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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Mt*w« Staff ritcr
Only four Virginia counties—Arlington, Highland, Louisa and Surry —are ranked higher than Rappahannock in ability to pay for education, according to “Facing Up” for 1979-80, statistical data on the state’s public schools compiled by the department of education.
Rappahannock's composite index of local ability to pay for education is set at .6637 with Arlington (1.0000), Louisa (.7186), Highland (.6800) and Surry (1.0000) the only counties considered better able to afford the cost of the General Assembly’s Standards of Quality for education.
By comparison, neighboring counties in the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District have composite index figures ranging from .6446 in Fauquier to .4296 in Madison.
The composite index figure partially determines the amount of revenue a locality receives from the state for education. It is arrived at through a complicated formula that compares local property values, personal income and taxable retail sales with state averages.
‘‘True value” of Rappahannock property is set at $156,275,000 in Facing Up. By comparison, preliminary figures on the county’s recent 100 per cent fair market value assessment set total worth of taxable property at $245,418,360.
In 1979-80, local funds made up 44.4 per cent of Rappahannock’s total $1,593,347 operational expenditures for schools. State retail sales and use tax contributed 16 per cent of operational expenditures, other state funds 27.8 per cent and federal funds 11.8 per cent.
In Fauquier’s operational budget, 54.5 per cent was local money, in Culpeper’s 45 per cent, in Madison 40.4 per cent and in Orange 38.3 per cent.
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