The Plymouth School Board has begun the process of building up the corporation’s Rainy Day Fund.
In November, the board set a goal of $3 million. It will take a few years to get there, but the school board took its first step this week by transferring $150,000 in unused cash from the Capital Projects Fund.
In other business Tuesday, board members set the school corporation’s student transfer policies for the 2017-2018 school year. Superintendent Dan Tyree says they’ll stay the same as this year’s. “Basically, from kindergarten to eighth grade, we would set the capacity of 325 students per grade level, and our goal is to be under 25 students in each class,” he explained. “So it’s not going to affect how many students are in the classes. And then in the high school, it really would be unlimited. We’ve got plenty of room, and we’ve got plenty of teachers, that we can handle that.” Transfer students will be accepted right up until the last day of school on May 30, 2018.
When looking at why students transfer, Tyree says convenience is the main factor. “It’s generally that they already go here and they’re moving to Union-North and they want to stay here,” he said. “Or they got a job in Plymouth; they’ll be driving from Walkerton to Plymouth and it’s easier on the family if their students can go to school here. So it’s usually not ‘We’re really unhappy with the other schools,’ it’s just ‘convenient for our family.'”
Tyree adds the corporation typically does some advertising over the summer, to attract new students. He says accepting transfer students is a way the corporation can increase tuition funding from the state.
