Enrollment declines in HBCSD schools
For the first time since the mid-1990s, the Hermosa Beach City School District reported a decline in enrollment for the academic year, with much of the drop coming from disenrolled kindergarteners. According to district enrollment figures, there are 28 fewer students than were enrolled when the last academic year finished in June, and 41 fewer students than were enrolled when school began September 2014. In the time in between when the district opened enrollment in mid-March and now, 26 kindergarteners have been disenrolled, said Superintendent Patricia Escalante. By comparison, the district disenrolled 59 students in grades 1 through 8, and enrolled 66 new students. The decline comes as the district temporarily abandons its full-day kindergarten program. Full-day kindergarten began as a pilot program at Hermosa View School in the 2011-12 school year, and educators expanded it to the rest of the district the following year. Although both Redondo and Manhattan Beach schools run half-day kindergarten schedules, Escalante said that the move to the shorter schedule likely contributed to the decline. “We know that changing from a full-day to a half-day schedule is not ideal,” Escalante…
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