Is This a Sign of The End?
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Is it just me, or have other people noticed the increase in pregnant women — or women who have recently given birth — walking around? Is it something in the water?
It seems everywhere I turn there’s a pregnant woman walking the isles of the grocery store, or a newly created family of three fastening an adorable newborn into their recently purchased minivan.
While I love seeing the babies and making funny faces at them to make them smile, area school districts are also getting excited about this potential kiddie boom.
At the end of last night’s Central Kitsap School District school board meeting David McVicker, director of business and operations, gave an update on the district’s enrollment numbers for the year.
They’re looking good, really good. While McVicker warned it’s too early to say for certain that the declining enrollment bubble might be popping, he’s happy with what he’s seen this year (reminder: school’s only been in session one week).
Enrollment in kindergarten, first, second and third grades are up this year from what the district had initially budgeted. That was the case last year among the district’s kindergarten and first grade classes as well. Using skepticism, the district continued to wait for the numbers to drop last year, but they never did to the degree the district had budgeted.
So what does this mean? It could mean that the decline in enrollment that the district has been predicting has hit its low point and is now starting to go up. That will have an impact on the district’s budget, but it doesn’t mean they can say good-bye to their predicted budget deficits.
According to McVicker: “It appears there’s some flattening at the elementary level,” in enrollment numbers. He said he is “optimistically cautious” about future growth in the district, adding this year is the first year that first grade has been larger than the second, third and fourth grade classes — which is a good sign.
In fact, the district hired five new elementary school teachers to address the growing need of its younger student population.
By October McVicker hopes to have a better idea of what enrollment looks like, once things stabilize.
While they wait for that, I think I might stay away from the water for a while.
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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