CROOKSTON SCHOOLS RELEASE ENROLLMENT NUMBERS TO BEGIN SCHOOL YEAR

The Crookston School District has started the year with an enrollment of 1,114.  That is down 24 students from the first day of school last year and 36 students from the high enrollment mark at any time in the last year.  With more families choosing homeschooling due to COVID-19, Superintendent Jeremy Olson said the district is still in a decent spot.  “It is down from last year. That’s not a great thing but we were really pleased last year with that increase we received. It’s probably a decent place for us to be right now,” said Olson. “We were projecting going into the school year at 1,123, so it is down from where our projections were last spring. However, we are very conservative when we budget, so we are still decently positioned right now with our enrollment we’re seeing today and what we have budgeted for at this point.”  

Olson said the hope is the enrollment increases or stabilizes as answers to COVID-19 are found. “Traditionally, enrollment does go down over the course of the year,” said Olson. “Last year enrollment went down a little from September to October and then stabilized. Actually, at the end of the year, we were up a little from where we were in the middle of the year. There is really no rhyme or reason to enrollment trends. And we’re hopeful that as we move into this year, as things stabilize, and we get stronger after COVID-19 that we’re going to see that enrollment turn around or stabilize. But at this point, we are down a little from last year and that’s what we’re working on at this point.”

Our Saviors Lutheran School offers Preschool through Sixth grade and they have 40 students, which is an increase of six students from last year.

Cathedral School offers Preschool through Sixth grade and they have a total of 56 in Kindergarten through Sixth grade up one from last year.

You can see a breakdown of enrollment for 2019 and 2018 by class below –