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year. The school district’s smallest three-grade level enrollment span
appeared in grades 3-5 with 18 students enrolled during that year.
The Project Consultants computed that the student enrollment during the
2008-09 organizational year in grades 3-5 (18 students), the school
district’s smallest three-grade level enrollment span, was -38 students or
-67.9% smaller than the grades 10-12 enrollment (56 students), the largest
three-grade level enrollment span in Weyerhaeuser Area School District.
The average grade level enrollment size in Weyerhaeuser Area School
District during the 2008-09 school year was 11.4 students. That figure
amounts, on average, to the equivalent of .5 sections of approximately 20
students/section. Assuming section sizes of approximately 20
students/section, the number of grade level sections in Weyerhaeuser Area
School District during the 2008-09 school year would range from
approximately 1.0 (grades 10, 11, and 12) to .25 (K(4) and grades 4 and 5).
The Project Consultants concluded that Weyerhaeuser Area School
District’s student enrollment by grade level in 2008-09 is operated—of
necessity—at a cost/ineffective level. To the credit of Weyerhaeuser Area
School District’s leadership, compensatory adjustments for small grade
level sizes have been partly counterbalanced through the creation of one
multi-age/grade level section (combination classroom) at the elementary
school level.
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