20.__Middle school level.__"Middle school level" means grade 6 to grade 8.

21.__Municipality. "Municipality" means a city, town or organized plantation.

22.__Per-pupil guarantee. "Per-pupil guarantee" means the total amount of funds that is made available for each subsidizable pupil representing the following cost components:

A.__Salary and benefit costs for school level teaching staff;

B.__Salary and benefit costs for other identified school level staff;

C.__Designated costs for substitute teachers; and

D.__Identified nonstaffing costs.

23.__Property fiscal capacity.__"Property fiscal capacity" means the lesser of the average of the state valuation amounts for the 2 most recent years prior to the year of funding and the state valuation amount for the most recent year.

24.__Property weight. "Property weight" means a value between zero and one that is used to adjust a municipality's ratio of local per-pupil property fiscal capacity to the statewide per- pupil property fiscal capacity. The income weight, as defined in subsection 14, plus the property weight must total one.

25.__School administrative staff.__"School administrative staff" means full-time public school principals and assistant principals, as documented in the department's database.

26.__School administrative unit's local contribution to per- pupil guarantee. "School administrative unit's local contribution to the per-pupil guarantee" means the funds that a school administrative unit provides for each subsidizable pupil who resides in that unit.

27.__School administrative unit's state contribution to per- pupil guarantee. "School administrative unit's state contribution to the per-pupil guarantee" means the funds that the State provides to a school administrative unit for each subsidizable pupil who resides in that unit.