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the School District of Bruce during the 2008-09 school year would range
from 3.0 (grade 11) to 1.5 (K(4) and grade 1).
The Project Consultants concluded that the School District of Bruce’s
student enrollment by grade level in 2008-09 offered current and future
challenges for achieving cost/effective staffing and balancing class section
sizes in grades K-3 (SAGE classrooms) and, increasingly, at the
intermediate, middle school, and high school levels. Over time and with
continuing declining enrollment, the School District of Bruce will be faced
with greater difficulties in achieving balanced class section sizes and
staffing cost/effectiveness.
Table 1-LH reports that 990 students enrolled in Ladysmith-Hawkins
School District in grades P-K-12 during the 2008-09 school year. The
school’s critical student mass would rank it near the mid-point by size of all
school districts in the State of Wisconsin during the 2008-09 school year.
(In 2007-08, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District ranked 216 th in size among
Wisconsin’s 445 school districts). By State of Wisconsin standards,
Ladysmith-Hawkins School District would be classified as a mid-size
critical student mass school organization.
An examination of Table 1-LH data confirmed that 64 students were
enrolled in the 4-year-old kindergarten (an additional 3 students were
enrolled in pre-school programming), 73 students were enrolled in the 5-
year-old kindergarten, 263 students were enrolled in grades 1-4, 250
students were enrolled in grades 5-8, and 337 students were enrolled in
grades 9-12 during the 2008-09 organizational year. The school district’s
largest grade level enrollments in 2008-09 were found in grade 12 (93
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