What is the impact on students when schools are under-enrolled?
• To increase their elective choices, students from smaller schools must travel to schools that offer academy and specialized courses. • Since overall enrollment determines overall staffing, smaller schools have to limit the number of electives offered. Schools that offer fewer elective courses have difficultly offering enough sections in particular courses to enable a teacher to work full-time at a particular school. This in turn creates a challenge to hire and retain the most desirable teachers since most teachers do not want to divide their time between two schools. • Schools that offer fewer elective courses have difficultly offering enough sections in particular courses to enable a teacher to work full-time at a particular school. This in turn creates a challenge to hire and retain the most desirable teachers since most teachers do not want to divide their time between two schools. • Smaller schools often have to combine upper level courses such as Latin 3, 4, and either IB or AP
