Districts release enrollment figures
By Bobbi Mlynar (Contact), Brandy Nance (Contact)
Originally published 09:38 a.m., September 22, 2007
Updated 09:38 a.m., September 22, 2007
Enrollment figures for North Lyon County, Southern Lyon County and Emporia Public Schools were released this week with some school districts staying the same and some declining in student numbers.
Judy Mundy, clerk at the North Lyon County school district office, on Thursday released the enrollment numbers for the district, which includes Admire, Americus, Reading and Northern Heights schools. The district as a whole is down 22 students, Mundy said.
Admire Elementary School has 122 students this year; Americus Elementary School has 175 students; Reading Elementary School has 65 students and Northern Heights High School is sitting at 197 students. These numbers represent a decline in students at Admire and Americus, Northern Heights is down one student and the number of students went up at Reading this year, Mundy said.
The head count in the Emporia school district on Thursday was 4,921, down by 45 students from last year’s head count. Head count is the number of actual students, not the full-time equivalency figure used for state finance purposes.
FTE figures for the Emporia school district will not be available until next week. Because the district qualifies for “weighting” in numerous categories, the FTE cannot be calculated quickly and easily.
Weighting adds to the FTE in categories such as at-risk, vocational education, and bilingual students. All-day kindergarten, however, causes a loss in FTE because the state only considers kindergartners as half-time students, even though they are full-time in the Emporia district.
Head counts for individual schools are:
Emporia High School, 1,351; Emporia Middle School, 664; Lowther North Intermediate School, 304; Lowther South Intermediate School, 325; Logan Avenue, 191; Riverside, 341; Timmerman, 350; Village, 375; Walnut, 254; William Allen White, 217; Turning Point Learning Center, 67; Flint Hills Learning Center, 258; and Maynard Early Childhood Center, 224.
Community Relations Director Nancy Horst said that the opening of Maynard Early Childhood Center brought preschool children from all elementary schools to the consolidated operation at Maynard.
Mike Argabright, superintendent of Southern Lyon County Schools said there are 151 students in Hartford; 126 students in Neosho Rapids; and 300 in Olpe for a total of 577 students in the district as a whole. These numbers represent a decline of 24 students from last year's numbers, Argabright said.
Argabright provided the number of students per grade in the district: In Hartford, there are 22 seventh-graders, 27 eighth-graders, 23 ninth-graders, 28 10th graders, 23 11th graders and two special education students; in Neosho Rapids there are 14 early start students, 12 kindergarten students, 20 first graders, 12 second graders, 19 third graders, 14 fourth graders, 20 fifth graders, 15 sixth graders and 19 special education students; in Olpe there are 13 early start students, 16 kindergartners, 17 first graders, 17 second graders, 16 third graders, 19 fourth graders, 23 fifth graders, 15 sixth graders, 24 seventh graders, 28 eighth graders, 31 ninth graders, 25 10th graders, 36 11th graders, 20 12th graders and 32 special education students.
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