Enrollment Expectation: Fall 2019 (10 minutes)

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▶ 21:26 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: any other comments from the committee seeing none we will move on to the enrollment expectation for the fall of 2019 which is about 20 minutes away

▶ 21:43 Speaker 2: oh yeah all right 30 30 give me a little time here so I had one of the office help reformat it so that the Franklin K lives with the other case so that's the first difference you'll see when you see that you can see when you look at the we're at 338 today all the other classes are up as well I have asked secretaries

▶ 22:07 Speaker 2: again that if you know of children who have withdrawn please tell us as soon as possible I have had no response and what will happen is over the next couple of weeks we will see who does not report and then our numbers will begin to settle down for the October one count but as I also told you earlier we will also continue to see enrollment over the next 10 days so at some point you have to take account for the state's purposes and that is October 1 so we are hoping that some of these numbers fall a little bit not that I don't want the children here but I am concerned that when you look at Horace Mann when you look at Winthrop Roosevelt we are really stretched to the limits in K and then it's interesting to see where you see that in the upper grades Horace me and across all grades except possibly grade four and then you see that surgeons reflected in grade three except at the Winthrop where you see it in grade excuse me grade two and then at Winthrop you see it in grade three and four for a lot of it it reflects where the housing turnover has been over the past several years in the city and for the past couple years Horace me and has been the hottest neighborhood I'm sorry to those of you who are Roosevelt Lincoln or one of the other districts but and that's why they have stress to the having the most stress right now the other thing that is important consideration is first preference is given to siblings and we have many young families and that is also what is happening and impacting enrollment especially at K you're seeing siblings getting those seats lastly as we talked about three of our buildings now have special programs where those students have to be placed regardless of where they live in the city we have three schools with EL education the Roosevelt has children with significant special needs challenges and the Lincoln has a program for children with social emotional challenges so some there are some families that when they move in they are placed at a school because of

▶ 24:31 Speaker 2: the students needs not because of any other reason at the middle and the high school you can begin to see we hit we told you we had about two more years with lower enrollment at the middle school you can see that in grade eight is at 263 grade 7 moves up to 272 grade 6 moves up to 291 and then as you look and if you scroll back up to the lower grades you can see what's coming to the middle school the high school is a little bit more dynamic we do lose some children to private and parochial between 8 and 9 but we also have a number of children moving back in just today we registered a student coming back from the voc we have students coming back from other surrounding schools so that so you get to a k-12 enrollment of 3766 and when you add in the Franklin enrollment of 281 we're at 4047 on this sheet and as I told you two more children registered and late this afternoon and we will expect to see more

▶ 25:42 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: tomorrow and Thursday yes very good questions for the superintendent on

▶ 25:50 Speaker 5: enrollments mr. Ozzie Thomas so is this the largest kindergarten you've ever

▶ 25:58 Speaker 2: enrolled right now by one and this year last year at this time I was at 337 so

▶ 26:06 Speaker 5: how are we doing in comparison to the studies that we received back last year

▶ 26:12 Speaker 2: enrollment studies I think well with the new enrollment study we're pretty on track but it's

▶ 26:21 Speaker 2: only one year and don't forget we did the two studies so you basically had a range how much

▶ 26:28 Speaker 5: is it helpful that that override passed in terms of planning for what's continuing to happen with

▶ 26:37 Speaker 2: enrollment the override helps and again it is I know you can't the override doesn't change space

▶ 26:44 Speaker 2: challenges right so the main concern is we added the override funded two more specialists because at the elementary school you all know that we need more specialists because when the kids go to specials art music digital literacy library now PE that's when their gen ed teachers have their planning periods their collaborative time all right so that's how the schedule works at the elementary school so we were actually able to add three specialists we were able to squeeze out three specialists because as we work the numbers we realized oops this is getting away from us again so we actually were able to squeeze out three so that helped my concern going forward is again adding

▶ 27:35 Speaker 2: teachers so it depends where it falls off so let's say the high school needs less teachers in the future and gives me one more teacher at the elementary or when all of a sudden at the elementary i don't need 15ks i only need 14ks that gives me another teacher for the middle of the high school that's how you work your ftes if we had a huge surge all of a sudden another huge surge i don't know whether we would be able to hire all the teachers we need or have all the space we need um you know there are some concerns about when is this going to peak

▶ 28:10 Speaker 6: thank you other questions for the superintendent on enrollments

▶ 28:14 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: i just had um two quick things one is um you've had um you've presented to us a couple of different times on our students who really are off campus much of the time so those students are included in this number do you see those numbers

▶ 28:37 Speaker 2: increasing decreasing or staying about the same so again a lot depends on as you know as we improve our approach to personalized learning and give the high school kids more options we still have to see how that plays out we have a number of kids who do mhs online because they are pursuing serious artistic or athletic interests but that's only a handful of kids we have we have some seniors who really don't need to be on campus all day so we try to give them a schedule that allows them that flexibility they may only need four courses for graduation they may be doing work-study so we try to do that option for seniors the kids who are taking college courses they're often they're in and out of the building but not enough to have an impact yet what really has an impact is the kids who are taking blended learning courses or courses with the academic facilitator who may be not taking a seat in the class instead because they're taking some sort of individualized program but you see that that's a high school option very good so in the future when we have

▶ 29:54 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: enrollment reports I'll probably be asking that again so it'd be great to follow that especially since it aligns with our strategic overview the other piece is that I think what we often see as you noted is that we have students who haven't registered yet we have students who have left us and we don't know yet right and then we have the month of a few weeks in September and then we have the October count at which time we may see some more students

▶ 30:30 Speaker 2: coming back in is that correct so yeah I understand what the point you're making so it's it's an it's an interesting situation sometimes when students leave some of our public competitors for lack of a better term they are not returning to us until after the october one count why is that important because the october one count is the number the state uses for your chapter 70 money so sometimes you have a little bit of an influx after october one who's from students whose careers are not successful at other choices

▶ 31:04 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: so we will be getting a report on that after october one when you present us the october one counts correct very good thank you any final questions seeing none that concludes policy

▶ 31:15 Speaker 1: and planning for this evening thank you mr school that brings us to finance and facilities with miss