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Board outlines enrollment decline and innovation committee work exploring housing and program changes
Summary
Board members described decades of enrollment forecasts showing a steady decline and summarized Innovation Committee work that identified marketing, online courses and affordable family housing as strategies to address enrollment.
Board members said decades of demographic work consistently forecast a gradual, steady decrease in enrollment in Ashland, beginning with Kindergarten and moving through the grades.
Director Jill Franko described the Boards Innovation Committees, noting the building-enrollment committee assembled "about a dozen people" to examine marketing, online course offerings and affordable family housing as barriers and potential remedies. The committees work and volunteer research by Krista Palmer led to the formation of Sunstone Housing Collaborative to pursue housing options without the district acting as developer or property manager.
Ms. Palmer was later hired to focus full-time on organization development and to secure startup funding; Sunstone developed a Master Service Agreement with the district and issued an RFP that required partner commitments to internships for students. The board framed the approved partner recommendation as the next step in a longer, multi-year effort to stabilize enrollment.
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