Seattle Schools 2016-2017 Enrollment Numbers
Update: the district tweeted out this AM:
Early data says K-3 will hit class size targets & receive full funding.
Here's the link to their explanation of the situation. Monday is when principals learn about staffing changes.
end of update
A reader had put this up elsewhere; I have the numbers for all the schools and will get them up soon.
2016-2017 High School Enrollment (numbers from Oct 2015, with % change.)
Ballard High School 1,849 (1702, +9%)
Chief Sealth International High School 1,120 (1174, -5%)
Cleveland STEM High School 854 (842, +1%)
Franklin High School 1,260 (1308, -4%)
Garfield High School 1,759 (1714, +3%)
Ingraham International High School 1,346 (1235, +9%)
Nathan Hale High School 1,180 (1179, +0%)
Nova High School 331 (344, -4%)
Rainier Beach High School 700 (671, +4%)
Roosevelt High School 1,741 (1715, +2%)
The Center School 230 (270, -15%)
West Seattle High School 997 (994, +0%)
Early data says K-3 will hit class size targets & receive full funding.
Here's the link to their explanation of the situation. Monday is when principals learn about staffing changes.
end of update
A reader had put this up elsewhere; I have the numbers for all the schools and will get them up soon.
2016-2017 High School Enrollment (numbers from Oct 2015, with % change.)
Ballard High School 1,849 (1702, +9%)
Chief Sealth International High School 1,120 (1174, -5%)
Cleveland STEM High School 854 (842, +1%)
Franklin High School 1,260 (1308, -4%)
Garfield High School 1,759 (1714, +3%)
Ingraham International High School 1,346 (1235, +9%)
Nathan Hale High School 1,180 (1179, +0%)
Nova High School 331 (344, -4%)
Rainier Beach High School 700 (671, +4%)
Roosevelt High School 1,741 (1715, +2%)
The Center School 230 (270, -15%)
West Seattle High School 997 (994, +0%)
Comments
High Schools use three numbers for reports.
* Headcount - total number of actual humans
* FTE (Full time equivalent) - the number after all of the part time running start students are turned into part time humans
* AAFTE (Adjusted Annual FTE) - how the students are actually funded. The state of washington funds on AAFTE, which is the average enrollment over the school year.
As you may guess, there are some pretty big swings in those three numbers. This is one of the reasons why high school capacity is so complicated. None of the enrollment reports are marked with headcount vs FTE or AAFTE so you never really know what the number means.
The Center School 230 (270, -15%)
Doesn't this school have capacity for around 300? That's nearly 80 seats that need to be filled STAT. Then the district needs to look into expanding the school.
Clearly the drop in enrollment at Center is impacting enrollment at Ballard.
My first reaction to those numbers? Lincoln won't be open for another two years - what in the world is SPS planning? BHS and RHS are bursting. Portables may not cut it. IHS can only provide so much relief. The IHS addition will soon be under construction, and I assume portables will be needed in the interim just to handle the current enrollment.
-another anon
I propose:
IBX at Rainier Beach, with yellow bus service for any HCC qualified kid, city-wide.
IB at Rainier Beach as a city-wide option, geo-zone equal to RB attendance area, lottery assignment outside it, with yellow bus service from Garfield, Roosevelt and Ballard (the most crowded schools, more can be added as needed).
Cleveland STEM is already an all-city option with lottery admission. Offer yellow bus service from Garfield, Roosevelt, and Ballard. Interview parents with kids in advanced math and science classes at Garfield, Roosevelt and Ballard, to find out what would make them choose STEM, and start implementing it.
There are also political problems with "2 schools" for magnet programs, so intentionally design the programs to address those issues, while also building something north-end families will choose.
Here's a link to the enrollment reports for the 4th day of school. For the high schools Total Student Count includes full time Running Start students.
http://www.seattleschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/Migration/General/P223_Sep16.pdf
Here are the most recent capacity numbers I've seen for high schools: http://sps.ss8.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/Capital%20Projects%20and%20Planning/Capacity/2015-16SchoolCapacity.pdf
-Two Cents
-realist
RHS is a great choice and I think Hale is an overlooked plan B. I agree John Marshall should be a consideration for RHS overflow.
Great Schools
Again, guarantee transportation to Beach and Cleveland, keep building STEM, and watch families fill the schools.
Aghast
Cellophane
Only Sealth, West Seattle, Rainier Beach, Center and NOVA have empty seats.
HS Roulette
North of 85th
Boundaries
Dreading Monday
Even then I knew that was too conservative, why do we keep making same mistakes?
Hale already has some portables. I think there are code problems for the placement of additional portables at Hale, due to the creek that runs next to the school.
-North-end Mom
Just asking (as it is my neighborhood), what's the vibe you don't like?
Lynn, I'd have to go back and look but I think Cleveland was built for more than it currently has; maybe STEM takes more space?
Cleveland doesn't seem to offer any honors or AP language arts classes, AP Calculus only goes up through AB, they offer the same types of AP science classes as Roosevelt (i.e., bio, chem, enviro sci, physics), and they don't seem to offer any honors or AP level social studies classes. Maybe you were really focusing on diversity issues?
Also, note that with the implementation of the core24 requirement, students will have less flexibility in their class selection (unless SPS switches to a schedule that includes more than 24 credits). If we stick with the current 4X6, there's not a whole lot of room for electives. I wonder what the impact would be on magnet programs? Schools may need to shift more teachers to "core" classes and cut back on electives.
HS Roulette
Yes, like the previous moniker-less poster said, Cleveland is undercapacity because the district is artificially capping enrollment there to staunch the outflow of students from Rainier Beach. Even though enrollment is only 854, the district itself claims Cleveland capacity is 926:
http://sps.ss8.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/Capital%20Projects%20and%20Planning/Capacity/2015-16SchoolCapacity.pdf
And it is not because they cleared the wait list, because they did not. Kids are simply being denied entrance to an undercapacity school.
Because the district can't cap enrollment for only RBHS attendance area students, as that would be discriminatory, they just cap overall attendance at way less than capacity. Besides turning away STEM kids despite capacity, this also has the unfortunate side effect of limiting staffing funding at the school.
--JvA
This from our old friend Dick Lilly.
"But the plan requires spending $45 million to reopen five schools less than a year after a decision that closed five other schools last spring and relocated eight academic programs."
http://crosscut.com/2009/10/its-back-neighborhood-schools-for-seattle/
SL
The US Supreme Court weighed in on Seattle's prior mandatory high school busing program. Negatively. I don't see the district ever going back to mandatory HS busing after that fight.
Here's the Supreme Court opinion:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-908.pdf
And here's a long write up (I didn't read it all, not saying whether it's correct, slanted, whatever, just including it):
http://www.historylink.org/File/3939
Parents cycle in and out of the system, and may not always know/remember what happened before they paid attention to SPS.
-- Math Counts
In fact, race may even be used to achieve diversity when all else fails.
It was the go-to use of race as a tiebreaker that was the issue. Louisville, another district in the case, had a totally different response to the decision than (so-called) "progressive" Seattle. They intentionally gerrymandered, in addition to using their magnet schools, in order to avoid resegregation.
From the opinion:
The districts have also failed to show they considered methods other than explicit
racial classifications to achieve their stated goals. Narrow tailoring requires “serious, good faith consideration of workable race-neutral alternatives,” id., at 339, and yet in Seattle several alternative assignment plans—many of which would not have used express racial classifications—were rejected with little or no consideration.
FWIW
" Lincoln won't be open for another two years - what in the world is SPS planning? BHS and RHS are bursting. Portables may not cut it. IHS can only provide so much relief. The IHS addition will soon be under construction, and I assume portables will be needed in the interim just to handle the current enrollment.
Just an FYI that they won't be completing Ingraham any sooner. It won't offer any relief prior to Lincoln. Iy is well over capacity at 1345 this year and next two year will likely get worse. Their most recent district projections from 9/2016 were off for at least Ballard & Ingraham. It may happen by 2019, but who knows. I contacted Tom Redman at district capital projects dept. Told me Ingraham may be able to add seats by 2019, but said as it is three years off, it is still early in the process.
-Ballardite
Coulda Shoulda
What is most logical is providing buses for kids who live south of ship canal & closer to Rainier Beach & Cleveland. Even a year after Lincoln opens in 2020, the most recent draft of the enrollment projection reports Garfield being at 2400 in 2020.
-Lana
And I would say people need to challenge SPS leadership on their mismanagement and ask the board for changes at the top. I'm not saying rotate Nyland, I'm suggestion his team of directs and their directs are dysfunctional.
Coulda Shoulda
I remember hearing that in passing from someone involved at the school (probably a parent), and I'm curious about it.
It does seem like the school will never be able to fulfill its potential if the district continues to feel it needs to shut out interested families who would like to fill those empty seats. Maybe it doesn't make sense to keep it as an artificially underenrolled and artificially underfunded science magnet school.
--JvA
Those numbers in the post came from an unnamed anonymous source on another thread. I'd really like to know where those numbers came from and why they are different from the P223.
good fit
-SPSParent
There's been no indication what Webster will be used for. It will be a small school so an option program might be necessary to manage enrollment.
I checked the p223 against the numbers in the post.
The P223 is the 4th Day counts. It is unclear on what day the count was taken for the other posted numbers, so that is a bit of the discrepancy.
However, that said, comparing the two makes it clear the the numbers listed on the post are total headcount numbers and they were likely taken later in the month as enrollment settled.
Hale has limited space for portables. There is Thorton Creek running right by it and most of the other open property is owned by the Parks department. There are two portables on the east parking lot near football field and track.
HP
-parent
-curious HCC
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