Central Cambria board asks staff for detailed enrollment and budget analysis ahead of March meeting

Central Cambria School District Board President Dr. Thomas A. Woods asked district leadership on Feb. 9 to prepare a comprehensive data package for the board’s March meeting that would clarify current enrollment trends and the district’s fiscal position.

"What is the enrollment of the entire Central Cambria School District currently?" Woods asked, requesting district-wide totals, a longitudinal comparison from 2018 through 2025 with percentage changes, and school-by-school enrollment figures for the district’s four schools. He also asked for graduation and kindergarten cohort counts for 2025 and a comparison of class sizes in grades K–2 between the two elementary schools.

The board asked district staff to compile capacity information and costs related to Jackson Elementary School (personnel, utilities, insurance) and whether the Central Elementary School (CES) building has sufficient space to house all elementary students. Woods directed staff to include speculative analysis on market interest if JES were not used as a school, possible duplicated instructional costs from maintaining two elementary buildings, and estimated transportation cost impacts of consolidating to a single elementary site.

The request also asked for a graphic breakdown of broad expenditure categories (fixed costs such as personnel, utilities, debt versus discretionary spending) and for staff to quantify the percentage of the budget in each category. Board members noted the request followed previous facility-assessment work and asked for the material to enable informed discussion in March; no decisions were taken at the Feb. 9 meeting.