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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
As reported in last week’s Rappahannock News, Cliff Miller, Chair of Headwaters’ Educational Initiatives Committee, spoke to the School Board at their March 12 meeting about the State composite index for Rappahannock and its effect upon the school budget.
Mr. Miller opened his discussion on the subject by providing some statistics—noting that, “as currently evaluated by the State, Rappahannock is one of the wealthiest jurisdictions . . . and thus is not given much state funding relative to the amount received by neighboring jurisdictions.”
He pointed out that Rappahannock County would have received more that $2 million additional in state assistance than it will for the 2001-2002 fiscal year (budgeted receipts are slightly more than $1.8 million ) if its composite index averaged that of the surrounding six counties.
Mr. Miller reported on additional statistical data developed by Martin Woodard in the committee’s analyses: that Rappahannock County has the tenth highest composite index in the State; that it ranks fourteenth in income per student and thirteenth in income per capita; that the property value per student amounts to more than $900,000 ranking eighth in the State and it ranks fourth in property value per capita ($136,079); that
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