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Tossing out the low and the high projection, Baumgardner stated that he would use ten per cent as the expected growth rate in school enrollment.
Figures presented by Dr. Bloomer show the school age population in Rappahannock increased by 18.9 per cent between 1971 and 1977 while enrollment at the high school jumped 11.4 per cent over the past three years.
In addition to considering enrollment increases in determining space needs. Bloomer noted that shrinking building capacities should also play a part in decisions on expansion plans.
“The program demand is so much larger now. A school that was built for 750 students now has the capacity to serve about 530,” the superintendent maintained. Instead of figuring 30 students per class, state mandated standards of quality require that a classroom be counted as 24 regular students. Bloomer said. In meeting special education mandates, he added, class size has to be figured at 15 or less.
Bloomer predicted that new mandates for gifted and talented programs will come out of the current session of the Virginia General Assembly, requiring localities to provide even more class space. Looking further into the future, he maintained that the next logical step taken by state and federal governments will be attention to the regular students, requiring individual educational plans (IEP’s) for both average and gifted and talented pupils in addition to the IEP’s for special ed students now mandated by law.
Rather than being formally adjourned, the committee meeting squeeked to a stop as several members excused
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