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Show .'"-; , Drop m enrollment tarfeetadge ' ii"Sn,ans. fewer state dollars by $225,000 for 1984-85 school year At the conclusion of the first two Kks of school, student registration Lwed enrollment was down by 200 ; Lents from early projections in Z Alpine School District, Supt. I Clark L. Cox reported to district 1 1. board of education members. pr Cox said currently there are 19 822 students enrolled in kin-! kin-! garten through sixth grade, down 223 from projections, and 12,278 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve, up 23 students from projections. The Supt. said the 200 decrease means $225,000 less than 'we an- ticipated for budget purposes,' from state monies. The enrollment, however, is 1,533 more students than the district had ceedingly large. "We have tried to level off some of these classes and are still working on several other enrollment problems. We hope to have these worked out this week. We can't afford to run light classes in this district," he said, however he said where needed added teachers or aides will be used. enrolled at the same time last year. Dr. Cox said the figures reflect the number of kindergarten students entering school over the number of 1984 graduates. "We had about 1,700 students leave school through graduation and approximately 3,500 enter kindergarten," kin-dergarten," he told board members at their Sept. 1 1 business meeting. Dr. Cox said the district lost 61 students in one week through move-outs. move-outs. 'When I questioned this, I found one family moved and took six children with them,' he said. It doesn't take long to lose that many students when a few large families move, he noted. Most of the student loss was in the southwest Orem area, he noted. Dr. Cox also noted registration in the various schools showed that in some cases families had moved from one area of the district to another, affecting enrollment in the schools involved. Dr. Cox said some classes are "lower in enrollment than we can afford." Other classes are ex- |