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Consultant warns enrollment will keep declining; 1,500 new housing units could add about 400 students
Summary
SchoolWorks told the Ventura Unified board that statewide birth declines have reduced kindergarten cohorts and the district has lost about 3,000 students in a decade; the firm projected roughly 1,500 new housing units over six years could add 400–450 students and factored those numbers into school-closure planning.
Ken Reynolds, president of SchoolWorks, told the Ventura Unified board that demographic trends and housing projections point to continued enrollment decline across the district — and that the decline will inform any potential school-closure decisions.
Reynolds said statewide births have fallen from roughly 600,000 per year to about 400,000, a drop that he described as “one-third” and one that strongly correlates with smaller…
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