School finance: necessary small schools.

(1) Existing law, for specified purposes, provides that a necessary small school is an elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than 97 pupils, excluding pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, maintained by a school district to which any of certain conditions apply, including specified distance requirements. This bill would include in the definition of "necessary small school" an elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than 97 pupils, excluding pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, maintained by a school district with more than 2,500 and fewer than 5,001 units of 2nd principal apportionment average daily attendance in which as many as 15 pupils residing in the school district and attending kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, excluding pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, in the elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than 97 pupils would be required to travel more than 30 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled road nearest their home to the nearest other public elementary school. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make specified computations for each school district with fewer than 2,501 units of 2nd principal apportionment average daily attendance, on account of each necessary small school. This bill would require the Superintendent to make those specified computations also for each school district on account of each necessary small school meeting the added definition described above under paragraph (1) .