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School board discusses demographics

Residents of the Minot school district will likely be soon asked how they want to address anticipated overcrowding at the middle school and high school levels.

Superintendent Mark Vollmer said at Thursday’s school board meeting that a scaled back bond issue passed by voters in 2014 has largely addressed space needs at the elementary level, but it did not address the needs at the middle school and high school level. Voters had defeated a larger bond issue in 2013 that would have paid for new school construction and renovation for the middle school and high school.The board is discussing holding public forums to gain input about where to go next. Jim Hill Middle School is currently over capacity and Erik Ramstad Middle School is nearing capacity. There are larger classes at the elementary level that will eventually attend the middle school.

Board members also reviewed a demographic study of enrollment in the district. At the end of May, there were 303 students at Bel Air Elementary in K-5, 90 students in K-5 at Bell Elementary, 251 students at Dakota Elementary at Minot Air Force Base, 388 students in K-5 at Edison Elementary, 461 students at the new John Hoeven Elementary in K-5, 527 students at Lewis and Clark in K-5, 458 students at Longfellow Elementary in K-5, 113 students in K-5 at McKinley Elementary, 276 students at North Plains at Minot Air Force Base, 391 students at Perkett Elementary, 131 students at Roosevelt Elementary, 277 students at Sunnyside Elementary, 373 students at Washington Elementary, 204 sixth graders at Ramstad, 254 six graders at Jim Hill, 58 sixth graders at Memorial Middle School at Minot Air Force Base, 455 seventh and eighth graders at Ramstad, 495 seventh and eighth graders at Jim Hill, 110 seventh and eighth graders at Memorial. There were 906 ninth and 10th graders at Minot High School-Central Campus and 854 juniors and seniors at Magic City Campus, and 64 ninth through 12th graders at Souris River Campus, the district’s alternative high school.

– Andrea Johnson

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