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March 31 brought more to Rappahannock County than unseasonably warm temperatures and a breath of spring: it brought a public school enrollment reading higher than the state’s Department of Education or even Superintendent David Gangel had anticipated and consequently more money for the county's school coffers.
Rappahannock receives about $950 per student in basic aid from the state. Richmond foresaw an average daily membership of 881 for 1987-88, but on March 31, that fiscal red-letter day when the offical tabulation is taken, ADM here stood at 937, according to Dr. Gangel. “We did our own calculations last Friday and then we triple-checked again Monday,” he said. The superintendent noted that ADM is higher than the conservative estimate of 931 he took to the Board of Supervisors last December. Anticipating the additional state revenue which that reversal of the 10 year downward enrollment trend was to bring, the Supervisors acceeded to the School Board’s request for a supplemental appropriation of $46,000 for the Rappahannock County High School expansion.
(Last year’s low bid for the long awaited construction project came in $168,000 over the $1.5 million low-interest literary loan awarded by the state for the
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