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Board hears enrollment slide and state-aid risk; district sets 2025 SAFE estimate at 12,050 ADM
Summary
The Rapid City Area School District heard a CFOO presentation showing the fall 2024 SAFE count at 12,197 ADM (a 20-year low) and adopted a 2025 estimate of 12,050 ADM, a choice that will affect state aid timing and district cash flow.
The Rapid City Area School District Board heard an extended presentation from the district CFOO on Dec. 3 about enrollment trends and how the state-aid fall enrollment (SAFE) count drives the district’s budget.
The CFOO said the SAFE count for fall 2024 was 12,197 average daily membership (ADM), the lowest point in about 20 years, and reminded the board that the district’s high point was about 13,842 ADM in 2014. "The current state aid fall enrollment count, fall of 2024, September of this year, was 12,197 average daily membership," the CFOO said.
Facing uncertain trends, the district "decided at the end of that conversation to go with…
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