Camas staff weigh adding girls flag football to close Title IX gap; boosters and ASB pledged seed funds

Camas School District athletics staff told the board at a May 12 workshop that the district currently meets Title IX’s proportionality test but sees seasonal participation swings and hopes a new girls flag football offering could reduce the district’s participation gap.

An athletics staff member summarized the Title IX framework: “There’s a 3‑pronged test” for compliance, he said, adding that courts and practice use a roughly 5‑percentage‑point threshold as a working guide. “We are within that 5% right now,” he told the board, and the district’s calculated participation gap stood at about −2.78 percentage points on the staff worksheet. Staff noted seasonal shifts — for example, a larger boys turnout for track this year pushed a post‑winter gap toward 1.63 percentage points before the current tally.

District staff described a push at the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) to add girls flag football as a sanctioned sport; the WIAA’s process required roughly 60% of member schools to approve adding a sport. Locally,…