The Garfield Enrollment Puzzler
Part Two from Kellie LaRue and Meg Diaz. There will be an update at the end by me provided by Garfield staff and PTSA. Garfield High School Garfield High School is still slated to lose a teacher. District administration says Garfield’s enrollment is under projections, and the building is overstaffed. As of Curriculum Night, the Garfield community was under the impression that they were comfortably over projections. There are a lot of conflicting and confusing numbers. Since this is a long post, I’m going to tell you my conclusions right away. I think district administration made a mistake. It’s likely they made more than one mistake. I came to this conclusion after examining the (sparse) enrollment data available on the SPS and OSPI websites. I thought that if the district’s other enrollment data was consistent and normal, the counting difference was probably a mistake on Garfield’s part. SPS enrollment data is riddled with anomalies, conflicts and incons...