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BVSD rolls out interactive dashboards to track declining enrollment; eight schools flagged for advisory review
Summary
Boulder Valley School District staff demonstrated a new set of interactive enrollment dashboards at the Feb. 11 board work session, showing districtwide decline since 2018, current projections and a set of advisory and engagement triggers for schools tied to capacity and class rounds.
Boulder Valley School District staff on Feb. 11 walked the school board through a new set of interactive dashboards designed to monitor enrollment trends, show monthly movement and surface schools that meet long-range advisory committee thresholds for added attention.
The dashboards, led by Claire Sims and presented with district senior planner Glenn Segrue, display historical October-count trends, monthly gains and losses in the current school year, interdistrict flows reported by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and school-level breakdowns by region. "These dashboards are a set of tools to help us monitor enrollment trends in the district," Sims told the board during the guided tour.
Why it matters: The district has been on a net enrollment decline since about 2018 that accelerated after the pandemic. The new tools are intended to provide transparent, repeatable metrics to inform school- and district-level responses, and to support Long Range Advisory Committee (LRAC) recommendations that define when a school should be placed in an "advisory" or…
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