SASD Uncensored

Primary school capacities, enrollment & class sizes

Burchfield has a capacity of 500 with only 349 students and average class size of 21

Marzolf has a capacity of 450 with only 310 students and average class size of 20

Scott has a capacity of at least 600 (28 class rooms indicates greater than 600) with only 381 students and average class size of 22

Reserve has a capacity of 275 with only 122 students and average class size of 15

Reserve is attended by students who live in Reserve Township and is supplemented with students from Millvale that would otherwise go to Marzolf. The school is at only 44% capacity. The school has full time principal and the principal's administrative assistant as well as other administrative personnel. The administrative personnel at Reserve support less than half as many students as in any other primary school and the class sizes are considerably smaller than any other primary school - the district is paying at least TWICE as much per student in administrative budget per student at Reserve as they are per student at any other primary school and educating smaller class sizes

The student capacity of the 4 primary schools, total, is 1,825 with only 1,162 students, for 63.67% capacity utilized - this will be separately broken down in a second post today by primary school

The student capacity of the elementary school is 1,125 with only 897 students for 79.73% capacity utilized

The student capacity of the middle school is 1,030 with only 563 students for 55% capacity utilized

The student capacity for the high school is 2,200 with only 1,162 students for 56.32% capacity utilized

Overall, across the entire district, we are operating our buildings at 62.75% of capacity utilized

We heat/cool, maintain and insure 100% of the buildings for an overall 62.75% utilization

Asked the bottom line of where posts will lead
FISCAL MANAGEMENT
will be questioned-Stay Tuned

As of the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, our district had the following make up on student enrollment, with each of the 13 grade levels hovering around 300 students each. Only Grades 6 and some high school grades exceed 300, and then, only by a few students each:

1,162 students in 4 grades (K-3) across the 4 primary schools, with 349 at Burchfield, 310 at Marzolf, 122 at Reserve and 381 at Scott

897 students in 3 grades (4-6) at the Elementary School on Scott

563 students in 2 grades (7-8) at the Middle School on Mt. Royal

1239 students in 4 grades (9-12) at the High School on Wible

Tomorrow I will post on the make up of our enrollment - primary, elementary, middle and high schools

I also hope tomorrow to provide class sizes across the four primary schools

Sunday I hope to discuss building utilization across all schools

Enrollment in SASD has decreased every year since the 2006-2007 school year

In 2006-07 we had 5353 students, by 2013-14 we had only 4611 -13.8% decrease in 8 years

Detailed enrollment since 2015-2016 is as follows:

2015-16 4464
2016-17 4371
2017-18 4317
2018-19 4162
2019-20 4134
2020-21 3915
2021-22 3876 was our end of year count
2022-23 3861 was the start of the year - 13.6% decrease in 8 years

Later today I will hire the web designer, ultimately intending to give the website address and publish the SASD Uncensored email address. This is what one does at 5AM after being yelled at last night by a school board member, which is not the first time that school board member chose to yell at me when, I, a taxpayer, was trying to put forth information and a position to the school board.

I have created this page to bring uncensored factual information to social media about the Shaler Area School District from a taxpayer perspective. I regularly attend the school board meetings and have done so for years. Aside from two board members, I have been attending longer than anyone else on the board and longer than anyone else in administration.