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Beaverton School Board reviews long-range facilities recommendations as district projects multi-year enrollment decline
Summary
District staff presented long-range facilities recommendations including formal annual enrollment reports, administrative study triggers when elementary schools fall below 350 (or 300 for smaller-capacity schools), feeder-pattern reviews, and a 2027 facility-plan update timed with bond planning.
Casey, presenting at a Feb. 3 work session of the Beaverton School District 48J Board of Directors, laid out recommendations from an expanded long-range facility planning (LRFP) committee aimed at addressing a sustained decline in student enrollment and uneven building utilization.
"There's gonna be double digit percentage of decline... resulting in several thousand less students than we currently have," Casey told the board, and said updated 10-year projections from a demographic consultant will be presented in March. The district will use those projections to inform planning, though near-term budget forecasts rely on current enrollment figures.
The LRFP committee — an advisory group formed in February 2024, reconstituted and expanded in 2025, and meeting eight times from May 2025 through January 2026 — recommended several formal steps. First, the committee asked that an annual enrollment trend report be formalized, with a set of core objectives and flexibility to include additional analytics after the March demographer update.
Second, the committee recommended a school utilization study…
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