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SRSA Eligibility

Below is the link to the current version of the REAP Master Eligibility Spreadsheet. Please review the information and contact your REAP State Coordinator with updates.

Click Here: Fiscal Year 2023 Master Eligibility Spreadsheet 

  • Please note that if your LEA has submitted a request to update its primary contact or other LEA information, it may take up to a week to see that change reflected on the Master Eligibility Spreadsheet here.

Who is Eligible?

An LEA is eligible to participate in the SRSA program if it meets the statutory criteria of being both small and rural (see ESEA section 5211(b)).

  1. To be considered small, an LEA must have a total average daily attendance (ADA) of fewer than 600 students or exclusively serve schools that are located in counties with a population density of fewer than 10 persons per square mile.
  2. To be considered rural, all schools within the LEA must have a school locale code of 41, 42, or 43 (assigned by the Department’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)) or be located in an area of the State defined as rural by a governmental agency of the State.

In some States, the entity legally established to administer the SRSA program is an educational service agency (ESA), which is defined in section 8101(18) of the ESEA as “a regional public multiservice agency authorized by State statute to develop, manage, and provide services or programs to [LEAs].” Section 5211(b)(1)(C) of the ESEA clarifies that an individual LEA within an ESA may apply for and receive SRSA grant funds if that LEA meets the SRSA eligibility criteria and the ESA to which it belongs does not itself receive an SRSA award on its behalf.

Being eligible for the SRSA program does not guarantee that the LEA will receive an award. If the LEA wishes to receive a grant award, it must comply with any requirements established by the Department to receive an SRSA award for a fiscal year (FY), including any application requirements. Additionally, an LEA may be eligible for SRSA but receive an allocation of $0 based on the funding formula (i.e., may not receive an SRSA award).

To find your LEA’s locale code, visit the National Center for Education Statistics’ locale lookup tool on their website. For more information on how locale codes are determined, visit the NCES Locale Boundaries User Manual.

To see how SRSA differs from RLIS, view the SRSA-RLIS Comparison Table.

Eligibility Spreadsheets for Previous Years

The spreadsheets in the red box above list, by state, all LEAs that have been eligible for awards in previous years. Please note that data in some of the columns were used for informational purposes only (e.g., column Y) and were not used in determining allocations.

Eligibility Spreadsheets FY 2017

 

To view the list of districts eligible for the Small Rural School Achievement (SRSA) grant and the Rural Low-Income Schools (RLIS) grant, open the Excel file below.

 

To view the list of local education agencies that have been identified as eligible for the Small Rural School Achievement (SRSA) grant and the Rural Low-Income Schools (RLIS) grant, open the Excel file below.

 

Eligibility Spreadsheet Legend

This table describes the information in each column of the eligibility spreadsheet linked above.

Column Content
(Columns A-J) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) – District directory information reported to NCES by State Common Core of Data (CCD) Coordinators
(Columns K-N) Final Eligibility Determinations – These are the final eligibility determinations for every district for the SRSA (including those under Hold Harmless) and RLIS grants. These determinations are based on the data found in columns “S” through “AC.”
(Columns S-T) “Rural” criteria for SRSA and RLIS, including the NCES locale code determinations for every school in the district and the state designation of districts that meet an approved state definition of “rural”
(Columns U-W) SRSA criteria for program eligibility – Districts that are both “rural” (by locale code) and “small” (by ADA or county population density of < 10 per square mile)
(Columns X-AA) RLIS criteria for program eligibility – Districts that are both “rural” (by locale code) and “low income” (by percentage of children above 20% poverty)
(Columns AB-AC) These are the prior year Title II Part A and Title IV Part A allocations. These numbers are used in the allocation formula for the SRSA grant.

 

NOTE: Local education agencies (LEAs) are listed first by state, then by LEA name.

 

New Master Eligibility Spreadsheet (all states) (Excel, 7.2MB)

Eligibility Spreadsheets FY 2016

 

To review the list of districts eligible for the Small Rural School Achievement program, open the Excel file below for your state, find the tabs at the bottom of the workbook, and select the tab labeled SRSA.

Note: These spreadsheets do not reflect any locale code tests requested by states on behalf of districts.
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Eligibility Spreadsheets FY 2015

 

To review the list of districts eligible for the Small Rural School Achievement program, open the Excel file below for your state, find the tabs at the bottom of the workbook, and select the tab labeled SRSA.

Note: These spreadsheets do not reflect any locale code tests requested by states on behalf of districts.

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