Update: 10-Year Enrollment

Presented by Tim Hamilton, Assistant Superintendent, Operations
March 2004

Data Prepared by Planning Advocates, Inc.
December 2004

The following information will give an historical perspective of how Hilliard City Schools has adapted to the continued growth of the district, while at the same time provide an outlook on the projected enrollment over the next 10 years.

Planning Advocates, Inc., a local educational planning research firm, provided the projections shown. It should be mentioned, Planning Advocates’ estimates for student population over the past 10 years have proven to be highly reliable, falling remarkably close to the actual student-body count.

Using the following information, note the district enrollment just nine years ago was 9,949 students; roughly the same number of students expected in just kindergarten through fifth-grade in the 2014-15 school year (9,550).

The screens to follow show the complexity of the issue, and how the overcrowding in the district is managed. The district has employed more than two dozen short-term solutions to alleviate the crowded conditions within the buildings, from using space not intended for instruction -- such as hallways and storage rooms -- to increasing class sizes to shuttling students to classrooms in a nearby elementary school.

With the installation of modular classrooms at both high schools this year, the district will continue to look to other interim solutions to the overcrowding until a long-term solution is defined.

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