The North Judson-San Pierre School Corporation is reporting another enrollment drop, but Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin says school officials were prepared.
“We are down 42.25 from last September,” she told the school board last week. “That does not surprise me. At one point last year, when I monitor month-from-month, before COVID hit, we were down about 50 or close to 60, so, in fact, we recovered a little bit more.”
Zupin said September’s official enrollment count found 945.68 students at N.J.-S.P. She explained that the fraction stems from students who only attend for part of the school day, for example, students at St. Peter Lutheran School who take band and choir classes at the public school.
Zupin said the school corporation has already been working to match staffing levels with enrollment. “We knew back in February that our numbers were declining, so when we had teachers retire and leave, we did not fill that,” she explained. “We shifted those positions.”
The superintendent noted that North Judson-San Pierre has fared better than many of its neighbors, when it comes to this year’s enrollment. N.J.-S.P. has seen its enrollment drop by about 350 students over the past decade.
