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Superintendent recommends moving fourth and fifth grades amid declining enrollment and funding uncertainty
Summary
Superintendent Doctor Rice presented a recommendation to consolidate Ross Intermediate School (RIS) grade placements into nearby buildings, citing declining enrollment, potential state funding changes and an estimated $600,000 annual personnel savings from consolidation.
Doctor Rice, superintendent of Ross Local School District, told the board the district is recommending a reconfiguration that would move fourth-grade students back to their elementary schools and fifth-grade students to Ross Middle School as a response to sustained enrollment declines and uncertain state funding.
Rice said development in the district is not producing new families and that elementary class sizes have fallen into the mid-150s per grade in recent years. “Simply put, development is not happening in this community, and our population is declining,” Rice told the board while describing building-by-building enrollment trends.
District finance staff presented enrollment and funding figures to support the recommendation. The treasurer’s…
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