With these support staff, the school should have the equivalent of 2 full-time employees, including the principal, during the school day.

This funding is provided automatically and is paid as part of the first quarterly instalment of your operational funding. You do not need to apply.

How we calculate small school funding

We use the base hourly rate for support staff which is in Grade B in Part 3.2.2 of the Support Staff in Schools Collective Agreement.

We add 10% to that base rate for holiday pay and the ACC levy. The resulting hourly rate is what we use to calculate your funding.

To calculate the annual funding for small schools we:

• multiply the hourly rate by 30 (hours a week)
• multiply that by 40 (weeks per year)

multiply the sum of that by the sum of 2 minus your staffing entitlement.