Educator and School Development
Supplemental General State Aid
Supplemental General State Aid, SGSA, is additional funding available to school districts due to the number and concentration level of the districts low income, disadvantaged, students. The amount of SGSA funding a district will receive is calculated on the General State Aid, GSA, form. Part III of the General State Aid calculation determines how much additional funding a district will receive. Part III of the GSA form is the poverty grant calculation. Utilizing the number and concentration levels of disadvantaged students the poverty grant calculation generates additional amounts of general state aid which is termed Supplemental General State Aid. SGSA is paid to the districts as part of each GSA bi-monthly payment. The student low income data is supplied to ISBE by the Department of Human Services which utilizes several low income data bases to calculate the number of low income students per district.
School districts, other than the City of Chicago Public Schools, maintaining over 1000 ADA must file a SGSA plan annually utilizing the ISBE IWAS system. The SGSA plan must outline how the district will utilize the funding to benefit the low income student population without supplanting funding already being utilized for such programs. The City of Chicago Schools must file a SGSA plan with ISBE each year detailing how SGSA funding is allocated to each CPS school.
School Code References
§ 105 ILCS 5/18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State financial aid and supplemental general State aid to the common schools for the 1998-1999 and subsequent school years.
§ 105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 (H). Supplemental General State Aid.
