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SAISD facilities plan ties declining enrollment to potential campus consolidations and budget impacts
Summary
Facilities staff told the board the district has lost hundreds of students in recent years, projecting a roughly $2 million revenue impact and describing criteria (educational/spatial adequacy, capacity, capital needs) that will guide closure or consolidation decisions.
Dr. Merle Brandon, presenting the district’s facilities planning update, told trustees declines in enrollment are driving a re-examination of campus capacity and long-range facility needs.
Brandon said the district documented a drop of 304 students over a recent period and expects losses closer to 500 by year’s end. He estimated that the enrollment decline produces a budgetary impact of "a little over $2,000,000 deficit" to the district’s revenues and stressed that salaries comprise about 81% of the proposed budget, making staffing…
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