Oct. 8, 2024 Board Meeting - Part 3

This is a continuation of comments about the October 8, 2024 board meeting.

Item 8.3 Budget Update starts at 27:56 on the YouTube recording.

Item 8.4 Internal Auditor's Update starts at [53:44].

Item 8.5 2023-2024 Middle School Achievement Report starts at [1:01:05]. "It was a rough year." "You have to touch Math to learn it."

"Reading on a screen is different from reading on a page."

You'll want to look at the charts presented to the Board. On my scorecard, "Achievement" should be the Number 1 Priority of the District. THAT is where the focus should be. 

Item 8.6 on the Agenda was "Discussion: Enrollment and Staffing at Pontiac Elementary." The discussion begins at [1:29:15] on the YouTube recording of the meeting. 

Wil Anderson discussed a chart of enrollment numbers for five years, starting with 2020/2021. The summary of growth to 2024/2025 is:

PK        69-  76

K          84-147 (+75%)

1st        97-134

2nd     107-141

3rd       90-142 (+58%)

4th     102-129

5th       95-117

Totals                     644-885

Building Capacity 700-786

One interesting slide is the Projection (Spring 2024) of number of students versus the Actual number of students at Pontiac Elementary. A new subdivision (Ashcroft) provided 59 new students.

Franklin Foster continued the presentation.

If you are interested in Pontiac Elementary, watch this presentation. 

At the point I stopped watching; there was still 40 minutes left in the meeting.