Some schools are seeing a significant difference between the number of students they count in their own enrollment data and the “full-time equivalent” data that the state uses to calculate the number of students a school has.
There are several reasons for this difference. Students will move in and out of a district during the school year. Plus, many districts have agreements with career tech centers that allocate some of those students to the career tech center in the state’s formula
In Beavercreek, for example, Ohio Department of Education and Workforce data shows the district with a tiny enrollment rise over nine years, from 7,610 students in the 2014-2015 school year to 7,665 students in 2023-2024.
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