Board weighs satellite campus, boundary changes or modular classrooms as elementary enrollment rises
Summary
District leaders said actual enrollment has risen though it did not match 2015 PSU growth projections; to address full capacity at Rural Dell and Molalla Elementary they proposed three options and will convene an advisory committee and run a new demographics study due March 2025.
Superintendent Dr. Tony Mann and Capital Projects Manager Ron Stewart told the Board the district "has not seen the projected growth in the district that the 2015 Portland State University study predicted, but enrollment has increased," attributing the increase to population growth in the City of Molalla. They described three possible responses to full capacity at Rural Dell and Molalla Elementary: creating a satellite campus, adjusting district boundaries, or adding modular classrooms.
Board members were told an advisory committee will be convened to study options—a process Stewart said could take up to a year—and that a new demographics study will be completed in March 2025, with preliminary results reported back to the Board in March or April.
AI generated
The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.
AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.
Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.
