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Board retreat prioritizes enrollment: Astoria SD 1 to gather data, pursue outreach and hire marketing support
Summary
Board members spent the retreat diagnosing a multi-year enrollment decline and set two-year goals: (1) analyze causes by collecting data and partner outreach, (2) increase or stabilize enrollment through targeted outreach, recruitment and a proposed marketing hire, and (3) review anti-bullying policy implementation. Members set timelines and assigned follow-up tasks.
Facilitated by Scott Justice, the Astoria School District board spent most of its retreat on a set of goals to address a persistent enrollment decline and strengthen policy implementation.
Board members agreed on three primary objectives for the year: understand why enrollment has declined, take actions to increase or maintain enrollment, and assess whether the district’s anti-bullying/harassment policies are being implemented effectively. The board directed staff to compile and present data and community outreach findings at study sessions through the year.
On diagnosis, board members and staff identified multiple possible drivers — increased homeschooling and private school options, generational demographic change, housing availability, online charter…
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