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Harlandale ISD board reviews enrollment decline, explores outreach and data limits with charters
Summary
Trustees were told the district has lost roughly 6% of enrollment over two years and staff outlined causes — growth outside loop 410, school-choice options and lower birth rates — and proposed recruitment steps including yard signs; staff also described limits in obtaining enrollment data from IDEA charters.
Mister Sotto, superintendent of schools, told the Harlandale ISD board at the Dec. 10 work session that the district has curtailed worst-case demographer projections but still faces declining enrollment trends.
"We've lost about 6% over the last 2 years of total enrollment," Mister Sotto said, and he said a demographer had projected a larger decline in some scenarios ("about 1,000 kids per year"). He attributed much of the shift…
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