Salisbury Township School District's declining enrollment, rising costs, have implications for budgets over next five years, business administrator says.
If Salisbury Township School District does not raise taxes in the next five years, it would need to cut more than $4 million from the budget by 2016-2017 school year, according to Business Administrator Christine Stafford. However, if the district raised taxes only as much as the tax index allows, the district would need to cut $1.95 million by 2016-2017, Stafford told the school board at its Jan. 16 operations committee. “One thing that remains constant is the enrollment is still diminishing,” Superintendent Robert Gross said. With about 140 students per grade, Salisbury High School has the highest enrollment of its four schools, Gross said. He said the district will have to examine what this could mean for staffing in the next few …
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Salisbury elementary schools' enrollment grew this year.
Salisbury Township School District enrollment this year is better than originally projected, Superintendent Robert Gross told the school board at their Sept. 14 board meeting. Salisbury was projected to have about 1,562 enrolled this year; the district actually has 1,609 students enrolled this year. That means there are 47 more students in the district than anticipated. “On the good news side, over the past five years, we’ve only seen a decline of about 38 students per year.” “The moral of the story is, we’ve lost the least amount of students over a six-year span now,” Gross said. He told the board that the elementary schools in particular have received more students enrolled than expected. “The good news is folks want to come here,” he …
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John
12:14 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
People already can not afford their houses. Ever see so many for sale signs? Keep raising the taxes and your enrollment will continue to decline. Look at the union, not the taxpayers. more ›