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School population takes a slight dip |
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2 By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
In an unofficial count the total school population has taken a slight dip from last year.
From grades K-12 there are 601 students in the District 10 school system, down from 609 last year. There will be an official student count done in February.
The student number at the high school went up from last year.
There are 51 students in the freshmen class, up from 43 last year. There are 45 students in the sophomore class, an increase of one.
The junior class, which had stayed the same, 69 students, for two years dropped down to 45 but the senior class, which had been under 50 students the last five years, jumped up to 72 for the September count.
The middle school stayed consistent with grades 6-7-8 having 52-50-53 students respectively. While on paper it may look like UMS lost a number of students in population, the fifth grade which they housed, moved back to Prairie View School which was closed for a couple of years but reopened this year.
The same can be said for Meadowlark School, which absorbed the fourth grade when PVS closed. Now, PVS is back to having two fourth grade classes
There are 41 students according to the unofficial count in the first and second grades at Meadowlark and the surprise is that Kindergarten went from 42 students to 27 for the opening of the school year.
In other news from the school board meeting, CHS Principal Ken Larson will be a back up driver for buses when paper work is completed.
Valerie Jarchow has been hired as an assistant tennis coach, Ed Krause is on board as a substitute custodian and Randi Fladstol was approved to be a substitute teacher. Anna Dalman was approved as a volleyball sponsor.
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