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Superintendent reports enrollment decline; district launches behavior‑matrix review and staff 'stay' interviews
Summary
The superintendent reported enrollment is down year‑over‑year and described district steps to review student behavior protocols and to canvas employee views on workplace conditions.
Superintendent Doctor Newton told the board that district enrollment is down from last year and that the district is taking steps to understand the causes and to respond.
Newton reported a current enrollment figure of 12,682 students (a decline of 378 students from the same point last year) and noted the district’s all‑time recent high of 14,239 in September 2019. He said the kindergarten cohort is smaller than the current senior cohort — the superintendent cited roughly 1,212 ninth‑graders versus 966 incoming kindergartners — evidence, he said, that cohort shrinkage is accumulating year over year.
The superintendent said homeschool numbers were up 109 from last year (the…
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