A Federal funding opportunity called Impact Aid is designed to assist local school districts that have lost tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property or experienced increased expenditures due to the enrollment of federally connected children. Eligibility for funding is determined each school year through the Federal Impact Aid Survey Form.

To qualify for Impact Aid funding, we must have a completed form for each federally connected student. To ensure we reach all eligible families, we send a form home with students within Lee County Schools and post the form on the Federal Programs page of the Lee County Schools website.

Please fill out the section titled Student Information for all students.

• If you are a Non-Federally Connected parent, simply complete the section titled Student Information, sign at the bottom of the sheet, and return the survey to your child's school.

• If you are a parent, step-parent, or guardian living with a student and work on federal property in the state of North Carolina, please also complete the section titled Parent/Guardian Employment Information: Employed on Federal Property, sign, date, and return the survey to your child's school. Students of parents working on federal property MUST reside with the parent to be eligible.

• If you are a parent, step-parent, or guardian currently serving in the military, please also complete the section titled Parent/Guardian Employment Information: Active Duty Uniformed Services, sign, date, and return the survey to your child's school. Students DO NOT have to reside with the military-connected parent.

• If you are an accredited foreign government official or a foreign military officer, please also complete the section titled Parent/Guardian Employment Information: Foreign Military, sign, date, and return to your child's school.

All of the survey forms will be treated as confidential information and will be used for no other purpose than stated here. Forms are maintained at the Central Office and only total numbers of federally connected students are reported to the Department of Education. Personal information collected on the forms never leaves the district.