Ag 05 january, 2018

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School rolls a mixed bag BY SUE NEWMAN

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Over the past 17 years, roll numbers for schools in the Ashburton District have fluctuated significantly, with some trebling the number of students on their books while others can count their roll in falling numbers. Ministry of Education data

shows that over that period the most significant roll growth was at Wakanui School where in 2007 there were just 54 students on the roll. At the end of 2017 there were 121. Over the same period Rakaia School’s roll doubled, from 101 students in 2007 to 202 last year as did Lauriston’s from 44 to 85.

Other rural schools to make significant growth over the past 17 years were Dorie, 43 to 68; Hinds, 125 to 152. Urban schools have also been under pressure from growing rolls since 2000 with Borough growing the most, up 25 per cent. Allenton and Hampstead both

watched their rolls grow by 16 per cent over the past 17 years while Hampstead’s student body grew almost 20 per cent and Carew-Peel Forest from 36 to 82. While its growth has been steady over the past 17 years, Ashburton Intermediate had a surge in numbers last year, up

11.5 per cent to reach 422. Methven Primary grew from 224 to 294 over that time and Mt Somers Springburn from 63 to 88.

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