Steamboat Springs School District officials are predicting the eight-year stretch of enrollment growth soon will come to an end. And they said the milestone could arrive just in time.
With classrooms in Steamboat reaching capacity and extra space hard to create, administrators said last week the district is nearing optimal enrollment and couldn’t easily support a drastic influx of students.
“The trends are leading us to believe we’ll have a couple more years of growth, then enrollment will level off and perhaps start to decline a little bit,” said finance director Dale Mellor. “But it’s kind of like looking into a crystal ball.”
Mellor said the prediction is based on previous demographic studies of the district, declining birth rates in Routt County throughout the past five years and the tracking of large “bubble” classes moving through the campuses.
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