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Board hears enrollment update; district reports initial retention through new online option
Summary
Superintendent and staff reported preliminary enrollment figures, said four to five families who had applied to open-enroll elsewhere have chosen to stay because the district offers an online program, and described class caps, secondary enrollment increases and plans to finalize student-transfer data in October.
District leaders gave an enrollment update and described early retention tied to a limited online learning option that the district is offering this year.
Superintendent Grimes and staff said they have contacted families and, as of the meeting, four families (with a fifth expected) who had already applied to open-enroll elsewhere have decided to enroll in the Ames Community School District instead because the…
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