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students each), grade 2 (60 students), and grade K(4) and grade 4 (64
students each).
The school district’s largest three-grade level enrollment span occurred in
grades 10-12 with 248 students enrolled during the 2008-09 organizational
year. The school district’s smallest three-grade level enrollment span was
recorded in grades 6-8 with 181 students enrolled during that year.
The Project Consultants concluded that the 2008-09 student enrollment in
grades 6-8, the school district’s smallest three-grade level enrollment span,
was -67 students or -27.0% smaller than the grades 10-12 enrollment (248
students), the largest three-grade level enrollment span in Ladysmith-
Hawkins School District.
The average grade level enrollment size in Ladysmith-Hawkins School
District during the 2008-09 school year was 70.7 students. That figure
amounts, on average, to the equivalent of approximately 3.5 sections of
approximately 20 students/section. Assuming section sizes of
approximately 20 students/section, the number of grade level sections in
Ladysmith-Hawkins School District during the 2008-09 school year would
range from 4.5 (grade 12) to 3.0 (grades 6, 7, 2, K(4), and 4).
The Project Consultants concluded that Ladysmith-Hawkins School
District’s student enrollment by grade level in 2008-09 offered adequate
current and future potential for achieving cost/effective staffing and
balancing class section sizes in grades K-3 (SAGE classrooms) and,
indeed for the present time, achieving cost/effective staffing in balancing
class section sizes at the intermediate (elementary) and middle school
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