New School Year Sees Increased Kindergarten Enrollment

The district will be welcoming its largest kindergarten class in years for the 2012-2013 school year, said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark Toback on Tuesday morning. 

While usually there were 10 classes, this year there will be 14 kindergarten classes at the beginning of the school year. 

Two more sections were added recently, Toback said, on top of two extra people already hired to manage the increased enrollment.

For many years, there were 10 kindergarten classes and at the end of school years the amount of students would drop, Toback said.

Recently, however, the opposite has been true. 

"A lot more people are staying in the community," said Toback. 

The superintendents aims to keep those students in the public schools as long as possible after they graduate kindergarten. Keeping the kids in the district, Toback said, "that's the goal."