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Eureka Union grapples with rising enrollment; trustees and staff reassign some interdistrict students to rebalance classrooms
Summary
District officials told the board that Eureka Union has passed 3,500 enrolled students and faces capacity strain at several elementary campuses. Staff contacted affected interdistrict families, offered placements at alternate sites (primarily Excelsior) and placed students on priority wait lists as the district monitors enrollment through summer.
District administrators told the Board of Trustees on May 5 that Eureka Union is seeing continued enrollment growth and capacity strain at multiple campuses, particularly at fourth through sixth grades.
Assistant superintendents and principals presented numbers showing the district “just passed the 3,500 mark in students” if school started immediately, and said open enrollment remains active. District staff said Ridgeview could face average class sizes above the district’s contractual goal of 30 and at or above the contract cap of 32 if current projected enrollees all attend Ridgeview next year without reassignment. “If we were to allow all of those students to remain ……
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