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Mercedes ISD reports falling enrollment and staff counts; HR recommends rightsizing, cross-training
Summary
At a March budget workshop, Mercedes ISD human resources and district leaders outlined a multi‑year decline in student enrollment and staff head count and proposed rightsizing strategies including cross‑training, substitute pools and pursuing alternate funding sources.
Mercedes Independent School District trustees heard March 18 that student enrollment and employee head count have fallen since 2019, and human resources laid out options to “rightsize” staffing and limit future hiring.
The human resources director, Miss Flores, told the Board of Trustees the district recorded “a total of 716 employees based on the count that we did March.” She said the district began the year budgeting for 724 employees and that attrition is expected to reduce head count further: “My last count was 697 going into next year.”
The presentation tied the staffing numbers to enrollment. Miss Flores said the district’s fall snapshot showed 4,208 students and a teacher count that yields a student‑teacher ratio of about 13.5 to 1, compared with the district’s earlier ratio of about 13.9 to 1. “If we follow that same trend, we will be 75 students down in enrollment next year,” she said. The presentation noted a net enrollment…
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