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Board recommends no limits on regular open enrollment, sets special‑education space caps and moves to administer Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Onalaska School District Board of Education · January 14, 2025
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Summary

Administrators recommended no caps on regular‑education open enrollment for 2025–26 while setting special‑education capacity limits (projected 0 elementary cross‑categorical spots, 1 middle school spot, 13 high‑school spots); a board member moved to approve administration of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to eighth‑grade and high‑school students.

District administrators told the board the annual statewide open‑enrollment application window opens in February and recommended that the board set no limits on regular‑education open enrollment for 2025–26, citing the district's declining enrollment and the district's practice of rolling over currently attending open‑enrolled students into the next grade.

On special education, staff explained the capacity calculation is more constrained: with projected enrollments and staffing, the district reported 0 available cross‑categorical elementary slots, 1 available middle‑school…

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