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While the School District of Bruce may expect to lose -41 students or -7.4%
and Ladysmith-Hawkins School District is projected to realize a +4 students
or +.4% student gain between 2008-09 and 2011-12, Weyerhaeuser Area
School District will likely experience a net loss of -34 students or -21.4%
over the same three year span of time.
Besides losing larger numbers of students (with graduation) at grade12
than are gained, annually, in the 4-year-old kindergarten program, both the
School District of Bruce and Weyerhaeuser Area School District typically
display additional losses among some/many grade levels during grade
level transitions from one school year to the next. Indeed, Ladysmith-
Hawkins School District has not displayed a similar trend. In fact, that
school district has seemingly benefited through the “in-migration” of nonresident
students and the transitional matriculation of non-public school
students to Ladysmith-Hawkins School District at grade 9.
The School District of Bruce has displayed substantial “out-migration” of
resident students to other school districts through Wisconsin’s open
enrollment option. Ladysmith-Hawkins School District has experienced a
much smaller net loss (though loss, indeed, has occurred) of students
through Wisconsin’s open enrollment option. Weyerhaeuser Area School
District—diminutive in size—actually realizes a net gain in students through
open enrollment. Unfortunately, those meager student enrollment gains
are insufficient to stabilize the organization’s K(4)-12 enrollment.
The School District of Bruce loses a small number and percentage of its
resident student population to home schooling. Weyerhaeuser Area
School District’s losses to home schooling are traditionally small in number
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