Stoughton Area School District outlines staffing shifts, adds bilingual aide and speech pathologist amid enrollment drop

The Stoughton Area School District board on an unspecified date reviewed staffing recommendations that would add a bilingual educational assistant and a speech‑language pathologist while adjusting several positions across buildings in response to an approximate 35‑student enrollment decline.

District leaders said the changes are intended to keep core programming intact while aligning staff levels to current enrollments and district policy targets.

Superintendent-level staff framed the recommendations with the district's staffing policy (Policy 20) and cited targets rather than absolutes. Jessica (district staff member) described the targets as a planning tool that accounts for physical space, projected population and fiscal capacity. The presentation noted that the district uses a weighted caseload target of 14 to 1 for special education case management and that some positions are being proposed because of rising evaluations and caseloads.

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