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levels. Over time, however, and with continuing declining enrollment,
Ladysmith-Hawkins School District will experience increasing difficulties in
achieving balanced class section sizes and staffing cost/effectiveness at all
levels (and, particularly, at the high school level).
Table 1-W delineates that Weyerhaeuser Area School District enrolled 159
students in grades K(4)-12 during the 2008-09 organizational year. The
school’s critical student mass would place it among the smallest 5% of all
school districts in the State of Wisconsin during the 2008-09 school year.
(According to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction,
Weyerhaeuser Area School District was ranked 420 th among the State of
Wisconsin’s 445 school districts in 2007-08). By State of Wisconsin
standards, Weyerhaeuser Area School District would be classified as a
small critical student mass school organization.
An examination of Table 1-W data revealed that 4 students were enrolled in
the 4-year-old kindergarten, 9 students were enrolled in the 5-year-old
kindergarten, 38 students were enrolled in grades 1-5, 33 students were
enrolled in grades 6-8, and 73 students were enrolled in grades 9-12. The
school district’s largest grade level enrollments in 2008-09 occurred in
grades 10 and 11 (19 students each), grade 12 (18 students), grade 9 (17
students), and grade 8 (15 students). The school district’s smallest grade
level enrollments during the same school year were found in 4-year-old
kindergarten (4 students), grades 4 and 5 (5 students each), and grades 1
and 3 (8 students each).
The school district’s largest three-grade level enrollment span occurred at
grades 10-12 with 56 students enrolled during the 2008-09 organizational
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