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Los Altos school leaders warn of shrinking enrollment and multi‑year budget gaps; reserves recommended
Summary
At the Los Altos School District board meeting, the district’s finance advisory committee and business office presented enrollment and budget projections showing a likely multi‑year gap and urged using reserves to smooth reductions and buy time for planned changes.
At the Los Altos School District board meeting, the district’s citizen advisory committee on finance and the district’s chief business official presented an enrollment forecast and multi‑year budget projections that, they said, require near‑term planning to preserve educational quality.
The advisory committee’s chair, John Michaelson, told trustees that long‑term demographic shifts — primarily lower birth rates — mean fewer students will move into the district over the next decade. “Unless something very surprising happens,” Michaelson said, enrollment “is going to go down,” reducing the number of cohorts feeding into junior high and increasing per‑student fixed costs.
The district’s business director, Eric Hornsby, presented a…
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