SCFF Optimization

Maximize funding for the
enrollment you already have.

The state of CA uses a complex formula to fund your institution's enrollments. ScffR models every reporting decision at once and delivers the combination that brings in the most funding.

Same schedule, same catalog, same enrollment — funded for everything they're worth.

scff · multi-year funding model
MULTI-YEAR FUNDING TRAJECTORY protection floor today
With optimization Status quo Protection floor
72 Districts
Fully researched & modeled
Nov 1st
Summer-shift elections locked
5-yr Horizon
Not just a single snapshot
Jan 2027
Mandatory formula transition
CCCCO Accounting Method Update

Potential FTES Losses as of Jan 2027

The state is replacing some of its old attendance-accounting methods with a single Standardized one. Credit funding is now computed from course units, not contact hours.

Sections without units — "dangling" sections — will earn 0 FTES, which could result in a permanent loss. Corrections will take time, so the work should start now.

What we model

Provable levers, from public data.

Course calculations are the easy part. What determines your funding are the decisions layered on top — dozens of them, interacting across five years. By hand, you can't be sure you've found the best combination, and a reasonable-looking wrong turn can cost millions. ScffR recalculates course values and models every decision, in every combination, and hands you the proven plan that pays most.

  • The 2027 conversion

    Every course revalued under the new method, with dangling-hour losses caught before they lock in.

  • Restoration windows

    We forecast the state's automatic refill and split the dollars still reachable from those already stranded.

  • Summer-shift timing

    Each straddling term booked in the fiscal year that pays most — across all five years at once.

  • Protection trajectory

    Your path against the funding floor, so a dip never costs you your protected rate.

The difference

We connect decisions to dollars.

Nothing else on the market does.

01 / your student system

It tracks enrollment, not its value

Your student information system records who enrolled and where. It never prices the marginal FTES, and it never checks what your filing is worth before you certify it.

02 / scheduling tools

They solve a different problem

Section planners optimize how you build the schedule — caps, rooms, modality. We take your schedule as given and work on what the enrollment it produced is actually worth.

03 / the state's tools

They stop one step short

The free SCFF calculator runs one scenario. The 320 portal checks that your filing is complete, not that it's optimal. Neither ties a single course to a single dollar.

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