EFIS Instructions
2025-26
2025-26 Estimates
Section 3
Section 3H

Section 3H - Differentiated Supports Allocation

This allocation provides additional funding for program leadership and to support school boards in offering a wide range of programs tailored to the local needs of their students.

1. Program Leadership Component

The following leads are funded under this grant:

  • School Effectiveness Leads
  • Student Success Leads
  • Early Years Leads
  • Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching (TELT) Contacts

Salary, benefits, labour provision for salary and benefits (if any), travel, and professional development expenses, as well as FTEs hired, are reported under each lead category. The values are loaded based on information entered on the INPUT - LRF 3B, 3C, 3D, 3F, 3H tab.

  • In order to generate funding in each column, a school board must employ the related lead. This is enforced through the calculation at item 1.11 (PL Maximum Amount Generated), which will calculate zero for each column that does not have salary expenses entered at item 1.5.

  • School boards have flexibility to use the generated funding across any of the four lead positions. As long as salary expenses are input at item 1.5, the maximum funding is generated under each lead; however, the actual amount funded is the lower of the maximum generated funding (item 1.11) and the program lead expenses (item 1.12).

  • Please note that the expenses for the program leads related to this component should be reported on the coordinators and consultants line on Schedule 10; please refer to the Code of Accounts for more details.

2. LRF - Demographic Needs Component

This is calculated as a table amount in the funding regulation, multiplied by a funding benchmark. A corresponding component that funds classroom staffing is found in the Classroom Staffing Fund on Section 2E, item 1, CSF - Demographic Needs Component.

3. LRF - Student Success, Grade 7 to 12 Component

This component funds the transportation portion and territorial student portion of the program. Note that the classroom staffing portion of this funding is under the Classroom Staffing Fund on Section 2E, item 2, CSF - Student Success, Grade 7 to 12 Component.

  • Items 3.3 and 3.4, which relate to the territorial student program, apply only to Lakehead DSB.

  • The amounts that relate to transportation (items 3.2 and 3.4) are excluded from the calculation of base fees on Appendix B (which appears in the Estimates cycle only).

4. SHSM Component

This component is funded at the lower of a table amount in the funding regulation, and eligible SHSM expenses reported in the year. The expenses are loaded to item 4.2 based on data entry on the INPUT - LRF 3B, 3C, 3D, 3F, 3H tab.

5. LRF - Experiential Learning Component

This component includes amounts based on enrolment, based on the school board’s share of the LRF - Demographic Needs Component, based on dispersion, and an amount for transportation.

  • The dispersion value used in the calculation of the EL Dispersion Amount is the same table amount as that used for the Remote and Rural components under CSF (Section 2C, item 4.3.1) and LRF (Section 3B, item 8.3.1).

  • Note that the classroom staffing portion of this funding is under the Classroom Staffing Fund on Section 2E, item 4, CSF - Experiential Learning (EL) Component.

  • Note that the transportation amount (item 5.9) is excluded from the calculation of base fees on Appendix B (which appears in the Estimates cycle only).

6. LRF - Outdoor Education Component

This component is calculated as a base amount and an enrolment amount. Note that the classroom staffing portion of this funding is under the Classroom Staffing Fund on Section 2E, item 5, CSF - Outdoor Education Component.

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