“It’s nothing new, the trend that is happening here at Harlandale ISD,” Superintendent Gerardo Soto said at a presentation last week about the district’s enrollment decline. “Enrollment, as you know, is the basis of the majority of our funding.”
According to Soto’s presentation, Harlandale ISD saw small gains in enrollment from 2013 to 2015, when it had about 15,000 students. But enrollment has dropped in the years since, to 12,096 this school year, and a study by the district concluded that it could lose an additional 3,100 students by 2031.
in a bid to encourage new housing in the district that could attract families with school-age children. By then, it was clear that it would not need the land for new schools.The district received nearly $99 million from the state for the 2018-19 school year. Declines in enrollment brought it down to $89.6 million this year. Average daily attendance also has been dropping, from 93 percent in the 2018-19 school year to 89 percent this school year.
Officials are considering moving students from Columbia Heights to Stonewall and Collier elementary schools and repurposing the campus as a center for special education, STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — and bilingual education programs.
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