Enrollment Summary

Greater Latrobe School District

Updated 2020-21

DISTRIBUTED APRIL 2021

ISSUED BY Department of Facilities, Operations & Planning

REPRESENTATIVE

Kurt R Thomas, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C Director of Facilities, Operations & Planning

Board Of School Directors

Eric Hauser, President

Paul McCommons, Vice-President

Heidi Kozar

Steve LoCascio

Susan Mains

Merle Musick

William Palmer

Cathy Sarraf

Michael Zorch, M.D.

School Authority

Carl Baumeister

Gene Leonard, Ed. D.

Keith Visconti

Barry Banker

Chuck Gray

Superintendent Of Schools

Georgia Teppert, Ed.D.

Administration

Michael Porembka - Assistant Superintendent

Daniel Watson - Business Administrator

Becki Pellis - Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology

Laurie Golobish - Director of Pupil Services

Eugene Joe - Student Support Services Coordinator

Mark Mears - Director of Athletics

Jillian Meloy - Director of Food Services

Jessica Golden - Director of Development and Center of Student Creativity

Introduction

The Facilities Department has conducted a preliminary enrollment projection summary that includes historical and current grade-level enrollment, capacity analysis and future projections. The main purpose of this preliminary study is to provide a tool to help the District decision-making in addressing the long-term facility needs of the District

Variables that Influence Future Enrollments

The typical six sources of current and projected school district enrollment are:

1. Live births within the school district and their eventual enrollment (PK-K) in the district

2. New household population with children who move to the district

3 New population that move to the district who are at child-bearing age and plan to begin a family

4. Enrollment of students from non-public schools or from homeschooling settings

5. District program and academic intervention changes that may increase the success of the school district in keeping enrollment to stay till graduation

6. Adjacent districts whose programs or academics may cause tuition students to attend Greater Latrobe School District

Building Capacity and Utilization

The capacity of a school building is not a fixed number. Depending on the number of rooms, the occupants (number of students per classroom), and scheduling factors will cause the capacity to vary.

Typical capacity and/or class size per total enrollments similar to Greater Latrobe School District are the following:

It is important to note that classroom sizes are not the same as the building or fire code occupant loads. These loads should not be misunderstood to determine the proper student per classroom capacities.

Building Capacities

In addition to calculating capacity based on existing classroom spaces, additional analysis of specialized classrooms (art, music, and physical education) and intervention spaces (Special Edu, EL, Title 1) need to be identified and will not necessarily fall within these typical class sizes.

Current Enrollment

Day three enrollments for the 2020-2021 school year:

3491 Total Students

Total Student Populations for the Elementary Schools are as follows:

Total Student Populations for the Secondary Schools are as follows:

Note: Junior High School was configured as a 7-9 grade level building when designed; the Senior High a 10-12. A majority of ninth-grade students take courses at Junior High School.

Utilization Rate

The utilization rate for each school site was determined by dividing enrollment by capacity. The preferred utilization rate, expressed as a percentage, falls between 80-percent and 95-percent.

Utilization by building for 2020-21 is summarized below. Acceptable utilization is marked in green; unacceptable utilization is marked in red. As portrayed, the District buildings do not currently fall into acceptable ranges.

This table presents that the capacities and utilization for each of the Elementary Schools can be considered outside the acceptable ranges. These buildings can increase population by approximately 10-to-25-percent to be within desired design capacities. Further, it can be determined that the Senior High School building footprint is not capable of a self-sustaining 9-12 configuration without significant increases in Classroom spaces.

Historical Enrollment

The enrollment data included in Chart 1 is for the Grade Band or level attendance for the years 2008-09 thru 2019-20. Chart 2 is Enrollment by Building for the same years.

An examination of the historical District-Wide Enrollment at the grade-band level reveals that enrollment has been relatively stagnant over the last 10-years. The slight increase has been led by enrollment at the K-6 grades at Baggaley and Latrobe Elementary.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Pennsylvania Department of Education provides annual enrollment projections to assist School Districts to identify and proactively address issues related to anticipated enrollments. Projections are based on recent historic trends in births and trends in the progression of students from one grade to the next.

When using enrollment projections for planning purposes, it is important to be aware that the projection model uses only actual enrollments, births, and retention rates to formulate projections. Other factors which may exist in a particular school district, such as a significant change in new home building, may need to be considered in conjunction with the projections to most accurately estimate future enrollments.

The Chart above provides information on historical and projected enrollments on a statewide basis and by the Greater Latrobe School District. PDE reports are available on the following pages

1. Excludes students in full-time out-of-district special education, comprehensive AVTSs, charter schools, state-owned schools, consortium-operated alternative high schools, and juvenile correctional institutions.

2. Enrollment projections beyond five years are subject to errors in the lower grades resulting from inconsistencies between actual and projected live births and should be reviewed closely.

3. Four year old kindergarten students, if any, added to K enrollments.

4. Elementary and secondary ungraded students were distributed among the grades. Therefore, enrollments by grade may differ from those reported by the local education agencies.

1. Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS)

Notes: Sources:

2. Resident Live Birth file supplied by the Division of Health Statistics, Pennsylvania Department of Health. The Department of Health specifically disclaims responsibility for any analyses, interpretations or conclusions.