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Lubbock ISD board hears "Quality Seats" analysis flagging enrollment decline and middle-school strains
Summary
At a workshop presentation, district staff told trustees that enrollment declines are now affecting all grades and small middle schools are losing programs and course offerings; the board said it will use Vision Week survey results and community focus meetings to plan next steps.
Ken Casarez, Lubbock ISD's chief innovation officer, told the Board of Trustees that the district's annual Quality Seats Analysis shows enrollment declines have spread across grade levels and are "becoming unsustainable." He said factors outside the district's control (lower birth rates, housing development outside district boundaries) combine with parent choice and charter growth to reduce school-age population and strain offerings at smaller campuses.
Casarez said the district now projects about 64% of students…
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