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Show Enrollment is down; first time in decade by NAN CHALAT . Record staff writer The Park City School District Monday submitted its official enrollment enroll-ment count to the State Office of Education. The tally showed 1,219 students enrolled in the district's three schools one student shy of last year's Oct. 1 count. It is the first time since 1975 the district has seen a decline in enrollment. enroll-ment. That year the student population popula-tion was 533. Although enrollment grew by 21 students (all within the elementary school grades) since the first day of classes, the increase was not enough to meet the 3 percent growth projec tion made by the school district last June. The State Office of Education will use the Oct. 1 enrollment figure to compute Park City's share of the Minimum School Fund. (This year, the state will apportion school districts approximately $1,124 per student.) Because the school district's budget was based on a projected enrollment growth of 3 percent, school superintendent Tony Mitchell said, "the district will have to find ways to economize over the year." The decrease in expected state funding will not require any major changes in the budget, he added. |
