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District outlines decade-long enrollment decline, community process for possible school closures
Summary
Davis Joint Unified Superintendent said the district expects enrollment to fall by about 1,000 students over the next decade and is beginning a community process in November to vet concepts that could include closing between one and three schools; the board does not expect to make a decision until 2027.
Superintendent Matt Best told the joint meeting that the district expects enrollment to decline by about 1,000 students over the next decade and that the decline is rolling up from lower grades into middle schools. “We are expected to decline by about a thousand students over the course of the next decade,” Best said.
Best said district planners are engaging in “worst-case planning,” because the most time-consuming and complex option is…
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