fair share, and free textbook payment amounts multiplied by the dollar value modifier, and dividing this product by the weighted average daily attendance computed for the 2005-06 school year;

(b) For each year subsequent to the 2008-09 school year, the amount shall be no less than that computed in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, multiplied by the weighted average daily attendance pursuant to section 163.036, less any increase in revenue received from the classroom trust fund under section 163.043;

(2) For districts with an average daily attendance of three hundred fifty or less in the school year preceding the payment year:

(a) For the 2008-09 school year, the state revenue received by a district from the state aid calculation under subsections 1 and 4 of this section, as applicable, and the classroom trust fund under section 163.043 shall not be less than the greater of state revenue received by a district in the 2004-05 or 2005-06 school year from the foundation formula, line 14, gifted, remedial reading, exceptional pupil aid, fair share, and free textbook payment amounts multiplied by the dollar value modifier;

(b) For each year subsequent to the 2008-09 school year, the amount shall be no less than that computed in paragraph (a) of this subdivision;

(3) The department of elementary and secondary education shall make an addition in the payment amount specified in subsection 1 of this section to assure compliance with the provisions contained in this subsection.

3. School districts that meet the requirements of section 163.021 shall receive categorical add-on revenue as provided in this subsection. The categorical add-on for the district shall be the sum of: seventy-five percent of the district allowable transportation costs under section 163.161; the career ladder entitlement for the district, as provided for in sections 168.500 to 168.515; the vocational education entitlement for the district, as provided for in section 167.332^*; and the district educational and screening program entitlements as provided for in sections 178.691 to 178.699. The categorical add-on revenue amounts may be adjusted to accommodate available appropriations.

4. For any school district meeting the eligibility criteria for state aid as established in section 163.021, but which is considered an option district under section 163.042 and therefore receives no state aid, the commissioner of education shall present a plan to the superintendent of the school district for the waiver of rules and the duration of said waivers, in order to promote flexibility in the operations of the district and to enhance and encourage efficiency in the delivery of instructional services as provided in section 163.042.

5. (1) No less than seventy-five percent of the state revenue received under the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of this section shall be placed in the teachers' fund, and the remaining percent of such moneys shall be placed in the incidental fund. No less than seventy-five percent of one-half of the funds received from the school district trust fund distributed under section 163.087 shall be placed in the teachers' fund. One hundred percent of revenue received under the provisions of section 163.161 shall be placed in the incidental fund. One hundred percent of revenue received under the provisions of sections 168.500 to 168.515 shall be placed in the teachers' fund.

(2) A school district shall spend for certificated compensation and tuition expenditures each year:

(a) An amount equal to at least seventy-five percent of the state revenue received under the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of this section;

(b) An amount equal to at least seventy-five percent of one-half of the funds received from the school district trust fund distributed under section 163.087 during the preceding school year; and

(c) Beginning in fiscal year 2008, as much as was spent per the second preceding year's weighted average daily attendance for certificated compensation and tuition expenditures the previous year from revenue produced by local and county tax sources in the teachers' fund, plus the amount of the incidental fund to teachers' fund transfer calculated to be local and county tax sources by dividing local and county tax sources in the incidental fund by total revenue in the incidental fund.

In the event a district fails to comply with this provision, the amount by which the district fails to spend funds as provided herein shall be deducted from the district's state revenue received under the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of this section for the following year, provided that the state board of education may exempt a school district from this provision if the state board of education determines that circumstances warrant such exemption.

6. (1) If a school district's annual audit discloses that students were inappropriately identified as eligible for free and reduced price lunch, special education, or limited English proficiency and the district does not resolve the audit finding, the department of elementary and secondary education shall require that the amount of aid paid pursuant to the weighting for free and reduced price lunch, special education, or limited English proficiency in the weighted average daily attendance on the inappropriately identified pupils be repaid by the district in the next school year and shall additionally impose a penalty of one hundred percent of such aid paid on such pupils, which penalty shall also be paid within the next school year. Such amounts may be repaid by the district through the withholding of the amount of state aid.

(2) In the 2017-18 school year and in each subsequent school year, if a district experiences a decrease in its gifted program enrollment of twenty percent or more from the previous school year, an amount equal to the product of the difference between the number of students enrolled in the gifted program in the current school year and the number of students enrolled in the gifted program in the previous school year multiplied by six hundred eighty dollars shall be subtracted from the district's current year payment amount. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply to districts entitled to receive state aid payments under both subsections 1 and 2 of this section but shall not apply to any school district with an average daily attendance of three hundred fifty or less.

7. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in any fiscal year during which the total formula appropriation is insufficient to fully fund the entitlement calculation of this section, the department of elementary and secondary education shall adjust the state adequacy target in order to accommodate the appropriation level for the given fiscal year. In no manner shall any payment modification be rendered for any district qualified to receive payments under subsection 2 of this section based on insufficient appropriations.

8. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, school districts that receive revenue from the tax authorized under sections 148.030, 148.140, 148.620, and 148.720 shall, beginning January 1, 2020, and every January first thereafter, report the amount of said revenue received by the district to the department. The department shall, based on the data submitted by the district, determine the total amount of revenue the district would have received from the tax authorized under sections 148.030, 148.140, 148.620, and 148.720 absent the provisions of section 148.720, and remit the following amount to each applicable district not less than thirty days after the conclusion of each calendar year. The amount remitted to each district shall be the total of the revenue received by the district from the tax authorized under sections 148.030, 148.140, 148.620, and 148.720 during the applicable calendar year times one and five thousand six hundred ^** twenty-five ten thousandths minus the total of the revenue received by the district from the tax authorized under sections 148.030, 148.140, 148.620, and 148.720 during the same calendar year. This payment shall be in addition to payments authorized under subsections 1, 2, and 7 of this section and shall be made from the annual appropriation to fund this section.

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(L. 1963 p. 200 § 4-3 and p. 335 § 161.031, A.L. 1965 p. 284, A.L. 1965 2d Ex. Sess. p. 894, A.L. 1967 p. 246, A.L. 1967 1st Ex. Sess. p. 881, A.L. 1969 p. 268, A.L. 1975 H.B. 945, A.L. 1976 S.B. 524, A.L. 1977 H.B. 131, A.L. 1982 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition C, November 2, 1982, A.L. 1984 H.B. 856 & 1358, A.L. 1985 H.B. 463, A.L. 1986 S.B. 707, A.L. 1993 S.B. 380, A.L. 1996 S.B. 795, et al., A.L. 1997 H.B. 641 & 593, A.L. 1998 S.B. 781, A.L. 2000 S.B. 944, A.L. 2004 S.B. 968 and S.B. 969, A.L. 2005 S.B. 287, A.L. 2006 S.B. 894, A.L. 2009 S.B. 291, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1689, A.L. 2015 H.B. 41, A.L. 2016 S.B. 638, A.L. 2019 H.B. 604)

(Source: RSMo 1959 §§ 161.031, 161.061)

*Section 167.332 was repealed by H.B. 1608, 2012.

**Word "and" appears here in original rolls.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 29 cases, 1972–2020 · leading case: Comm. for Educ. Equality v. State, 878 S.W.2d 446 (Mo. 1994).

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Comm. for Educ. Equality v. State, 878 S.W.2d 446 (Mo. 1994). · cites it 97× “X, § 11, and the "Foundation Formula" for state aid to schools, § 163.031, RSMo 1986, have resulted in inequities in the distribution of money to school districts and, thus, inequities in the quality of education provided to individual students in different parts of the state.”

Comm. for Educ. Equality v. State, 294 S.W.3d 477 (Mo. 2009). · cites it 6× “Section 163.031, RSMo Supp.2008, sets forth the calculation for determining the *507 amount of funding each district will receive from the state.”

Sch. Dist. of Kansas City v. State, 317 S.W.3d 599 (Mo. 2010). · cites it 9× ““For the purposes of calculation and distribution of state school aid under section 163.031, RSMo, pupils enrolled in a charter school shall be included in the pupil enrollment of the school district within which each pupil resides.”

Bd. of Educ. City of St. Louis v. State, 134 S.W.3d 689 (Mo. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 11× “The foundation formula is set forth in section 163.031 RSMo (Cum.Supp.2002) 2 , and it is used to allocate state funding to all the school districts in the state using certain factors to calculate the amount provided to each district.”

State ex rel. Sch. Dist. of Kansas City v. Young, 519 S.W.2d 328 (Mo. Ct. App. 1975). · cites it 27× “The confrontation between relator and respondents, which has culminated in this mandamus proceeding, revolves around statutory language contained in Subsection 2 of Section 163.031, RSMo 1969, V.A.M. S., Section 163.”

State ex rel. Niess v. Junkins, 572 S.W.2d 468 (Mo. 1978). · cites it 15× “031(9) for the 1974 — 75 School Year? Section 163.031 provides that school districts which meet certain requirements shall be entitled to what is referred to as minimum guarantee funds under the state school foundation program.”

State Ex Rel. Sch. Dist. of Indep. v. Jones, 653 S.W.2d 178 (Mo. 1983). · cites it 8× “The school foundation formula, set forth in § 163.031 2 is the statutory mechanism for distributing appropriated state funds to Missouri school districts.”

Akin v. Dir. of Revenue, 934 S.W.2d 295 (Mo. 1996). · cites it 3× “In those cases, the trial judge had declared former § 163.031, RSMo 1986, unconstitutional and declared that the amount appropriated for education in Missouri was inadequate.”

Green v. Lebanon R-III Sch. Dist., 13 S.W.3d 278 (Mo. 2000). · cites it 4× “[3] A timely challenge would provide such notice at least six months before a district's tax rate is used in the calculation of state aid under the formula in section 163.031, which operates on the state's July 1 to June 30 fiscal year.”

Breitenfeld v. Sch. Dist. of Clayton, 399 S.W.3d 816 (Mo. 2013). · cites it 2× “A district shall receive, pursuant to section 163.031, an amount not greater than seventy-five percent of the allowable costs of providing pupil transportation services to and from school and to and from public accredited vocational courses, and shall not receive an amount per…”

Ensor v. Dir. of Revenue, 998 S.W.2d 782 (Mo. 1999). · cites it 6× “The General Assembly in the state aid formula statute, section 163.031, has redirected the forfeiture proceeds for many years indirectly by deducting dollar-for-dollar any locally received money for fines and forfeitures from a school district’s entitlement for state aid.”

Liddell v. Special Admin. Bd. of the Transitional Sch. Dist. of St. Louis, 894 F.3d 959 (8th Cir. 2018). “See generally Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031 (2006). Senate Bill 287 allowed charter schools to be formed as "local educational agencies," meaning that St.”

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— Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031(5) — 1 case

State ex rel. Niess v. Junkins, 563 S.W.2d 173 (Mo. Ct. App. 1978).

— Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031(6) — 1 case

Ensor v. Dir. of Revenue, 998 S.W.2d 782 (Mo. 1999). “The General Assembly in the state aid formula statute, section 163.031, has redirected the forfeiture proceeds for many years indirectly by deducting dollar-for-dollar any locally received money for fines and forfeitures from a school district’s entitlement for state aid.”

— Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031(8) — 1 case

State ex rel. Niess v. Junkins, 563 S.W.2d 173 (Mo. Ct. App. 1978).

— Mo. Rev. Stat. § 163.031(9) — 4 cases

State ex rel. Niess v. Junkins, 572 S.W.2d 468 (Mo. 1978). “031(9) for the 1974 — 75 School Year? Section 163.031 provides that school districts which meet certain requirements shall be entitled to what is referred to as minimum guarantee funds under the state school foundation program.”

State ex rel. Niess v. Junkins, 563 S.W.2d 173 (Mo. Ct. App. 1978).

State ex rel. Herbert v. Downey, 572 S.W.2d 473 (Mo. 1978).

State ex rel. Bonham v. Bonebrake, 577 S.W.2d 430 (Mo. Ct. App. 1979).

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