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the organization, and, indeed, the structure of the three school districts to preserve and protect the quality and reputation of offerings and opportunities provided to the communities’ children and young people to ensure the short-term and long-term financial viability of one (or more) school enterprise. 1.6 Organization of the Study The School District of Bruce’s, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District’s, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District’s Consolidation Feasibility Study is organized in a six chapter format. Chapter I contains the study’s design, including purpose, need, methodology, geographic setting, questions, assumptions, and organization. Chapters II-V present data regarding the school districts’ enrollment and enrollment trends; finances; class sizes, programs, services, staffing, teaching/learning methodologies, delivery systems, organizational configurations, and the like; and facilities. Chapter VI offers the Project Consultants’ conclusions, alternatives, and recommendations for deliberation and future action by the District Administrators, School Boards, parents, patrons, and administrative and teaching staffs of the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District. © Roger Worner Associates, Inc. 15
CHAPTER II DISTRICT SIZE AND ENROLLMENT TRENDS 2.0 Introduction School district size and enrollment trends represent the two most significant variables which impact the long-term financial and programmatic viability of educational enterprises, whether large, urban school districts, wealthy, suburban school districts, large, rural educational enterprises, or remote, small school districts. Consequently, it was most logical that the Project Consultants would begin the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District Consolidation Feasibility Study by gathering and analyzing actual past and current student enrollments, projected enrollments, non-public school student enrollments, in-migration and out-migration student data, and related information. It was anticipated that, with the aforementioned information in hand, the Project Consultants, District Administrators, School Boards, and school district staffs would be in a position to identify the need for instituting “course corrections” in the school districts’ organizations (including the possibility of consolidation), finances, staffing, programs and services, grade level configurations, facilities, and a range of other operating policies, procedures, and practices. District size provides a critical perspective on the status of any given school enterprise. While some exceptions will be noted, small school districts tend to have fewer staff members, smaller budgets, less course offerings, fewer services, teachers involved in more course preparations, greater percentages of cost/ineffective courses or class section sizes, proportionately smaller fund balances, more frequent problems with the © Roger Worner Associates, Inc. 16
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Page 3 and 4: of P-K-12 school districts (involvi
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exceeded the fund balance of the Sc
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increasing) their modest fund balan
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The 2006-07 equalized aid for the S
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The 2006-07 mill rate of Weyerhaeus
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compensatory adjustments in its adm
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Weyerhaeuser Area School District
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The School District of Bruce’s ac
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In the event of consolidation of th
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services, the numbers and types of
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The Project Consultants concluded t
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average of 7.3 students/grade level
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TABLE 11-B SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRUCE
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The Project Consultants concluded t
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and science (6.0). The smallest arr
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the 2008-09 school year: Health Car
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Table 12-W details that Weyerhaeuse
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The Project Consultants review of t
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4.5 Total Professional Staffing Tre
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As delineated in Table 13-W, 42.2 f
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the nine year span of time from 199
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compared to the average of all Stat
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characteristic of Wisconsin school
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to accommodate the students served
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4.11 Staff Development The Project
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programming; CESA-based services; C
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classroom and resource/center-based
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4.16 Interview Perceptions: Distric
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Quality of the School Board: 7.1 Q
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CHAPTER V SCHOOL FACILITIES 5.0 Int
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environments in which “students e
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5.3 Overview of the School District
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and support space during the 2008-0
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subsequent further training in an i
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Other factors. As the Project Consu
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Computer laboratories (including Bu
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Art classroom is adequate; basic co
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Health Care Academy classrooms and
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The school is comprised of a gymnas
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5.5 Long-Term Facility Debt The Pro
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TABLE 19-W WEYERHAEUSER AREA SCHOOL
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consumption was $1.18/square foot.
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Is there probable cause for either/
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While the School District of Bruce
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would significantly benefit through
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school districts for total instruct
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or more viable school districts wit
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Ladysmith-Hawkins School District f
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feet/student and 404.5 square feet/
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through the merger of the three sch
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over the span of 19 years and has p
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Recommendation 2 That the School Di
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