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The Sept. 20 official count numbers are in and the total Skyline enrollment is up from the 2010-2011 numbers.
The K-8 enrollment is 270.1, up from 253.5, for a net gain of 16.8 students.
However the high school numbers are down with 100 students this year compared with 109 from last year, Skyline Superintendent Mike Sanders told the USD 438 Board of Education Monday.
This gives the school an increase of 7.8 students.
While the increase is not much, it does help meet some of the reduction in state funding.
“If you can gain students during this time of budget cuts it sure helps offset those cuts,” Sanders said.
Those students will be able to take advantage of a timely computer purchase for the library and the journalism class.
The school purchased 14 next generation 20-inch iMac computers at a discount of $45 per computer for a total savings of $630.
The 14 computers cost $11,956. Half went to the journalism class and the other half to the library.
Although it was an expensive purchase, the school was able to get a good deal on the computers because they were new models that were still sitting on the shelf and needed to be sold, Sanders said.
The old library computers were at a point that they would not be able to run the accelerated reader programs in six months.
The old journalism computers literally stopped working correctly. The computers were producing symbols on the screen that were not English and unreadable to the students so the upgrade was necessary.
The purchase was timely however because in six months those next generation computers would not be available, Sanders said.
While the school was able to save some money, it will not be able to save the pine trees in the shelterbelt on the north side of the football field.
Pine wilt is present in some of the trees. They will have to be removed and burned to help slow the spread of the disease but it is expected to get all the pines.
The District will ask the extension office to monitor the trees but most likely the trees will have to be cut down and burned before February.
The Sept. 20 official count numbers are in and the total Skyline enrollment is up from the 2010-2011 numbers.
The K-8 enrollment is 270.1, up from 253.5, for a net gain of 16.8 students.
However the high school numbers are down with 100 students this year compared with 109 from last year, Skyline Superintendent Mike Sanders told the USD 438 Board of Education Monday.
This gives the school an increase of 7.8 students.
While the increase is not much, it does help meet some of the reduction in state funding.
“If you can gain students during this time of budget cuts it sure helps offset those cuts,” Sanders said.
Those students will be able to take advantage of a timely computer purchase for the library and the journalism class.
The school purchased 14 next generation 20-inch iMac computers at a discount of $45 per computer for a total savings of $630.
The 14 computers cost $11,956. Half went to the journalism class and the other half to the library.
Although it was an expensive purchase, the school was able to get a good deal on the computers because they were new models that were still sitting on the shelf and needed to be sold, Sanders said.
The old library computers were at a point that they would not be able to run the accelerated reader programs in six months.
The old journalism computers literally stopped working correctly. The computers were producing symbols on the screen that were not English and unreadable to the students so the upgrade was necessary.
The purchase was timely however because in six months those next generation computers would not be available, Sanders said.
While the school was able to save some money, it will not be able to save the pine trees in the shelterbelt on the north side of the football field.
Pine wilt is present in some of the trees. They will have to be removed and burned to help slow the spread of the disease but it is expected to get all the pines.
The District will ask the extension office to monitor the trees but most likely the trees will have to be cut down and burned before February.
