AVERAGE DAILY MEMBERSHIP. The number of students with legal settlement in the school corporation who are enrolled and attending school in the school corporation including students with legal settlement in another corporation where the parents are paying for the cost of education (cash transfer). Also, children of state employees residing on state property, children placed by the Division of Disability, Aging, and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), children placed by the Division of Mental Health (DMH), and children placed in the school corporation by county welfare, courts, or another licensed child placing agency. ADM also includes students who are enrolled in a public school and a nonpublic school, have legal settlement in a public school corporations and are receiving instructional services from the public school corporation. Students who were enrolled in the corporation in a prior year but who have not been attending or receiving services from the school corporation by the official count date cannot be included as part of the ADM. The ADM count date is the second Friday after Labor Day. Kindergarten is counted as one-half ADM.
Average Daily Membership. The sum for all pupils of the number of days of the school year each pupil is enrolled divided by the number of days the schools are in session.
Average Daily Membership. Number of students enrolled in a school district who are either in attendance or have an excused absence the first full week in October.
Average Daily Membership. The number of days a student is in membership at a school divided by the number of days in a school month or school year.
Average Daily Membership. A term used to describe the average number of students attending classes in a school district on any given day.
Average daily membership. The aggregate membership of a school during a reporting period (normally a school year) divided by the number of days school is in session during this period. Only days on which the pupils are under the guidance and direction of teachers should be considered as days in session. The ADM for groups of schools having varying lengths of terms is the average of the ADMs obtained for the individual schools.