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Show Enrollment increases could push elementary school past its limits next year by Nan Chalat The Park City School District's need for a new school facility depends on future enrollment, said school superintendent Tony Mitchell. Mitch-ell. "But it is hard to know for certain what those numbers will be." Every classroom at the Parley's Park Elementary School is currently in use and if we see another six percent increase in enrollment, "we will be in trouble next year," Mitchell said. This year 478 students enrolled at the elementary school. Based on an ideal class size of 20 students, the school's 21 classrooms are already overtaxed. "But I may well have been trying to move too fast, ' ' said M itchell, who had suggested earlier in the year the Board of Education would be ready to go to the voters with a bond . proposal in February. "In retrospect I think we need to get more of a consensus on what our future enrollment projections will be. "The basic plan now is to wait and look at next September's enrollment. Then, if we see an increase above six percent we will look at having something available by September 1988. In the meantime we will discuss better options for handling the overload during the next couple of years." According to figures compiled by :, the school district the Parley's Park i . Elementary School has seen i increases in-creases in enrollment every year since 1981. In 1982 the enrollment, jumped 10.4 percent, in 198? nine,; percent and last fall it grew 6.5 percent. The school has 17 regular classrooms, two kindergarten classrooms class-rooms which are used by morning and afternoon sections, a resource room and a computer lab. , The capacity of the school at, 20 students per class (widely considered consider-ed to be the ideal student-to-pupil ' ratio at the elementary grade level) j is 0 students. AllowinP for 25 students per class the capacity is 525 . students. Current enrollment already exceeds the 20 students per class maximum, but even if the school sees a three percent growth over the next few years it will not exceed the 2.Vstudent-per-class maximum capacity cap-acity until September 1988. However,, How-ever,, if .there is a consistent six percent increase that maximum will n be. reached . in September 1986, 'Mitchell sajd. ,i; Temporary solutions to possible overcrowding problems at the ( elementary school will be discussed .. at February's meeting of the Board of Education, Mitchell said. Some of I hose proposals include portable classrooms, moving the fourth grade to a school-within-a-school at the Treasure Mountain Middle School, " and year-round schools, he added. The next school board meeting will be held Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Projected enrollment increases at Parley's Park Elementary School 730 700 at 9 percent growth 6 ,0 - ' ' 'atfe percent 600 v " aTTpercent Present capacity 450 at 25 students per class (shaded area) 1984-85 1983-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 School Year .. . I : - A ' 1 IT ! 1 , Jennifer West, Monica Hervias, Robbie Smith (as Snoopy), Jana Eskolin and Schultz wind up for a rousing finale. J Snoopy delivers a warm message at PCHS Even the neighborhood beagle deserves to "be everything lie tan be." That's the basic message of "Snoopy." tlie musical sequel to "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." vi.,h.v.. The message seemed to infuse the 'Park City Hign School's almost all-freshman all-freshman cast with a lively spirit (if riot always the right lines) for the production last weekend. The musical was directed by high school drama teacher Brendu Bensci. and choreographed by Jill Washnock mf the Stansbury Park Community Theater. 4 ' -; Stacey Jacobsen assisted Bensch as student director and DcElte Hone was musical director and main accompanist . x , . ' -m! s ' I Jf I r' JL. 1 ' " Peppermint Patty (Holly Elkins) gives Charlie Brown (Tim Nickels) a little moral support. |
