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configuration and modifications to the delivery of the teaching/learning
process.
2.2 Enrollment Trends: Actual
Actual past enrollment trends for the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-
Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District are
presented in Tables 2-B, 2-LH, and 2-W for the school years from 1998-99
through 2008-09 as reported by the Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction and School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District,
and Weyerhaeuser Area School District documents. (It should be noted
that the Project Consultants employed documentation from three different
sources in gathering and/or reporting school district trend data. Their
sources included the school district; the Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction; and the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance SchoolFacts. It was not
infrequent that data reported from the three sources varied—though
generally slightly—on a regular basis). The data permit the reader to
evaluate changes in enrollment conditions over a ten year span of time and
facilitate estimating and/or projecting changes that did or did not occur in
the school districts’ funding, staffing, programs and services, and facility
usage and cost/effectiveness.
The School District of Bruce reported a third Friday of September average
daily membership of 666 students in 1998-99 and 551 students in 2008-09,
a net loss of -115 students or -17.3% over the ten year span of time.
The school district’s enrollment “low-water mark” between 1998-99 and
2008-09 was in 2008-09 when 551 students were enrolled in the school
district’s K(4)-12 programs. The “high-water mark” enrollment for the
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