School Enrollment Up By 81 Students

Published 12:00 am Thursday, September 16, 2010

By Beth Cassidy
Enterprise Record

There are 81 more students enrolled in Davie schools than there were in the last month of the previous school year. The total enrollment, as of day 10 of this school year, is 6,572.
Six schools, Davie High, Early College, William Ellis and South Davie middle, and Pinebrook and Mocksville elementary schools, have more students than last year, while Central Davie Academy, North Davie Middle, and Cooleemee, Cornatzer, Shady Grove, and William R. Davie elementary schools have less.
The largest increase is at Davie High, where there are 86 more students, and the largest decrease is at Cornatzer, with 22 less students.
Overall, there are 38 less elementary students, five more middle and 114 more high school students than in the last month of the last school year.
The planning allotment from the state was for 93 more students than enrolled. Changes in the allotment will not take effect unless there is a change of either two percent or 100 students in the first or second months. Two percent of the current average daily membership (ADM) would be 131 …