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Impact Aid

Federal Impact Aid

Federal Impact Aid Benefits All Students!

Every fall, the Bremerton School District applies for Federal Impact Aid from the U.S. Department of Education. These funds yield roughly $300,000 annually to support basic education programs for all students districtwide, helping replace local tax dollars lost because many of our families live or work on tax-exempt federal property.

Because funding depends on accurate annual counts, it is critical that every family (one form per household) completes and signs the Impact Aid form. Additionally, our count of military-connected students helps us secure supplemental grants from the Department of Defense (DoDEA).

All of our schools will be collecting Impact Aid forms beginning in late October. Collection dates vary by school – watch for information from your child’s school!

The District only needs one form completed per family.  Surveys will be sent home with the YOUNGEST student in the family.

Questions?

Please contact our Student Data Team by email, or call 360-473-1076.

Need another form?

You can request a replacement from your child’s school, or download and print a blank form below.

2026 Impact Aid form - coming soon!

Formulario 2026 (español) - muy pronto 

The district only reports the number of students living with families who live on and/or work on federal property. We do not report information about individual students to the Department of Education (DOE). The information remains confidential and will be shredded once the District has submitted the aggregate data to the the DOE. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Impact Aid funds compensate the District for the loss of local tax dollars due to families living in tax exempt federal property in the Bremerton area. The Bremerton School District receives approximately $300,000 in Impact Aid funding each year!  

    Every year the Bremerton School District must apply for Federal Impact Aid funds from the U.S. Department of Education. The information must be collected annually with a form that includes a parent signature. 

  • Only one form is required for each family. The District is sending home one form per family - with the youngest child of the family.

  • We’ve found that the response rate is much lower if we ask families to complete the form online.  Our schools who distribute/collect printed forms have a much higher response rate than schools that ask families to complete the form online.  Receiving a form from every family is important so we’re going to try doing it “old school” with paper forms for 2026-2025.

  • Due to a reduction in responses when we emphasised online forms in 2024, we are doing all paper forms (like we did in 2025) again for 2026. The form is still available on the Impact Aid website, however, as a fillable PDF that can be completed, printed and returned to school if families would prefer to use that approach.

  • While both forms are crucial, they serve different purposes. With Impact Aid, we are required to follow the federal government's specific timeline for collecting that information. The CNEEB form is collected earlier because it's used to verify your family's eligibility for a number of important benefits, including free ASB cards and discounts on school fees. This allows us to provide those benefits to our students right away, without waiting for the federal Impact Aid window later in the fall.


  • Federal Impact Aid funds are used for basic education programs district-wide and support all our students. Information on the number of military-connected families in the District is also used by the District when applying for grants from the Department of Defense (DoDEA). 

  • The district only reports the number of students living with families who live on and/or work on federal property. We do not report information about individual students to the Department of Education (DOE). The information remains confidential and the forms are shredded once the aggregate data has been submitted to DOE.