COLUMBUS, Ind. — Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.’s enrollment for September of 2022 is nearly identical to the same time last year, holding steady at about 11,430.
The school corporation’s Average Daily Membership (ADM) was 11,431.06 as of September, compared to 11,431.3 at the same time last year, according to Assistant Superintendent of Financial Services Chad Phillips. Out of those totals, 336 students are virtual this year, compared to 458 at the same time in 2021.
“While our overall count was mostly flat — down 0.24 of a student — the number of students who are attending in person has gone up from last fall to this fall as we had more students transition from virtual to in-person education,” Phillips told the school board on Monday.
The state of Indiana uses ADM to allot tuition funding support to schools based on a per-pupil amount. The 2022-23 amount is $6,235. School officials have said in the past that the school corporation receives 85% of state support for students enrolled in its virtual program.
Most of the students in the school corp.’s Columbus Virtual Pathway are high schoolers, said Phillips.
“Our high school enrollment has gained 175 students in the last seven years, and so they continue to grow,” he noted. “And if we didn’t have those students virtual, we’d probably be bursting at the seams, particularly at Columbus North High School.”
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